vladimir18 | Getty Images reader comments 276 with 120 posters participating Share this story Russian companies have been plunged into a technological crisis by Western sanctions that have created severe bottlenecks in the supply of semiconductors, electrical equipment, and the hardware needed to power the nation’s data centers. Most of the world’s largest chip manufacturers, ..
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Enlarge / Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the company’s manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China, on Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 394 with 182 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk has ordered Tesla and SpaceX employees to work in the office full-time or quit their jobs. On Tuesday, Musk sent two ..
Enlarge / US and Texas flags flying outside the Texas State Capitol building in Austin. Getty Images | PA Thompson reader comments 276 with 138 posters participating Share this story The US Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked the Texas law that prohibits social media companies from moderating content based on a user’s “viewpoint.” The Supreme ..
Enlarge / Chinese flag with digital matrix -Innovation Concept – Digital Tech Wallpaper – 3D illustration peterschreiber.media | Getty Images reader comments 26 with 23 posters participating Share this story For the best part of a decade, US officials and cybersecurity companies have been naming and shaming hackers they believe work for the Chinese government. ..
Jacqui VanLiew | Getty Images reader comments 54 with 31 posters participating Share this story Over the past 19 years, the imageboard 4chan has been tied to Gamergate, the inception of QAnon, the incubation of a particular brand of online racism, and a raft of domestic terror attacks that have killed scores of people. Tragically, ..
Jupiter Images | Getty reader comments 25 with 21 posters participating Share this story It was a monumental day for the environmental movement more than 30 years ago when all 198 countries in the world agreed on something for the first and only time ever. They signed on to the Montreal Protocol, making a pact ..
Rafael Elias | Getty Images reader comments 7 with 7 posters participating Share this story Kayla Williams has never said the word “suicide” on TikTok, even though she uses the platform to discuss mental health issues with her 80,000 followers. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the 26-year-old student from Berkshire, England, has posted multiple ..
Getty Images | Diyun Zhu reader comments 102 with 76 posters participating Share this story Three Republican senators are proposing a law to prohibit app stores from carrying apps that accept payments using China’s digital currency. The “Defending Americans from Authoritarian Digital Currencies Act” would prohibit app stores in the US from carrying or supporting ..
reader comments 242 with 127 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk was sued by a Twitter investor who alleges that he broke the law in a scheme to drive down Twitter’s stock price. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Musk and Twitter in US District Court for the Northern District of California. It recounts much ..
Enlarge / A pro-choice demonstrator in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on May 11, 2022. Getty Images | Stefani Reynolds reader comments 182 with 101 posters participating Share this story More than 40 Democratic members of Congress called on Google to stop collecting and retaining customer location data that prosecutors could ..
