A cyber escalation by Russia against the U.S. still remains possible, as soon as later this year, according to numerous experts. | Continue reading
The popular game engine platform is cutting costs. | Continue reading
A former engineer is the latest to criticize the company in public. | Continue reading
Big Tech gets help on messaging, strategy and ads from the same firms that help Democrats run campaigns. With lighter disclosure requirements, the tensions that work can generate get little notice. | Continue reading
Curve is the biggest source of liquidity for many cryptocurrencies. Does that make DeFi less decentralized — and riskier — than people think? | Continue reading
Meta previewed some of its experimental VR prototypes. The company says these headsets will pave the way for next-generation devices. | Continue reading
The war for talent is still raging, and so is title inflation. Here’s how to deal with it. | Continue reading
SpaceX employees called Elon Musk's behavior a "distraction and embarrassment" in an open letter circulated this week. The company is now firing those involved with writing it, according to The New York Times. | Continue reading
Meta’s facing pressure from all sides to do a better job of protecting teens. Are its time management features enough? | Continue reading
The developer shortage spurred investment in low-code and no-code software development tools, but VCs and tech giants are still trying to find the right market. | Continue reading
An apparent liquidity crunch at Celsius makes it the latest crypto firm affected by the crypto downturn. | Continue reading
Part distribution strategy, part product design, embedded finance is drawing the attention of investors who want to fund next-generation financial infrastructure. | Continue reading
Can Meta be sued for its algorithm, or is the content to blame for social media addiction? | Continue reading
The move is designed to help Notion users keep better track of their time. | Continue reading
Synthetic data suppliers promise that the fake data they provide can reduce bias in AI, but it also helps build controversial technologies used to monitor people’s behavior and interpret their emotions and body language. | Continue reading
From Albany to Sacramento, tighter crypto regulations are on the table, and the Lummis-Gillibrand bill leaves room for local rules. | Continue reading
The number of downloads fell 80% year-over-year from the first half of 2021 to the first half of 2022, and top execs are running for the exits. | Continue reading
Gala Games' Grit is a battle royale and the Epic Game Store's first blockchain title. | Continue reading
Innovation alone isn’t going to solve the climate crisis. But it sure could help. And the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is trying to ensure it happens at a faster clip. The government is fast-tracking patents that protect the climate. President Joe Biden promised an “all-of-go … | Continue reading
Due to regulatory forces and intensifying cyberthreats, experts say that security budgets are more likely than other tech segments to be preserved during a slowdown. | Continue reading
“It scares the living daylights out of a lot of us.” | Continue reading
Nine of the board's members resigned, after Axon announced now-paused plans to develop Taser drones, despite the board's opposition. | Continue reading
Arming decision-makers in tech, business and public policy with the unbiased, fact-based news and analysis they need to navigate a world in rapid change. | Continue reading
Cloud customers pay an average three times more on cloud compute costs for AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud than they should, according to Cast AI. Helping them manage those costs is turning into a business itself.The startup specializes in Kubernetes automation and cost opt … | Continue reading
The Department of Justice says it's the first such case involving digital assets. | Continue reading
Pinterest Chief Communications Officer LeMia Jenkins Thompson talks about the company’s flexible work plan, geographical pay, and how she communicates bad news to employees. | Continue reading
A letter to Congress from 26 technologists is urging lawmakers to approach blockchain technologies with skepticism | Continue reading
It used to be much cheaper to hire engineers who didn’t live in pricey tech hubs. Now, not so much. | Continue reading
How do we encourage the good that ML and AI can provide while restraining potential harms? | Continue reading
Intel, Samsung and TSMC are racing to achieve a generational leap in transistor technology. It might reshuffle the industry pecking order. | Continue reading
The company did not specify how many employees in total were affected. Lacework had reported having more than 1,000 employees in March, following a $1.3 billion funding round at an $8.3 billion valuation in November. | Continue reading
Will tech companies and startups continue to have layoffs? | Continue reading
But before the blockchain can fix social media, someone has to fix the blockchain. Frank McCourt, who’s put serious money behind his vision of a decentralized social media future, thinks Gavin Wood may be the key. | Continue reading
The 11th Circuit court found that social media companies "are 'private actors' whose rights the First Amendment protects." | Continue reading
Supply chain problems and rising demand have sent prices spiraling upward for the minerals and metals essential for the clean energy transition. | Continue reading
"When we set our business plans for 2022 in the autumn of last year, it was a very different world than the one we are in today," said CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski. | Continue reading
The decision was an unexpected victory for conservative tech critics who want to force social media companies to carry most content. | Continue reading
Companies are building software that uses AI to monitor people’s behavior and interpret their emotions and body language in real life, virtually and even in the metaverse. But to develop that AI, they need fake data, and startups are stepping in to supply it.Synthetic data compan … | Continue reading
Have we learned nothing? | Continue reading
Following Netflix’s announcement that it wants to monetize the long-tolerated practice of people sharing their passwords, it looks like Disney+ may be getting ready to do the same.Disney recently sent out a questionnaire to subscribers in Spain, asking them why they are sharing t … | Continue reading
AI that discriminates against people is a big problem, but Beena Ammanath, executive director of the Global Deloitte AI Institute and head of Trustworthy AI and Ethical Tech, says AI ethics is about a lot more than bias. | Continue reading
The rare Facebook hiring freeze will last for the rest of the year. | Continue reading
We follow along with his schedule. | Continue reading
CPO, CTO and VP of Marketing are among the people laid off. | Continue reading
The new rating scale is meant to reflect that management believes "most Googlers deliver significant impact every day." | Continue reading
Google terminated Satrajit Chatterjee, a member of its Brain team, after he questioned the validity of a recent paper. | Continue reading
Adobe, Salesforce and Twilio all want in on the customer-data platform space after mobile privacy changes made it harder to gather third-party data. Is there more to CDPs this time around? | Continue reading
Netflix designers thought they had the perfect icon for a new feature. Then the service’s subscribers started chiming in. | Continue reading