Sources: the White House is drafting a voluntary pact seeking commitments from tech companies to ensure data centers don't raise electricity prices and more
The initiative, which the administration wants to roll out with a splashy White House event, has yet to be formally announced …
Waymo resumes its robotaxi service in SF after suspending it during a blackout, and says most trips finished before vehicles returned to depots or pulled over
Alphabet-owned Waymo has resumed its driverless ride-hail service in the San Francisco Bay Area after a temporary pause during blackouts …
Waymo says it temporarily suspended its ride-hailing service in San Francisco during a citywide blackout, as downed traffic lights appeared to halt its vehicles
Waymo said Saturday that it was stopping service across San Francisco after numerous online videos showed its autonomous vehicles …
The US CBP proposes vetting five years of social media history for travelers from the UK, France, Germany, and more; the current system only requires basic info
Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don't need visas, would have to share five years' worth of social media.
Sources: Sequoia COO Sumaiya Balbale resigned after the firm refused to discipline partner Shaun Maguire over his comments calling Zohran Mamdani “an Islamist”
Sumaiya Balbale left the venture firm after it decided not to discipline outspoken investor for posts about New York mayoral candidate
Filing: YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 Trump lawsuit over suspending his account after January 6, the last Big Tech company to settle his lawsuits
Google subsidiary is the last of three Big Tech companies to resolve personal litigation Trump filed against social-media platforms
Elon Musk departs the Trump administration as a “special government employee”, defending DOGE's mission to reduce wasteful government spending
Now the job falls to the insidious fossil-fuel-funded creep Russell Vought, their henchman at OMB. E.W. Niedermeyer / @niedermeyer.online : “Say what you will about Elon Musk, the ...
Sources: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the US Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia …
DOGE accessing Treasury systems and classified data breaks a fundamental security principle and could help the US' adversaries steal data and install backdoors
The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.
DOGE accessing Treasury systems and classified data breaks a fundamental security principle and could help the US' adversaries steal data and install backdoors
The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.
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) …
Condé Nast agrees a multiyear deal with OpenAI, letting ChatGPT and SearchGPT surface stories from The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, and Wired
Publishers looking at the media landscape are likely realizing … BBC : ChatGPT firm OpenAI strikes deal with Vogue owner Ananya Gairola / Benzinga : ChatGPT-Maker OpenAI Forges Con...
Sensor Tower: in February 2024, X had 27M US DAUs of its mobile app, down 18% YoY, and the US user base has been flat or down every month since November 2022
X usage has declined as downloads of Threads have surged in recent weeks. — The number of people using X daily is falling … Threads: @lorakolodny , @georgescriban , @clarajeffery...
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is rolling out a “Trending now” page for users in the US, under the search bar in the mobile app
A crowd in San Francisco destroyed a Waymo car on February 11, amid tensions over autonomous vehicles; Waymo says the car “was not transporting any riders”
A person jumped on the hood of a Waymo driverless taxi and smashed its windshield in San Francisco's Chinatown last night around 9PM PT …
Cal Henderson, Slack's CTO and sole remaining cofounder, is stepping down effective immediately, to be replaced by Salesforce cofounder and CTO Parker Harris
IBM suspends its advertising on X globally after Media Matters said X has been placing ads for IBM, Apple, Oracle, and others alongside pro-Nazi material
Tech company's move is the latest setback to Linda Yaccarino's efforts to convince brands Elon Musk's platform is safe
A look at SBF's ~250 pages of reflections and self-justifications while under house arrest, which signal how he may defend himself at his October criminal trial
A look at SBF's ~250 pages of reflections and self-justifications while under house arrest, which signal how he may defend himself at his October criminal trial
The FTX founder wrote hundreds of pages of reflections and self-justifications while under house arrest, shedding light …