From the archive

2022

Hundreds Of Employees Say No To Musk’s “Extremely Hardcore” Twitter

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

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Broadband Cost in America

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 Meets Irish Data Protection Watchdog

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 Tells Advertisers Twitter Is A “High Risk” Media Buy

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

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FTX’s 16 Billion Dollar Ponzi Scheme

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 Botched Their Launch Of An AI Art Generator

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

Twitter Cuts Contract Workers Without Warning

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