To Win the Next War, the Pentagon Needs Nerds
When Russia invaded Ukraine, the US Department of Defense turned to a team of machine learning and artificial intelligence experts to make sense of an avalanche...
How Elon Musk Upstaged Barack Obama’s Social Media Manifesto
Hi, everyone. Plaintext is enacting a poison pill to prevent Elon Musk from taking over. But, like Twitter, $44 billion might change our minds. The Plain...
MiamiCoin Is Crashing, but It Won’t Go Away
On a sweltering Tuesday last August, a new cryptocurrency was born. Called MiamiCoin, it was styled as a way for the crypto-savvy to support the Magic...
Twitter Insiders Fear Elon Musk Heralds a Troll Takeover
At a Twitter company meeting Monday about the decision to accept Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition offer, CEO Parag Agrawal avoided speculating on how its new...
Steam refund abuse has Summer of ’58 developer Emika Games considering hiatus
Emika Games, a.k.a. Alexander Reshetnikov, is contemplating leaving development “for an indefinite time” after claiming that a number of Steam users abused the storefront’s two-hour refund system to...
What Elon Musk Can Learn From Mastodon—and What He Can’t
Freedom never comes for free. In Twitter’s case, the price was $44 billion, which Elon Musk will pay to liberate the platform from its responsibilities as...
Musk’s Plan to Reveal the Twitter Algorithm Won’t Solve Anything
When Elon Musk victory-tweeted his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter on Monday evening, he committed to improving the social network by, among other things, “making the...