How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD
Kevin Tierney / @catholicsmark : Well yes, in order to survive CBS needed to have less bias in its newsroom. Why is this surprising? Steve Rosenbaum / @magnifymedia : https://www.nytimes.com/.... Does...
Some former CrowdStrike employees say they raised concerns about executives rushing deadlines and quality checks, more than a year before the July 2024 outage
THE SCOOP — Software engineers at the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike complained about rushed deadlines, excessive workloads … X: @rachyljones , @hkanji , and @nullvoxpopuli . LinkedIn: James Bach . ...
Leaked docs detail reputation management company Eliminalia's tactics to remove public-interest info from the internet, like via fake sites and copyright claims
Phineas Rueckert / Forbidden Stories : Tweets: @brooklynmarie and @hkanji Tweets: Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie : “It's hugely significant that this stuff is happening,” Adam Holland, a project m...
Internal Palantir documents detail a plan to deepen its ties to the UK's NHS by buying up smaller rivals, helping avoid scrutiny and increase health data
Palantir Technologies had a secret plan to deepen its relationship with the UK's National Health Service without public scrutiny. Tweets: @oliviasolon , @parismarx , @xtophercook , @hkanji , @einstein...
A look at the proliferation of “dark stores”, mini-warehouses in urban retail spaces used by fast grocery delivery companies, and their impact on community life
Mini-warehouses dubbed “dark stores” are quietly taking over urban retail space. Tweets: @ron_miller , @jeffspeckfaicp , @bpolitics , @rebeccaspang , @galeabrewer , @hkanji , and @hypervisible Tweets:...
A look at the rise and fall of Skycoin, a cryptocurrency that had a ~$5B total value in 2018, ran a team of social media “shills”, and was plagued by scandals
The cryptocurrency promised to change the world and make its users rich in the process. Then it began to fall apart. Tweets: @ofnumbers , @michaelluo , and @hkanji Tweets: Tim Swanson / @ofnumbers : ...
Researchers say the study of social media's large-scale societal impact should be treated as a “crisis discipline”, like climate science or conservation biology
One challenge is how little we know about the dangers. — Social media has drastically restructured … Tweets: @ct_bergstrom , @ct_bergstrom , @zittrain , @richggall , @bob_wachter , @philnobilejr , @...
An inside look at Gen X, Amex's latest ML-based fraud detection model, which was developed, updated, and rolled out as spending patterns changed amid lockdowns
and wishing they had a stress ball handy #AI $AXP https://www.morningbrew.com/ ... via @etechbrew @haydenfield : NEW: My latest feature—the 2nd in our “Demystifying Algorithms” series—is live! I wrote...
An inside look at Gen X, Amex's latest ML-based fraud detection model, which was developed, updated, and rolled out as spending patterns changed amid lockdowns
For Amex's fraud risk team, the year leading up to the new model's rollout was full of upended expectations—and wishing they had a stress ball handy Tweets: @jaycodon , @clay1016 , @haydenfield , @dan...
Sources shed light on the increasingly personal battle between Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg, who in private reportedly said “we need to inflict pain” on Apple
exactly what Apple is attacking FB over.) Depesh Mandalia / @depeshm : Who's signing up for Apple ads?! I love the paradoxical wording: a) the Apple ad platform does not track you b) but don't turn of...