Interviews with more than 24 people involved in the AT&T/Time Warner merger, including Jeff Bewkes and Randall Stephenson, detail how it went disastrously awry
At Time Warner, executives saw AT&T as just a “big phone company from Texas.” At AT&T, they thought Hollywood would play by their rules. Tweets: @jamesstewartnyt , @nytimes , @dandrezner , @nickconfe...
White House forms the Cyber Safety Review Board, loosely modeled on NTSB, to investigate major national cybersecurity failures, starting with the Log4j bug
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @dnvolz , @dalperovitch , @anthony , @ericgeller , @dnvolz , @marcambinder , @williamturton , and @wsjpolitics Tweets: Dustin Volz / @dnvolz : Rob Silvers ...
Sources: the recent ransomware attack against Sinclair is linked to Russian group Evil Corp., which changed names to avoid 2019 US sanctions
- Evil Corp. said to change names to avoid 2019 U.S. sanctions — Broadcaster hit with new ransomware strain called Macaw Tweets: @williamturton , @caseynewton , @williamturton , @williamturton , an...
Resecurity: hackers gained access to UN's proprietary project management tool Umoja from April 5 to August 7, stealing an unknown amount of data
Bloomberg : Tweets: @williamturton and @williamturton Tweets: William Turton / @williamturton : NEW: Hackers breached the UN's computer networks earlier this year and made off with a trove of data th...
Some Black medical professionals who are voluntarily countering misinfo on Clubhouse about COVID-19 and its vaccine say they have been harassed and bullied
- Conspiracies flourish on app including about vaccines and 5G — 'Hey, I was skeptical too, but here's where I am now' Tweets: @mattyglesias , @williamturton , @williamturton , @ericgeller , @jilli...
How a Citigroup tech executive's news site, with an estimated 10M visitors/month, helped QAnon go mainstream with widespread political implications
Jason Gelinas lived a normal suburban life with a plum Wall Street gig. He also ran the conspiracy theory's biggest news hub. Tweets: @williamturton , @williamturton , @danbeucke , @clairehoworth , @...
A look at Facebook's 59-acre Willow Village development in Menlo Park, with 1,500 apartments and other amenities, as it follows in Apple and Google's footsteps
In Menlo Park, Calif., Facebook is building a real community and testing the proposition: Do people love tech companies so much they will live inside them? Tweets: @ssstrom , @davethackeray , @william...
NYT journalist Farhad Manjoo spent nearly two months relying solely on print for his news and concluded that digital has broken how we process information
I first got news of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., via an alert on my watch. Even though I had turned off news notifications months ago … Tweets: @fmanjoo , @mattdpearce , @brianstelter , @be...
Many alt-right alternatives to popular social networks are struggling to attract talent, users, and funding; a few have gone offline altogether
If you've lost sleep worrying about the growing power of the alt-right — that shadowy coalition that includes white nationalists, anti-feminists … Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @williamturton , @stevekov...