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- Jack Dorsey Is Out at Twitter — Now What?
Dorsey stepped down as Twitter CEO and handed the reins to Parag Agrawal, ending an era defined by his split attention with Square.
- Jack Dorsey Steps Down as Twitter CEO
Dorsey resigned as Twitter CEO today, handing the reins to CTO Parag Agrawal while staying on as Square's chief.
- GoDaddy's 1.2 Million-Customer Breach Is a Managed Hosting Nightmare
GoDaddy disclosed a breach exposing sFTP, database, and even SSL private key credentials for up to 1.2 million Managed WordPress customers.
- Serverless and Edge Functions Are Quietly Eating the Server
Why more web developers are shipping request-driven code to Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, and Lambda@Edge instead of managing servers.
- Elon Musk Let a Twitter Poll Decide His Tesla Stake, and the Market Is Not Amused
Musk asked Twitter whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla shares, nearly 58% said yes, and now everyone is watching what he does next.
- Intuit Officially Owns Mailchimp Now
Intuit closed its roughly $6.3 billion acquisition of Mailchimp, folding the email-marketing giant into its small-business software stack.
- Facebook Is Now Meta, and It's Betting the Company on the Metaverse
Facebook's parent company rebranded as Meta at Connect, reorganizing around Zuckerberg's metaverse ambitions just days after the Facebook Papers hit.
- The Facebook Papers Are Here, and They're Ugly
A media consortium began publishing stories from leaked internal Facebook documents this week, exposing what the company knew about Instagram's harm to teens.
- Bitcoin Gets a Wall Street Wrapper, and Google Finally Shows Its Chip
ProShares' Bitcoin Strategy ETF stormed onto the NYSE the same day Google took the wraps off the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro.
- How One Bad Config Push Erased Facebook From the Internet
A closer look at the BGP misconfiguration that knocked Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp offline for six hours last week.
- Facebook Hits Pause on Instagram Kids
Facebook is pausing development of Instagram Kids after pressure from lawmakers, child-safety advocates, and 44 state attorneys general.
- The Facebook Files: What Frances Haugen's Leaked Documents Reveal
The Wall Street Journal's new Facebook Files series, drawn from tens of thousands of leaked internal pages, shows Facebook knew Instagram harms teen girls.
- El Salvador Just Made Bitcoin Legal Tender. It Did Not Go Smoothly.
El Salvador became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender today, with a rocky Chivo wallet rollout and a sharp price drop on launch day.
- The Poly Network Hacker Gave the Money Back, and Also a Job Offer Happened
Poly Network confirms nearly all $611 million from its August 10 hack has been returned after the attacker handed over the final private key.
- The $611 Million Heist Nobody Saw Coming — And the Hacker Who Says They Want to Give It Back
A Poly Network exploit drained over $611 million across three blockchains, making it the largest DeFi hack ever — and then things got weird.
- A Judge Just Gave Facebook a Big Antitrust Win — With an Asterisk
Judge Boasberg dismissed the FTC's and 46 states' antitrust suits against Facebook, though the FTC gets another shot at an amended complaint.
- Windows 365 Wants to Turn Your Desktop Into a Browser Tab
Microsoft's new Cloud PC service streams a full Windows desktop to any device, and it's the clearest sign yet the OS is going remote.
- Bezos Hands Amazon to Jassy, Right on the Anniversary
Jeff Bezos officially stepped down as Amazon CEO today, handing the reins to longtime AWS chief Andy Jassy on the company's 27th anniversary.
- Internet Explorer's 25-Year Run Finally Ends
Microsoft retired IE 11 support across most Microsoft 365 apps today, closing out a 25-year chapter and pushing stragglers toward Edge.
- Amazon Just Bought a Hollywood Studio (and the Whole James Bond Library)
Amazon's $8.45 billion deal for MGM gives it thousands of films and TV shows and raises big questions about the future of streaming content.
- Yahoo Changes Hands Again, and Yahoo Answers Finally Closes the Book
Verizon completed its $5 billion sale of Yahoo and AOL to Apollo Global Management, and Yahoo Answers is shutting down after 16 years.
- Jack Dorsey's First Tweet Just Sold for $2.9 Million
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey auctioned his first-ever tweet as an NFT, closing at $2.9 million via the Valuables platform.
- WebAssembly Is Quietly Changing What Browsers Can Do
Wasm has moved past its gaming and CAD roots and is now running production tools like Photoshop and Figma at near-native speed.
- Facebook Blinks: Australian News Returns After Canberra Deal
Facebook agreed to lift its week-long Australian news ban after the government agreed to amend the News Media Bargaining Code.
- Facebook Just Turned Off News in an Entire Country
Facebook blocked all news links in Australia overnight, and the collateral damage hit health and emergency services pages too.
- Bezos Hands Amazon's Keys to Jassy
Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO in 2021, moving to Executive Chairman as AWS chief Andy Jassy takes over.
- Robinhood Freezes GameStop Buying, and the Internet Loses It
Robinhood halted buy orders for GameStop, AMC, and other volatile stocks today, and a $700 million clearinghouse demand is at the center of the backlash.
- Parler Goes Dark After Apple, Google, and Amazon Cut the Cord
Apple, Google, and AWS pulled support from Parler within days of the Capitol riot, and the app has nowhere left to run.
- Twitter Pulls the Plug on @realDonaldTrump
Twitter permanently banned President Trump's account on January 8th, citing incitement risk after the Capitol riot, cutting off his 88.9 million followers.
- New Year's Eve, and Flash Finally Flatlines
Adobe officially ends support for Flash Player today, closing out decades as the web's default plugin for video, games, and animation.