Month: January 2023

Information posted on a hacking forum in ‘one of the most significant’ breaches of users’ email addresses and phone numbers Hackers stole the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher said Wednesday. The breach “will unfortunately lead to a lot of hacking, …

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City agency approved raises for drivers by 7.42% per minute and 23.93% per mile but company filed lawsuit At noon on Thursday, hundreds of Uber drivers gathered outside the company’s headquarters in downtown New York and chants echoed across the 9/11 Memorial Plaza: “Shame on Uber.” Uber drivers were engaging in a 24-hour strike that …

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Administrators jailed for 32 years, and eight years, as activists warn of ploy to infiltrate website Saudi Arabia has infiltrated Wikipedia and jailed two administrators in a bid to control content on the website, weeks after a former Twitter worker was jailed in the US for spying for the Saudis. One administrator was jailed for …

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Company’s new feature hopes to challenge Google’s search engine Microsoft is reportedly in the works to launch a version of its search engine Bing using the artificial intelligence behind ChatGPT, an AI launched by OpenAI. The Information reported the news on Tuesday, citing two people with direct knowledge of the plans. Continue reading… Company’s new …

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The US bank was forced to sell $5.2bn worth of assets for cash and booked a loss of $718m on those sales Customers of US bank Silvergate, one of the few mainstream financial organisations that focuses on providing services to the cryptocurrency sector, have pulled more than $8bn (£6.7bn) of their crypto-related deposits from the …

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In this week’s newsletter: The British-born woman left London to join the Islamic State at just 15 – but is there more to the story? Plus: five of the best podcasts about music icons Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here I’m Not a Monster: The Shamima …

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Sean Monahan, who coined the term, sees a difficult year ahead for Silicon Valley and the music scene You may not need to be a trend-forecaster to know this but “2023 is going to be a bad year”. So says Sean Monahan, who writes the substack 8Ball, and last year correctly predicted the “vibe shift” …

Tech grifters out, Abercrombie in: what the ‘vibe shift’ will bring in 2023 Read More »

Annual wraps remind me I’m tethered to my phone like a sad puppy. So give me a round-up from the app with the plainest of truths Over the last few weeks a particularly pernicious form of alert has been clogging up our phones. It is the beast with many heads – all of which are …

Enough with the year-in-review app alerts: here are the online habits I really want to track in 2023 | Michael Sun Read More »

If only Musk would sacrifice his fortune and reputation and close down the site, people like me could get back to doing something useful with our time Where are we all going when Twitter dies? Mastodon? Hive? Back to sitting in saggy armchairs reading chunky books? Personally, I’m hoping it’s the latter, but I’m not …

I’m horribly addicted to Twitter. Will Elon Musk save me from myself this year? | Joel Snape Read More »

Apple and Google’s AI turn in a booming market may sound less than human and raise the ire of voiceover actors, but it has cost benefits For the first few seconds, the narrator of Kristen Ethridge’s new romance audiobook, Shelter from the Storm, sounds like a human being. The voice is light and carefully enunciated, …

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