After his Sunday tweet asking the public whether he should step down as Twitter's head, Elon Musk was met with an overwhelming response. 17.5 million accounts voted, with 57.5% saying that he should indeed resign from his position. After the results were revealed on Monday, Musk remained silent on the matter until late that evening.
At 11.30 pm, he responded with a simple yet intriguing "Interesting" to Kim Dotcom, the founder of the former popular file-sharing website Megaupload, who had suggested that the poll's results had been distorted by fake accounts.
Then he replied to a Twitter user's suggestion that only blue subscribers should be able to vote in policy-related polls. His response? "Good point. Twitter will make that change."
It's always fascinating to see what Elon Musk is up to and what he has to say. It remains to be seen if Musk will indeed step down.
Twitter's mass suspension of prominent journalists this week has the EU up in arms. After the accounts of Ryan Mac from the New York Times, Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Drew Harwell from The Washington Post, political commentator Keith Olbermann, journalist Tony Webster, Micah Flee from The Intercept, Steve Herman from the Voice of America, journalist Aaron Rupar, and Mashable reporter Matt Binder were suspended temporarily for seven days, EU officials have announced that they are preparing to take action.
The cause of the suspension was initially a mystery, but Twitter CEO Elon Musk cleared up the confusion with a tweet that explained that doxxing had occurred, resulting in the seven-day ban. Even though the journalists had not engaged in live location sharing, which is against Twitter's safety policy, they seemed to have broken the rules in some other way.
It's been a wild week for Twitter users! On Wednesday, Twitter took the unprecedented step of banning the account @ElonJet, owned by college student Jack Sweeney. The account tracked Elon Musk's private jet using publicly available information. Shortly after, Musk tweeted that a car carrying his son "was followed by crazy stalker" who "blocked [the] car from moving and climbed onto [its] hood." Musk said that he was pursuing legal action against Sweeney.
Fast forward to Thursday night and a flurry of journalists were suspended for tweeting about the ElonJet account suspension and sharing the official LAPD statement regarding the incident connected to Musk's son. It just goes to show that you can't predict when Twitter will come down on an account, or who will be affected by a suspension.
These events have led to Vera Journova, vice president of Values and Transparency in the EU Commission, threatening sanctions against Twitter. She tweeted, "News about arbitrary suspension of journalists on Twitter is worrying. EU's Digital Services Act requires respect of media freedom and fundamental rights. This is reinforced under our #MediaFreedomAct."
It's great to see the EU taking a stance and protecting media freedom, as it is a fundamental right and should be respected globally. It's time for tech giants to be held accountable for their actions and abide by the same laws as the rest of us. We'll have to wait and see how this situation develops and what kind of impact it will have.
If you didn't know, there's a Twitter account called @ElonJet that is tracking the movements of Elon Musk's private jet. Recently, it became harder for people to search for and see that account. And someone found out that Twitter had done this on purpose.
An anonymous employee told a journalist that Twitter's new head of trust and safety asked the engineers to "apply heavy VF to @elonjet immediately."
VF stands for "visibility filtering," a way to hide certain accounts and their posts from other people.
Do you remember Friendster? Probably not. I never had an account on it, but I know that it was very popular before Facebook became a thing, and they closed the shop in 2015. But now I'm hearing stories about Friendster being back, so I decided to check it out myself.
What the Hell is Friendster.click?
The so-called Friendster website uses a .click top-level domain name instead of .com. Probably because a .click top-level domain is cheaper.
If you enter the site address into the WordPress theme detector website (www.isitwp.com), you can find out that the "new Friendster" website uses the SocialMag theme to make it look like a social networking platform.
So, I suggest you not visit the site, because it may be loaded with malware or phishing scams, and trust me you don't want that. Then, you might ask Why did I do it? Because I'm a stupid idiot.😊
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced in a press release on
November 26 that it successfully used a water propellent system to drive its
"EQUULEUS" CubeSat. The craft was launched by NASA's Artemis I on November 16.
EQUULEUS has a water propellant engine named AQUARIUS (AQUA ResIstojet
propUlsion System) that uses heat from communications equipment to turn water
into steam, which can be jetted out to generate thrust.
Why Use Water as Fuel?
Water is a better choice than other fuels for use in small, cheap satellites
because it is easier to store and handle.
EQUULEUS Flight Path
Artemis I injected the spacecraft into a lunar flyby trajectory. Then EQUULEUS
fired its steam engines and started its journey to the second Moon Lagrange
point (EML2), and it should take a year and a half to reach EML2.
"I am proud of the EQUULEUS operation team, who were able to immediately
complete the orbital control necessary for the lunar fly-by, just one day
after the checkout operation shortly after launch. This was a difficult
operation that had to be successful. I feel we were able to succeed in this
critical operation due to their careful preparation, including numerous
back-up plans, and the ability to respond flexibly through training. We are
now at the start line of the long voyage to the Lagrange point,"
said FUNASE Ryu, an associate professor at the Department of Aeronautics
and Astronautics, the University of Tokyo, Japan.
In order to review how the internship programme fits with the firm's
"strategic priorities" and "long-term focus," Alphabet's DeepMind has
paused hiring new interns.
"Disappointed & shocked to hear that DeepMind 'paused' intern hiring and
canceled all scheduled interviews, just one hour before my interview... Anyone
knows more details?" Linfeng Zhao, an applicant wrote on Twitter
Wednesday.
Disappointed & shocked to hear that DeepMind “paused” intern hiring
and canceled all scheduled interviews, just one hour before my
interview... Anyone knows more details?
pic.twitter.com/eLB5uHZAlB
A representative for DeepMind told Business Insider: "We've paused hiring for
new interns at this time as we review how our Intern Program aligns with our
long-term focus and strategic priorities as an organization. We are in
communication with all applicants, and are grateful for the time they've
invested in the process so far."
Here are some more tweets from aspiring interns:
Gutted @DeepMind has paused internship cycles for this year (espesh after making it to final round🥲) Internships are a great way for early stage academics to get a feel for industry - the tech hiring freeze is hitting hard😑 Buuut I'm now back on the market so hmu with ideas👀😅
Working at DeepMind would definitely be a dream comes true for me. I did not get pass the screening phase last year. I got through this year's screening. Then the freeze happened :( If only... https://t.co/81eFaU1VHH
After several complaints from its customers, Microsoft has brought SwiftKey back to the iOS App Store. The company removed SwiftKey from the Store in early October, about six weeks ago. And now they're saying, "We're investing heavily in the keyboard" (perhaps a new keyboard product is in the works?).
It was Vishnu Nath, the Vice President and General Manager of the Office Product Group and Microsoft OneNote, who first broke the news that Microsoft is bringing SwiftKey back to the Apple App Store.
Anton Napolsky (age 33), and Valeriia Ermakova (age 27) have been charged with
criminal copyright infringement, wire fraud, and money laundering for running
"Z-Library," one of the largest e-book piracy websites.
At the request of the United States, they were arrested on November 3 in
Cordoba, Argentina. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also seized the
Z-Library network of nearly 250 domains and its assets.
After the Feds announced the arrests, Z-Library supporters have been urging the FBI
to release Anton and Valeriia, claiming "they helped students more than the
American government."
The Twitter account of former President Donald J. Trump has been restored
after Elon Musk held a Twitter poll titled "Reinstate former President Trump" and asked his followers if
they thought the former president's Twitter account should be reinstated. The final
results show 51.8% of respondents said "Yes", and only 48.2% said "No".
A security flaw in networking technology used in spacecraft, airplanes, energy generation systems, and industrial control systems has been discovered by researchers from the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, and NASA.
The flaw exploits a network protocol known as "time-triggered Ethernet," or TTE. It allowed researchers to gain access to the primary network that is used for mission-critical devices like life support systems. They achieved this through an attack dubbed "PCspooF".
To pull off a PCSpooF attack, an attacker needs to plant a small, malicious device on the network. This makes remote attacks impossible.
Mozilla plans to have its online store, addons.mozilla.org, support Manifest v3 browser extensions starting next week, on November 21, to be precise, so developers can have them cryptographically signed for distribution.
What is Mv3? It is a set of APIs and capabilities that were proposed by Google as the new standard for browser extensions.
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, this architecture will make content blocking more difficult (meaning: adblockers will stop working).
"Manifest V3 is another example of the inherent conflict of interest that comes from Google controlling both the dominant web browser and one of the largest internet advertising networks". EFF said in a blog post.
Remedy Entertainment has announced that they are making a sequel to the award-winning game "Control". The game is currently in the concept stage of development, and it will be built on Remedy's own Northlight Engine.
According to the newly signed agreement with 505 Games, Remedy will self-publish the PC version of the game, and 505 Games will publish the console versions. And, the revenue generated will be split evenly.
Rami and Raffi Galante, co-CEOs of 505 Games said in a statement that "We are excited to deepen our cooperation with Remedy and continue the success story of Control together. Since its launch in 2019, Control has sold over 3 million copies,"
"Control is the biggest investment 505 Games has ever made, so it has a special place in our hearts. We are grateful to the whole player community that has made Control such a long-lasting and loved game, and are even more excited to bring out Control 2," they added.
Control garnered over 20 "Game of the Year" accolades, including IGN's 2019 Game of the Year, and was nominated for 11 BAFTA Games Awards.
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