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
Joshua Bergen is a very productive person. His secret is the workspace app Notion. Bergen, a product manager living in Vancouver, uses it to plan trips abroad in meticulous detail, with notes and time
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 Your Memories. Their Cloud. 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
Elon Musk has reduced the company to a bare-bones operation, and employees are under a “zero-based budgeting” mandate to justify any spending.
By Kate Conger, Ryan Mac and Mike Isaac
Kate Conger, Ryan Mac and Mike Isaac have reported on Elon Musk and Twitter since early this year.
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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
Musk’s cult-like fans haven’t entirely lost faith in their leader yet, but it’s getting a lot harder for him to keep up his image
I hate it when I have to do this but here goes: I was wrong. I was very, very wrong. Back in October, when Elon Musk’s $44bn (£36bn) acquisition of Twitter was finalized,…
Sasha Solomon, a software engineer, joined others in the media business who lost their jobs this year after publicly taking on their employers.
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In the middle of a workday, Sasha Solomon, a 34-year-old software engineer in Portland, Ore., put her French bulldog, Bosworth, on a…
A recent incident at Radio City Music Hall involving the mother of a Girl Scout is shedding light on the growing controversy of facial recognition, as critics claim it is being used to target perceive
Image: puhhha/Shutterstock Almost three-quarters (74%) of developers are actively looking for new roles or are open to fresh opportunities, according to research. Younger developers are more likely to
Crypto is flowing out of Binance as users withdraw from the exchnage A long-running U.S. criminal investigation is a catalyst for withdrawals Binance is participating in misdirection and manipulation
Content Moderation from the do-I-sense-some-worry? dept Fri, Dec 16th 2022 09:17am - Look, I fucking warned Elon that this is exactly how it would go. It’s how it always goes. Remember Parler? They pr
Earlier tonight, Elon Musk suspended my Twitter account. I only had three tweets live on my account when it was banned. Two were promoting my social media profiles on other platforms (follow me on Tik
On Monday, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested by police in the Bahamas at the request of the U.S. government. Mario Duncanson/AFP via Getty Images Fallout from the catastrophic collapse of the
Enlarge Getty Images | NurPhoto A lawsuit says Twitter failed to pay a $1,092,000 invoice in a software contract that doesn't expire until late 2024, and that the Elon Musk-led company apparently inte
On a couple of occasions I have described my Grand Vision For How Social Media Ought To Be, which is roughly that there should be a bunch of different: publishing services, like Substack and Ghost rea
Update: After this article was published, Twitter banned half a dozen prominent journalists who had covered Musk and were critical of him on the platform. On Wednesday, Twitter chief Elon Musk banned
Elon Musk's Neuralink, a medical device company, is reportedly under federal investigation for potential animal welfare violations amid complaints from internal staff. The report says that internal do
Published 13 December 2022 Share page About sharing Image source, Reuters Elon Musk is no longer the world's richest man after a sharp drop in the value of his shares in electric car company Tesla thi
watch now VIDEO 3:32 03:32 FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in the Bahamas Worldwide Exchange FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested by Bahamian authorities Monday evening after the United S
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This month, millions of people came face to face with versions of themselves generated by artificial intelligence thanks to the app Lensa, which uses machine learning to spit out illustrations based o
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images/Shutterstock Twitter is not what it seems. The social-media platform poses as a neutral marketplace for the exchange of ideas and information; a
The 8086 microprocessor was a groundbreaking processor introduced by Intel in 1978.It led to the x86 architecture that still dominatesdesktop and server computing.While reverse-engineering the 8086 fr
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Elon Musk plans to reinstate nearly all previously banned Twitter accounts — to the alarm of activists and online trust and safety experts. After posting a Twitter poll asking, “Should Twitter offer a
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Guest Essay I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It. Nov. 18, 2022 Credit... Justin Lane/EPA, via Shutterstock By Mr. Roth is a former head of trust and safety a
If you’re terminally online—and let’s be honest, if you’re reading this you are—you’ll know all about Twitter’s new management. For a whole year Twitter and Musk’s “will they / won’t they” dance both
SAN FRANCISCO — New owner Elon Musk struggled Friday to harness the chaos he’s unleashed at Twitter, summoning the remaining engineers to the San Francisco headquarters and issuing new edicts on conte
On November 3rd programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick, along with theJoseph Saveri Law Firm, filed a class action lawsuit against GitHub, Microsoft(its parent company), and OpenAI. The lawsuit , fil
Published 17 November 2022 Share page About sharing Image source, Reuters By Noor Nanji Business reporter, BBC News Elon Musk has told Twitter staff that they must commit to working "long hours at hig
Privacy is a right. This is a fact in many states , and it’s one of our fervent beliefs at Consumer Reports. But that doesn’t mean privacy is easy. Anyone who’s tried to make their digital life more p
On November 4, just hours after Elon Musk fired half of the 7,500 employees previously working at Twitter, some people began to see small signs that something was wrong with everyone’s favorite hellsi
The social media service, which is undergoing changes from its new owner Elon Musk, has descended into a messy swirl of spoof messages and parody accounts. Credit... Jason Henry for The New York Times
Over $370 million was mysteriously withdrawn from FTX and FTX US late on November 11, despite the company freezing withdrawals. An FTX account administrator wrote on the FTX support Telegram, "FTX has
56 mins ago - Technology Axios Illustration: Natalie Peeples/Axios Twitter's head of trust and safety and the company's interim head of advertising have both left the company, Axios has learned. Both
The headset Luckey No, this is not a headline that reflects Mark Zuckerberg fully losing his mind to his pursuit of the metaverse. Rather, we are talking about Palmer Luckey, the original founder of O