Month: January 2024

Tesla delivers underwhelming earnings despite Cybertruck launch and high vehicle deliveries

Electric vehicle manufacturer’s earnings in the fourth quarter of 2023 missed analyst expectations Despite putting a new vehicle on the market, announcing another for 2025 and beating Wall Street’s expectations for vehicle deliveries, Tesla was not able to shake off its disappointing third quarter. The electric vehicle manufacturer brought in $25.1bn in revenue and posted …

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Amazon Ring says US police will now need warrant to access user footage

In an about-face, the company disables feature allowing law enforcement to request footage directly from users Amazon Ring will now require US law enforcement to obtain a warrant to access doorbell footage from individual users. The company announced in a blog post that it would no longer allow law enforcement to request doorbell footage directly …

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Ted fellows resign from organisation after Bill Ackman named as speaker

Lucianne Walkowicz and Saeed Taji Farouky accuse Ted of taking anti-Palestinian stand over controversial billionaire’s inclusion The Ted organisation has been hit with resignations and criticisms after naming the controversial rightwing billionaire Bill Ackman, who was instrumental in forcing out Harvard’s president over antisemitism allegations, among its main speakers at this year’s conference. Two Ted …

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Tesla plans to make new mass market electric car model in mid-2025

Elon Musk’s company sent invitation for bids to suppliers for new ‘Redwood’ model, according to sources Tesla has told suppliers it wants to start production of a new mass market electric vehicle codenamed “Redwood” in mid-2025, according to four people familiar with the matter, with two of them describing the model as a compact crossover. …

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Harry Jun: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

We asked the comedian to share his online fixations. It’s eclectic – including a British food influencer, a podcaster takedown and the best graph featuring Ludacris Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email My strongest memory of the internet is pirating stuff off LimeWire and Kazaa. I felt pretty cool downloading CD rips of Guido …

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Forty years ago Apple debuted a computer that changed our world, for good or ill | Siva Vaidhyanathan

In many ways, the long 21st century began when Apple launched the Macintosh with its ‘1984’ Super Bowl ad On Sunday, 22 January 1984, the Los Angeles Raiders defeated the Washington (then) Redskins 38-9 in Super Bowl XVIII. With the exception of a few aging Raiders’ fans, what we all remember better from that evening …

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AI will make scam emails look genuine, UK cybersecurity agency warns

NCSC says generative AI tools will soon allow amateur cybercriminals to launch sophisticated phishing attacks Artificial intelligence will make it difficult to spot whether emails are genuine or sent by scammers and malicious actors, including messages that ask computer users to reset their passwords, the UK’s cybersecurity agency has warned. The National Cyber Security Centre …

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Meta has not done enough to safeguard children, whistleblower says

Exclusive: former senior engineer says social media company has had the tools to do more since Molly Russell’s death Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has not done enough to safeguard children after Molly Russell’s death, according to a whistleblower who said the social media company already has the infrastructure in place to shield teenagers from harmful content. …

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