New owner emails staff to say he will personally vet any circumstances that require remote working Elon Musk has scrapped Twitter’s working from home policy and ordered its staff back to the office just days after firing 3,700 employees. The social media platform’s new owner told staff in an email, seen by the Guardian, that …
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Northern Ireland secretary calls on platform’s owner to eliminate fake news after false resignation email The battle to curb fake news and fake accounts has swerved into a linguistic debate over the meaning of tosh. “What does a tosh look like?” Elon Musk tweeted on Thursday in reply to a British government minister who appealed …
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Firm once valued at $25bn in 2021 suffered bank run-style crisis as investors rushed to withdraw money FTX, once the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, is now worthless, according to one of the company’s early investors. In a note to partners, venture capital firm Sequoia announced it had written down its investment in FTX, …
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Theatre503, LondonMatthew Gabrielli’s play about abusive online culture cleverly uses puppets as trolls but feels didactic Everyone knows you should never respond to trolls. In Zombiegate, an engaging but didactic new play by Matthew Gabrielli, two friends forget that and dive headfirst into the backlash of an online scandal. With creepy puppets and a slide …
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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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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 …
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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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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Company thought rise in online activity would last, rivals stole its users, and metaverse was too uncertain for shareholders Facebook owner Meta to sack 11,000 after revenue collapse Nils Pratley: Meta mass sackings show Zuckenberg is rattled There are a lot of reasons why Mark Zuckerberg felt he had no choice but to institute a …
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