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X CEO Linda Yaccarino publicly backs Musk after he says ‘f*ck yourself’ to advertisers
X CEO Linda Yaccarino is publicly backing Elon Musk after he explicitly said “go fuck yourself” to advertisers leaving X during an onstage interview yesterday at the New […]
As Temu shakes up global ecommerce, PDD nears overtaking Alibaba
PDD, the firm behind the fast-growing shopping app Temu, is shaking up China’s Big Tech club. On Thursday, news of Alibaba’s market cap sliding under that of PDD […]
Elon Musk is now taking applications for data to study X — but only EU researchers need apply…
Lawmakers take note: Elon Musk-owned X appears to have quietly complied with a hard legal requirement in the European Union that requires larger platforms (aka VLOPs) to provide […]
Tumblr+ kills Post+, its ill-fated subscription offering for creators
Tumblr’s ill-fated Post+ subscription service is shutting down, the company announced late on Monday. The service, which allowed creators to paywall select content for subscribers only, will no […]
Shein files confidentially to go public in the US
Singapore-based fast fashion platform Shein has confidentially planned to go public in the United States, according to multiple media reports. The Wall Street Journal broke the news earlier […]
YouTubers Put Anal Bead Chess Conspiracy To The Test
The chess world was rocked by a cheating scandal last September after former world champion Magnus Carlsen insinuated that an opponent, grandmaster Hans Niemann, had used foul play to beat him at the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis, Missouri. Now, some British YouTubers have put the most outlandish theory that arose from…
Uber takes steps to combat unfair driver deactivations
Uber is introducing new features geared toward addressing the issues of unfair deactivations that ride-hail and delivery drivers often face. Starting Monday across the U.S., Uber will roll […]
Healthcare giant McLaren reveals data on 2.2 million patients stolen during ransomware attack
Michigan-based McLaren Health Care has confirmed that the sensitive personal and health information of 2.2 million patients was compromised during a cyberattack earlier this year. A ransomware gang […]
OpenAI wants to work with organizations to build new AI training data sets
It’s an open secret that the data sets used to train AI models are deeply flawed. Image corpora tends to be U.S.- and Western-centric, partly because Western images […]