Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, its widely used 365 services, Xbox, and Minecraft started suffering outages at roughly noon Eastern time on Wednesday, the result of what Microsoft said…
Read more The Microsoft Azure Outage Shows the Harsh Reality of Cloud FailuresPaid-for blue checks on social media network X deceive users and are abused by malicious actors, the European Union said today, threatening the Elon Musk–owned platform with millions…
Read more The EU Is Coming for X’s Paid Blue ChecksBefore Orkut launched in January 2004, Büyükkökten warned the team that the platform he’d built it on could handle only 200,000 users. It wouldn’t be able to scale.…
Read more Orkut’s Founder Is Still Dreaming of a Social Media UtopiaWhen European Union vice president Věra Jourová met with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan in California last week, they fell to talking about the long-running conspiracy theory that the…
Read more Why the EU’s Vice President Isn’t Worried About Moon-Landing Conspiracies on YouTubeAllen, a data scientist, and Massachi, a software engineer, worked for nearly four years at Facebook on some of the uglier aspects of social media, combating scams and…
Read more A Nonprofit Tried to Fix Tech Culture—but Lost Control of Its OwnThe prominent far-right social network Gab has launched almost 100 chatbotsâranging from AI versions of Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump to the Unabomber Ted Kaczynskiâseveral of which question…
Read more Gab’s Racist AI Chatbots Have Been Instructed to Deny the HolocaustKRAKÓW, Poland — Elon Musk has upped his war on woke by saying that diversity-oriented hiring policies are “fundamentally antisemitic” and discriminatory, shortly after a private visit to the…
Read more Elon Musk: Diversity-based hiring is antisemiticPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. It’s that time of year again: Leaders, business titans, philanthropists and celebs descend on the Swiss ski…
Read more The ‘dirty dozen’ of DavosPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. DUBLIN – For Sinn Féin chief Mary Lou McDonald to become Ireland’s next prime minister, she will…
Read more Sinn Féin walks immigration tightrope toward power in IrelandPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — The U.K. already has some of the most far-reaching surveillance laws in the democratic world.…
Read more Britain’s got some of Europe’s toughest surveillance laws. Now it wants moreElon Musk just got an early, unwelcome Christmas present from Europe: the bloc’s first-ever investigation via its new social media law into X. The European Commission on Monday…
Read more X vs. EU: Elon Musk hit with probe over spread of toxic contentEUROPOL HEADQUARTERS, THE HAGUE — “Please knock. Do not enter,” said the sign on the door of Europe’s heavily-secured law enforcement headquarters in the Netherlands. Inside, detectives were…
Read more Inside the police force scouring the internet to save abused childrenThe French president and Germany’s foreign affairs minister condemned Saturday’s knife attack in Paris that injured two and left a German national dead. Anti-terrorism prosecutors have opened an…
Read more France, Germany deplore Paris knife attack that left German man deadDUBAI — The vast, global efforts to arrest rising temperatures are imperiled and must accelerate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris told the world climate summit on Saturday. “We…
Read more Kamala Harris at climate summit: World must ‘fight’ those stalling actionElon Musk has a message for advertisers who have left X en masse amid accusations of unchecked antisemitism on the social media platform: “Go fuck yourself.” “If somebody…
Read more ‘Go fuck yourself!’ Elon Musk tells fleeing advertisersRussia’s interior ministry has added the spokesperson of U.S. tech giant Meta Andy Stone to its wanted list, Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported. Stone “is wanted under…
Read more Moscow adds Meta spokesperson to criminal wanted list, TASS reportsThe Israeli-Hamas war has given Russia a golden opportunity to sow division among its Western enemies. It’s a chance Vladimir Putin’s disinformation machine was never going to miss.…
Read more Putin hijacks Israel-Gaza war to fuel tensions in the WestElon Musk said on Saturday that he will file a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against non-profit watchdog Media Matters and others, as companies including Disney, Apple and IBM reportedly have…
Read more Musk threatens ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as X ad boycott gathers pacePress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — Elon Musk sat down with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London’s Lancaster House on…
Read more When Elon met Rishi: 5 things we learned from the Musk-Sunak love-inPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — A photo with a bloody dead baby whose face is blurred has been circulating on…
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