Elon Musk’s $1 million Twitter bounty
Welcome again to a different version of 10 Issues in Tech. My colleague Diamond Naga remains to be out, leaving me, Asia Martin, to fill on this week.
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Earlier than I dive deep into packing for my very own mountaineering journeys, let’s get began with what is going on on in tech.
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1. Elon Musk’s $1 million bounty. Twitter CEO Elon Musk has some form of bounty out for whomever is behind the botnets that he says goal sure customers and suppresses the attain of their tweets. The bots mass block, unfollow, and report accounts inflicting customers’ reputational scores to go down, experiences Ryan Hogg.
- Elon Musk tweeted “Who’s behind these botnets? Million greenback bounty if convicted” in response to a Twitter consumer who claimed that botnets “silence” sure accounts.
- Musk and the consumer have been referring to a thread the place one other consumer analyzed Twitter’s lately open-sourced algorithm.
- The consumer found that the algorithm is susceptible to negative-feedback loops that might have an effect on any consumer’s reputational rating.
Learn extra about Twitter’s algorithm points right here.
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2. Twitter workers do not generate a ton of income. For the reason that trade’s most necessary motto this 12 months is “income per worker,” Insider’s Hasan Chowdury went by means of Twitter’s SEC filings. Might the low income per worker be why Elon Musk axed so many workers? Examine it right here.
3. Twitch’s CEO was caught off guard by the Amazon layoffs announcement. In a leaked memo, CEO Dan Clancy wrote that he deliberate to inform impacted workers first earlier than saying the layoffs to the remainder of Twitch’s employees.
4. Tim Cook dinner tells mother and father and faculties to place onerous limits round tech utilization. The Apple CEO instructed GQ that he did not like seeing his nephew use social media, and that Apple isn’t aiming to be anybody’s habit.
5. Sam Altman in contrast OpenAI to the primary nuclear bomb challenge. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman instructed a Occasions reporter that OpenAI is on the identical scale because the Manhattan Challenge, which was the nuclear weapons program liable for the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
6. The daddy of cellphones has a message for cellphone customers. Martin Cooper, who invented the primary cellphone in 1973, says he’s devastated to see folks crossing the road whereas on their smartphones. Jokingly, he stated a number of potential accidents might cease that behavior.
7. Peace, love, and Hitler: How Lex Fridman’s podcast grew to become a protected area for the anti-woke tech elite. Senior correspondent Julia Black examines the evolution of MIT professor Lex Fridman’s self-titled podcast and his relationship with a few of tech’s elite.
8. Is Twitter censoring gender identification and sexual orientation? Twitter customers known as consideration to the problem in seeing direct messages that point out “homosexual”, “queer”, and “trans.” Insider senior reporter Samantha Delouya carried out a take a look at to confirm the claims.
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9. One of the best iPhone 14 Professional circumstances: The priciest iPhone could also be harder than its ancestors however that does not make it injury proof. My colleague William Antonelli recommends various cellphone circumstances that supply safety, beauty, and MagSafe compatibility. Learn extra right here.
10. Nike hopes for real-life Area Jam by 2073. In No End Line, a 192-page guide, Nike seems at what the corporate goals to do over the following 50 years. It envisions outer-space Olympics and footballs manufactured from stardust.
What we’re watching at this time:
- ICYMI: NASA introduced the 4 members of the Artemis II crew mission to the moon; Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen.
Curated by Asia Martin. (Suggestions or ideas? E-mail [email protected]). Edited by Matt Weinberger (tweet @gamoid) in San Francisco and Hallam Bullock (tweet @hallam_bullock) in London.