Nvidia to Slow Hiring Amid Inflationary Environment
The technology industry has been cutting back as it struggles to deal with rising inflation and a deteriorating global economic environment.…
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Tesla stock’s very bad week gets worse after the allegations against Musk
Tesla Inc. shares were poised to close at their lowest since late July, falling more than 8% in midday trading Friday following the allegations of sexual misconduct lobbed against Chief Executive Elon Musk. Tesla…
Why It’s So Hard to Count Twitter Bots
Automated accounts have become more sophisticated and complex in recent years. Many fake accounts are partly operated by humans, as well as machines, or just amplify messages written by real people (what Menczer calls “cyborg accounts”).…
Opinion: Elon Musk doesn’t want to buy Twitter anymore, but Twitter should make him pay for it
It’s becoming quite clear that Elon Musk no longer wants to buy Twitter Inc., at least not at the price he negotiated. But Twitter should not walk away without at least $1 billion — and potentially much more — for…
Apple, Google, and Microsoft Team Up to Vanquish the Password
We’ve been promised the end of password-based logins on the internet for a very long time, but now it seems that promise may finally be fulfilled.The FIDO Alliance, an industry group aimed at standardizing authentication methods online,…
The Infinite Deaths of Social Media
In 2012, when a species of Karner blue butterfly in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore park suddenly perished during a summer of intensifying climate catastrophe, Gregor W. Schuurman, who at the time was working as a conservation…
Tesla Investors Beware: Bad NIO, Li, XPeng April Deliveries Hit by Covid.
A Covid outbreak in China, which forced production shutdowns, is weighing on April's output numbers for electric vehicle makers.…
What Elon Musk Can Learn From Mastodon—and What He Can’t
Freedom never comes for free. In Twitter’s case, the price was $44 billion, which Elon Musk will pay to liberate the platform from its responsibilities as a public company and transform it into a free speech Xanadu. Musk wants to open…
Elon Musk’s Plan to Open Source the Twitter Algorithm Won’t Solve Anything
“In this age of machine learning, it isn’t the algorithms, it’s the data,” says David Karger, a professor and computer scientist at MIT. Karger says Musk could improve Twitter by making the platform more open, so that others can build on…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Buy Exposes a Privacy Minefield
Elon Musk Secured an agreement on Monday to buy Twitter for about $44 billion and take the company private. In his initial comments about the move, Musk discussed a range of goals from “making the algorithms open source to increase…