Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk’s “hardcore” ultimatum (The Verge)

Washington Post:
Email: Elon Musk outlines “Twitter 2.0”, arguing the approach will be “extremely hardcore”; employees must reply “yes” by 5pm ET or get three months severance  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk issued an ultimatum to Twitter employees Wednesday morning …

Casey Newton / Platformer:
A Twitter HQ seating chart shows Elon Musk’s top five special projects: Blue verified, Blue for business, encrypted DMs, tips on tweets, and longform notes  —  After demanding the remaining Twitter employees pledge their loyalty, Musk’s product priorities are coming into focus  —  I. Extremely hardcore

David Pierce / The Verge:
Slack announces Canvas, a collaborative tool that presents contextual information for each channel, helps users edit documents in-app, and more, coming in 2023  —  Slack is becoming a document editor.  The Salesforce-owned company announced today at its developer conference that it is building …

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers say Slack and Microsoft Teams have fundamental issues vetting third-party apps and should overhaul their app model to be more like traditional OSes  —  New research shows how third-party apps could be exploited to infiltrate these sensitive workplace tools.

Ellen Thomas / Insider:
Internal memo: Slack CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield plans to leave Salesforce in January, says the move has “nothing to do” with Bret Taylor’s departure  —  Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield is leaving Salesforce in January.  —  Butterfield posted his announcement …

Wall Street Journal:
Former FTX employees detail the chaotic days after its collapse: mass resignations, learning news from social media, equity compensation going to zero, and more  —  Many say they learned of crypto exchange’s deteriorating situation through media and lost access to their funds