Instead, he’ll run other teams at the company. | Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk said Tuesday that he’ll still be in charge of Twitter’s software and server teams after he resigns his CEO seat to “someone foolish enough to take” it. He broke the news in a response to a poll
Read MoreBloomberg: Ukrainian Vice PM Mykhailo Fedorov expects 10K+ more Starlink terminals to arrive in the coming months, saying “all financial issues have been resolved” for now — Ukraine has reached a deal with Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. to receive thousands more Starlink antennas …
Read MoreXinmei Shen / South China Morning Post: China issues new data guidelines, imposing strict review of data processing, cross-border data transfers, and M&A activities involving foreign capital — Chinese authorities will impose a strict review of data processing, cross-border data transfers, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) …
Read MoreElon Musk / @elonmusk: Elon Musk says he will resign as CEO once he finds someone “foolish enough to take the job”, after which time he plans to run the “software and servers teams” — I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I
Read MorePhoto by Dan Seifert / The Verge Two men have been accused of hacking into Ring doorbells and using their cameras to livestream swatting attacks, according to the Department of Justice. Kya Christian Nelson, 21, James Thomas Andrew McCarty, 20, and unnamed others allegedly spent a week using stolen Yahoo email addresses and passwords to
Read MoreKristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Police are looking to question a member of Elon Musk’s security team after he allegedly hit the car of a person who Musk later claimed was a threat to his family. The December 13th incident took place at around 9:51PM on the 700 block of Mission Street in
Read MorePhoto by Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge Besides its more obvious stated goal of reducing inflation, the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was designed to force profound changes in the electric vehicle market. The legislation revises EV tax credit rules as it seeks to build up domestic battery manufacturing so that the US
Read MoreImage: Eufy On the last episode of “Will Anker ever tell us what’s actually going on with its security cameras rather than lying and covering its tracks,” we told you how Eufy’s customer support team is now quietly providing some of the answers to the questions that the company had publicly ignored about its smart
Read MoreThere are a lot of IoT solutions and frameworks out there, and [Davide] demonstrates how to make a simple data logging and tracking application with his ESP8266-to-ThingSpeak project, which reads up to four NTC (negative temperature coefficient) thermistors and sends the data to ThinkSpeak over WiFi. IoT can be a pretty deep rabbit hole, so
Read MoreJoe Flint / Wall Street Journal: Sources: the NFL is in advanced talks to give YouTube exclusive Sunday Ticket rights; a deal could be reached as early as December 21 after an NFL owner meeting — Agreement on the subscription package for most Sunday afternoon football games could be reached as early as Wednesday
Read MoreCNBC: Sam Bankman-Fried agrees voluntarily to be extradited to the US, where he faces criminal and civil charges including conspiracy, fraud, and money laundering — – Sam Bankman-Fried is set to fly to the U.S., where he faces multiple criminal charges tied to the collapse of his crypto exchange FTX.
Read MoreBrian Fung / CNN: SEC deposition: in 2017, Zuckerberg considered saying Facebook was investigating “organizations like Cambridge Analytica”, before advisers suggested against it — Mark Zuckerberg considered disclosing in 2017 that Facebook (FB) was investigating “organizations like Cambridge Analytica” …
Read MoreEclipse GlassFish 7.0, a Java application server that implements the Jakarta EE 10 framework for enterprise-level Java deployments, has reached general availability. Released December 14 and downloadable from the Eclipse Foundation, GlassFish 7.0 features Jakarta EE 10 APIs and implementation components. Jakarta EE 10 was published in September, with an emphasis on building cloud-native Java
Read MoreJames Reddick / The Record: US prosecutors say two men conspired with Russian hackers to tamper with JFK airport’s taxi queuing software, allegedly letting drivers cut the line for a fee — Two Queens men have been arrested and are facing up to 10 years in prison on charges that they conspired with Russian hackers
Read MoreA new rumor says that Android is getting an official Apple TV app, and is currently under beta testing.
Read MoreIt’s always great when we get a chance to follow up on a previous project with more information, or further developments. So we’re happy that [“Ancient” James Brown] just dropped a new video showing the assembly of his Lego brick with a tiny OLED screen inside it. The readers are too, apparently — we got at
Read MoreWashington Post: A provision to bar TikTok from government devices was included in the US government’s $1.7T omnibus spending bill that is due for a vote this week — Democrats and Republicans on Tuesday included language in a must-pass spending bill that would, for the first time, ban federal employees …
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge A very happy holidays to you all! The news is slow, and the food is fried. I made the best latkes of my life (of anyone’s life?) this weekend and also ate four Peter Pan jelly donuts in the span of 24 hours. It really is the most
Read MoreThe Pixel 7 used the same camera sensor as the previous generation, but that might be changing. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Pixel 8 is a long ways off, but some snippets of camera app code identified by developer Kuba Wojciechowski are giving us an early glimpse into what Google
Read MoreMishaal Rahman / Esper Blog: Android and Google Chrome will soon no longer trust certificates from TrustCor Systems, following Firefox and Edge, over alleged ties to a US defense contractor — The world’s biggest tech companies have lost confidence in one of the Internet’s behind-the-scenes gatekeepers.
Read MoreAlthough keyboards have had the same basic features for decades, recently they’ve experienced a renaissance of sorts thanks to mechanical switches. This has led to a wide variety of different typing experiences and custom designs. Plus, with the underground DIY scene, keyboards are now more customizable than ever before. However, there’s still room for innovation,
Read MoreLee Fang / The Intercept: Internal documents show that, going back to 2017, Twitter worked with the Pentagon to whitelist CENTCOM accounts used in online foreign influence campaigns — Twitter executives have claimed for years that the company makes concerted efforts to detect and thwart government-backed covert propaganda campaigns on its platform.
Read MoreElon Musk is actively looking for a new Twitter CEO after losing a Twitter poll asking if he should stop heading the social media company.
Read MoreThe award he’s holding pales in comparison to the internet clout he just got. | Photo by Marcelo Endelli / Getty Images In addition to a World Cup and a full set of other soccer (aka football) awards, Lionel Messi has taken another crown: the person with the most-liked post on Instagram. The pictures he
Read MoreImage: Getty Cruise is delivering on its promise to expand its robotaxi service to two new markets before the end of the year. For years, Cruise has operated its autonomous ridehail service exclusively in San Francisco. But earlier this year, the GM-backed company said it would launch in Phoenix, Arizona, and Austin, Texas, before the
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