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  Twitter’s Chief Tries Staying the Course as Elon Musk Upends Plans

  The New York Times - Mike Isaac and Kate Conger

  SAN FRANCISCO — At a virtual meeting for Twitter executives last week, Parag Agrawal admitted he was exhausted. Mr. Agrawal, Twitter’s chief executive, had spent the past six weeks steering the company through a $44 billion sale to Elon Musk, the world’s richest person. Some employees were revolting …

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  Google Takes Yet Another Run at E-Commerce—and Amazon

  Bloomberg - Mark Bergen

  Google executive Prabhakar Raghavan recently had an issue with his rose bushes. His wife took a photo of the plants on her phone, uploaded the image …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  5 hours ago

  Minecraft’s Code-Writing AI Points to the Future of Computers

  WIRED - Will Knight

  Today, Microsoft’s AI can take control of characters in Minecraft. Soon, it could help you control your whole computer. Microsoft just showed how …

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  10 hours ago

  ProtonMail is rebranding and adding a lot more storage to all its plans

  Engadget - Nathan Ingraham

  The company now goes by Proton and is unifying its products under some new plans. For the privacy-minded, ProtonMail has been one of the better options for secure email — you can get an (admittedly basic) account for free and enjoy end-to-end encryption for your communications when you're messaging …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  21 hours ago

  NEA raises more than $5 billion for new VC funds

  Axios - Dan Primack

  Venture capital giant New Enterprise Associates has raised more than $5.1 billion for a pair of new funds, according to federal securities …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  23 hours ago

  DDG has a tracker blocking carve-out linked to Microsoft contract

  TechCrunch - Natasha Lomas

  DuckDuckGo, the self-styled “Internet privacy company” — which, for years, has built a brand around a claim of non-tracking web search and, more recently, launched its own ‘private’ browser with built-in tracker blocking — has found itself in hot water after a researcher found hidden limits on its …