Alex Jones is Back on X, Thanks to Elon Musk
Half a decade after he was kicked off Twitter by the platform’s safety team, professional conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been welcomed back to the site, which is now called…
Spotify Lays Off 1,500 as Revenues Climb
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said staff were being incredibly productive, but the company just wasn’t acting as efficiently as it could be.Photo: TORU YAMANAKA/AFP (Getty Images) Spotify staff could be…
Stack Overflow Lays Off 28% of Staff to Stay on Its ‘Path to Profitability’
Image: Dennis Diatel (Shutterstock) It’s a rough day for tech workers, with layoffs at both LinkedIn and the recently-sold Bandcamp. Stack Overflow, the go-to Q&A forum for programmers, says it’s…
LinkedIn Lays Off Nearly 700 Employees Worldwide
LinkedIn, the business social networking platform owned by Microsoft, announced Monday it is laying off 668 employees, amounting to more than 3% of its staff, as part of its alleged…
California Congressman Says Tech Utopia Developer ‘Sold a Fairy Tale’ to Silicon Valley Elite
The tech billionaire-backed landgrab in Solano County California might finally be out of the shadows, but the local officials who have finally had the opportunity to speak to the developers…
9 Tips and Hacks To Get More out of Notion
Notion combines note taking with project management, and has earned many fans because of its intuitive, open, flexible interface—it can essentially be anything you want it to be, giving you…
Silicon Valley Elites Show Off Renderings of Exclusive New City They Want to Build in the Bay Area
You don’t have to stray too far into science fiction or comic book tales to find examples of megalomaniacal tech businessmen creating their own “utopian” metropolises, before—inevitably—everything goes to hell.…
Shadowy Tech Goons Want to Build a New City in California. What Could Go Wrong?
When rich people start buying up land, it’s always fairly disturbing. If and when those same people start telling you that they’re going to use the land to make the…
Worldcoin, Sam Altman’s Creepy Vision for Iris-Scanning ‘Global Digital Currency’, Begins Rollout
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s sci-fi-tinged, iris-scanning cryptocurrency project Worldcoin began rolling out services internationally today. The extent to which Worldcoin actually delivers on its promise of a “new global digital…
Facebook Lets Parents See Who Their Kids Are Talking to Messenger
Meta has unveiled a suite of new safety tools intended to give parents more oversight of their teen’s activity on Messenger and Instagram DMs. Starting today, parents and guardians can…