Musk's free speech definition is utter nonsense and his suggestions for Twitter completely ignore decades of content moderation iteration on social platforms
from the not-how-any-of-this-works dept — Lots of talk yesterday as Elon Musk made a hostile takeover bid for all of Twitter.
GitHub says an attacker used stolen OAuth user tokens issued to Heroku and Travis-CI to steal private repository data from dozens of organizations including npm
GitHub revealed today that an attacker is using stolen user tokens (issued to Heroku and Travis-CI OAuth) to download data from private repositories. Source: The GitHub Blog and Heroku Status .
Workers at Apple's flagship Grand Central Terminal store in Manhattan have begun to formally collect signatures to form a union
If successful, the effort would be the first time an Apple retail location has unionized — Workers at Apple's flagship Grand Central Terminal retail location …
A look at Apple's yearslong effort to design its own silicon to replace Intel chips in Macs, including an interview with Hardware Technologies SVP Johny Srouji
Apple's risky, yearslong effort to design its own silicon paid off when supply-chain disruptions left competitors scrambling
Social media platforms have weakened major forces that bind democracies together, especially after 2009 when the virality of social media started to intensify
What would it have been like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction? In the Book of Genesis, we are told …
DuckDuckGo seems to have completely removed the search results for YouTube-dl and many popular pirate sites including The Pirate Bay, 1337x.to, and Fmovies
Launched in 2008, search engine DuckDuckGo is a go-to service for Internet users who value their privacy.
[Thread] Ex-Reddit CEO warns Elon Musk that he doesn't understand current internet culture enough to handle the challenges of large social networks like Twitter
I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter. So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little ...
Sources: Elon Musk is speaking to investors, including Silver Lake, to partner with him on a Twitter bid; a plan with partners could be announced within days
Josh Kosman / New York Post :
[Thread] After Bill Gross' 2015 hostile takeover attempt, Twitter locked down the API and limited third-party clients to 100K users until Jack Dorsey's return
but now he's facing federal heat Abram Brown / Forbes : Twitter's Poison Pill, Elon Musk's ‘Plan B’: 6 Possible Scenarios Of What Happens Next Firstpost Tech : Elon Musk's bid spotlights Twitter's uni...
Didi announces a shareholder meeting on May 23 to vote on delisting of its shares from the NYSE and reports Q4 2021 revenue of $6.4B, down about 12.6% YoY
Didi Global Inc (DIDI.N) will hold an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on May 23 to vote on its delisting plans in the United States …
At least seven crypto firms have suspended rupee deposits; CoinGecko: daily trading volumes on Indian crypto exchanges have fallen 88%-96% since peaking in 2021
When Surojit Chatterjee walked on stage at a Coinbase Global Inc. conference in Bengaluru, India, on April 7 …
Twitter should not only open source its algorithm but also create a marketplace where anyone can build their own algorithms, and use the ones created by others
increases usage — decreases assholery — rebuilds trust I wrote all about it how it could work and why to do it here: https://every.to/... @ejang : Open platform co-op https://twitter.com/... @hkanji :...
A look at adult webcam “monitors” in Colombia who train models and provide tech support; Colombia has the world's second largest camming industry behind Romania
In Colombia, camming monitors train models, translate chats, and provide tech support. Tweets: @restofworld , @cengizyar , @helenliwrites , @fogginsophie , and @alexgonzor Tweets: @restofworld : Among...
A look at Lumafield, which designs CT scanners for consumer products companies like L'Oreal, OXO, and Trek Bicycle, and has raised $32.5M
Lumafield emerges from stealth with $32.5 million in funding and early customers that include L'Oreal, OXO and Trek Bicycle. Tweets: @forbes_mena_ , @forbes , @jonbruner , and @lux_capital Tweets: @fo...
A profile of Anna Fang, CEO of China-based ZhenFund, who has backed 30+ seed-stage startups that became unicorns and 90+ startups that had a successful exit
When ZhenFund CEO Anna Fang was new to venture investing, her mentor told her that the right entrepreneurs to back are the ones … Tweets: @allraise , @rebecca_szkutak , and @bgurley . Thanks: @alexrko...
Data shows the percentage share of e-commerce in total US retail sales, which is still up from pre-pandemic levels, has started to drop as in-store sales rise
E-commerce retailers that rode a surge of online purchases in 2020 are now grappling with the fact that some customers have returned to stores Tweets: @htsfhickey , @kjlabuz , @stevenpdennis , @iiiits...
An interview with a former Xinjiang prisoner, who details how China extensively uses tech like Hikvision surveillance cameras to facilitate human rights abuses
The rare firsthand account will help investigate human rights abuses — For 10 months in 2018, Ovalbek Turdakun was a prisoner … Tweets: @martijn_grooten and @kennwhite Tweets: @martijn_grooten : I k...
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.