Q&A with scientists Charley Kline and Bill Duvall, who sent the first Arpanet message in 1969, on what the internet has become, lessons from Arpanet, and more
Scott Nover / BBC : Forums: Slashdot Forums: BeauHD / Slashdot : BBC Interviews Charley Kline and Bill Duvall, Creators of Arpanet
A look at the decline of Quora, which used to stand out as an accuracy-focused, knowledge-centric platform but is now filled with bizarre, AI-generated entries
This raised the issue of consent and ownership, as Quorans had to decide whether to consent to the new terms or take their work and flee. Mastodon: @glenngabe@mas.to , @waxy@xoxo.zone , @juergen_huber...
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
Censorship Expert Says Musk ‘Has Stepped on a Rattlesnake’ Jonas Mäki / Gamereactor UK : Twitter stops data collection by adding lots of restrictions Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Elon Musk impose...
Twitter begins removing blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts, fulfilling one of Elon Musk's long-stated plans; Musk has called the system “corrupt”
Elon already took away the blue check from some publications like the The New York Times … Caroline Giegerich : The Twitter check shakedown has begun. Twitter has officially begun removing blue check...
Twitter bans Wired's Dell Cameron for covering that anti-trans activist Matt Walsh's account was hacked; Wired denies breaking Twitter's hacked materials policy
lob insults at Ben Shapiro CT Jones / Rolling Stone : He Reported on a Twitter Hack. Musk's Free Speech Haven Kicked Him Out Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast : Journalist Banned From Twitter After Re...
A profile of Paul Dochney, the man behind pseudonymous character @dril that emerged from Something Awful to become one of the most influential Twitter accounts
Paul Dochney posted his way into the halls of internet lore. After 15 years of anonymity, can he emerge without compromising his act? Tweets: @kriswernowsky , @scottnover , @en_cohen , @whet , @joeyn...
The NYT, LAT, and WaPo won't buy Twitter Blue; NYT, LAT, BuzzFeed, and Politico won't reimburse reporters for Blue, but Semafor and other small outlets plan to
'If You Know Me I Ain't Paying' Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : News outlets respond to Twitter Blue coercion with a resounding 'meh.'Twitter is removing blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts to...
Sources: in an update to investors, Twitter reports a ~40% YoY decline in both revenue and adjusted earnings for December 2022, as advertisers fled the platform
Quoting @Techmeme: #retoot https://techhub.social/... Tweets: Scott Nover / @scottnover : Surprised it's all that little. https://twitter.com/... @zefede : Looking into this. https://twitter.com/... A...
Sources: Twitter teams hit hardest by the layoffs span communications, tweet curation, ethical AI, data science, research, ML, and some core engineering teams
spreading a lie that it was ‘Russian disinfo’, and thus materially interfering in a US Presidential election — have been removed. https://twitter.com/... Ryan Shattuck / @ryanmer : I can't get over ho...
Peiter Zatko's whistleblower complaint alleges India forced Twitter to hire one of its agents, who could have accessed sensitive user data due to weak security
😱 El antiguo jefe de seguridad de Twitter tira de la manta. Ians / Business Standard : Twitter trashes ex-worker's claim that India forced it to hire ‘govt agent’ Lily Hay Newman / Wired : The Most Da...