Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Elon Musk spoke with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella after announcing he would buy Twitter, texts show
A text from Satya Nadella shows he had a phone call with Elon Musk where Musk gave him "feedback" on Microsoft Teams. → Read More
Amazon confirms it is raising pay for warehouse staff and delivery drivers by $1 per hour
The average starting wage for Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers will go from $18 to $19, Amazon announced. → Read More
Amazon officially confirms it will hold a 2nd 'Prime Day' sales event in October
Amazon will be throwing the new sales event right before it heads into its busy holiday season, known internally as "peak." → Read More
Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko is a cybersecurity celebrity who once said he could break the internet in 30 minutes
The former Twitter security chief is behind an explosive whistleblower complaint accusing the company of lax practices. → Read More
Twitter's former security chief says Jack Dorsey suffered a 'drastic loss of focus' in final year as CEO
Dorsey attended meetings "sporadically" and was "extremely disengaged" when he did, a complaint filed by whistleblower Peiter Zatko says. → Read More
Twitter's former security chief has accused the company of 'lying' to Elon Musk about spam accounts, according to an explosive whistleblower complaint sent to regulators
Peiter "Mudge" Zatko has filed a series of wide-ranging whistleblower complaints that were obtained by The Washington Post. → Read More
Elon Musk told staff at his brain-chip company Neuralink he's frustrated with their slow progress, report says
Musk recently approached Neuralink rival Synchron, which is more advanced in its research, about a potential deal, Reuters reported. → Read More
Tesla is jacking up the price of its Full Self-Driving feature from $12,000 to $15,000 in the second hike of 2022
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said the price of FSD, which was $10,000 in January, will rise as its self-driving tech gets more sophisticated. → Read More
A man who lost $176 million worth of bitcoin in a dump wants to use a pair of $75,000 robot dogs in his master plan to get it back
James Howells threw out 8,000 bitcoins on a hard drive in 2013. Now he has an $11 million business plan to recover it involving two robotic dogs. → Read More
Twitter has already spent $33 million on its nightmare deal with Elon Musk
Twitter said in its Q2 earnings report it spent $33 million on expenses related to Elon Musk's "pending acquisition." → Read More
The quest to find $181 million in bitcoin buried in a dump
James Howells of Newport, Wales, shares his $11 million business plan to recover a hard drive with 8,000 bitcoins on it from a dump. → Read More
Meta is changing Facebook and Instagram to look and act more like TikTok
Instagram will convert more videos to Reels while Facebook is getting a new "Home" tab that will recommend content to users. → Read More
Mark Zuckerberg will have to give a 6-hour deposition about Cambridge Analytica as part of a class-action lawsuit
The class-action lawsuit was filed in 2018 on behalf of California Facebook users and will depose Zuckerberg, along with other key executives. → Read More
Netflix tests new way of charging users for password-sharing by letting them buy 'additional homes' for $2.99 per month
Netflix is trialling new rules on password-sharing in several Latin American countries before it cracks down globally. → Read More
Uber will pay over $2 million to disabled riders after charging them with waiting fees, and it might have to pay millions more
Uber settled with the DOJ to pay over $2 million to disabled riders who were charged and agreed to credit the accounts of 65,000 people. → Read More
Tesla ordered by German court to reimburse a woman $101,000 because her Autopilot was unreliable and kept making the car brake, report says
The court ruled Autopilot was dangerous in cities after a driver said her Tesla failed to see hazards and braked at random times. → Read More
550 women are suing Uber saying they were sexually assaulted by their drivers
Plaintiffs who have signed on to the case include women who were kidnapped, falsely imprisoned, and stalked by Uber drivers, their lawyers said. → Read More
Twitter says Elon Musk admitted he didn't read a summary it sent him of how it samples bots
The issue of whether Elon Musk's concerns around bot numbers were legitimate is a key element in the legal battle between him and Twitter. → Read More
Twitter says Elon Musk is trying to abandon his deal to buy the company because his Tesla shares tanked
Tesla shares have fallen almost 30% since April 25, the day Twitter agreed to Musk's proposed takeover. → Read More
A famous Japanese video game creator was falsely linked to the assassination fo Shinzo Abe. Now he says he's considering legal action.
A false claim that Hideo Kojima was linked to the killing of Shinzo Abe went viral and was repeated by news outlets and a French politician. → Read More