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New York City becomes the latest government to issue new rules banning TikTok, a measure meant to ward off potential security threats from China. The Verge reported the new ban, which is effective immediately and instructs agencies to delete the app from city-owned hardware within 30 days. NYC Cybe

Elon Musk, CEO of the company formerly known as Twitter (now X), has reportedly donated to a fertility and population research project in Texas. According to Bloomberg, Musk, who’s been vocal about his belief that population collapse could end humanity, gave $10 million to the Population Well

In the age of social media, you may feel like you’re keeping up with your friends and family, but the reality is that “liking” their posts isn’t the same thing as reaching out directly to say hello and check in on how they’re doing. That’s where a newly launched

Welcome, friends, to technewss’s Week in Review (WiR), the newsletter where we recap the week that was in tech. For those new to WiR, think of it as a digest of stories and pieces that topped the charts over the past five days or so. In this week’s edition of WiR, we cover researchers

Elon Musk has disappointed me many times. He bought my favorite social network and made it bad. He has mistreated workers across his companies, and he has permanently ruined the enduring comedy of 420 and 69 jokes. And today, he got my hopes up that he was actually going to cage fight Mark Zuckerbe

Elon Musk says his fight with Mark Zuckerberg is definitely happening, and I’m so, so sorry I have to write these words and present them in this article. To pull back the curtain, every time Musk does something asinine and moronic, we in the media wrestle with the anguish of whether or not we

X CEO Linda Yaccarino claims that the company formerly known as Twitter is almost breaking even. “I’ve been at the company eight weeks,” Yaccarino said in her first broadcast interview since taking on her new role. “The operational run rate right now… we’re prett

The widespread protests against Reddit's API changes reached a boiling point last month after the company forcibly reopened r/malefashionadvice — the largest subreddit that stayed dark after the blackout — booted the moderators, and appointed new ones.  The moderators of r/malefashionadvic

New court papers first reported by Politico reveal that the special counsel investigating former President Trump secured a search warrant for his Twitter account back in January. The documents, which were unsealed Wednesday, show that prosecutors exploring Trump’s role in the January 6 attack

X says it has “delivered a decade's worth of innovation focused on creating an engaging and healthy environment” since Elon Musk’s acquisition. Sure! Everyone knows that when you think about X, you immediately think of closing a tab the twenty fourth letter of the alphabet por

Short-form video platform Triller filed to go public last week while your humble scribe was on vacation to visit family. The lesson? Never take time off. A privately backed tech company going public on the U.S. markets is welcome news. Sadly, while Triller is an interesting business, it may prove t

Hey, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), technewss’s newsletter that highlights key developments in the tech industry over the past few days. If you missed the news this week, no biggie. That’s what WiR is for. We’ll fill you in. In this edition, we cover Reed Jobs, the s

Triller has long teased its ambitions to go public, and now, the short-form video platform seems on its way to an IPO. Triller filed an S-1 on Wednesday, seeking to directly list on the New York Stock Exchange. The TikTok competitor previously tried to go public via SPAC in a $5 billion merger with

Popular image pinboarding and shopping inspiration site Pinterest provided an update on its recently announced Amazon partnership and its other efforts around AI during its Q2 2023 earnings this week. The company in April announced a multiyear deal with Amazon that saw the e-commerce giant become P