WhatsApp Made a Movie About Afghan Women’s Soccer
For Grand, the timing of that message is key. The online safety bill does not explicitly dismantle encryption. But the current draft does give the country’s...
MrBeast sues his fast food chain for selling ‘inedible’ burgers
YouTube star MrBeast (aka Jimmy Donaldson) may be as well known for his collaborations as he is his videos, but one of those partnerships is souring...
Elon Musk’s X Corp sues anti-hate group over its research
After threatening to do so, X Corp (aka Twitter) has filed a lawsuit against The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), Bloomberg has reported. It claimed...
Uber’s CEO Says He’ll Always Find a Reason to Say His Company Sucks
Are you using generative AI at Uber? AI is part of the Uber DNA. We use large models to predict your ETA, to process documents that...
Someone Has to Deliver Your Packages in This Scorching Heat
On the day that Salem, Oregon, smashed the record for the highest known temperature west of the Cascade Mountains two summers ago, FedEx driver Austin Trent...
This Is the Era of Zombie Twitter
The bird is dead, but zombie Twitter is not. Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, the platform has survived rate-limiting, massive staff cuts, suspensions of journalists, hemorrhaging...
Uber’s Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash Saga Ends With the Operator Avoiding Prison
While Vasquez and Uber may find some closure in the plea deal, self-driving expert Bryant Walker Smith says the NTSB should revisit the Slack issue to...
Hands On With Google Search’s Answer to ChatGPT
Last weekend, I turned to Google Search for help figuring out how many stamps I needed to put on an 8-ounce piece of mail. (Naturally, I...
I Looked Into Sam Altman’s Orb and All I Got Was This Lousy Crypto
“We don’t take ID or anything. So long as you look over 18, we scan your iris,” said Ana Howard, the contractor hired to lead onboarding...
Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds
For three months in late 2020, nearly 7,200 US adults on Facebook and 8,800 on Instagram received a radically different experience than the services’ billions of...