Interesting study. Although I think there are enormous incentives for people to report this way, I'm sure there's a lot of truth to it. It sounds like the big issue is the kind of informal ideation and conversation that happens really easily when you're in a room with someone but … | Continue reading
This came out of left-field for me: not only Peter Thiel but also Charles Johnson are FBI informants. The former fed information about foreign influence in Silicon Valley; the latter about January 6th and related movements. There seems to be an angle of retribution here from John … | Continue reading
In search of a status symbol, I wound up getting ripped off big-time. But the real scam is how America's payment apps treat their customers. | Continue reading
A top Twitter manager was told that locks which opened in the case of a fire were too expensive, a lawsuit says. They were installed after he quit. | Continue reading
Photos Show Sunken Aircraft to Promote Diving Tourism. #coralreefs | Continue reading
The conservative Supreme Court justice has himself been accused of leaking the outcome of the 2014 Hobby Lobby case to an evangelical group. | Continue reading
New documents reveal Jane Roberts made $10.3 million from elite firms, raising questions about the Supreme Court justices' conflicts of interest. | Continue reading
Google, Amazon, Meta, and other big tech companies are making their core products worse and ruining everything from apps to the internet. | Continue reading
She was a teenage girl surrounded by older men, from the Merry Pranksters to the Grateful Dead. Now, for the first time, Jerry Garcia's widow tells her own story, and it's even wilder than we knew. | Continue reading
When it comes to the spread of cockamamie conspiracy theories, Twitter was a maximum viable product long before Elon Musk paid $44 billion for the keys. But as soon as he took the wheel, Musk removed many of the guardrails Twitter had put in place to keep the craziness in check.( … | Continue reading
Elon Musk has used the same playbook at all of his companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Sadly for him, his model will cause Twitter to go down in flames. | Continue reading
Elon Musk has a pretty tried-and-true playbook for doing business - he's used it for years to build companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Unfortunately for him, it is not a model that can turn Twitter into a profitable company. It's one that will take the social-media company down in f … | Continue reading
The Ohio Republican praised his one-time foil at her official portrait unveiling on Capitol Hill, calling Nancy Pelosi "one tough cookie." | Continue reading
Future was the next big thing in media. Launched in June of 2021, it was billed as a buzzy new tech publication from prestigious venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz - and a way to sidestep the legacy media entirely and take the message of technological progress directly to r … | Continue reading
Trump's posts slamming Musk and his companies came after Musk tweeted that it was time for the former president to "sail into the sunset." | Continue reading
The crypto trading platform has made a number of investments and acquisitions over the past year, as the market for such assets collapsed. | Continue reading
Oracle is making another round of job cuts. While the scope isn't clear, they're at least affecting its NACT cloud division. | Continue reading
Colombian moderators work six days a week for $261 a month, compared with about $2,200 in the UK, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported. | Continue reading
These charts show how the "illusion of choice" has become an unavoidable reality for the modern American shopper. | Continue reading
Tesla drivers are majority male and the most common occupations are engineer, software engineer, and manager of operations, a new study found. | Continue reading
I've been following a woman around the internet. Turns out she's a deepfake created by AI. And she's not alone. | Continue reading
The first-generation iPhone from 2007 just sold at auction for more than 65 times its original retail price when it first came out. | Continue reading
Google is pushing Apple to replace SMS mobile messaging system with RCS, which can support more features. | Continue reading
Labor groups are pursuing a multipronged strategy attacking Amazon as they face a tilted regulatory playing field for union elections. | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg should pause, reflect, and ask himself one important question: When is enough, enough? | Continue reading
The CMA argued that the acquisition could make other social-media sites less competitive and reduce competition in the UK digital advertising market. | Continue reading
The stock market plunge has unmasked Wall Street's biggest grifters — and average investors are paying the price | Continue reading
Professors Ozlem Tureci and Ugur Sahin, the married couple who co-founded BioNTech, told the BBC that a cure for cancer "is in our grasp." | Continue reading
"This isn't some fun new social trend," Canopy CEO Davis Bell wrote in a viral Linkedin post about the incidents. | Continue reading
Artists work for years on their portfolios but people can now make copycat images using programs like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. | Continue reading
Meta is struggling to keep users engaged inside the $15 billion Horizon Worlds platform, The Wall Street Journal reported. | Continue reading
Meta's losses from its metaverse project continue mounting. The company says it's due to heavy spending on research, but it's light on the details. | Continue reading
"So, the greatest development of burning $10 billion of cash flow on this endeavor is legs?" the Mirabaud analyst Neil Campling asked. | Continue reading
Equifax fired the remote workers in recent months as part of a probe dubbed 'Operation Home Alone' that investigated thousands staff and contractors. | Continue reading
Insider analyzed hundreds of Twilio's H-1B visa applications to get a sense of how much the company paid employees. | Continue reading
Twitter is Silicon Valley's most important social club, and top investors pay me big bucks to make them look good in 280 characters. | Continue reading
Amazon overbuilt warehouses and generally grew too fast during the pandemic. With a recession looming, the internet giant is cutting back. | Continue reading
Microsoft won a contract that may be worth as much as $22 billion to build a HoloLens-like Army device. It is getting poor marks from testers. | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg said he doesn't "tune out" the haters because he'd miss out on some "valuable signals" to do better. | Continue reading
Zuckerberg's metaverse play isn't unusual in the tech world. It's just not one we've often seen pay off outside the world of venture capital. | Continue reading
The complex cooling technique, developed to maintain proper temperatures in space, can deliver 4.6 times the current of other electric car chargers. | Continue reading
Patreon, which recently laid off staff, also said in the memo that its IPO plans are on hold as the company looks to preserve cash. | Continue reading
Soldiers from Russia and the United States encountered each other while patrolling territory in Syria near the Turkish border. | Continue reading
The engineers were part of a Meta program for people from non-traditional backgrounds. Some had quit jobs and uprooted their lives for the roles. | Continue reading
Can remote workers be forced to keep their webcams on? One employee of a Florida company was fired for turning his off — but a Dutch court has ruled he was dismissed unfairly. | Continue reading
Meta employees rushed to buy VR headsets and set them up before managers realized, a source told The New York Times. | Continue reading
Ukraine's vice-prime minister says Amazon Web Services helped save the country's state registries and critical databases after Russia invaded. | Continue reading
A coordinator for Starlink donations said SpaceX may have been preventing Russia from using the technology and didn't know the regions had been freed. | Continue reading