Sources: some former US Twitter employees finally received their severance agreements, offering only one month of base pay as severance and no prorated bonuses
and they fall short of expectations. https://fortune.com/... https://twitter.com/... Gergely Orosz / @gergelyorosz : This is mad. The 50% of staff who were laid off from Twitter on...
Some Twitter staff in the US and other countries laid off by Elon Musk in November say they have not received information about the severance they were promised
Staff laid off by Elon Musk were assured they would be compensated following mass cuts. As the deadline passes, the silence has been deafening.
Internal email: complying with a new Russian censorship law, Google ordered its contracted Russian translators to not call Russia's war in Ukraine a “war”
Google shutters FLoC, its controversial ad tech for replacing third-party cookies, and proposes Topics, which categorizes the sites users visit into 300+ topics
An artist and programmer in Australia creates The NFT Bay, a torrent website where anyone can download 15TB of NFT JPEGs
The NFT Bay is the galaxy's most resilient NFT BitTorrent site!
ProtonMail is under fire for disclosing a French activist's IP address to Swiss authorities; ProtonMail had claimed to only log IPs in “extreme criminal cases”
ProtonMail, a hosted email service with a focus on end-to-end encrypted communications, has been facing criticism …
After WhatsApp's privacy policy changes, in the first four months of 2021, Telegram's installs rose 98% YoY and Signal's first-time downloads were up 1,192% YoY
Parler CEO says the company has been dropped by “every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers”, which could end the business
Parler CEO Mark Matze said today that his company have been dropped by virtually all of their business alliances after Amazon …
Parler CEO confirms that Amazon will suspend Parler's AWS account on Jan. 10 at 11:59PM PST, says Parler may be unavailable on the internet for up to a week
from apps down to infrastructure — the higher the bar for banning content/users. Amazon booting Parler off AWS > Apple/Google banning Parler from app stores > Twitter banning Trump...
Facebook and Instagram have both begun blocking content posted with the #StormTheCapitol hashtag and will require admin review for group posts
After removing a video in which President Trump praised a violent group of his supporters who broke into the U.S. Capitol building …
[Thread] Twitter says Trump's account will be locked for 12 hours following removal of recent tweets, and further violations will result in permanent suspension
As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violent situation in Washington, D.C., we have required the removal of three @realDonaldTrump Tweets that were posted earlier today for...
GitHub removes 18 projects related to YouTube download library youtube-dl after RIAA sent a letter saying it enabled infringement
Main target of the takedown was the youtube-dl project, a Python library that had amassed more than 72k stars on GitHub and was used in many YouTube video ripping tools and service...
GitHub removes 18 projects related to YouTube download library youtube-dl after RIAA sent a letter saying it enabled infringement
Main target of the takedown was the youtube-dl project, a Python library that had amassed more than 72k stars on GitHub and was used in many YouTube video ripping tools and service...
GitHub removes 18 projects related to YouTube download library youtube-dl after RIAA sent a letter saying it enabled infringement
Main target of the takedown was the youtube-dl project, a Python library that had amassed more than 72k stars on GitHub and was used in many YouTube video ripping tools and service...
GitHub removes 18 projects related to YouTube download library youtube-dl after RIAA sent a letter saying it enabled infringement
Main target of the takedown was the youtube-dl project, a Python library that had amassed more than 72k stars on GitHub and was used in many YouTube video ripping tools and service...
Toronto-based password manager 1Password raises $200M Series A led by Accel, its first external round of funding in its 14-year history
CEO of 1Password. Why?! Growth at all costs is a San Francisco ideology. We should replace it with humane ideology: bind scale to responsibility. The societal cost of all-costs gro...
Profile of Adrian Lamo, a famous hacker in the early 2000s who died mysteriously in 2018 and was decried by the hacking community for turning in Chelsea Manning
a self-styled Robin Hood of the early internet. When he died mysteriously last year, conspiracy theorists went wild. An NPR investigation sets the record straight. https://www.npr....
Profile of Adrian Lamo, a famous hacker in the early 2000s who died mysteriously in 2018 and was decried by the hacking community for turning in Chelsea Manning
a self-styled Robin Hood of the early internet. When he died mysteriously last year, conspiracy theorists went wild. An NPR investigation sets the record straight. https://www.npr....