reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Before layoffs began at Twitter, employees had already filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that Twitter violated federal and California laws by not giving staff proper notice before termination. This lawsuit was widely reported, but it’s still unlikely that every employee affected by layoffs is aware they’re ..
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reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story This fall, Microsoft claimed to have addressed anticompetitive cloud infrastructure complaints from a few smaller cloud services providers in Europe. In a blog, the company announced it would be partnering with small to mid-sized cloud providers to give Microsoft customers more options for non-Microsoft cloud infrastructure. ..
Enlarge / Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes (center) arrives at federal court with her father, Christian Holmes, and partner, Billy Evans, on October 17 in San Jose, California. Holmes appeared in federal court related to an attempt to overturn her fraud conviction. reader comments 46 with 32 posters participating Share this story Elizabeth Holmes, the ..
Enlarge / The new version of Dishy McFlatface. reader comments 230 with 132 posters participating Share this story Starlink is imposing new data-usage limits on its Internet customers, slowing speeds after a customer uses 1TB in any given month unless they pay extra. While the new data limits are in some ways more forgiving than ..
Aurich Lawson | Stable Diffusion reader comments 526 with 200 posters participating Share this story Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk yesterday announced a strict ban on unlabeled parody accounts, a step he’s taking after numerous Twitter users impersonated Musk. “Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently ..
Getty Images reader comments 162 with 66 posters participating Share this story Alibaba and start-up Biren Technology are tweaking their most advanced chip designs to reduce processing speeds and avoid US-imposed sanctions aimed at suppressing Chinese computing power. Alibaba, Biren, and other Chinese design houses have spent years and millions of dollars creating the blueprints ..
Getty Images | Peter Dazeley reader comments 628 with 263 posters participating Share this story After layoffs targeting half the company, the Elon Musk-led Twitter is reportedly asking dozens of employees to come back. “Some of those who are being asked to return were laid off by mistake, according to two people familiar with the ..
Dmitry Marchenko/Getty Images reader comments 80 with 55 posters participating Share this story Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City agencies use automation to screen housing applicants, predict criminal recidivism, identify food assistance fraud, determine ..
reader comments 354 with 160 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk’s strategy to make Twitter profitable as quickly as possible seems to be to turn Twitter into everything the platform is not, seemingly ignoring much of what made the platform profitable in the first place. Instead of creating the town square where important public ..
reader comments 466 with 242 posters participating Share this story With Twitter losing $3 million per day, Elon Musk has ordered whatever Twitter staff he has left to start making up the difference by cutting Twitter infrastructure costs by $1.5 to $3 million per day. Musk is hoping to save $1 billion in annual costs ..
