TWiT 901: Weaponized FOMO - Twitter brand chaos, Meta job cuts, FTX fiasco, Apple sued, Kevin Conroy RIP

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Leo Laporte

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4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2022

⏱️ 169 minutes

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Twitter brand chaos, Meta job cuts, FTX fiasco, Apple sued, Kevin Conroy RIP

Casey Newton on Twitter: "Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees".
Twitter CISO flies the coop.
Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer.
Twitter Users Create Havoc by Impersonating Brands.
What is Elon really up to in all of this?
Is centralization good for end users?
Nearly half of Meta job cuts were in tech, reorg underway - execs say.
Render yourself invisible to AI with this adversarial sweater of doom.
Sean Penn loans his Oscar to Ukraine's president Zelenskiy.
Crypto.com Preliminary Audit Shows That 20% of Its Assets Are in Shiba Inu (SHIB) Coin.
Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX Empire Faces US Probe Into Client Funds, Lending.
Prosecutors push 15-year sentence for Theranos' CEO Holmes.
Apple Sued for Allegedly Deceiving Users With Privacy Settings After Gizmodo Story.
PleaseRobMe.com
Apple Loses Web Search Technology Chief to Google.
Celebrating the Life of Aaron Swartz: Nov. 12 and Nov. 13.
Sadly, the Easiest Types of Cyberattacks Still Work.
Kevin Conroy's Best Batman Moments, as Chosen by Fans.
Two weeks of chaos: Inside Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.

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