Has Musk bought a lemon?
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Tuesday, 26 April 2022 11:29

Has Musk bought a lemon?


Will he get away with buying Twitter

Poor little rich kid Elon [look at me] Musk is poised to become the next owner of Twitter, having pledged roughly $44 billion to buy the social platform and take it private.

Musk claims buying Twitter would be for the public good
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It is nothing to do with the fact I don't think I am getting enough attention

Speaking for the first time since news broke of his attempts to buy all of Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said his offer had been made for the public good.

Twitter founder regrets helping centralise the Internet
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Dorsey said the good old days were much better

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has admitted he regrets helping creating a centralised internet based around a few big corporates.

Trump’s “look at my face” book released
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Twitter for those without opposable thumbs

Former US president Donald Trump's new social media venture, Truth Social, launched late on over the weekend in Apple's App Store.

Flawed hardware is the silent security industry killer
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Stanford University electrical engineer warns

Servers are packed with undetectable hardware flaws caused by the fact they have shrunk too much.

Big Tech should pay if its punters are scammed
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Wednesday, 02 February 2022 12:17

Big Tech should pay if its punters are scammed


UK government investigates

Big tech companies who carry scam adverts should be forced to reimburse victims, UK MPs have said.

Twitter's algorithm is biased towards right wingers
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New study claims “leftie” bias is a myth

Social notworking site Twitter’s algorithm might be accused of having a left-wing political bias by conservatives, but a new study says it favours right-wingers more.

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey quits
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Tuesday, 30 November 2021 12:11

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey quits


Agrawal now leads the company

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey is stepping down from as chief executive and Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal will takeover.

Twitter crops out black people
Published in AI
Thursday, 20 May 2021 11:23

Twitter crops out black people


AI is racist

Twitter’s image-cropping algorithm appears to have a problem with race and tends to delete  black people from the frame.

Trump administration tried to silence comedy Twitter account
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Thou shalt not mock the elite

Donald Trump's administration used the Justice Department to silence a twitter blogger who was mocking one of his chums and then used a legal gag to stop people talking about it.