Sources: Twitter is strongly considering making verified users subscribe to Twitter Blue at $4.99 a month or lose their badges (Casey Newton/Platformer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Musk ordered Twitter homepage to be changed to show the Explore page to logged out users, not a sign-up form, which was quietly implemented on Friday (Alex Heath/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

How the detention of Huawei's then CFO Meng Wanzhou to stand trial in the US provoked a standoff between global powers and splintered US-China relations (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Source: Elon Musk fired top Twitter executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, "for cause", in an apparent attempt to avoid severance and unvested stock payouts (Martin Peers/The Information) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

New Orleans-based Resilia, which sells software to help nonprofits manage their operations, raised a $35M Series B, bringing its total funding to ~$50M (Jared Council/Forbes) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Dogecoin surged by nearly 75% on Saturday after Elon Musk took control of Twitter, its biggest daily gain since April 2021, as it rallied 150% since October 25 (Yashu Gola/Cointelegraph) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Elon Musk plans to begin layoffs at Twitter as soon as Saturday, to take place before November 1, when staff were scheduled to receive stock grants (New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

A look at an online reputation laundering market for victims of Nigeria's unlicensed, predatory loan apps, which publicly shame borrowers who can't pay (Olatunji Olaigbe/Rest of World) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

[Thread] Musk made himself the global face of content moderation amid growing governmental pressures, even as his wealth via Tesla depends on China and others (Alex Stamos/@alexstamos) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Court filing: Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, Within CEO Chris Milk, and others to testify in the FTC case against Meta's acquisition of Within (Ismail Shakil/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5