
* DOJ takes aim at Adobe's $20 billion deal (Politico) * Stripe Cuts Headcount by 14%, Prepares for ‘Leaner Times’ (Bloomberg) * Elon Musk Aims to Start Charging for Twitter Verification Next Week (Bloomberg) * Patreon’s long-awaited video hosting feature is finally rolling out to creators (The Verge) * Meta’s Instagram Plans NFT Minting, Trading Tools (Decrypt) * Gmail to add a new package tracking feature ahead of holiday shopping season (TechCrunch) * WhatsApp officially launches its new discussion group feature, Communities (TechCrunch) * TikTok tells European users its staff in China get access to their data (The Guardian) Is TikTok still in danger of running afoul of government bans? WhatsApp gets Groups.

* Inside the weirdly competitive industry of robots writing letters in human handwriting (FastCompany) * The Most Vulnerable Place on the Internet (Wired)

* The Race to Be Figma for Devs: CodeSandbox vs. * The ‘Viral’ Secure Programming Language That’s Taking Over Tech (Wired) * Bored Ape Yacht Club tell all: The untold story of the $4 billion crypto startup (FastCompany) * With Netflix’s ads tier, you never know what you’re going to get (The Verge) * DALL-E API released by OpenAI in public beta, potential boon for app builders (VentureBeat)

* Amazon pauses hiring for corporate workforce (CNBC) * Substack targets Twitter with launch of discussions feature, Substack Chat (TechCrunch) * Elon Musk’s Twitter layoffs are starting (The Verge) And, of course, The Weekend Longreads Suggestions. What it’s like to use Netflix’s new ad-supported tier. DALL-E API’s are now available for you to use. And while Twitter might shutter its Substack competitor, Substack has moved into Twitter’s turf by launching a sort of discussion platform.

See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at. * FTX Venture Investors Fear Total Wipeout in Binance Rescue Deal (The Information) * The Story of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Backroom Deal With Binance’s CZ (CoinDesk) * Disney+ reaches 164.2M subscribers as it prepares for ad-supported tier launch (TechCrunch) * Twitter’s solution for ruining verification is another check mark (The Verge) * TikTok slashes global revenue targets by at least $2bn (Financial Times) * Meta confirms 11,000 layoffs, amounting to 13% of its workforce (TechCrunch) What even is the new Twitter subscription product at this point? Does anybody know? And if you look at today’s show title, and it’s just a bunch of gibberish, hopefully I can explain the big crypto blowup from yesterday. But rumors are, TikTok is cutting back also. The Meta layoffs are here and they’re brutal.
