Netflix raises prices in the US, Canada, Portugal, and Argentina; the standard US plan rose from $15.49 to $17.99 and standard with ads jumped a dollar to $7.99
entertainment TV and films. — Now, customers are going to be subsidizing Netflix's push into live events like NFL and WWE, whether they want to or not. … @durrell : I swear to Go...
Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $10.2B and 301.6M global subscribers, adding 18.9M subscribers, more than double analysts' estimates; NFLX jumps 14%+
- Netflix is raising subscription prices in its biggest market — Report marks the end of regular quarterly customer updates
Tinder warns of declining to flat direct revenue through 2026, below estimates, and says it plans to prioritize improving its user experience over monetization
now it's trying everything, including AI, to hold onto its paying users Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : tech company has crazy idea. Analysts say “company is insane” and “the...
YouTube lifts its restrictions on Donald Trump's channel, imposed after the January 6 insurrection, after evaluating the “continued risk of real-world violence”
YouTube will lift its restrictions on former President Trump's channel Friday, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios.
An NLRB director rules that Google is a “joint employer” with YouTube subcontractor Cognizant and must bargain with Cognizant workers if they vote to unionize
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Kiwi Farms, a forum for online harassment campaigns, has managed to stay online after being dropped by Cloudflare, as posters congregate on Telegram and Discord
If you or someone you care about may be at risk of suicide, call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline … Tweets: @ekp , @motherjones , @motherjones , @taylorlorenz , @br...
Elon Musk says Twitter handles “engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended” and there will be no more warnings
Elon Musk's Twitter has a new rule for everyone with an account on Twitter to follow …
A roundup of Elon Musk's newly released text messages show the inner workings of Silicon Valley dealmaking and how Musk lost interest in his Twitter acquisition
Newly released text messages shine a light on how tech's most powerful do business — and perhaps why Musk lost interest in Twitter.
As anti-abortion state laws kick in, law enforcement could force tech companies to give up users' search history, geolocation, and other pregnancy-related data
The technology industry is bracing for the uncomfortable possibility of having to hand over pregnancy-related data to law enforcement …
Sources: Meta told staff not to discuss the Roe v. Wade ruling on wide-reaching internal channels, citing a company memo issued after the May draft opinion leak
Meta told its workers on Friday not to openly discuss the Supreme Court's ruling eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion …
As state laws limiting abortion kick in, tech companies could be forced by law enforcement to hand over users' search histories and other pregnancy-related data
The technology industry is bracing for the uncomfortable possibility of having to hand over pregnancy-related data to law enforcement …
Elon Musk's investor pitch deck: grow Twitter revenue 5x to $26.4B, cut ad revenue reliance to <50% by 2028, grow Twitter Blue's users to 69M by 2025, and more
Musk's free speech definition is utter nonsense and his suggestions for Twitter completely ignore decades of content moderation iteration on social platforms
from the not-how-any-of-this-works dept — Lots of talk yesterday as Elon Musk made a hostile takeover bid for all of Twitter.
Meta says a global community development head, who spoke about inappropriate communications with a 13 year old in a viral sting video, is no longer an employee
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has confirmed to TechCrunch that Jeren A. Miles, who had been a manager of global community development …
Profile of Ann Lai, who settled a harassment lawsuit against Justin Caldbeck's Binary Capital in 2020, as she talks about her ordeal publicly for the first time
Rocket Companies, a consumer finance-focused holding company, will pay $1.275B in cash to acquire personal finance app Truebill, which has 2.5M members
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AI researcher Timnit Gebru, who left Google last year, launches Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research, an institute focused on the responsible use of AI
The researcher, who says Google fired her a year ago, wants to ask questions about responsible use of artificial intelligence.
A group of shareholders owning less than 1% of Activision Blizzard calls for CEO Bobby Kotick and two of its longest serving board members to resign
a basic function of their job.... We need to really have a reset button on the board.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @ign : Former Blizzard co-lead Jen Oneal says Activision ...
Twitter says its research shows its algorithms amplify right-leaning content more than left-leaning content, but doesn't know what causes the amplification
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Twitter says its research shows its algorithms amplify right-leaning content more than left-leaning content, but doesn't know what causes the amplification
Twitter is publicly sharing research findings today that show that the platform's algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians … Source: Twitter .