Hamish McKenzie says Substack is partnering with FIRE to support “writers residing lawfully” in the US targeted by the government for their writing
https://x.com/... X: Zaid Jilani / @zaidjilani : I'm glad Hamish is doing this at a time when many people who claimed to support free speech are nowhere to be found. Kelsey Piper /...
On Bluesky, Jack Dorsey criticizes Elon Musk's leadership of Twitter, saying “it all went south” and Musk should have paid the $1B breakup fee to ditch the deal
Six months after Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, an overview of its alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Nostr, and how they might evolve and improve
Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve …
[Thread] Elon Musk says a “new Twitter policy” will deboost and demonetize “negative/hate tweets” and reinstates Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson, and Babylon Bee
This week has been a week. Okay, let's just get into it. — Twitter needs to die Derek Saul / Forbes : ‘Freedom Of Speech, But Not Freedom Of Reach’: Musk Reinstates Kathy Griffi...
Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk's “hardcore” ultimatum
Musk gave Twitter staff a deadline to say if they are staying for his cultural reset of the company.
Internal Iranian carrier documents detail SIAM, an Iranian government web program for surveilling the country's cellphone users and disrupting communications
As furious anti-government protests swept Iran, the authorities retaliated with both brute force and digital repression. Tweets: @mazmhussain and @kenklippenstein Tweets: Murtaza H...
Ethereum's third and final proof-of-stake test merge goes live on the Goerli test network, a dress rehearsal for the mainnet merge planned for September 2022
Vishal Chawla / The Block :
Ethereum's third and final proof-of-stake test merge goes live on the Goerli test network, a dress rehearsal for the mainnet merge planned for September 2022
- Ethereum has passed the final test for proof of stake merge on Goerli. — The event served as a dress rehearsal for the eventual mainnet merge planned in September.
A deep dive on Tether, which issued 48B coins this year, as regulators struggle to understand its cash reserves, organizational structure, and other details
something money-market funds avoid.” By @ZekeFaux https://www.bloomberg.com/... Daniel Viola / @dannyviola : Great investigation into the likely Ponzi scheme that is Tether: http...
Boston Fed officials and MIT researchers, who have been developing prototypes for a digital dollar platform, plan to unveil their research as soon as July
- Boston Fed, MIT researchers plan to unveil platform work soon — Project could threaten banks, credit cards, cryptocurrencies
China's electronic yuan or eCNY is now being tested in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing; no major country is as far along with a homegrown digital currency
As Australian and French regulators plan to make tech companies pay publishers for news content, leaders from Ireland to Malaysia say they are paying attention
we simply are running out of innovation to cover your salary and benefits” https://twitter.com/... Dave / @davewiner : Disappointed that Ben Smith, the new media columnist at the N...
Sources: analysis shows a message from Saudi Crown Prince MbS' WhatsApp account to Jeff Bezos in 2018 included file “highly” likely to have hacked Bezos' phone
Exclusive: investigation suggests Washington Post owner was targeted five months before murder of Jamal Khashoggi
Amazon Go, a high-tech version of a 7-Eleven, will finally open on Monday — with no checkout lines and no cashiers
How disruptive will it be? Chris Johnston / BBC : Amazon opens a supermarket with no checkouts Daniel Cooper / Engadget : Amazon's convenience store of the future makes me nervous ...