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Twitter has reportedly seen another round of layoffs. Micro blogging platform Twitter has seen massive job cuts ever since it was acquired by Tesla CEO Elon Musk for $44 billion in October 2022. The layoffs have been global and affected the company’s employees worldwide. In November 2022, the company laid off nearly 3,700 employees in … Read more
Elon Musk has now revealed that an ‘idiotic algorithm’ of Twitter which shadow banned accounts based on number of blocks had caused his engagement taking a nosedive. The issue which led Twitter chief reportedly firing two engineers has now been rectified. Questioning Musk about account shadow banning, a user wrote on Twitter that a change … Read more
Misinformation has plagued social media platforms like Twitter for a long time. Moreover, when tweets carrying false information get endorsements from notable figures, it becomes even more difficult for common users to determine the authenticity of such posts. Twitter’s Community Notes is a crowdsourced fact-checking program that helps in determining the authenticity of a piece … Read more
Starlink, a satellite internet service from SpaceX, has started offering a ‘Global Roaming’ service to some of its users. As mentioned in the mail addressed to certain users, this new service is only available in the U.S. officially. It costs a hefty $200 per month, which is separate from the one-time purchase of the Starlink … Read more
Facebook, the social network that was supposed to stay free “always,” and its stablemate Instagram launched on Sunday a paid subscription service, as the advertising-based business model that has long dominated the internet falters. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook-parent Meta, announced on Sunday the launch of Meta Verified, a service starting at $11.99 (roughly Rs. … Read more
Elon Musk-owned Twitter has limited the use of text message/SMS mode two-factor authentication (2FA) to accounts with active Twitter Blue subscriptions. 2FA is an additional security step that requires you to enter a code or use a security key in addition to your password to log in to the microblogging platform. How to secure your … Read more
Twitter said on Friday it will allow only paid subscribers to use text messages as a two-factor authentication (2FA) method to secure their accounts. After March 20, “only Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to use text messages as their two-factor authentication method,” the company tweeted. To be clear, two-factor authentication is still not required … Read more
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday proposed a $175,000 (nearly Rs. 1.45 crore) civil penalty against SpaceX for failing to submit some safety data to the agency prior to an August 2022 launch of Starlink satellites. The FAA said SpaceX was required to submit the information, known as launch collision analysis trajectory data, directly … Read more
At a time when artificial intelligence (AI) is a buzzword in the tech industry, Elon Musk has warned people of dangers artificial intelligence poses. He added that AI is a bigger risk to society than cars or planes or medicine. “It’s both positive or negative and has great, great promise, great capability, but, with that … Read more
Twitter has closed two of its three offices in India, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The social media company shut down offices in New Delhi and Mumbai but continue to operate its office in the southern tech hub of Bengaluru that mostly houses engineers, the report added. Twitter, under … Read more