Tech stocks are crumbling, NFTs losing steam, SafeGraph, Google IO preview

•  Elon Musk raises $7 billion in new funding for Twitter buyout.


•  Evaluating Elon Musk's Plan To Fix Twitter.


•  Elon Musk Plans to Take Twitter Public a Few Years After Buyout.


•  Why Tech Stocks Are Crashing and Burning.


•  Bitcoin drops below $35,000 over the weekend, extending Friday's losses.


•  NFT Sales Are Flatlining.


•  NFTs Are Legally Problematic ft. Steve Mould & Coffeezilla.


•  Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment by David F. Swensen.


•  Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid.


•  Vatican Offers, Mysteriously Rescinds Interview About Pope's Metaverse Plans.


•  Data Broker SafeGraph Stops Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Planned Parenthood.


•  CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders.


•  Global Privacy Control (GPC).


•  Google previews I/O 2022 schedule, 'What's new' keynotes, and sessions.


•  The latest Pixel Watch spec rumors show Google's trying to make a flagship.


• Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of machine learning, is leaving the company due to its return to work policy.


•  AMD sales jump 71%, shrugging off concerns about PC slowdown.


•  Salt_Hank on TikTok.


•  Nvidia pays $5.5 million for allegedly hiding how many gaming GPUs were sold to crypto miners.


•  Intuit to pay $141M settlement over 'free' TurboTax ads.


•  Frontier lied about Internet speeds and "ripped off customers," FTC says.


•  New York City sues Activision, targeting CEO Bobby Kotick.


•  Apple's Self Service Repair now available.

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