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CBS News is halting its activity on Twitter over Elon Musk’s turbulent and potentially devastating moves following his takeover of the company, Variety reported. “In light of the uncertainty around Twitter and out of an abundance of caution, CBS News is pausing its activity on the social media site as it continues to monitor the platform,” Johnathan Vigliotti, CBS News
Activision Blizzard and Riot Games at one point told Google they might launch their own mobile app stores, according to new documents filed in Epic’s antitrust lawsuit against the search giant. The details came to light as part of allegations about major deals signed with the two companies. The Verge reported that Google allegedly agreed to pay Activision about $360
Elon Musk said he would reinstate Donald Trump’s account on Twitter Inc. after polling users on the platform, broadening the former president’s potential reach days after he declared another run for the White House, The Wall Street Journal reported. The move also underscored how Mr. Musk has made himself the principal decider on all things Twitter after buying the platform
Facebook quietly announced it will remove several categories of information from user profiles, including religious views, political views, addresses and the “Interested in” field, which indicates sexual preference. The change goes into effect on December 1, Gizmodo reported. “As part of our efforts to make Facebook easier to navigate and use, we’re removing a handful of profile fields: Interested In,
Hundreds of Twitter’s remaining employees have resigned ahead of Elon Musk’s “extremely hardcore” cultural reset of the company, according to internal Slack messages seen by The Verge and employee tweets. The fresh purge of Twitter’s ranks comes after Musk recently fired dozens of employees who criticized or mocked him in tweets and internal messages. Musk then set a deadline of
I always complain about the Broadband cost I pay for not only my home internet but my office internet, which is insane. I am not alone; compared to other modern places
Twitter met Ireland’s data privacy watchdog on Monday following the departure of key executives from the social network, The Irish Times reported. The meeting, held within days of the Irish regulator flagging concerns about changes at Twitter, indicates the urgency for both sides in avoiding misunderstandings that could lead to a crippling of the service in European Union states. It
GroupM, the world’s largest media buying agency, is telling clients that Twitter is now a “high risk” media buy following a barrage of controversies, U-turns and confusion that capped off Elon Musk’s second week as the owner of the social network, Digiday reported. The advice was shared in a document, seen by Digiday, that warns marketers of the risks of
Based on preliminary reports, many people should be imprisoned for a very long time over the FTX's apparent Ponzi scheme, which allegedly lost 16 billion dollars in investors' crypto investments.
DeviantArt launched an AI art generator that appears to have opted-in all of the artwork on DeviantArt's website. I suspect that the result of this decision will encourage many of the artists on DeviantArt to pull their content off if the site as quickly as they can. Engadget reported that DeviantArt created an AI art generator called DreamUp, and is
A large number of Twitter’s contract workers discovered they were suddenly terminated this weekend after they lost access to Slack and other work systems, according to internal communications shared with CNBC by full-time Twitter employees. CNBC reported that 4,400 of its 5,500 contract workers were cut, according to Platformer, which first reported the cuts. CNBC has not confirmed the total
Apple has placed restrictions on Apple Airdrop in China to keep activists from openly sharing police brutality and political information against the Chinese Dictator. This is now the first time Apple has bowed to Chinese government pressure in restrictions on Apple devices.
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