Delaware Chancery judge rules that Elon Musk can amend his counterclaims and use Twitter’s $7.8M severance payment to Peiter Zatko to justify ending the deal (Jef Feeley/Bloomberg)

Jef Feeley / Bloomberg:
Unsealed court docs: Peiter Zatko said he burned 10 notebooks and deleted 100 computer files at the behest of Twitter managers as part of his severance package  —  Just before Elon Musk revived his proposal to buy Twitter Inc. last week, the billionaire accused the company of ordering …

Bloomberg:
Twitter tells judge that Peiter Zatko never raised concerns about spam until he filed his whistleblower complaint and “started parroting” Musk’s allegations  —  A lawyer for Twitter Inc. said a whistle-blower who claims the company responded inadequately to spam and bot accounts …

Lauren Hirsch / New York Times:
A profile of Delaware Chancery Court judge Kathaleen McCormick, who is overseeing the Elon Musk-Twitter dispute, ahead of the Friday deadline to close the deal  —  Kathaleen St. J. McCormick, the chief judge of Delaware’s Chancery Court, gave Mr. Musk until Friday to acquire Twitter.

David McCabe / New York Times:
In Senate testimony, ex-head of security and whistleblower Peiter Zatko says Twitter had been told that “there was at least one [Chinese] agent” on its payroll  —  At a congressional hearing, Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, told lawmakers that the company lied about its data practices.

Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
A look at efforts by at least six research groups to find dirt on Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko, including many offers to pay former colleagues for info  —  Many of Peiter (Mudge) Zatko’s former colleagues have received offers of payment for information about him.

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
A judge says Twitter can proceed with a limited probe to see if whistleblower Peiter Zatko contacted Elon Musk’s lawyers before he backed out of the deal  —  The Delaware Court of Chancery says Twitter can proceed with a limited probe to figure out whether whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” …