Sources detail Zuckerberg's sprint to remake Meta after meeting with Trump at Thanksgiving; he no longer wants to keep his views of how Meta should be run quiet
After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta's speech policies.
On Joe Rogan's podcast, Mark Zuckerberg said Biden administration officials would “scream” and “curse” at Meta employees to take down vaccine content, and more
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan in a podcast published on Friday that his company was pressured …
Memo: Amazon halts some of its DEI programs, saying it is “winding down outdated programs and materials” as part of a broader review of hundreds of initiatives
Amazon is halting some of its diversity and inclusion initiatives, joining a growing list of major corporations …
In Joe Rogan's softball interview, Zuckerberg pointed to Apple and agencies like CFPB as new targets for the GOP, without mentioning GOP's pressure on Meta
I'll spare you the experience of listening to one of the richest men in the world whine and just tell you straight out …
Memo: Meta terminates major DEI programs, including for hiring, training, and procurement, citing a changed “legal and policy landscape” around DEI in the US
Meta is ending its DEI programs Bradley Cortright / New York Sun : Meta Abandons its DEI Programs Days Ahead of Trump's Inauguration Edith Olmsted / New Republic : Mark Zuckerberg Goes Full MAGA With ...
Sources: H1 2025 iPhone shipments to decline ~6%, annual shipments to remain flat at around 220M to 225M units; ultra-thin iPhone's thinnest part will be ~5.5mm
My latest industry research indicates that Apple will encounter more challenging hurdles in 2025, including nearly stagnant iPhone growth …
Zuckerberg slams Apple, saying it hasn't “really invented anything great in a while”, he's “optimistic” that Apple will “get beat by someone” soon, and more
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined the Joe Rogan Experience podcast today for a wide-ranging interview …
Roy Austin, Meta's VP of Civil Rights and Deputy General Counsel, announces he is leaving the company at the end of March 2025, after joining in January 2021
As I mark my 30th year as an attorney and nearly three decades of advocating for civil rights …
Biden assailed Meta over its move to end third-party fact-checking on its social media platforms in the US, saying “it's really shameful”
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg :
Zuckerberg says Meta's fact-checking was “something out of 1984” and criticized the media for hounding Facebook to clamp down on misinfo after the 2016 election
- Zuckerberg told Rogan, who was a prominent sceptic of the COVID-19 vaccine, that the Biden administration would …
Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of “culturally neutered” companies that have sought to distance themselves from “masculine energy”
- Rogan interview is latest in sign of shift toward Trump — CEO says Biden staffers would ‘scream’ and ‘curse’ about Covid
Apple opposes a shareholder measure calling for an end to DEI efforts, saying the proposal was an inappropriate attempt to restrict Apple's business operations
9to5mac.com/2025/01/10/a... Mastodon: Joe Rosensteel / @joesteel@duck.haus : @matt Not to be cynical, but Apple rejects all their shareholder petitions telling them to do something ... So ... kind of ...
OpenAI's crawlers took down e-commerce site Triplegangers by relentlessly trying to scrape the entire site, whose robots.txt file was not properly configured
On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company's e-commerce site was down. Bluesky: @valkayec , @glynmoody , and @tante.cc Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org , @DrPe...
How the rise of self-imposed solitude in the US, accelerated by smartphones in the 21st century, is reshaping the country's civic and psychological identity
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It's changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
A scammer details how voice phishing groups are abusing Apple's support line to generate “account confirmation” message prompts from Apple to their customers
Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution … Bluesky: @crowslabyrinth.com , @lilithsaintcrow.com , @metacurity.com , @kryton3298 , @its...
SCOTUS signals it is likely to uphold the TikTok divest-or-ban law, as a majority of justices suggested they see national security overriding free speech issues
TikTok went before the Supreme Court on Friday for one last attempt to put an end to the impending ban. Stephen Schenck / Android Authority : It may be time to start accepting that the US TikTok ban i...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, and, a source says, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are planning to attend Trump's inauguration events this month
- Tech companies, executives donated to Trump's inaugural fund — Industry trying to boost relationship with new administration
Disney, Fox, and WBD say they have agreed to discontinue their Venu Sports streaming joint venture and will focus on existing products and distribution channels
Sigh. Streaming TV prices are going to get obscene in 2025. — www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24... Mastodon: @SuffolkLITLab@esq.social : TL;DR: Venu Sports, the anticipated joint streaming venture from...
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says TSMC has begun producing advanced 4nm chips “on par in yield and quality with Taiwan” for US customers in Phoenix, Arizona
yield and quality reportedly on par with Taiwan fabs Denver Post : Arizona's Tiny Taipei: How a Taiwanese chip factory seeded a community Ben Schwan / heise online : TSMC board meets in Arizona Naomi ...
Bengaluru traffic police booked 17K+ cases against delivery personnel in a single week of November 2024, as Swiggy and others rolled out rapid delivery services
The News Minute : X: @thenewsminute , @thenewsminute , @thenewsminute , and @thenewsminute X: @thenewsminute : Rising traffic violations by delivery partners in Bengaluru highlight the pressure of un...
Sources: Foxconn stops sending Chinese employees to iPhone factories in India and recalls already stationed staff, while China stalls equipment shipments
Well, the Chinese want a unipolar Asia and thus to contain India, maybe not through objects at the LAC as much given the recent military disengagement there. … X: Kyle Chan / @kyleichan : China is try...
Amazon plans to end Prime Try Before You Buy on January 31; the Stitch Fix competitor let Prime users try on clothes and only pay for items they wanted to keep
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
Sources: OpenAI, Google, and other companies are collectively paying hundreds of content creators for access to their unpublished videos to train AI models
Aisha Counts / Bloomberg :
The US DOJ indicts three Russian citizens for allegedly operating Bender.io and Sinbad.io crypto mixing services used by North Korea and ransomware gangs
If you own crypto, you are complicit. [embedded post] Mastodon: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb@infosec … : NEW: A year after seizing two cryptocurrency mixing services, the U.S. governmen...
Sources: HPE won a $1B deal in late 2024 to provide servers optimized for AI work for X; Dell and Super Micro also bid on the deal
X (formerly known as Twitter) is buying $1B+ of AI servers from HPE in a previously undisclosed deal. …
A look at the burgeoning underground market connecting job seekers to anonymous employees willing to make a referral at Microsoft, Nvidia, Spotify, and others
The job market isn't roaring … Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : I doubt this is new. Tech companies have been providing referral bonuses for decades and it's a no brainer to start ref...
The EU approves Synopsys' $35B Ansys acquisition, after the companies offered to divest parts of their businesses; US and China approvals are still pending
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
Sources: TSMC cuts ties with Singapore-based PowerAIR due to a potential breach of US export controls, after a TSMC chip was found in a Huawei AI processor
Che Pan / South China Morning Post :
Huge recent fundraising deals for Databricks, SpaceX, and OpenAI may delay their IPOs; Forge Global says the seven largest US private firms are worth $695B
George Hammond / Financial Times :
Sources: Rumble, Quora, and WeChat are among 15 companies from which Texas has demanded answers about their collection and use of data of under-18-year-olds
Paresh Dave / Wired : Bluesky: @couts Bluesky: Andrew Couts / @couts : NEW: Rumble and 14 other companies (only 4 of which were previously name) is being investigated by the Texas attorney general ov...
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