Gadgets
The Microsoft Azure Outage Shows the Harsh Reality of Cloud Failures
[ad_1] Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, its widely used 365 services, Xbox, and Minecraft started suffering outages at roughly noon Eastern time on Wednesday, the…
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Gadgets
The EU Is Coming for X’s Paid Blue Checks
[ad_1] Paid-for blue checks on social media network X deceive users and are abused by malicious actors, the European Union said today, threatening the…
Gadgets
Orkut’s Founder Is Still Dreaming of a Social Media Utopia
[ad_1] Before Orkut launched in January 2004, Büyükkökten warned the team that the platform he’d built it on could handle only 200,000 users. It…
Gadgets
Why the EU’s Vice President Isn’t Worried About Moon-Landing Conspiracies on YouTube
[ad_1] When European Union vice president Věra Jourová met with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan in California last week, they fell to talking about the…
Gadgets
A Nonprofit Tried to Fix Tech Culture—but Lost Control of Its Own
[ad_1] Allen, a data scientist, and Massachi, a software engineer, worked for nearly four years at Facebook on some of the uglier aspects of…
Gadgets
Gab’s Racist AI Chatbots Have Been Instructed to Deny the Holocaust
[ad_1] The prominent far-right social network Gab has launched almost 100 chatbotsâranging from AI versions of Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump to the Unabomber…
Politics
Elon Musk: Diversity-based hiring is antisemitic
[ad_1] KRAKÓW, Poland — Elon Musk has upped his war on woke by saying that diversity-oriented hiring policies are “fundamentally antisemitic” and discriminatory, shortly after…
Politics
The ‘dirty dozen’ of Davos
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. It’s that time of year again: Leaders, business titans, philanthropists and celebs…
Politics
Sinn Féin walks immigration tightrope toward power in Ireland
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. DUBLIN – For Sinn Féin chief Mary Lou McDonald to become Ireland’s…
Politics
Britain’s got some of Europe’s toughest surveillance laws. Now it wants more
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — The U.K. already has some of the most far-reaching surveillance…
Politics
X vs. EU: Elon Musk hit with probe over spread of toxic content
[ad_1] Elon Musk just got an early, unwelcome Christmas present from Europe: the bloc’s first-ever investigation via its new social media law into X.…
Politics
Inside the police force scouring the internet to save abused children
[ad_1] EUROPOL HEADQUARTERS, THE HAGUE — “Please knock. Do not enter,” said the sign on the door of Europe’s heavily-secured law enforcement headquarters in…
Politics
‘Go fuck yourself!’ Elon Musk tells fleeing advertisers
[ad_1] Elon Musk has a message for advertisers who have left X en masse amid accusations of unchecked antisemitism on the social media platform:…
Politics
France, Germany deplore Paris knife attack that left German man dead
[ad_1] The French president and Germany’s foreign affairs minister condemned Saturday’s knife attack in Paris that injured two and left a German national dead.…
Politics
Kamala Harris at climate summit: World must ‘fight’ those stalling action
[ad_1] DUBAI — The vast, global efforts to arrest rising temperatures are imperiled and must accelerate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris told the world…
Politics
Moscow adds Meta spokesperson to criminal wanted list, TASS reports
[ad_1] Russia’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…
Politics
Putin hijacks Israel-Gaza war to fuel tensions in the West
[ad_1] The 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…
Politics
Musk threatens ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as X ad boycott gathers pace
[ad_1] Elon Musk said on Saturday that he will file a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against non-profit watchdog Media Matters and others, as companies including Disney,…
Politics
When Elon met Rishi: 5 things we learned from the Musk-Sunak love-in
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — Elon Musk sat down with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak…
Politics
Israel floods social media to shape opinion around the war
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — A photo with a bloody dead baby whose face is…