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☆ The US's powerful Abrams tanks are heading to Ukraine, but generals disagree over how hard it'll be to use them on the battlefield
  + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Sebastien Roblin | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +19 min
The US has pledged to send Abrams tanks to Ukraine, joining a bevy of Western-made tanks. Here comes the M1 Abrams for UkraineA M1A2 Abrams tank fires at a target during an exercise. The same day, word spread that US President Joe Biden would announce he was sending 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. But Hertling disagreed that withholding the M1 Abrams was a "political decision" and didn't find the examples of non-US Abrams operators persuasive. M1 Abrams: training and sustainmentAn M1A2 Abrams drives into the woods during an exercise in Hohenfels, Germany.
☆ Investor Steve Weiss prefers Moderna over Merck, says it’s a high quality stock with a bigger pipeline
  + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Sarah Min | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Stephen Weiss, chief investment officer and managing partner at Short Hills Capital Partners, bought Moderna , and sold Merck — though he still expects the latter is a solid pharmaceutical stock. "Some days I regret selling because it's still a cheap stock, still extremely well-run, I think the best-run pharma company." Moderna shares have recently attracted investors' interest following the announcement of an experimental melanoma vaccine . Shares of Moderna are down roughly 18% this year, while shares of Merck is up nearly 45% in 2022. To this, Weiss added that "there's no other drug company, biotech company" with the pipeline that Moderna has.
☆ Elon Musk and Facebook's former chief security officer got into it on Twitter over the release of the 'Twitter Files Part 2'
  + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Elon Musk sparred on Twitter with Facebook's former security chief over "Twitter Files part two." Alex Stamos tweeted "Musk fired the lawyer" who would tell him what happens if non-employees have access to users' DMs. On Thursday, conservative columnist Bari Weiss tweeted the latest thread of "files," an installment about "Twitter's secret blacklists." Journalist Matt Taibbi tweeted the first part of the "Twitter Files" last week, which Musk described as internal communications that would reveal Twitter tried to censor free speech on the platform. Stamos tweeted that he was the target of "a wave of really poorly targeted racist and antisemitic slurs from" Musk's "posse," after Musk's reply.
☆ The 'Twitter Files' part 2 claimed to 'reveal' that the platform limited some accounts' reach, but that was already public knowledge — and in line with Elon Musk's new 'freedom of speech, not freedom
  + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | Erin Snodgrass | Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Twitter first announced in 2018 it would effectively hide some tweets from conversations and search results, according to The Washington Post's Will Oremus. Critics, and there were many, especially as prominent Republicans were impacted, referred to Twitter's practice of limiting certain tweets' visibility as "shadowbanning." In her thread, Weiss said Twitter's Strategic Response Team - Global Escalation Team, known as SRT-GET, was the body tasked with deciding which users were marked for "visibility filtering." The description outlined by Weiss of Twitter's internal moderation policy appears to fall in line with Musk's own recently-announced approach to content moderation on the site: "Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom of reach. But Weiss, a former New York Times columnist, is not thought to be a current employee at Twitter.
☆ Elon Musk says Twitter is working on a feature to show users if they've been shadowbanned
  + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Elon Musk wants Twitter users to know if they've been "shadowbanned." The move follows the "Twitter Files", which claimed to show the "secret" suppression of some users. The announcement followed the release of "episode 2" of the "Twitter Files" by conservative commentator Bari Weiss. One of the accounts mentioned in Weiss's Twitter thread was the anti-LGBTQ Twitter account, Libs of TikTok. Thursday's Twitter thread followed a similar release of internal Twitter documents last week by journalist Matt Taibbi.
☆ Federer one of the greatest athletes of any sport: Djokovic
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
LONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic hailed the retiring Roger Federer as one of the greatest athletes of all time and said he would leave a lasting legacy for the world of tennis. Federer, who has won 20 Grand Slam titles, has struggled with injuries in recent years and said last week that he would end his career after the Laver Cup in London. Djokovic beat Federer in four major finals including at Wimbledon in 2019, the Swiss's last Grand Slam final. This week's Laver Cup will be the first time that Federer, Nadal, Murray and Djokovic are playing together in an event since the 2019 Australian Open. "It's great we will have a chance to spend some quality time off the court together," Djokovic told Eurosport.
☆ Senate Republicans seek special counsel authority for prosecutor in Hunter Biden criminal probe
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
Hunter Biden looks on during the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, April 18, 2022. More than 30 Senate Republicans asked Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday to give the federal prosecutor who has been investigating Hunter Biden for several years "special counsel protections and authorities." Giving U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss special counsel authority would also "provide additional assurances to the American people that the Hunter Biden investigation is free from political influence," the letter argued. Hunter Biden disclosed the existence of the criminal probe in late 2020, shortly after his father was elected president. Hunter Biden has not been charged with any of those crimes, and it is not clear if he will ever be charged.
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