Month: November 2022

Biden says Elon Musk’s connections to other countries ‘worthy of being looked at’

President had been asked if he thought the new Twitter boss was a threat to US national security Joe Biden thinks Twitter boss Elon Musk’s relationships with other countries is “worthy of being looked at”. Biden was asked at a news conference on Wednesday whether he thought Musk was a threat to national security and …

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Medibank hacker says ransom demand was US$10m as purported abortion health records posted

Post on blog linked to Russian ransomware group says it offered ‘discount’ ransom to health insurer of US$9.7m, or $1 for each customer’s data Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The hacker behind the cyber-attack on Medibank set …

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Binance pulls out of FTX merger sending cryptocurrency prices plunging

The deal was conditional to due diligence of FTX’s balance sheet which raised enough concerns for Binance to back out Cryptocurrency prices plunged for a second-straight day on Wednesday after crypto exchange Binance announced it was pulling out of its deal to purchase its failing rival FTX Trading. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were broadly lower …

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Confusion over blue check as Twitter launches, then retracts, gray check

As brand-new CEO Elon Musk experiments with changes at the company, major brands pause spending on the platform Confusion abounded on Wednesday over how Twitter will handle account verification or dole out “blue checks”, as the newly minted owner and CEO, Elon Musk, continues to make changes at the platform. Twitter announced on Tuesday it …

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I found my partner and a job on Twitter. Mastodon and Parler could never compare | Sarah Manavis

Elon Musk’s takeover has seen an estimated million users leave the site. But was it already past its prime? Like much of what has happened in recent years, the possibility of Elon Musk taking over and actually managing to destroy Twitter had the quality of a fever dream: something that would probably be a disaster …

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75,825 unread emails? That’s showing those Inbox Zero losers who’s the boss!

Efficiency experts say we should process our emails promptly, even if it’s just by marking them as read. But that’s not the way some of us roll Name: Inbox Zero Age: The idea was first introduced by efficiency expert Merlin Mann in 2006. Continue reading… Efficiency experts say we should process our emails promptly, even …

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Pushing Buttons: Playing games into the wee hours was a teenage pleasure – how I long for that time

Becoming a parent has made my Elder Scrolls marathons and hours-long Zelda sessions mostly a thing of the past. Now taking on a video game after hours is a rare lifeline to my former self When I was a kid, I was only allowed to play video games on Fridays and Saturdays – an attempt …

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to sack 11,000 workers after revenue collapse

It is first round of redundancies in company’s history and comes after workforce peaked this year at 87,314 Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is cutting 11,000 jobs, more than one in eight staff, after a disastrous collapse in revenue has left the company behind Facebook overstaffed and “inefficient”, the chief executive said in a note to staff …

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Elon Musk may be a rival for Ratner in brand destruction | Brief letters

Twitter troubles | I Spy in Yorkshire | Gavin Williamson’s defenestration | Dishonours system | Don’t forget the editor Seeing the damage that Elon Musk has done to his Twitter brand in such a short time brings to mind the example of Gerald Ratner when, 30 years ago, he described some of his products as …

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