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Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down
Following two weeks of extreme chaos at Twitter, users are joining and fleeing the site in droves. More quietly, many…
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The Man Behind Mastodon Eugen Rochko Built It for This Moment
What did you make of Elon Musk poking fun of Mastodon in a recent tweet? Honestly, it was really a…
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The Pandemic Bike Boom Survives—in Cities That Stepped Up
In 18 years working in bicycles, Eric Bjorling had never seen anything like April 2020. With no end to the…
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TikTok’s Format Breeds Sassy Customer Service
Remmington has also since received a DM from the brand on Instagram, explaining that alongside the video, Uniqlo had meant…
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The Hunt for the FTX Thieves Has Begun
That means it will be very difficult for the thieves to abscond with their profits in a spendable form without…
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The Fallout of the FTX Collapse
Aaron Kaplan, a securities attorney and co-CEO of trading platform Prometheum, says that although the final outcome for FTX and…
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Big Tech’s Layoffs Will Fuel the Industry’s Future
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Despite Big Layoffs, Tech Workers Are Still in Demand
“You have two diverging paths for tech workers,” says Pollak. “One group is taking a flight-to-safety approach and going to…
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Twitter Is on a Collision Course With Europe
From the outside, it might not look like much has changed in the repurposed 1970s office block that serves as…
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Amazon’s New Robot Sparrow Can Handle Most Items in the Everything Store
Amazon built an ecommerce empire by automating much of the work needed to move goods and pack orders in its…
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