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Government officials are kind of bad at the internet

26 April 2025 at 16:00
Perhaps no one in the world has made such catastrophic tech flubs this year as U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The saga started when the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, reported that he had been mistakenly added to an unauthorized Signal group chat by U.S. National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, where numerous high-ranking […]
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Discord appoints former Activision Blizzard exec Humam Sakhnini as CEO

23 April 2025 at 17:57
Amid rumors that the company is eyeing an IPO, Discord appointed former Activision Blizzard Vice Chairman Humam Sakhnini as CEO. Discord co-founder Jason Citron will leave his CEO role after 13 years at the company. Discord straddles the gaming and social media spaces β€” despite its initial emergence as a platform for online multiplayer gamers […]

Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams accuses Meta of colluding with China

9 April 2025 at 21:34
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Facebook’s former head of Global Public Policy, testified before the U.S. Senate today about the company’s relationship with China. According to Wynn-Williams, the company now known as Meta worked directly with the Chinese Community Party (CCP) to β€œundermine U.S. national security and betray American values,” she said. She alleges that Facebook created custom-built […]

At last, MrBeast weighs in on the global economic crisis du jour

8 April 2025 at 18:59
Your 401k is suffering. The billionaires are fighting. The gamers are imperiled. Not even the penguins on McDonald Island, where no humans reside, have been spared. But at long last, 26-year-old YouTuber and chocolatier MrBeast has weighed in on President Donald Trump’s controversial plan to impose sweeping tariffs on imports. Jokes aside, the prolific YouTuber […]

Meta officially says goodbye to its US fact-checkers on Monday

4 April 2025 at 18:01
Meta will no longer have any fact-checkers in the U.S. come Monday, according to chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan. Meta announced this significant policy change in January when it also loosened its content moderation rules. The timing of this change coincided with President Trump’s inauguration, which Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg attended after […]

Studio Ghibli hasn’t commented on OpenAI’s onslaught of AI copies, but the fan subreddit has

3 April 2025 at 17:39
When OpenAI debuted its image-generation feature in ChatGPT last week, social media exploded when users realized that they could make AI-generated images that looked like something out of an animated film from Studio Ghibli. Fans hoped that Studio Ghibli mastermind Hayao Miyazaki would take a stand, but the 84-year-old animator has remained silent. In the […]
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