CoinGecko: Trump's memecoin, with a ~$7.5B market cap, is around the 28th most valuable cryptocurrency; some in crypto call Official Trump a “horrible look”
Survey Bloomberg : What Are Memecoins and Why Did Trump Launch One? Callum Jones / The Guardian : Experts alarmed by Trumps' crypto meme coins: ‘America voted for corruption’ Michael Anthony Bitoon / ...
A federal judge dismisses a case in which an imprisoned Saudi dissident and his sister, who is a US citizen, accused X of conspiring with the Saudi government
Joseph Menn / Washington Post :
A federal judge dismisses a case in which an imprisoned Saudi dissident and his sister, who is a US citizen, accused X of conspiring with the Saudi government
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Profile of Palantir CEO Alex Karp and the controversies around Palantir's trustworthiness; Karp claims his progressivism offsets Thiel's relationship with Trump
The tech giant helps governments and law enforcement decipher vast amounts of data — to mysterious and, some say, dangerous ends. Tweets: @chrisamccoy , @empo11on , @chrisamccoy , @warrenisdead , @tra...
DOJ charges two ex-Twitter employees, arresting one, with spying for Saudi Arabia by snooping on kingdom critics; one allegedly accessed 6,000 accounts in 2015
but spying on private citizens by gaining access to their social media account information, if proven true, is illegal and completely unacceptable. https://twitter.com/... Molly McKew / @mollymckew : ...
Facebook details its first takedown of inauthentic accounts linked to the Saudi government, alongside a separate takedown of accounts linked to UAE and Egypt
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN :
Jeff Bezos' security chief says his investigation concluded with high confidence that Saudi Arabia “had access to Bezos' phone, and gained private information”
These are not April Fool items. Bobby Hellard / IT PRO : Jeff Bezos allegedly hacked by Saudi Arabia Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Security consultant claims Jeff Bezos' phone was hacked by Saudi Arab...
Google rejects calls to remove Absher, an app from the Saudi government to help men in the country track and dictate where women can travel, from the Play store
- Google has rejected calls to remove a Saudi government app which offers a tool for men to control where women travel.
Apple and Google's mobile app stores host Absher, an app from the Saudi government to help men in the country track and dictate where women can travel
Bill Bostock / Business Insider :
Inside Uber's deal with Saudi Arabia, from David Plouffe's first meetings with local officials to the 10%+ stake that, sources say, the kingdom now owns
Even as Uber's lawyers finalized the details of the deal, they still couldn't quite believe it would really happen. Tweets: @natashakhanhk , @khanoisseur , @markmilian , and @dignitydriver Tweets: Nat...