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MiamiCoin Is Crashing, but It Won’t Go Away
On a sweltering Tuesday last August, a new cryptocurrency was born. Called MiamiCoin, it was styled as a way for…
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Twitter Insiders Fear Elon Musk Heralds a Troll Takeover
Jon Bell, a designer who previously worked on Twitter’s anti-abuse team, says weakening Twitter’s moderation would be a mistake. Outsiders—including…
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What Elon Musk Can Learn From Mastodon—and What He Can’t
Freedom never comes for free. In Twitter’s case, the price was $44 billion, which Elon Musk will pay to liberate…
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Elon Musk’s Plan to Open Source the Twitter Algorithm Won’t Solve Anything
“In this age of machine learning, it isn’t the algorithms, it’s the data,” says David Karger, a professor and computer…
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Right-Wing Trolls Are Trying to Break Back Into Twitter
Within two hours of Twitter’s announcement that it had accepted Elon Musk’s $44 billion offer to buy the company and…
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Europe Has Traded Away Its Online Porn Law
When someone Inês Marinho trusted shared an intimate video of her online without her consent in 2019, she compared it…
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Broken EV Chargers Could Stall the Electric Car Movement
Matt Hirsch has long loved the idea of electric vehicles and first leased his Hyundai Ioniq in 2020. He even…
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Elon Musk Reaches Deal to Buy Twitter for $44 Billion
Such social media battles may be unusual when considering a takeover of a massive business, but Musk is himself unusual,…
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Ukraine War Prompts Europe's New Emergency Rules for the Internet
The Digital Services Act has granted the European Commission unprecedented power over tech companies in times of war. Source link
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Joe Biden, and the Country, Could Really Use a CTO
Plus: Obama’s head techy, the world’s social media addiction, and Russia’s unwelcomed escalation. Source link
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