The Senate on Wednesday voted to ban TikTok from all government devices for a second time. Lawmakers fear the social-media app can be used to spy on American users.
TikTok said these concerns largely stem from misinformation and "unfounded falsehoods."
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BREAKING: 🇺🇸 US inflation falls to 7.1%, lower than expectations.
US CPI Year over Year, November.
📉 CPI: 7.1% vs 7.3% estimated.
📉 Core CPI: 6.0% vs. 6.1% estimated.
🇨🇳 Chinese authorities have arrested a 63-people gang for using crypto to launder 12 billion Yuan ($1.7 billion).
Читать полностью…Two former Twitter employees have filed a class-action lawsuit against the company, accusing it of gender discrimination.
The lawsuit — filed in San Francisco Federal Court — alleges that Musk's new policies had a "disproportionate impact" on women. According to data analyzed in the lawsuit, Twitter laid off 57% of the its female employees and only 47% of its male employees. Within that, 63% of women in engineering roles were laid off compared to only 48% of men in similar roles, according to the lawsuit's data analysis.
This is one among several lawsuits former employees have filed against Twitter since Elon Musk took ownership on October 27, and eliminated more than half the company's workforce.
🚨🚨🚨 Two Major Events next week :
🇺🇸 US CPI: 13th Dec 2022
🇺🇸 FOMC Meeting: 14th Dec 2022
The TSA may expand the pilot program of its facial recognition identification system — currently being used in 16 domestic airports across the United States — to include airports nationwide as early as next year.
The Washington Post reported the TSA’s use of the controversial technology, which relies on “live photos” cross-referenced to your driver’s license photo, was originally rolled out at DC’s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport due to coronavirus concerns and has since grown to include major airports such as Los Angeles International Airport, Orlando International Airport, and Dallas-Forth Worth Airport.
The tech is currently opt-in, with passengers stepping up to a kiosk, inserting their ID, and having their faces scanned. Currently, passengers can choose a standard TSA screening process instead.
Amazon’s Alexa was Jeff Bezos’ pet project; it’s now a target for the company’s cost-cutting. Insider reported the Amazon division that built Alexa is on track to lose $10 billion this year. Voice assistants were supposed to be revolutionary, but no one’s figured out how to make them profitable.
Читать полностью…Twitter workers are being mistakenly fired so often under CEO Elon Musk’s leadership that human resources created a new internal category to identify and rehire them quickly.
Twitter’s internal management system, running on Workday software, now allows managers and other leaders with hiring permissions to select an “accidental termination” label when re-adding employees to the system, a person familiar with the company said.
This new option was created because of the frequency with which employees are getting unintentionally caught up in layoffs, resignations, and sudden firings that have become frequent since Musk took over Twitter a month ago, according to another person familiar with the company. His most recent bout of firings came late on the night before Thanksgiving. At least two people were mistakenly fired then and had to be re-onboarded on Monday.
🔵 Coinbase Wallet will stop supporting BCH, ETC, XLM and XRP, citing 'low usage'.
The crypto wallet plans to stop support for the four tokens on Dec. 5, but added any remaining funds would still be tied to users' existing addresses.
MrBeast, the most-followed YouTuber in the world, told Elon Musk he doesn't think Twitter can compete with YouTube over influencer pay.
During a back-and-forth conversation with Musk on Twitter, the YouTube star said it will be "hard" for Twitter to compensate content creators with more money than YouTube currently does since creators can earn a sizeable amount of ad revenue from YouTube videos, even after the platform "takes their cut."
Insider previously reported that influencers can earn 55% of a video's ad revenue if they are part of YouTube's Partner Program.
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Almost 140,000 people paid $8 for a Twitter Blue subscription between November 10 and 15, the New York Times reported.
The Times cited data from Travis Brown, a software developer in Berlin, who found over 137,000 accounts with Twitter Blue subscriptions between November 10 and 15 using a computer program. The program downloaded data including user’s following lists, screen time, the date they joined Twitter, and verification status.
Brown found that the typical Twitter Blue subscriber had around 560 followers but some had over a million including Mika Salamanca, a YouTube creator with 3.9 million Twitter followers; Arabic news site, Alwatan News with 2.7 million followers, and several adult film performers.
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Another top Twitter executive has left the company as the brain drain at the platform continues.
Sarah Rosen had been Twitter's head of US content partnerships since March and worked at the company for just over eight and a half years before she announced her departure on Sunday.
"Took me a few days to come to terms with saying goodbye to 8.5 years at twitter," Rosen wrote in a tweet, adding that her job was a privilege of her career and she was grateful to colleagues and partners.
"Hot damn we had it good at Twitter 1.0," Rosen said. She appeared to be referring to Musk's plans to build "Twitter 2.0," which involved an "extremely hardcore" work ethic, according to an email he sent to workers on Wednesday.
Her departure follows those of other executives who have left Twitter within the past few days.
Twitter users are uploading entire movies to the platform and most are yet to be taken down.
"Twitter just algorithmically pushed me to a pirated full movie thread when I swiped down, and that is extremely funny," one user tweeted.
Movies including "Hackers" and "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" have been posted on the site.
Sharing full movies is a violation of Twitter's copyright policy, but it's still being allowed.
The site usually marks tweets that contain copyright infringement as "withheld" and it removes or restricts access to the material if it's been reported, according to its copyright policy.
The college student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet was apparently permanently banned by Twitter on Wednesday, according to an email he shared with Insider.
Jack Sweeney told Insider on Wednesday that he was notified his personal account had been banned by Twitter several hours after the social media company took down his account that tracks Musk's jet, @ElonJet. His more than 30 other accounts that track celebrities' private jet travel — including Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, and Kim Kardashian — also were suspended several hours after @ElonJet.
"I really didn't think he'd suspend my personal account," Sweeney told Insider, speaking about Twitter honcho Elon Musk. "I didn't think he'd do anything because of all the media attention he'd get."
Sweeney said he's more motivated than ever to keep sharing the whereabouts of Musk's jet on other platforms, including Instagram, Discord, and Mastodon — a Twitter competitor that he signed up for within hours of learning of his Twitter suspension.
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🥇 Russia's head of Congress finance committee: Bitcoin and crypto products will "definitely" be legal next year.
Читать полностью…While TikTok is searching for a new 150,000-square-foot office in Los Angeles, the company's rival Meta has backed away from its own office expansion in the city, according to three leasing executives familiar with the real-estate decision-making of the social-media giants.
For TikTok, such an expansion would represent a major increase for a company whose monthly users have doubled since 2019 to more than 1 billion.
Meta, meanwhile, has 260,000 square feet in Los Angeles at the Brickyard, a recently built office complex in Playa Vista. Three executives said it was seeking an additional 300,000 square feet in the same neighborhood, however, the company has since cut off about 11,000 workers, leaving any expansion in doubt.
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Читать полностью…🇳🇱 People in the Netherlands protesting against the Euro CBDC
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🔵 Elon Musk says Twitter to launch gold, grey checks alongside blue verified mark.
"Gold check for companies, grey check for governments, blue for individuals (celebrities or not). Painful, but necessary," Musk said in a tweet.
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Elon Musk is looking for help from any employees left at Twitter who may be able to do technical work and even asked employees to fly to San Francisco to meet with him.
In a set of emails sent around Friday midnight PT, Musk asked to meet with "anyone who actually writes software" on Friday afternoon.
The email came after a mass resignation on Thursday saw hundreds of Twitter employees resign in response to an ultimatum Musk offered earlier in the week. He told workers to click a link to accept working for his "extremely hardcore" version of "Twitter 2.0" or resign. More than half of the company remaining since a mass layoff earlier this month, or over 2,000 employees, took the latter option of resigning.