"We have the technology, in other words, for a web that publishes itself. Will anyone want to read it?" # | Continue reading
their stock is down 98% since going public, they need to repay $150 million in debt by late 2024, and are looking to sell off assets to stay alive # | Continue reading
the tenuous relationship between social media platforms and publishers was more dependence than partnership # | Continue reading
Trying not to get carried away by a cursed team’s improbable success. | Continue reading
Donald Trump was calling from Mar-a-Lago.It was a Monday afternoon in the middle of December. He was at his desk in what is known as 45 Office, a room on the second floor, above what is known as the Donald J.(nymag.com) | Continue reading
This morning at 8 a.m., New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger and CEO Meredith Kopit Levien received a letter from Bill Baker, unit chair of the Times guild, that was signed by more than 1,000 employees. Subject line: "Enough. If there is no contract by Dec. 8, we are walking … | Continue reading
The next generation of more immune-evasive Omicron subvariants is beginning to take over from BA.5, including the fast-rising BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 strains. | Continue reading
Lately, Democrats are rushing to promote more legalized gambling in their campaigns with no apparent regard for manufacturing a generation of addicts. | Continue reading
They shut down patient care and put lives at risk. Would the pandemic finally slow them down? | Continue reading
What was the strategy here? | Continue reading
The car wrecks were staged. The injuries were real. Led by a charismatic rogue, one family bloodied itself to pocket $6 million. | Continue reading
A Venezuelan migrant on his mysterious, terrifying journey to Martha’s Vineyard as a political prop of Ron DeSantis. | Continue reading
Inside the fight for Guinness supremacy with “Motormouth” John Moschitta Jr. | Continue reading
Elon Musk’s legal history is just that informative. | Continue reading
What the Tesla founder’s Twitter feed reveals about the man behind the handle. | Continue reading
Venture-capital behemoth Andreessen Horowitz placed its biggest-ever bet on what looks to be a rent-to-own empire. | Continue reading
A man leaped onstage and violently attacked the author, whom Governor Kathy Hochul says is alive. | Continue reading
Four short sellers on the specific agonies of betting against Elon Musk. | Continue reading
Why did the world’s richest man spend the past five years trying to sell cities a hole in the ground? | Continue reading
And how is it possible that he could emerge from his Twitter debacle more culturally dominant than ever? | Continue reading
In order to save the $44 billion takeover deal, the social-media company is blanketing Musk’s bankers with subpoenas | Continue reading
Professor Maynard taught students about life at the margins of society. Now he is charged with a crime his field is only beginning to understand. | Continue reading
The Cambridge Analytica whistle-blower on the company’s reckless early days. | Continue reading
Will a jury find James and Jennifer Crumbley criminally responsible for their son’s mass shooting? | Continue reading
By every available metric, the surge of U.S. COVID cases continues to grow, and hospitalizations are now rising as well. | Continue reading
When we last left Josh Harris -- the once high-flying head of dot-bomb Pseudo -- he had shut down his exhibitionist Web experiment, "We Live in Public," abandoned his loft in TriBeCa, and retreated upstate to tend apple orchards. But Manhatta [...] | Continue reading
Juul’s been dethroned. Mysterious upstarts sell banned flavors shipped in from China. Counterfeits are everywhere. And the authorities seem hopeless. | Continue reading
What do we make of a boy like Thomas? | Continue reading
Six months into a highly energetic mayoralty, how has Eric Adams changed the city - if at all? Adams has avoided putting out hard metrics to gauge his success and has been surprisingly passive on critical issues like housing affordability.(nymag.com) | Continue reading
Cash payments are on the wane, and that’s probably a bad thing. | Continue reading
Secretive hedge fund Tiger Global changed the rules on tech investing. Then it all went bad. | Continue reading
The decline feels like more than just a price reboot or a washout. It points to a systemwide failure. | Continue reading
Stocks and crypto are both plunging. There were some blinding warning lights flashing before the crash began. Did you see them? | Continue reading
Brock Pierce is still exploring a long-shot bid in Vermont. Opting in could undermine his Puerto Rico residency. | Continue reading
The lucrative evolution of toy guns that are tricked out for war. | Continue reading
Cathie Wood built a thriving brand out of price-prediction porn — then the tech bubble popped. | Continue reading
The former WeWork CEO wants to get rich(er) by helping corporations appear more environmentally sustainable than they really are. | Continue reading
Why the swift death of the White House’s disinformation board is probably a good thing. | Continue reading
The implosion of an audacious coin project has left the crypto world shaken, regulators fired up, and a lot of retail investors much poorer. | Continue reading
I’ve tasted the fine wine and I can’t go back. Luckily, the wine is priced at a reasonable $15. | Continue reading
Silicon Valley’s oligarch class can’t stop feeling sorry for itself. | Continue reading
The search for why my emergency flight cost $86,184 led me to a hidden culprit: private equity. | Continue reading
The Ukrainian Americans supplying an army on their own. | Continue reading
Today, New York Times honcho Dean Baquet ordered a company-wide "reset" in how his staff should think about Twitter. Mostly, he'd like them to never look at it again. You can see why. Most of the people who work for him are very bad at being on Twitter, and their tweets truly are … | Continue reading
Allies and critics alike have questioned where the organization’s money has gone. | Continue reading
Thanks to conservationist opposition to nuclear and hydropower, New York’s carbon emissions could surge in the coming years. | Continue reading
How the impeccably credentialed, improbably charming economic historian supplanted the dirtbag left. | Continue reading
Lacey Leone McLaughlin is hand-holding anxious execs afraid of their young assistants. | Continue reading