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The whistleblower complaint from Twitter’s former head of security is already complicating the company’s legal battle with Elon Musk. Lawyers representing Musk and Twitter met in court Tuesday for a hearing that will determine whether the claims made by Pieter “Mudge” Zatko can be added to Elon Musk’s legal case to get out of his $44 billion commitment to buy Twitter.
Notably, the hearing was one of the first times any Twitter representative has publicly addressed Zatko’s complaint. In the two weeks since Zatko went public, Twitter has largely stayed silent on the substance of the claims.
During the hearing, Twitter’s lawyers portrayed Zatko as a disgruntled employee, saying that he had a “huge ax to grind” with the company and that he “was not in charge of spam at Twitter.” They accused him of “structuring his whistleblower complaint, to tie it to the merger agreement.” (Zatko’s lawyers previously said he didn’t go public in order to “benefit Musk.”) Notably, Twitter’s lawyers didn’t address claims that the company’s lax security practices may have harmed national security or that CEO Parag Agrawal told Zatko to lie to the company board.
Twitter’s lawyers did suggest that Musk was looking for reasons to kill the deal before Zatko’s complaint was public. At one point, Twitter’s lawyer quoted from a May 3rd text message Musk sent to his banker at Morgan Stanley:
“Let’s slow down just a few days … it won’t make sense to buy Twitter if we’re headed into World War 3,” Twitter’s lawyer read aloud, quoting Musk. “This is why Mr. Musk didn’t want to buy Twitter, this stuff about the bots, mDAU [monetizable daily active users] and Zatko is all pretext.”
On the other side, Musk’s lawyers touted Zatko’s credentials as a “decorated” executive who had once been offered a position as a US government official. They said Musk had “nothing to do with” Zatko’s whistleblower complaint and that Twitter had purposely hidden damaging information. Whether it will be enough to sway the judge in the case though, is unclear. In one exchange the judge pointedly remarked on Musk’s decision to waive due diligence before agreeing to the acquisition.
“Why didn’t we discover this in diligence,” Musk’s lawyer said, referencing Zatko’s whistleblower complaint. “They hid it, that’s why.” “We’ll never know, right,” the judge responded. “Because the diligence didn’t happen.”
Musk’s lawyers, pushing for the October trial to be delayed, closed out the more than three-hour long hearing by arguing that “it’s not us causing this chaos or this delay.”
“Nobody at Twitter is having all hands on meetings today over the poop emoji from two months ago,” he said, in an apparent — and unprompted — reference to a May 16th tweet from Musk directed at Agrawal. “The reason that they’re having all-hands-on meetings today at Twitter is because a senior decorated executive said that the company was committing fraud. That’s our fault? That’s our chaos? That’s their chaos.”
To call the current state of the world today ‘tumultuous’ would be a bit of an understatement. For LGBTQ+ people – and trans people in particular – the increasingly extreme rhetoric and legislation being weaponised against these communities can feel all-consuming. Yet it comes at a time when diverse representation in media, including games, is improving. As the number of characters stated to LGBTQ+ grows, what is more effective representation: making it possible to see your own experiences on screen, or make those experiences understandable to someone who isn’t LGBTQ+?
People who know of it would perhaps cite the work of developer and translator npckc, who I recently spoke with at the recent Japanese indie gaming event Bitsummit. They were there to showcase their latest game A Pet Shop After Dark, a departure from visual novels like A Year Of Springs trilogy into horror storytelling (“more spooky than outright horror,” as they later clarified) that’s set to release later this month. Beyond the trilogy and their newest work, they’ve translated the works of other developers and worked on other smaller games and game jam projects.
The upcoming Wanted: Dead zombie game is giving us major Bayonetta vibes with a hint of Yakuza thrown in the quieter moments of its new release date trailer. Wanted: Dead’s release date is set for February 14, and developer Soleil Ltd showed off an extensive slice of gameplay in the new release date trailer. The hack-’n’-slash combat might be heavier and gorier than we see with Bayonetta, but there’s almost no denying the flash, slick moves, and over-the-top style draw inspiration from Platinum’s campy witch, albeit with massive guns instead of hair-fueled demon powers.
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LISA Robinson, 44, a mental health nurse, lives in County Durham with her partner Michael, 56, a shift manager at a chemical plant, and daughters Jade, 24, and Leah, 18.
Here, she reveals how her Turkey teeth saved her life after losing her balance on her way to Turkish dental clinic.
“As I opened my eyes in intensive care, after an emergency 13-hour operation, the surgeon told me I was lucky to be alive. I reached up to touch my bandaged head and the words ‘fist-sized brain tumour’ came flooding back.
The doctors had said I only had a 25% chance of surviving the operation, so I took a deep breath and thanked my lucky stars I was still here.
Just days before, on June 24 of this year, I’d flown alone to Antalya, Turkey, for dental implants. But as I walked into the Magic Smile Turkey clinic, I lost my balance and fell backwards.
I was put in a taxi to the private Anadolu Hastanesi Hospital nearby, where doctors thought I was possessed, because my brown eyes had turned blue and began rolling in my head.
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Up to that point, life had been great. I was a fit gym-goer, loved my job as a nurse and enjoyed spending time with my partner Michael and my two beautiful daughters.
I was due to start a new job, but first, I was finally fixing a life-long insecurity by getting my teeth done. There wasn’t anything ‘wrong’ with them, but I wanted them straighter and to have a nicer smile.
I’d seen great results from people on social media going to Turkey for dental treatment, so I flew there in February, paying £6,000 for veneers on my top teeth.
They also removed some of the bottom ones and replaced them with posts ready for the £2,000 implants, which would be done during a return trip in June, once my gums had healed.
Two weeks before that second visit, I started experiencing excruciating migraines, which my GP put down to the stress of leaving my job as a staff nurse.
Arriving at my hotel in Turkey, I went to bed at 11.30pm but woke at 3am, drenched in sweat. I rushed to the bathroom to tip cold water over myself. The next thing I knew, it was morning and I was lying in an empty bathtub – I must have fallen in and passed out.
As I staggered into the clinic later that day, I collapsed and was sent to hospital, where I underwent an MRI scan. By this stage, I was vomiting and screaming.
The scan revealed I had a deadly 4.5cm glioblastoma brain tumour and a haemorrhage, requiring immediate surgery.
In my delirious state, I managed to share Michael’s phone number with the interpreter before the anaesthetic kicked in. He dropped everything to fly over, and when I saw him the following day, I burst into tears.
I stayed in intensive care for four days, before being transferred to the critical care unit. The surgeon was happy with the op results after removing the majority of the tumour and said it was incredible I was alive.
Two weeks later, I was told by the hospital that my insurers had refused to pay out because I hadn’t declared that I’d sought help for headaches before travelling. I was asked to make a payment of £12,500 and told that the remaining balance of £45,000 was due by August 13, which was a huge shock.
Returning to Newcastle Airport on July 13, I was taken straight to the Royal Victoria Infirmary, where a consultant told me I had a grade 4 brain cancer. I couldn’t stop crying as I thought I was going to die.
The cancer is aggressive and incurable, but it is treatable and we have a plan of action. I’m having five sessions of radiotherapy for three weeks and then chemotherapy in tablet form, so we’re remaining positive about my future.
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My sister Sharon set up a JustGiving page to help raise the money for my medical bills – it’s already reached nearly £23,000 – and we’ve also held sponsored walks, family fun days and raffles to collect as much as possible.
I still need to find time for a trip to the dentist to get some better dentures for my bottom teeth, as they were never able to fit my implants. I’ll always be thankful to the surgeon in Turkey who saved my life and gave me this precious time with my family.”