Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is fighting a losing battle against the site's moderators (qz.com)
The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas
Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route (qz.com)
Those Silicon Valley geniuses have done it again!...
Tesla is the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 this year (qz.com)
Google accidentally deleted a $125 billion pension fund's account (qz.com)
Incandescent lightbulbs are now banned in the US (qz.com)
The Biden Administration's rules seek to make lighting cheaper and less polluting
A Tesla Cybertruck just stopped working after a carwash (qz.com)
Reddit stock is falling back to Earth because the short-sellers have arrived (qz.com)
Some 7% of Reddit’s free share float (or more) has been sold short so far, according to an estimate from the analytics company Ortex cited by Reuters. That’s something the social platform was worried would happen, noting in its prospectus that retail traders in its subreddits (and particularly on r/WallStreetBets) could...
Elon Musk’s new AI company is staffed entirely by men (qz.com)
There's not much information about xAI, but diversity is already an issue
A Ticketmaster hack spilled sensitive data for 560 million customers, hackers say (qz.com)
ShinyHunters posted on Tuesday night in a hacking forum that it obtained data from Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, including customers’ names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and order details, Cyber Daily wrote. The group is reportedly attempting to sell the stolen data for $500 million....
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is fighting a losing battle against the site's moderators (qz.com)
The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas
Ethiopian Airlines is buying the plane model that killed 346 people (qz.com)
The airline plans to purchase 41 more Boeing 737-8 Max planes...
AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless (qz.com)
Tesla is laying off more than 10% of its workforce as Elon Musk says iIt must be done' (qz.com)
Morale down, cronyism up after DeSantis takeover of Disney World government, ex-employees say (qz.com)
Since allies of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took over Walt Disney World’s government earlier this year, morale has deteriorated, the governing district has been politicized and cronyism permeates the organization
Twitter has lost 66% of its value since Elon Musk bought it (qz.com)
JPMorgan Chase is about to let advertisers target customers based on their spending (qz.com)
If you’re considering opening a Chase account, here’s some food for thought.
The music industry is waging war upon an AI server on Discord (qz.com)
This is just one action in a coming conflict. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out. Does the record industry win and digital likenesses become outlawed, even taboo? Or does voice, appearance etc just become another sets of rights that musicians will have to negotiate during a record deal?
Apple now has 1 billion paying subscribers (qz.com)
Apple announced that it now has 1 billion paying subscribers to its services and that revenue from these sales has reached an all-time high....
Apple may be quiet on AI, but it’s also the biggest buyer of AI companies (qz.com)
cross-posted from !apple...
Stephen King blames Bill Maher for breaking the Hollywood writers’ strike (qz.com)
Bill Maher announced that his Real Time would be back "sans writers or writing"...
Disney warns that if DeSantis wins lawsuit, others will be punished for 'disfavored' views (qz.com)
Smokers toss away 4 trillion plastic cigarette filters a year (qz.com)
Company pulls spicy One Chip Challenge from store shelves as Massachusetts investigates teen's death (qz.com)
Authorities are raising the alarm about a social media challenge in which people eat extremely spicy chips and attempt to avoid eating or drinking anything for as long as possible
If you want to be a better person, find something to do outside of work (qz.com)
DVDs, Blu-rays, and VHS tapes: How long does physical media last? (qz.com)
