• Threads is billed as a calmer, less hectic Twitter variant.• Owned by Meta, it grew rapidly in its early days.• Despite losing half its members, Threads has the backing to outlast the more erratic Twitter. In late 2022, you’d have been forgiven for thinking the paranoia was right, and…
One of the world’s largest website goes dark as a protest, Meta may be launching a Twitter rival and a new twist to cyber attacks. These and more top tech news stories from Hashtag Trending and Tech News Day. I’m your host Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada…
Patrick Pleul/Getty Images; Vicky Leta/Insider Patrick Pleul/Getty Images; Vicky Leta/Insider Elon Musk has discussed his plans for X, an “everything app,” on Twitter and in private texts. The billionaire has drawn inspiration for the idea from the popular Chinese super-app WeChat. Here’s everything we know about Musk’s plans for X…
On Friday, December 23, Kim Seokjin, BTS member Jin’s real name, started trending on Twitter as the Korean military app released the first photo of BTS’ oldest member as a soldier. In the photo, The Astronaut singer can be seen looking straight at the camera with a badge that reads…
Facebook parent Meta is laying off 11,000 people, about 13% of its workforce, as it contends with faltering revenue and broader tech industry woes, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter to employees Wednesday. The move that comes just a week after widespread layoffs at Twitter under its new owner,…
Soumith Chintala, a Facebook AI research engineer based in New York, showed him how he could download it quickly. PyTorch has become a foundational component of AI technology, thanks in large part to knowledge-sharing exchanges like the one between Wu and Chintala that happen every day. And although it’s become…
Soumith Chintala, a Facebook AI research engineer based in New York, showed him how he could download it quickly. PyTorch has become a foundational component of AI technology, thanks in large part to knowledge-sharing exchanges like the one between Wu and Chintala that happen every day. And although it’s become…
Good morning, Quartz readers! Here’s what you need to know A whistleblower’s report against Twitter fueled Elon Musk’s fire. Peiter Zatko’s complaint appears to support some of the billionaire’s reasons for wanting out of the $44 billion takeover bid. The Biden administration revised its economic forecast. US officials now expect…
Data From 5.4 million Twitter users may now be fore sale on the Dark Web. getty In January, cybersecurity researchers at HackerOne warned of a vulnerability with Twitter that could allow an attacker to acquire the phone number and/or email address associated with user accounts – even if the user…
In the summer of 2018, a 54-year-old woman living in a Houston suburb—a woman I’ll call Denise—decided to expand her social media horizons. “I’m not a social media butterfly,” she tells me. “I’m typically lurking on Facebook to see what my daughters are getting up to, but 2018 was a…
