A look at Koolau Ranch, Mark Zuckerberg's 1,400-acre, $270M+ compound in Kauai, Hawaii, with a 5,000 sq. ft. underground shelter, a project shrouded in secrecy
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is building a sprawling, $100 million compound in Hawaii—complete with plans for a huge underground bunker. Threads: @mattnavarra . X: @jackmjenkins , @katiedrumm , @kylebruss...
Docs: investments in 4chan include $800K from owner Hiroyuki Nishimura, $4.8M from his company, and $2.4M from Tokyo-based Good Smile, which makes Disney toys
I got my hands on records of the corporate partnership that enabled, and financed, the corrosive imageboard. Tweets: Liam Robertson / @doctor_cupcakes : This is such a bizarre story. https://twitter.c...
How an 8-year-old's YouTube account and a parent activist sparked a debate in Denmark on Google's ubiquity in schools and its handling of children's data
Morgan Meaker / Wired : Tweets: @benpatrickwill , @benpatrickwill , @nathanielmott , @carlheath , @agavrielatos , and @jtemperton Tweets: Ben Williamson / @benpatrickwill : “We have put ourselves in ...
How an 8-year-old's YouTube account and a parent activist sparked a debate in Denmark on Google's ubiquity in schools and its handling of children's data
An 8-year-old's YouTube snafu—and one unlikely parent activist—sparked a nationwide debate on the tech giant's ubiquity and handling of children's data. Tweets: @benpatrickwill , @agavrielatos , and @...
Russia's invasion of Ukraine shows that TikTok's design and algorithm are ideal for sharing videos of war, but present a challenge for its moderation system
As Russia's invasion of Ukraine plays out online, the platform's design and algorithm prove ideal for the messiness of war—but a nightmare for the truth. Tweets: @stokel , @stokel , @etbrooking , @nor...
Revolut employees say 50+ staff in Poland and Portugal were given the choice of being terminated or receiving severance if they left by “mutual agreement”
Emiliano Mellino / WIRED UK : Tweets: @mellino , @sharonodea , @jtemperton , @chris_skinner , and @martinsfp Tweets: Emiliano Mellino / @mellino : We tend to forget that the bulk of the jobs in the n...
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is “trying to prepare the company to be IPO-ready as soon as possible” but says there are no plans to “go public in the near-term”
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AMP adds constraints for faster loading webpages that restrict Javascript and ban some HTML tags including iframes; new AMP-specific elements introduced
and distributed — web David Nield / ReadWrite : Google Introduces Accelerated Mobile Pages To Keep Content On The Web Peter Kafka / Re/code : Google Unveils ‘AMP’ — Its Answer to Facebook's Instant Ar...