Elon Musk’s new plan for sharing ad revenue while requiring a paid Twitter Blue subscription sounds like every “network marketing” pitch ever, especially when other platforms like YouTube don’t ask for users to pay before they get paid.
And for anyone who hasn’t paid attention to CutCo in a while, even Vector doesn’t make new members buy a set of sample knives upfront — they stopped doing that in 2011.
One of the hackers tied to the group that took down Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network on Christmas Day 2014 has been arrested in France.
Julius “Zeekill” Kivimaki’s exploits allegedly include swatting, data breaches, defrauding the US Air Force, and more. The most recent accusation is that he hacked an online therapy center, Vastaamo, attempted to extort individual patients, then leaked all of their records online.
As explained on the most recent episode of Decoder by guest Chris Miller, a professor at The Fletcher School at Tufts University and the author of Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology.
Come for the discussion of the flattest mirrors ever produced (and why Joe Biden is so concerned about where they get shipped), stay for the history of TSMC and Intel’s bad bet on lithography.
Besides summarizing Teams meetings, Bloomberg reports that Microsoft will plug OpenAI GPT 3.5 tech —that it’s investing billions in — into its Viva Sales tool that works with Microsoft Office to generate emails.
It can generate personalized text, pulling from customer records and emails in Office, with pricing details and other info, presumably making schmoozing current / prospective clients a bit easier.
Maybe you agree, or maybe you disagree with my take on macOS multitasking (I‘m not a fan, and for my tastes, it relies too heavily on knowledge of arcane gestures or third-party add-ons to efficiently handle the work I do).
But if you’re a Windows-first user on a Mac, this AltTab add-on (via LifeHacker) might be worth trying out. With this, Option + Tab works the same way as your usual Windows shortcut.
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Cup Series driver Ross Chastain explained that this ridiculous wall-riding maneuver he used to vault his way into the sport’s postseason was something he and others used to try while playing NASCAR 2005 on the Nintendo GameCube,
Now that we know it can work in real life, Polygon reports NASCAR explicitly banned it ahead of next season, and will assess a time penalty if anyone tries to pull off something similar.
We have all the news from Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event sorted for you, including an edited ten-minute video running down the highlights from yesterday’s presentation.
Today, it’s more earnings news. Sony is already done, with some more stats on PS5 sales, while we’ll also have business updates from Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Ford, GoPro and Qualcomm.
This one’s pretty simple — it’s Galaxy S23 Day. Samsung will show off some new hardware (including stuff that’s already leaked) during its event that will start at 1PM ET.
We have all the info on how to watch the livestream, and if you just want to keep up with the announcements as they happen, you can follow our storystream for the event.
Then later this afternoon, we’ll hear an earnings report from Meta.
The latest mass layoff event in tech is happening at PayPal, where CEO Dan Schulman announced:
I’m writing to share the difficult news that we will be reducing our global workforce by approximately 2,000 full time employees, which is about 7% of our total workforce.
If you’re wondering why we’ve seen so many of these and why the 7 percent figure is so familiar, Elizabeth Lopatto can try to explain.
