Category: Articles
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Elon Musk keeps laying off Twitter employees after saying cuts were done
/ Meanwhile, he is still giving aggressive deadlines to make sweeping changes, like revamping how ad targeting works in a week. On November 21st, Elon Musk gathered Twitter’s remaining employees at its San Francisco headquarters to tell them that, after forcing out roughly two-thirds of the workforce in a matter of weeks, layoffs were over. He keeps laying people…
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Supreme Court arguments this week could reshape the future of the internet
The Supreme Court is examining a short but potent law this week that, if altered, could rearrange the modern internet. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields internet companies from liability for the user-generated content they host and it’s become an unlikely nexus of controversy in recent years. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral…
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Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication
/ Only Twitter Blue subscribers will get the privilege of using the least secure form of two-factor authentication. Four hours ago, Platformer’s Zoe Schiffer tweeted a scoop: Twitter would begin charging for SMS two-factor authentication. Now, it’s official: You have to pay for the privilege of using Twitter’s worst form of authentication. In fact, if you don’t…
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Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing
AI chatbots like Bing and ChatGPT are entrancing users, but they’re just autocomplete systems trained on our own stories about superintelligent AI. That makes them software — not sentient. n behavioral psychology, the mirror test is designed to discover animals’ capacity for self-awareness. There are a few variations of the test, but the essence is…
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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down after nine years at the helm
Chief product officer Neal Mohan will take over YouTube as a senior vice president. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down from her post, she announced in an email sent to employees that YouTube posted publicly on Thursday. Wojcicki has been at Google for nearly 25 years but will be stepping back to “start a new…
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Tesla’s plan to open its Superchargers to non-Tesla EVs takes shape
#tesla #superchargers #electric #charging #ev #transportation #elonmusk #decarbonization #open #interoperability #climate
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Microsoft ditches Yammer brand and goes all-in on Viva Engage
Microsoft has confirmed that it’s finally killing off Yammer, the enterprise social network it procured more than a decade ago for $1.2 billion. Yammer was initially created out of San Francisco back in 2008, with cofounder David Sacks formally launching the startup at a TechCrunch startup event. The company went on to raise north of $140 million in funding…
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Uber and Lyft earnings diverge, a self-driving truck roadblock emerges and Redwood Materials lands a big one
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point…
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Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra review
Return of the kitchen sink phone Samsung is the best at big. Big, brash, bold, kitchen sink phones. The company that mainstreamed the phablet a dozen years ago has never given up on big dreams about big phones. Last year, the company took a risk — sunsetting the beloved Note line. While I stand by my…
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Microsoft to demo its new ChatGPT-like AI in Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook soon
CEO Satya Nadella wants the software giant to push hard on AI, so Microsoft is gearing up for a year of AI announcements. Microsoft is getting ready to demonstrate how its new ChatGPT-like AI will transform its Office productivity apps. After announcing and demonstrating its Prometheus Model in its new Bing search engine earlier this week, Microsoft…
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