Image Credits: Tesla Tesla is laying off thousands of employees as it tries to simultaneously cut costs and boost productivity, according to an internal email sent to staff by CEO Elon Musk, Electrek
Elon Musk has reversed one of his most notorious decisions since taking over X, the social network better known as Twitter, and started bestowing blue ticks on the site’s most-followed users – whether
Is your iPhone leaking personal information to [+][-] strangers? SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Since updating the iPhone’s operating system to iOS 17.2 in December 2023, have users of one p
Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu (Getty Images) Thousands of people lined up outside Apple Stores on Feb. 2 to see the Vision Pro’s stunning debut, but dissatisfied customers are returning their headsets
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App developers in the European Union who choose to opt in to Apple's new business terms must pay an €0.50 " Core Technology Fee " or CTF for every app install over one million installs, a model that h
Some have asked me how I feel about Substack's recent decision to ban five (5) no-name Nazi newsletters and then say "see? we're doing what you asked! And you screeching leftists are making a big fuss
Exclusive Broadcom is tossing the majority of VMware's Cloud Services Providers as part of its shakeup of the virtualization pioneer's partner programs, say sources, leaving customers unclear who thei
Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud . We then shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022 , and the fact that we were going to build our own tooling rather t
The U.S. federal government has stopped warning some social networks about foreign disinformation campaigns on their platforms, reversing a years-long approach to preventing Russia and other actors fr
Facebook parent company Meta began handing out a new round of pink slips Wednesday, part of a months-long downsizing and restructuring effort that will trim 10,000 employees amid multiple waves of lay
Adobe Reddit Adobe could face hefty fines related to its overly difficult and costly subscription cancellation practices due to an ongoing Federal Trade Commission Probe. On its quarterly financial ca
Google chief legal officer Kent Walker. Photo By Alex Zea/Europa Press via Getty Images Judge James Donato is overseeing Epic v. Google , a case that could determine the future of the Android app stor
Getty Images | Chesnot Meta sued the Federal Trade Commission yesterday in a lawsuit that challenges the FTC's authority to impose new privacy obligations on the social media firm. The complaint stems
Sam Altman. OpenAI Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company announced on Friday . “Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was
Sam Altman speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 6th, 2023. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Sam Altman will return as CEO of OpenAI, overcoming an attempted boardroom coup that sent
In March, we shared our vision of a new future of software development with Copilot X, where AI infuses every step of the developer lifecycle. Since then, we’ve been working to scale and mature the un
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Washington Post reported Friday that Reddit might cut off Google and force users to log in to Reddit itself to read anything, if it can’t reach deals with g
So you probably wake up every morning asking yourself three of life’s most pertinent questions- how do I build a streaming SQL engine, what even is a streaming SQL engine, and can our Lord drop tables
In April, NPR left Twitter after Elon Musk labeled the outlet as "U.S. state-affiliated media." Six months later, the effects have been negligible Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP Images A lot of people t
A hacker is offering to sell records identifying names, locations and ethnicities of potentially millions of customers of genetic testing company 23andMe, beginning by touting a batch that would conta
By now, you may have heard about Elon Musk's handpicked CEO for X, Linda Yaccarino, and her disastrous interview with CNBC's Julia Boorstin at Vox Media's Code 2023 event. However, somewhat overlooked
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WARSAW, Sept 21 (Reuters) - A Polish watchdog is investigating Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI over a complaint that its ChatGPT…
“Happy to talk about it if this is interesting,” Marc Benioff , the founder of Salesforce, texted Elon Musk last spring. He continued, opaquely: “Twitter conversational OS—the townsquare for your digi
"Is Rust a great fit for this project?" I get this question quite frequently so I think it's time to write down my thoughts if it can avoid you some painful and costly mistakes. Short answer: no. Comi
Something happened to business software. You used to pay for it once , install it, and run it. Whether on someone’s computer, or a server for everyone, it felt like you owned it. And you did. Today, m
The Federal Trade Commission has opened an expansive investigation into OpenAI, probing whether the maker of the popular ChatGPT bot has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reput
After multiple EU-based users complained about not being able to access Instagram’s Threads app through VPN, Meta confirmed that it is blocking such efforts. The company launched Threads last week, bu
The US Federal Trade Commission is reportedly investigating ChatGPT maker OpenAI for potential violations of consumer protection regulations involving data privacy and false statements about third par
This article is more than 8 years old. June 29: Updated with statement from Facebook, from the author of the study, and from the editor of the academic journal that published the study. Facebook is th
Published 4 hours ago Share page About sharing By Chris Vallance & James Clayton Technology reporters, BBC News Ten million users signed up for Meta's newly launched Threads app in its first seven hou
In an unexpected announcement today, Google Domains is “winding down following a transition period,” with Squarespace taking over the business and assets. Squarespace announced today that it “entered
Twitter has long been described, even by its most ardent users, as a hellsite. But under Elon Musk, Twitter has evolved into a platform that is indistinguishable from the wastelands of alternative soc
Hiding malicious programs in a computer’s UEFI firmware, the deep-seated code that tells a PC how to load its operating system, has become an insidious trick in the toolkit of stealthy hackers. But wh
Humans and technology Meet the people who use Notion to plan their whole lives The workplace tool’s appeal extends far beyond organizing work projects. Many users find it’s just as useful for managing
Updated on December 29, 2022, at 12:10 p.m. The dramatic, multidimensional implosion of Meta; the nuclear train wreck of Elon Musk’s Twitter; the momentous labor uprising against Amazon—it wasn’t just
The City of Melbourne is investigating how much of a system for reporting graffiti, using QR codes, has been vandalised. Key points: Melbourne Lord Mayor Sally Capp says a number of QR codes used to r
Credit... Tim Robinson Google, Apple and Meta offer near-limitless digital basements in which to store photos, videos and important documents, but you should keep a copy of what you hold most dear. Cr
Elon Musk has reduced the company to a bare-bones operation, and employees are under a “zero-based budgeting” mandate to justify any spending. Elon Musk is looking for even more ways to cut costs at T
Enlarge / Founder Eugen Rochko said Mastodon would not "turn into everything you hate about Twitter." NurPhoto via Getty Images Twitter rival Mastodon has rejected more than five investment offers fro