If you’ve been using Twitter’s For You feed this week, you might’ve noticed the algorithmic feed showed a lot of Elon Musk’s tweets and replies. According to Platformer, which interviewed Twitter employees, engineers tweaked the social network to benefit their CEO. Elon’s cousin and Twitter employee James Musk sent an urgent message on the company’s … Read more

IK Multimedia has been in the guitar rig emulation game for a long time. It released the first version of AmpliTube way back in 2002. And while the company has branched out quite a bit since then into synths, microphones and studio monitors, it hasn’t given up on the world of guitar just yet. In … Read more

Earlier this week, it was reported that Tesla workers in the company’s Buffalo, New York Autopilot facility had sent a letter to CEO Elon Musk stating their attention to unionize. Now, organizers at the same location are accusing the company of illegally terminating employees “in retaliation for union activity and to discourage union activity,” Bloomberg … Read more

The city government of Oakland, California was hit by a ransomware attack on February 8th, and its departments can still feel the security breach’s ramifications. While the local government didn’t give out details about the incident, such as how much money the bad actors are demanding, it said in an announcement that the city had … Read more

In a video ad Google posted on Twitter, its yet-to-be-launched AI chatboard Bard confidently spouted misinformation about the James Webb Space Telescope. “JWST took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system,” the chatbot replied, which is patently false. (It was the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope that captured … Read more

Twitter is loosening its advertising policies to allow cannabis companies to promote their brands on the service. The changes makes Twitter the first major social media platform to welcome cannabis ads within the United States. “Going forward, Twitter is allowing advertisers to promote brand preference and informational cannabis-related content for CBD, THC, and cannabis-related products … Read more

Apple may be narrowing down the launch window for its fabled mixed reality headset. Bloombergsources say the headset is now set to premiere at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June. The device, possibly called Reality Pro, was unofficially slated to arrive in April but reportedly needed extra development time to address hardware and software … Read more

Now that Republicans control the House of Representatives, they’re preparing to grill technology giants over accusations of content censorship. The Wall Street Journal has learned that House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has subpoenaed the CEOs of Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft for information on their content moderation methods. The leaders have until March 23rd … Read more

Dead by Daylight features a roster full of memorable killers. If horror icons like Freddy Krueger and Pyramid Head aren’t your thing, you can turn to more original additions like Ji-woon, a K-pop star turned serial killer. The game’s newest killer fits in that latter mold. Adriana Imai, aka The Skull Merchant, is a wealthy … Read more

American politicians may not be the only government figures concerned about Amazon’s proposed acquisition of iRobot. The Financial Timessources claim European Union regulators are grilling Amazon ahead of a “likely” official investigation. The European Commission has sent questions about potential privacy issues, including Roomba robot vacuums’ ability to capture imagery. Officials are worried Amazon might … Read more