An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking
Product chief Nikita Bier on journalists who left: “We have to earn their trust.” Also: Fidji Simo on OpenAI's Code Red, and a new episode of ACCESS. X: @ashleymayer . Bluesky: @fahadhumayun.com , @t...
A look at Musk-backed America PAC's “Register to Vote” online campaign, which collects users' personal data in swing states, but does not help them register
https://www.cnbc.com/... (NYTimes had reported in July, “The group has taken pains to be secretive. Joe Lonsdale...played a key role in the group, recruiting many of his friends — including the Jimmy...
Elon Musk responded to tweets that called a Texas mass shooting a “psyop”, remarking that the case was “odd”, “very strange”, and “gets weirder by the moment”
and only if you are not particularly insightful. https://twitter.com/... @dangoodin001 : In today's installment of why it's hypocritical for activists and journalist to stay on Twitter: https://www.vi...
Some local officials forced US schools and libraries to shut down or limit e-reader apps like Epic and OverDrive after conservative parents objected to content
E-reader apps that became lifelines for students during the pandemic are now in the crossfire of a culture war raging over books in schools and public libraries. Tweets: @natashaturak , @cindyotis_ , ...
A growing number of US mayors are embracing crypto and blockchain tech, hoping to create revenue streams with NFTs or mining, attract tech talent, and more
This new political breed accepts paychecks in Bitcoin. The mayors also want to use buzzy new tech like NFTs to raise money for public projects. Tweets: @rhhackett , @mayorconger , @brfreed , @billyco...
How a philanthropic COVID-19 testing effort by Utah tech companies like Nomi Health and Domo became a commercial enterprise, despite questions about performance
At a White House briefing, on April 23rd, Mike Pence offered what he described as “encouraging news” about covid-19 testing. Tweets: @kimgoodwin , @newsvulcan , @statmandue , @wilbanks , @newyorker , ...
Leaked documents from surveillance company Perceptics show its pitch to New York's MTA on how it could automatically track and profile vehicles and drivers
Just months before millions of its internal documents were stolen and dumped on the internet, the Tennessee-based surveillance company Perceptics … Tweets: @samfbiddle , @theintercept , @rogerdhodge ,...
DEF CON hackers find unencrypted data of 650K Tennessee voters, including names, addresses, political affiliation, on a decommissioned poll machine sold on eBay
When 650 thousand Tennesseans voted in the Memphis area, they probably didn't expect their personal information would eventually …
As employers turn to algorithms to sift through job applications, the poor are more likely to lose out
Even when wrong, their verdicts seem beyond dispute - and they tend to punish the poor — few years ago, a young man named Kyle Behm took a leave from his studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashvill...
FBI talks with Tennessee man who copied style of Sony hackers' Pastebin posts and then mocked CNN
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