Elon Musk apologizes after mocking laid-off disabled Twitter employee Haraldur Thorleifsson, who joined in 2021 after Twitter acquired his startup Ueno
If you're not told you are fired, are you really fired? At Twitter, probably. And then, sometimes, you get your job back — if you want it.
Twitter lets the certificate for its Tor onion site expire, effectively killing off the privacy-preserving and speech-protecting service after one year
Twitter has allowed the certificate for its Tor onion site to expire, effectively killing off a privacy- and speech-protecting service that it introduced last year.
Documents: the FTC demanded Twitter turn over internal messages on Elon Musk, details about layoffs, and the names of journalists with access to company records
Documents obtained by a House panel shed light on the probe into Twitter's compliance with settlement
Sources describe how Google stalled the release of a powerful chatbot for years due to the risk AI demos could pose to its reputation and search ads business
Researchers developed a powerful chatbot years before rival ChatGPT went viral. After management stalled its release, they quit.
A look at Google's scramble to add generative AI to its products, reminding some employees of the rush to infuse Google+ into every key service starting in 2011
Artificial intelligence was supposed to be Google's thing. The company has cultivated a reputation for making long-term bets …
Google schedules I/O 2023 with a “limited live audience” for May 10, when Android 14 details, Pixel 7a's debut, and a Pixel Tablet launch date are expected
Following the literal input/output puzzle this morning, Google has announced that I/O 2023 is taking place Wednesday, May 10.
TikTok announces Project Clover, outlining its plan to charm European regulators, including keeping user data on servers in Europe and allowing an audit
BRUSSELS — TikTok has launched its European counteroffensive to assuage politicians' fears over Chinese surveillance.
DuckDuckGo launches OpenAI- and Anthropic-powered DuckAssist in beta, using Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, and other sources to summarize answers
The new DuckAssist tool will source answers from Wikipedia for quick, conversational responses to some questions.
Panic launches Catalog, a curated game store for its handheld Playdate console with 16 titles, and raises the device's price by $20 to $199 starting in April
As part of a showcase event, Panic announced that Catalog, a game store for its Playdate handheld, would be launching today.
YouTube plans to ease its restrictions on swearing in videos after finding its rules from November 2022 “resulted in a stricter approach than we intended”
YouTube will ease its restrictions on swearing in videos after an update it rolled out in November sparked backlash from several creators …
A New York bankruptcy judge says Voyager Digital can sell its $1B+ worth of assets to Binance.US, overruling objections by the US SEC and state regulators
The bankruptcy judge in the Voyager Digital case chose to allow the deal with Binance.US over objections from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and state regulators.
Coinbase announces a “Wallet-as-a-Service” product, offering APIs to help companies create customizable wallets for their apps more easily
- Coinbase has announced a product called Wallet-as-a-Service (WaaS), designed to let companies build web3 experiences that have simple wallet onboarding.
An interview with Valve designer Lawrence Yang and engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais on the Steam Deck after one year, community-driven improvements, and more
The portable PC's creators reflect on its first anniversary and look to its future — Happy birthday, anniversary, launchiversary …
Google and the Technical University of Berlin unveil PaLM-E, a visual language model with 562B parameters, integrating vision and language for robotic control
ChatGPT-style AI model adds vision to guide a robot without special training. — On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google …
Google expands its One VPN service to all Google One plans, starting at $1.99 per month, and adds dark web monitoring for stolen information
After adding Magic Eraser last month, Google One is significantly expanding the availability of its VPN and introducing dark web monitoring for stolen information.
Sources: after postponing construction at the end of 2022, Intel seeks an extra €4B-€5B from Germany to build its chip plant, taking the expected cost to ~€30B
Intel Corp. is seeking an additional 4 billion to 5 billion euros in subsidies from the German government …
US senators unveil the bipartisan RESTRICT Act to let the US ban foreign-linked app and hardware makers the Commerce Department deems a national security risk
the bill he and other lawmakers are introducing today that could lead to a TikTok ban — will also allow the Commerce Dept. to take action on suspected foreign spying risks in AI, fintech, quantum comp...
Biden's FCC nominee Gigi Sohn tells the White House she is dropping out after her nomination stalled for 16 months amid industry opposition and personal attacks
a huge setback. As we learned when I authored CA's successful net neutrality law, these industries will stop at nothing to kill pro-consumer laws https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @aclu : Without a ...
An interview with Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom on his social news app Artifact, curating sources, editorial judgment, avoiding filter bubbles, and more
Late last month, Artifact, a personalized news reader built by Instagram's co-founders, opened to the public. Tweets: @mattnavarra , @guykawasaki , and @emilybell See also Mediagazer Tweets: Matt Nava...
An oral history of LinkedIn, which turns 20 in May, as told by Reid Hoffman and its co-founders, current executives, Satya Nadella, Richard Branson, and others
Social media, for work? The world was skeptical. But 20 years and a few white-knuckle moments later, LinkedIn has become synonymous … Tweets: @harrymccracken , @jill_bernstein , @adamnash , @jhong ,...
How Silicon Valley became obsessed with effective altruism, championed by SBF before he dismissed it as a dodge, and doomsday scenarios like killer rogue AI
Sonia Joseph was 14 years old when she first read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, a mega-popular piece of fan fiction … Tweets: @chafkin , @ellenhuet , @business , @can , @crypto , @sonia...
As tech giants cut back, staff working on big bets and moonshots, like Amazon's Alexa and Google's X, were heavily impacted; Meta's Reality Labs is an exception
Big tech companies have long been willing to fund efforts with no obvious payoff. But those groups have been hit hard in recent layoffs. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @ethan_in_sv , and @marcportermagee...
At CPAC 2023, Google, Meta, Twitter, and other tech giants remained central villains, including a Section 230 repeal panel; Truth Social and GETTR were absent
CPAC showed how the MAGA movement still can't decide whether its problem is too much Silicon Valley or not enough faves
Sources: Apple's upcoming 15-inch MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Air, and 13-inch MacBook Pro will feature an 8-core M3 chip, the same core count as the M1 and M2
TikTok launches Series, letting select creators sell Collections of up to 80 paywalled videos, each up to 20 minutes; creators initially keep 100% of earnings
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Meta tests returning messaging features to the Facebook app, nearly a decade after moving them to Messenger, hoping to “differentiate” Facebook from TikTok
LA-based Believer, a studio founded by ex-Riot executives that plans to build open world games using generative AI, raised a $55M Series A led by Lightspeed
There is a moment of wonder in every great game that makes you sit back … FinSMEs : The Believer Company Raises $55M in Series A Funding Tim Baysinger / Axios : Gaming studio Believer Entertainment ra...
Source: Silvergate is in talks with FDIC officials about ways to avoid a shutdown, including lining up crypto-industry investors to help shore up its liquidity
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A look at the AI Education Project, a nonprofit backed by Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and others that offers resources to boost AI literacy in low-income schools
With students taking advantage of ChatGPT for homework and term papers, there's a lot of handwringing about whether artificial-intelligence tools … Tweets: @mbrauchli Tweets: Marcus Brauchli / @mbrauc...
Across the US, towns and cities are feeling the impact of Amazon's belt-tightening, often having welcomed the company with incentives, as pandemic growth fades
Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post : Tweets: @richard_florida , @carlquintanilla , and @damianpaletta Tweets: Richard Florida / @richard_florida : Shot: “The big dog's gonna eat first & the puppies...
Acer confirms that one of its document servers was breached, after a hacker listed for sale 160GB of alleged slides, staff manuals, binary files, and more
Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek :
Humane, founded by two longtime ex-Apple executives, raised $100M and announces OpenAI and Microsoft partnerships; patents suggest work on a wearable device
Humane to launch its first product this spring, with patents suggesting it may be a wearable device
Research: Binance increased its market share from 59.4% in January to 61.8% in February, the fourth straight month of growth, likely due to available liquidity
Lyllah Ledesma / CoinDesk :
San Diego-based marketing automation service Soci, used by Ace Hardware, Ford, and others, raised $120M in equity and debt, bringing its total funding to ~$238M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Kresus, which is developing a Web3 app to let users buy and sell NFTs, access financial services, and more, raised a $25M Series A led by Liberty City Ventures
and why it's gotten backing from investors like JetBlue and the Winklevoss twins Kari McMahon / The Block : Serial entrepreneur and ex diplomat Trevor Traina raises $25 million for ‘goof-proof’ web3 s...
As governments adopt third-party automated fraud detection algorithms, researchers say the companies running the systems are often overpaid and under-supervised
Morgan Meaker / Wired : Tweets: @glichfield Tweets: Gideon Lichfield / @glichfield : The final story in the series takes a broader look at the algorithmic fraud-detection industry and shows the flaw ...
Meta stands by its AI release strategy after LLaMA, an LLM the company gave to approved organizations and researchers, was leaked as a torrent by a 4chan user
Q&A with Reddit Chief Product Officer Pali Bhat on rolling out a dedicated video feed, Google and search, moderation, AI, NFTs, growing its 500M+ MAUs, and more
Sources: EU regulators asked Twitter to hire more moderators and fact-checkers over concerns that Twitter aims to use more volunteers and AI to monitor content
Financial Times :
Google plans to retire overlay ads on YouTube videos starting on April 6 to “improve the viewer experience and shift engagement to higher performing ad formats”
A profile of former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, criticized for the company's slow move into AI, the cloud, and data analytics, as she publishes a book on her legacy
Anjli Raval / Financial Times :
A look at the 16 companies behind 562+ brands dominating Google Search results, their AI and SEO tactics, niches, the impact of content acquisitions, and more
Glen Allsopp / Detailed : Tweets: @matthewkeyslive and @viperchill See also Mediagazer Tweets: Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive : Only around a dozen companies are publishing the hundreds of sites rec...
A look at the growing social media dubbing industry, which is helping MrBeast and other YouTubers reach global audiences and monetize videos in many languages
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Global AI spending, including on software, hardware, and services, is forecast to grow 26.9% YoY to $154B in 2023 and companies slow to AI “will be left behind”
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
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.