Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from January, 2023

Tesla’s Self-Driving Technology Comes Under Justice Dept. Scrutiny

A regulatory filing says officials have asked about software that Elon Musk, the chief executive, has said would allow cars to operate autonomously. https://nyti.ms/3YfzPXs

Apple’s Secrecy Violated Workers Rights, NLRB Finds

After a yearlong investigation, a federal labor board determined that the tech giant’s rules interfere with employees’ right to organize. https://nyti.ms/3WOWmtb

The Last Boeing 747 Leaves the Factory

The plane known as “Queen of the Skies” helped make air travel more affordable, but it has been supplanted by smaller, more efficient aircraft. https://nyti.ms/3WSNm6e

Thrive Capital Said to Lead Potential Investment in Stripe

Thrive has committed $1 billion, which would value the payments provider Stripe at about $55 billion to $60 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said. https://nyti.ms/40eaI9k

Ford Follows Tesla in Cutting Electric Vehicle Prices

The automaker reduced the price of the Mustang Mach-E by up to $5,900 after Tesla slashed prices of its cars by as much as 20 percent. https://nyti.ms/3JqzQnr

‘Recession Resilient’ Climate Start-Ups Shine in Tech Downturn

Tech workers and investors are flocking to start-ups that aim to combat climate change. https://nyti.ms/3HaF6sE

Meta’s Trump Calculus and Regime Change at Netflix

Plus, we play the Bored Ape Yacht Club’s video game “Dookey Dash.” https://nyti.ms/3HDNLoU

University of Texas Will Offer Large-Scale Online Master’s Degree in A.I.

Amid a boom in new tools like ChatGPT, the Austin campus plans to train thousands of students in sought-after skills in artificial intelligence. https://nyti.ms/3XXwD3n

Stripe Hires Investment Banks to Explore Public Listing

The payments processing start-up, one of the world’s most valuable private companies, could go public in the next year, people with knowledge of the matter said. https://nyti.ms/408iu4v

Microsoft Outlook and Teams Are Back Online After Morning Outages

The widely used Microsoft Teams and Outlook email services were unavailable for thousands of users early Wednesday. https://nyti.ms/3HzlLCO

Everyone Wants Your Email Address. Think Twice Before Sharing It.

Your email address has become a digital bread crumb for companies to link your activity across sites. Here’s how you can limit this. https://nyti.ms/3wxGMHM

DOJ Sues Google Over Ad Technology

The Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit, which a group of states joined, was the fifth by U.S. officials against the company since 2020. https://nyti.ms/3wtr3JG

Elon Musk Says He Could Have Raised Funds to Take Tesla Private

Mr. Musk testified in a lawsuit filed by investors who claim his 2018 statements about a plan to buy up the carmaker’s stock cost them billions. https://nyti.ms/3JaN5bB

Tech Layoffs Continue as Shares Fall and Interest Rates Rise

Rock-bottom rates were the secret engine fueling $1 billion start-ups and virtual attempts to conquer the physical world. But in 2023, reality bites. https://nyti.ms/3wkJxMy

Spotify to Lay Off 6% of Its Work Force

The audio streaming platform becomes the latest big technology company to cut costs over worries about the economy. https://nyti.ms/3XzB6ZQ

For Tech Companies, Years of Easy Money Yield to Hard Times

Rock-bottom rates were the secret engine fueling $1 billion start-ups and virtual attempts to conquer the physical world. But in 2023, reality bites. https://nyti.ms/3ZWbnMr

Elon’s Crumbling Empire and Generative A.I. Goes to Court

And, a cautionary tale for the media using A.I. https://nyti.ms/3kwpacB

T-Mobile Says Hacker Got Data From 37 Million Customer Accounts

The breach exposed information like names, addresses and phone numbers and lasted more than a month, the company reported in a securities filing. https://nyti.ms/3QUvRRR

Polar Vortex, Bomb Cyclone and Other Weather Terminology, Explained

A handy explanation of some of the newer climatological verbiage. https://nyti.ms/3wal7Fv

What Happened to All of Science’s Big Breakthroughs?

A new study finds a steady drop since 1945 in disruptive feats as a share of the world’s booming enterprise in scientific and technological advancement. https://nyti.ms/3iJgYVK

Elon Musk Faces Trial Over His 2018 Plan to Take Tesla Private

Investors are seeking billions of dollars in damages for their losses after Mr. Musk posted a proposal on Twitter that never materialized. https://nyti.ms/3H8ozXq

Lawyers Barred by Madison Square Garden Found a Way Back In

MSG Entertainment resorted to facial recognition technology to kick out legal foes, but some have undermined the ban using a law passed to protect theater critics in 1941. https://nyti.ms/3ZC8vEz

A Teacher Who Loves ChatGPT and Is ‘M3GAN’ Real?

Also, why teenagers are buying old digital cameras. https://nyti.ms/3ZzH7a2

Sam Bankman-Fried, Founder of FTX, Responds to Fraud Charges

The disgraced founder of the crypto exchange FTX denied that he stole anyone’s money and said customers could still get their deposits back. https://nyti.ms/3IL6qjv

AI’s Best Trick Yet Is Showering Us With Attention

Face filters and selfie apps are so compelling because they simulate limitless interest in what we look like. https://nyti.ms/3IEbF4F

Coinbase Lays Off Another 20% of Employees

The cuts at the cryptocurrency exchange come after nearly a fifth of employees were let go in June, as crypto markets teeter and tech companies rethink their growth plans. https://nyti.ms/3kaP9pB

AI Is Becoming More Conversant. But Will It Get More Honest?

At a new website called Character.AI, you can chat with a reasonable facsimile of almost anyone, live or dead, real or (especially) imagined. https://nyti.ms/3X1nPcb

Brazil Riot and Jan. 6 Attack Followed a Similar Digital Playbook, Experts Say

Researchers are studying how the internet was used to stoke anger and to organize far-right groups ahead of the Brazilian riots. https://nyti.ms/3vR92EN

Facebook’s Bridge to Nowhere

The tech giant had already remade the virtual world. For a brief period, it also tried to make it easier for people in the Bay Area to get to work. Then it gave up. https://nyti.ms/3IAsCNp

A.I. Turns Its Artistry to Creating New Human Proteins

Inspired by digital art generators like DALL-E, biologists are building artificial intelligences that can fight cancer, flu and Covid. https://nyti.ms/3GNEE4E

The Hottest Gen Z Gadget Is a 20-Year-Old Digital Camera

Young people are opting for point-and-shoots and blurry photos. https://nyti.ms/3vKJdpV

TikTok Spied on Journalists and ChatGPT is Challenging Google

TikTok skeptics now have a smoking gun. https://nyti.ms/3WUiPps

New York Attorney General Sues Founder of Collapsed Crypto Bank

Letitia James accused the founder of Celsius Network, Alex Mashinsky, of a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of investors. https://nyti.ms/3GTUHhv

Amazon Expands Corporate Layoffs to 18,000 Jobs

The layoffs will focus on human resources and its retail division, Amazon’s chief executive said in an email to employees. https://nyti.ms/3VHIfFC

A Breach at LastPass Has Password Lessons for Us All

The hacking of the password manager should make us reassess whether to trust companies to store our sensitive data in the cloud. https://nyti.ms/3IoPC1C

Auto Sales Likely Fell in 2022 Because of Supply Chain Chaos

Automakers have been hampered by the supply of semiconductors and higher interest rates. https://nyti.ms/3Qe7a2k

Twitter to Relax Ban on Political Ads

Elon Musk’s social media service said it would begin to permit cause-based advertising to “facilitate public conversation around important topics.” https://nyti.ms/3X22f6L

Sam Bankman-Fried Pleads Not Guilty to Fraud and Other Charges

The founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, who was released on a $250 million bond, returned to New York to appear in court on Tuesday. https://nyti.ms/3vCN7RU

Social Media Use Is Linked to Brain Changes in Teens, Research Finds

Teens who frequently checked social media showed an increasing sensitivity to peer feedback, although the cause of the changes was not clear. https://nyti.ms/3vG3ooR

Tesla Car Sales Grow Slower Than Expected, Amplifying Concerns

Wall Street has grown decidedly pessimistic about Tesla, fearful that Elon Musk, its chief executive, is too focused on Twitter. https://nyti.ms/3Ge1Gjo

U.S. Pours Money Into Chips, but Even Soaring Spending Has Limits

Amid a tech cold war with China, U.S. companies have pledged nearly $200 billion for chip manufacturing projects since early 2020. But the investments are not a silver bullet. https://nyti.ms/3Gyv4lZ

A New Puzzle Turns Earth Into a Rubik’s Cube, But More Complex

Continental Drift is one of Henry Segerman’s latest efforts to make mathematics “real.” https://nyti.ms/3IdkxOr

Your Memories. Their Cloud.

Google, Apple and Meta offer near-limitless digital basements in which to store photos, videos and important documents, but you should keep a copy of what you hold most dear. https://nyti.ms/3i4l8am