This Week in Tech 901

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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Links

• 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 - Bloomberg
• Nearly half of Meta job cuts were in tech, reorg underway - execs say | Reuters
• Twitter Users Create Havoc by Impersonating Brands - The New York Times
• Kevin Conroy's Best Batman Moments, as Chosen by Fans
• Sadly, the Easiest Types of Cyberattacks Still Work