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Scott Shapiro

@scottjshapiro
21 posts
2026-01-03
CEO: Let's subscribe to a really powerful AI service—one that's a little... edgy.  You know, like uses the R-word.  —  CIO: Say no more Boss.  [embedded post]
2026-01-03 View on X
VentureBeat

xAI launches Grok Business, priced at $30 per seat/month, for SMBs, and Grok Enterprise, whose price is not listed publicly, for larger organizations

xAI has launched Grok Business and Grok Enterprise, positioning its flagship AI assistant as a secure, team-ready platform for organizational use.

2025-08-23
The President of the United States is a gangster shaking down anyone who won't pay up [image]
2025-08-23 View on X
Intel

Intel says the US will make an $8.9B investment by purchasing 433.3M primary shares of Intel common stock for $20.47/share; INTC closed on August 22 at $24.80

U.S. Government to make $8.9 billion investment in Intel common stock as company builds upon its more than $100 billion expansion of resilient semiconductor supply chain

2023-08-16
AI horror of the day: https://www.popsci.com/...
2023-08-16 View on X
Popular Science

To comply with a state law requiring that school library books be “age appropriate”, an Iowa school district used ChatGPT to find books depicting “a sex act”

Faced with new legislation, Iowa's Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books 'contain …

2023-06-05
Twitter to recoup revenue by being everyone's Everything app. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-06-05 View on X
New York Times

Internal document: Twitter's US ad revenue from April 1 to the first week of May fell 59% YoY to $88M; sources say that performance is unlikely to improve soon

In internal forecasts, the company projected that ad sales would keep declining, handing a tough challenge to its new chief executive.

2023-05-26
Getting something of mine published in @IEEESpectrum is definitely a top 5 career highlight. My dad got Spectrum his whole life and I used to read it every month when it arrived in the mail. The editor, Dave Schneider, did a fantastic job stitching the excerpts together. https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-26 View on X
IEEE Spectrum

How three US teenagers built Mirai, a DDoS botnet that exploited IoT devices, and avoided prison by helping the FBI with cybercrime and cybersecurity matters

First-year college students are understandably frustrated when they can't get into popular upper-level electives.  But they usually just gripe.

2023-05-10
My piece on the Bulgarian virus factory and the mysterious Dark Avenger. I worked hard on it and will hurt my feelings if you don't read it. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2023-05-10 View on X
The Guardian

A profile of Dark Avenger, a pseudonymous PC virus writer from Bulgaria who gained notoriety in the 1990s after the country became known as the “virus factory”

Bulgaria in the 1980s became known as the ‘virus factory’, where hundreds of malicious computer programs were unleashed to wreak havoc. Tweets: @realhackhistory , @jkosseff , @scot...

2023-03-14
Bank runs are significant because banks are where people keep their money.
2023-03-14 View on X
U.S. Department of the Treasury

The US Treasury, Federal Reserve, and the FDIC say all Silicon Valley Bank depositors will be “fully” protected, and their money will be available on March 13

Bank runs are significant because banks are where people keep their money.
2023-03-14 View on X
New York Times

Signature's and SVB's collapse was aided by GOP-led Dodd-Frank reforms that raised the “stress test” threshold from $50B to $250B, pushed for by SVB executives

Officials with Signature and Silicon Valley banks, which regulators seized in recent days, called for looser financial requirements for midsize banks.

2023-03-13
Bank runs are significant because banks are where people keep their money.
2023-03-13 View on X
U.S. Department of the Treasury

The US Treasury, Federal Reserve, and the FDIC say all Silicon Valley Bank depositors will be “fully” protected, and their money will be available on March 13

WASHINGTON, DC — The following statement was released by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen …

2023-02-12
Plummeting revenue offset by skyrocketing debt service https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-12 View on X
CNN

Pathmatics estimates the monthly revenue from Twitter's top 1,000 advertisers fell 60%+ from around $127M in October 2022 to just over $48M by January 25, 2023

New York CNN —  —  More than half of Twitter's top 1,000 advertisers in September were no longer spending on the platform …

2022-12-10
Breaking: Content moderators at Twitter moderated content on Twitter.
2022-12-10 View on X
Bloomberg

Twitter Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin says she took the screenshots of internal systems that Bari Weiss shared and that “reporters were not accessing user DMs”

do Weiss and Taibbi have access to users' DMs? It would be good to get clear explanation about this screen and yes/no answer to this straightforward question. https://twitter.com/....

BREAKING: Explosive evidence from the #GoogleFiles showing that Google runs a program called “AdSense” through which website publishers pay *money* to serve *advertisements* *targeting* the site *audience*.
2022-12-10 View on X
Bloomberg

Twitter Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin says she took the screenshots of internal systems that Bari Weiss shared and that “reporters were not accessing user DMs”

do Weiss and Taibbi have access to users' DMs? It would be good to get clear explanation about this screen and yes/no answer to this straightforward question. https://twitter.com/....

BREAKING: Explosive evidence from the #GoogleFiles showing that Google runs a program called “AdSense” through which website publishers pay *money* to serve *advertisements* *targeting* the site *audience*.
2022-12-10 View on X
TechCrunch

Despite Elon Musk's opaque approach, the “Twitter Files” give a peek at moderation at scale and are a win for transparency, while failing to prove systemic bias

Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, is feverishly promoting his “Twitter Files”: selected internal communications from the company …

Breaking: Content moderators at Twitter moderated content on Twitter.
2022-12-10 View on X
TechCrunch

Despite Elon Musk's opaque approach, the “Twitter Files” give a peek at moderation at scale and are a win for transparency, while failing to prove systemic bias

Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, is feverishly promoting his “Twitter Files”: selected internal communications from the company …

2022-11-19
This guy has never gotten anything right. I'm gonna miss him. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-19 View on X
The Verge

Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk's “hardcore” ultimatum

Plus: The GOP releases the moral idiocy … Happy Friday. Oliver Darcy / CNN : Inside Twitter as ‘mass exodus’ of staffers throws platform's future into uncertainty Stephen Warwick /...

This guy has never gotten anything right. I'm gonna miss him. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-19 View on X
New York Times

Sources: some internal estimates show 1,200+ full-time Twitter employees resigned on November 17; Twitter previously laid off ~3,700 of 7,500 staff

Mr. Musk sent emails on Friday asking to learn about Twitter's underlying technology as key infrastructure teams have been decimated.

2022-11-18
This guy has never gotten anything right. I'm gonna miss him. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-18 View on X
The Verge

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.

2021-08-02
Free speech FTW https://www.politico.com/...
2021-08-02 View on X
Politico

Pro-Trump social network GETTR is awash with Islamic State propaganda, including graphic videos of beheadings and memes of a militant executing Trump

GETTR, the new platform started by members of the former president's inner circle, is awash with beheading videos and extremist content.

2020-05-31
Regardless of where you stand on Facebook's content moderation policy, I hope we can all agree that Mark Zuckerberg is gross https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-31 View on X
The Verge

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won't remove Trump's post on Minnesota protests to “enable as much expression as possible”, says it doesn't violate its policies

“We should enable as much discussion as possible,” Zuckerberg says in a post  —  Facebook will not remove …

2020-05-30
Regardless of where you stand on Facebook's content moderation policy, I hope we can all agree that Mark Zuckerberg is gross https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-30 View on X
The Verge

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won't remove Trump's post on Minnesota protests to “enable as much expression as possible”, says it doesn't violate its policies

“We should enable as much discussion as possible,” Zuckerberg says in a post  —  Facebook will not remove …