Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification
Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech. “This is just my strong,
Read moreMore organizations confirm MOVEit-related breaches as hackers claim to publish stolen data
A number of organizations impacted by the mass hacks exploiting a security flaw in the MOVEit file transfer tool, including energy giant Shell and U.S.-based First Merchants Bank, have confirmed that hackers accessed sensitive data. According to Brett Callow, threat analyst at Emsisoft, the widely exploited vulnerability in Progress Software’s
Read moreInstagram head says a Threads ‘Following’ feed is ‘on the list’ of upcoming features
Meta’s highly anticipated Twitter competitor, Threads, debuted yesterday and already has over 23 million sign-ups. The app is pretty similar to Twitter, but it’s missing a key feature: a feed that only displays posts from people you follow. Currently, the app has a single feed that shows you posts from
Read moreWhy knowledge management is foundational to AI success
Amid all the conversations about how AI is revolutionizing work—making everyday tasks more efficient and repeatable and multiplying the efforts of individuals—it’s easy to get a bit carried away: What can’t AI do? Despite its name, generative AI—AI capable of creating images, code, text, music, whatever—can’t make something from nothing.
Read moreTechnological schadenfreude
I had a tweet Twitter go viral yesterday, at least relatively viral. Elon Musk could tweet a punctuation mark and get an orders of magnitude more traffic, but this was viral by my standards [1]. “That schadenfreude-like feeling when you realize something you felt you should learn but didn’t is
Read moreSoftBank backs Japanese robotics startup Telexistence in $170M funding round
SoftBank is backing Japanese robotics startup Telexistence, making good on the tech giant’s recent pledge to go back on the investment offensive in light of the current AI hype. Tokyo-based Telexistence said Thursday that it has raised $170 million (23 billion yen) in a Series B round of funding from SoftBank,
Read moreSpotify is removing App Store payment option for legacy subscribers
Existing Spotify subscribers who have been paying for the service through Apple’s App Store can no longer pay using this payment method. The users paying through that mechanism will be moved to a free account at the end of their current billing cycle. They will then have to purchase a
Read moreThrive Capital doubles down on Clair, a fintech helping frontline workers get paid instantly
After developing a free earned-wage advance offering for frontline workers two years ago, fintech company Clair is back with a new tool to help workers get paid after completing a shift and receiving $175 million in new equity and debt funding. Nico Simko, co-founder and CEO of Clair, told TechCrunch
Read moreMeta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile
Threads, Meta’s Twitter rival, is drawing users at an astounding pace, amassing 10 million signups in just seven hours, according to co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. But the highly-anticipated new service, which requires an Instagram account for onboarding, features an intriguing stipulation: Deleting a Threads account terminates the linked
Read moreAsk Sophie: What do I need to know about getting a J-1 exchange visa?
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by
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