Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old who has gone by “Big Balls” online and was one of the first technologists hired as part of DOGE, has resigned
www.wired.com/story/big-ba... Anna Holmes / @annabookwriter : Lol happy trails, Big Balls, this is what happens when you throw your lot in with dudes who famously screw over their contractors [embedde...
Slack confirms it is training some of its AI-powered features, but not its generative AI tool, on user content and uploads, with all users opted-in by default
https://slack.com/... What a time to be alive in IT. 🤦♂️ JP Mens / @jpmens@mastodon.social : “Our guiding principle as we build this product is that the privacy and security of Customer Data is sac...
OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection make voluntary AI promises to the White House, like cybersecurity investment and watermarking
White House Pranav Dixit / Business Today : OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon and others pledge to watermark AI content for safety Ryan Morrison / Tech Monitor : White House secures AI safety commitment As...
Biden backtracks on his Facebook criticism, says he meant top users spreading vaccine misinfo were “killing people”, and urges Facebook to reduce misinformation
Biden walks back attack over vaccine lies Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post : The Technology 202: Facebook isn't sharing how many Americans viewed vaccine misinformation New York Times : 'Facebook isn'...
Q&A with Rep. Ken Buck, leading Republican behind House's bipartisan antitrust deal, on the new bills, FTC's Facebook case, the GOP caucus, Lina Khan, and more
a party doing real damage to the place I live. This shit is real to me, my family and my community. It's not a goddamned game. Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald : As House Republicans vocally denounce Big...
Starlink review: nice hardware yielding a moderately fast, very inconsistent connection, but has line-of-sight issues with even a tree able to block the signal
The problem with reality is that it is very irritating. — In our imaginations, we might dream of a satellite internet system … Tweets: @russellbrandom , @reckless , @dcseifert , @jsnell , @jaycuthre...
After teasing a new social media platform, Trump debuts a new section on his website that's effectively a blog
Makena Kelly / The Verge :
Asked if Amazon ever accessed and used seller data to make business decisions, Bezos said he can't guarantee the ban on the practice has never been violated
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AWS CEO Andy Jassy and Supermicro CEO Charles Liang join Apple CEO Tim Cook in calling for a retraction of Bloomberg's spy chip story
Makena Kelly / The Verge : Tweets: @ajassy , @stevekopack , and @kimzetter Tweets: Andy Jassy / @ajassy : @tim_cook is right. Bloomberg story is wrong about Amazon, too. They offered no proof, story ...
Questions arise about Bloomberg's story on China spying via tiny chips after companies' strong denials, showing the difficulties of national security reporting
China's Chip Hack, Amazon and Apple's Denials, Google's Trust Reversal Kif Leswing / Business Insider : Could spies actually insert malicious chips into computer circuit boards? A manufacturing exper...