Twitter's head of safety and integrity says it has not changed content policies but had been subject to “an organized effort to make people think we have” — Platform says 300 accounts carried out 50,000-plus tweets in ‘organised effort to make users think firm has changed content policy’
Some teens are using TikTok to self-diagnose mental illnesses, as health providers worry about inaccurate information and accounts encouraging harmful behavior — While social media can help people feel less alone, using it to evaluate symptoms has several downsides.
Elon Musk shared a lurid, baseless conspiracy theory on Twitter about the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi, in response to a Hillary Clinton tweet — Billionaire peddled the conspiracy theory on Twitter just days after he completed his takeover of the social media platform
Sources: Apple plans to launch M2-based versions of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros in early March 2023; M2 Max will have 12 CPU cores and 38 GPU cores — Apple's next group of Macs probably won't launch until early next year, which means it will have fewer new devices to sell in the holiday quarter.
Inside the US National Cyber Mission Force, which has been deployed to 20 countries since 2018 to battle state-backed Russian, Chinese, and North Korean hackers — Russia failed to take down Ukrainian computer systems with a massive cyber-attack when it invaded this year, despite many analysts' predictions.
Analysis reveals how Google's ad business funnels revenue to prolific purveyors of health, election, and climate disinfo in Europe, Latin America, and Africa — Google is funneling revenue to some of the web's most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found.
Sources: Twitter engineers were told on Friday to print out their last 30 to 60 days of code for Elon Musk to review, before being told to shred those printouts — Twitter has a new CEO. And he'd like to see your code, please — Elon Musk took over Twitter on Thursday like a military general …
A book excerpt details Netflix's shift from DVDs and tensions with HBO, which took a hard line on streaming rights, leading Netflix to make its own content — Jeffrey Bewkes scanned his mind, searching for the perfect war metaphor. — It was December 2010.
A Reddit user provides a detailed look at a decommissioned Netflix cache server with 262TB of storage; such servers are often embedded within major ISP networks — A Netflix cache server is getting a second chance at life thanks to Redditors. — KB — A Redditor says they've managed …
Internal Iranian carrier documents detail SIAM, an Iranian government web program for surveilling the country's cellphone users and disrupting communications — As furious anti-government protests swept Iran, the authorities retaliated with both brute force and digital repression.
Despite climate pledges by US tech giants, Greenpeace finds key supplies for Amazon, Microsoft, Google, HP, and others remain deeply reliant on fossil fuels — Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc. have pledged to run their own operations on 100% clean power.
Gleb Bryanski / Reuters : Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in i...
