HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praises cell phone restrictions in schools, saying their electromagnetic radiation causes neurological and cellular damage
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Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old DOGE member, was fired by cybersecurity firm Path Network from an internship in June 2022 for allegedly leaking info to rivals
(Bloomberg) - Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk's squad that's criss-crossing US government agencies, was fired from an internship after he was accused of sharing...
Chat logs reveal DOGE member Edward Coristine's ties to cybercrime community The Com, and a Telegram handle linked to him sought a DDoS-for-hire service in 2022
Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) …
President Biden signs the ByteDance-TikTok divest-or-ban bill into law, after the Senate passed it by 79-18; the House passed the legislation 360-58 on April 20
The divest-or-ban bill is now law, starting the clock for ByteDance to make its move. The company has an initial nine months …
TikTok uses a non-disparagement clause in RSU contracts, perhaps to silence staff, an unusual practice; one ex-staffer claims a share buyback offer was withheld
Google plans to “pause the image generation of people” via Gemini and “re-release an improved version soon” while working to fix its race inaccuracy “issues”
Google says the company is working to immediately fix Gemini's “inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions”, after some users complained
Controversy is swirling around Google's generative AI tool Gemini as some users complain that its historical depictions are not accurate.
Google plans to “pause the image generation of people” via Gemini and “re-release an improved version soon” while working to fix its race inaccuracy “issues”
- Critics on X say model is unable to accurately depict races — Google said it will re-release an improved version soon Source: @google_comms .
Twitter's biggest struggle is its arcane follower-based system, contrasted with TikTok's algorithmic feed that lets even users with no followers reach millions
A series of disastrous missteps over the past year has robbed Twitter of its relevance — Alex Pearlman, a stand-up comedian …
How a TikTok-like algorithm and pay-to-play scheme ruined Twitter's complex but functional community, causing the social network to suddenly lose its vitality
NOTE: I'd been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and settle into my new apartment …
Facebook says it will no longer take down posts that claim COVID-19 was man-made, following renewed debate about the origins of the virus
Facebook will no longer take down posts claiming that Covid-19 was man-made or manufactured, a company spokesperson told POLITICO on Wednesday …
[Thread] Antonio García Martínez says he did not “part ways” with Apple, was fired in a snap decision, and Apple's statement on his exit is defamatory and false
[Thread] Antonio García Martínez says he did not “part ways” with Apple, was fired in a snap decision, and Apple's statement on his exit is defamatory and false
of the women (or just people; take a look at the quotes) who'd have to work with this guy. https://twitter.com/... @antoniogm : 4. I did not ‘part ways’ with Apple. I was fired by ...
[Thread] Antonio García Martínez says he did not “part ways” with Apple, was fired in a snap decision, and Apple's statement on his exit is defamatory and false
I have thus far maintained my silence on the Apple situation as I've sought to settle things amicably with the company that I admired, and at which I hoped to build the future of a...
Trump downplayed the massive cyberattack on the US government, claiming that China may be responsible and the “Fake News Media” is exaggerating its extent
Analysis finds 24+ organizations that installed SolarWinds code, including Cisco, Intel, Nvidia, VMware, Belkin, a CA hospital, and Kent State university
A Wall Street Journal analysis identified at least 24 organizations that installed software laced with malicious code by Russian hackers
Trump downplayed the massive cyberattack on the US government, claiming that China may be responsible and the “Fake News Media” is exaggerating its extent
President Trump downplayed a massive cyberattack on U.S. government departments and agencies and private companies on Twitter Saturday …
Mike Pompeo says Russia is “pretty clearly” behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign, the first Trump administration official to publicly blame the country
and Chose Not to Fix Them Alicia Victoria Lozano / NBC News : Secretary of State Pompeo says hack was ‘pretty clearly’ Russian Oriana Gonzalez / Axios : Pompeo says Russia is “pret...
Oracle says it is moving its corporate headquarters from Redwood City, CA to Austin, TX and will implement “a more flexible employee work location policy”
Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC :
Oracle says it is moving its corporate headquarters from Redwood City, CA to Austin, TX and will implement “a more flexible employee work location policy”
- Oracle is the latest tech company to relocate from California to Austin, Texas. — HPE announced its move to Houston earlier this month.