The Trump-backed social media app is inundated with phony accounts and features that don’t work. It also hides some posts, including those with curse words.
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Elon Musk Is a Typical Twitter User, Except for One Thing
The platform has always been the perfect place to indulge your whims. But when you’re the richest man in the world, those whims can grow significantly.
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Meta Earnings: Facebook Parent’s Profit Drops 21%
It was the company’s second consecutive quarterly decline, the first time that had happened in over a decade.
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Is There a Ceiling on Internet Users?
There’s currently a limit to how many people in the world can use digital services like Facebook and Netflix.
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Elon Musk Loses His Bid to End SEC Twitter Settlement
Mr. Musk had challenged an agreement he reached with securities regulators after he claimed that he had the funding to take Tesla private.
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Russia wages “relentless and destructive” cyberattacks to bolster Ukraine invasion
Enlarge / Flag of Russia on a computer binary codes falling from the top and fading away. (credit: Getty Images) On March 1, Russian forces invading Ukraine took out a TV tower in Kyiv after the Kremlin declared its intention to destroy “disinformation” in the neighboring country. That public act of kinetic destruction accompanied a...
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Businesses are adopting Windows 11 more quickly than past versions, says Microsoft
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Data suggests that gamers are moving to Windows 11 at a steady pace but not nearly as quickly as they warmed to Windows 10 a few years ago. For historically change-averse businesses, surprisingly, the opposite may be true—Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during the company’s Q3 2022 earnings call that enterprises...
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Buying Twitter, Elon Musk Will Face Reality of His Free-Speech Talk
Tech’s big shots have learned again and again that free speech isn’t so simple. What happens when Mr. Musk owns Twitter?
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Selling Twitter to Elon Musk Is Good for Investors. What About the Public?
The company’s decision to sell seems to have been based purely on the financials, with little if any regard for other stakeholders.
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Microsoft finds Linux desktop flaw that gives root to untrusted users
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Vulnerabilities recently discovered by Microsoft make it easy for people with a toehold on many Linux desktop systems to quickly gain root system rights— the latest elevation of privileges flaw to come to light in the open source OS. As operating systems have been hardened to withstand compromises in recent years,...