reader comments 287 with “I’m allowed to say what I want,” Elon Musk said yesterday during a CNBC interview with journalist David Faber. Faber had asked Musk about the impact of his personal tweets on Twitter advertisers and other onlookers, pointing to Musk’s most recent tweets, which critics viewed as antisemitic, The Washington Post reported. ..
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Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 63 with Verizon is replacing its confusing mess of six “unlimited” wireless plans with a slightly less confusing menu of options. Starting tomorrow when the new plans roll out, customers selecting a new plan will have two primary choices. Only the more expensive option will include access to the ..
reader comments 49 with While based in the United States from 2008 to 2014, human rights activist Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan tweeted critically about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to more than 160,000 followers. After he returned to Saudi Arabia in 2015, his anonymous account allegedly became unmasked by former Twitter employees who were charged with ..
Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies about AI rules before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law on May 16, 2023, in Washington, DC. Getty Images | Win McNamee reader comments 88 with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified in the US Senate today about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence technology ..
Enlarge / People may accidentally sequence your DNA while trying to study something else entirely. reader comments 23 with It used to be that if you wanted to find a DNA sequence in a particular sample, you had to go searching for that specific sequence—you had to fish it out with a hook designed especially ..
Enlarge / Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) shakes hands with Elon Musk during a meeting in Ankara on November 8, 2017. reader comments 154 with This weekend, Twitter restricted access to some tweets in Turkey at the request of the Turkish government ahead of its next presidential election. Twitter’s compliance silenced accounts that had ..
reader comments 120 with Tesla CEO Elon Musk hoped that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would narrow or possibly even end the terms of a 2018 securities fraud settlement that require a lawyer to review his Tesla tweets before he posts them. Instead, a federal appeals court today rejected Musk’s claims that the SEC’s consent ..
Enlarge / Shareholders of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), join a demonstration against the central bank’s investments in the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), ahead of the annual general meeting in Bern, Switzerland, on Friday, April 28, 2023. reader comments 57 with Even the temperate, mountainous country of Switzerland isn’t immune to climate change. ..
reader comments 14 with Google has agreed to an $8 million settlement with Texas over deceptive ads promoting its Pixel 4 smartphone, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced today. At issue was Google’s trustworthiness as an advertiser after the tech giant “hired radio DJs to record and broadcast detailed testimonials about their personal experiences with ..
Enlarge / Screenshot from Trevor Jacob’s YouTube video “I Crashed My Airplane.” reader comments 87 with A YouTuber who deliberately crashed a plane to “gain notoriety and make money” has agreed to plead guilty to obstructing a federal investigation, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced yesterday. In his plea agreement, California pilot Trevor ..
