Sources: X is cutting ~50% of its global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud, less than a month after saying it would expand the team
Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter, is cutting around half of the global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud …
Amazon plans to run limited ads on Prime Video in the US, the UK, Germany, and Canada starting in early 2024, charging $2.99/month extra in the US to avoid ads
Amazon plans to run limited ads on Prime Video in the US, the UK, Germany, and Canada starting in early 2024, charging $2.99/month extra in the US to avoid ads
- Prime Video will offer a more expensive ad-free option — Streamers want to increase revenue as production costs soar
An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography: Musk cut off Starlink internet access near Crimea to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on a Russian fleet
Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company's Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast …
Interviews with 30+ of Elon Musk's colleagues and dozens of others detail his growing power, childhood, career, politics, role in Russia's Ukraine war, and more
How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
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 ...
Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 2.7% YoY to $8.2B, vs. $8.3B est., net income up 3.3% YoY to $1.5B, 5.9M net new subs, and a Q3 forecast below est.; NFLX down 8%+
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Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 2.7% YoY to $8.2B, vs. $8.3B est., net income up 3.3% YoY to $1.5B, 5.9M net new subs, and a Q3 forecast below est.; NFLX down 8%+
Lisa Richwine / Reuters :
Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 2.7% YoY to $8.2B, vs. $8.3B est., net income up 3.3% YoY to $1.5B, 5.9M net new subs, and a Q3 forecast below est.; NFLX down 8%+
Lisa Richwine / Reuters :
Twitter starts paying Twitter Blue creators who earned 5M+ impressions per month for three months a revenue cut from the ads beside the replies to their tweets
Creators can now make money on Twitter. My take 👇 … Bluesky: David Chen / @davechen.bsky.social : If this story is to be believed (big if. Huge if), then literally just spending ...
Twitter's creators program makes its first payouts, including to far-right influencers like Andrew Tate, who made over $20K, Ian Miles Cheong, and Benny Johnson
The platform is paying high-profile creators, including Andrew Tate, thousands of dollars for posting to the app
Meta launches Instagram's text-based Threads app on the App Store and Google Play in 100+ countries; users log in via Instagram and can follow the same accounts
As Twitter has become even less-filtered … Michael Muchmore / PCMag : Hands On With Instagram Threads: Does Meta's Twitter Killer Deliver? John Palmer / Cryptopolitan : Meta's Thre...
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, saying Meta “engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets” and other IP
Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform …
Meta launches Instagram's Threads, available on the App Store and Google Play in 100+ countries; users log in via Instagram and can follow the same accounts
- Threads is a text-based messaging app that looks very similar to Twitter. — People will be able to use their Instagram usernames …
Hands-on with Threads: fairly basic text-based messaging app, log in via Instagram, no hashtags, can't search for anything other than user handles, and more
Programming note: I really was trying to take a vacation, but this felt like it was worth the one-day interruption.
The world's 500 richest people together gained $852B in H1 2023, the best half-year since H2 2020; Musk and Zuckerberg led with $96.6B and $58.9B, respectively
Bloomberg :
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits
For anyone keeping track, this isn't even the first time they've completely broken … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Tweets Are Now Login-Walled — Like Šime Vidas, I have often linked o...
A look at how the $42.5B US broadband infrastructure plan will be allocated: Texas leads with $3.3B+, California gets $1.8B+, Missouri gets $1.7B+, and more
find out how much your state will get Kris Holt / Engadget : The Biden administration's $42 billion broadband program is finally getting underway Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware : U....
How Big Telecom lobbied US lawmakers to squeeze out new municipal networks, ensuring much of President Biden's $41.6B broadband funding goes to large companies
Sean Hollister / The Verge : Twitter: @communitynets and @karlbode . Forums: r/politics . Thanks: @ants000 Twitter: Christopher Mitchell / @communitynets : We need to make sure co...
The founders of Three Arrows Capital spent the past year surfing, meditating, and traveling after their crypto hedge fund collapsed, while refusing to apologize
The implosion of Three Arrows Capital, a cryptocurrency hedge fund, devastated the industry.