Richard Lawler

If Musk can figure out a way to make inroads into the creator economy, that could maybe bring people to the platform in a way that’s cheaper than the $10 sign-up bonus he’s proposed.

If there’s a way to keep the most fun, prolific Twitter users on the platform — either by paying them directly or by letting their fans pay them — I can imagine a world in which that creates a revenue stream that makes Twitter less dependent on advertising.

Mei is back, and auto aim is on in Overwatch 2.

1Password is preparing for a zero-password future,

Now you can DIY your Peloton.

Ticketmaster isn’t selling Taylor Swift tickets today.

FTX is a bigger mess than Enron, says the guy who has been in charge of cleaning up both Enron and FTX.

A new Pixar trailer just dropped, meet Elemental.

And now YouTube’s TV app has a new startup sound.

Sean Hollister explains why Nvidia and AMDs big new GPUs are going in the wrong direction.

Blizzard’s licensing deal with NetEase in China is coming to an end, removing games like World of Warcraft and Overwatch 2 from the country in January.

The latest rumor about next year’s iPhone and USB-C suggests upgraded transfer speeds could be a Pro-only feature.

Our final Homeland feature story examines problems with the way DHS became “an agency no one wanted and everyone is stuck with.”

Elon Musk testified that he doesn’t want to be the CEO of Twitter forever.

Amazon’s ongoing layoffs didn’t stop it from putting on a quick Steve Aoki concert.

The most obvious suggestion is to license the data and pay its creators. For some, though, this will kill the industry. Bryan Casey and Mark Lemley, authors of “Fair Learning,” a legal paper that has become the backbone of arguments touting fair use for generative AI, say training datasets are so large that “there is no plausible option simply to license all of the underlying photographs, videos, audio files, or texts for the new use.”

With an extremely lightweight build, 5G support, and good battery life, the Surface Pro 9 could be the perfect on-the-go device... Microsoft has that hardware part down to a science. But it still hasn’t figured out how to make Windows on Arm viable for the high-end mainstream.