In this sense, says Jacob Silverman, co-author of Easy Money: Cryptocurrencies, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of FraudThe TRUMP coin setup appears to have some of the characteristics of a “classic memecoin pump and dump,” a maneuver whereby an issuer holds large amounts of its coin, promotes the project, and then cashes out its […]
TikTok is no longer available in the United States, at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s currently blocked for US users. Shortly before the January 19 deadline imposed by the federal government, TikTok cut off access to anyone trying to access the app from the United States. “In the US,
It’s not just TikTok: These other ByteDance apps also disappeared– BC Read More »
As time runs out for the Biden administration, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Elon Musk in federal court. The statute at hand is relatively simple. The moment of complaint is more complicated. The SEC complaint focuses on Musk’s acquisition of Twitter stock in early 2022. According to the complaint, Musk failed to
The SEC is suing Elon Musk. Everything is in time– BC Read More »
This 180-degree change is a response to Donald Trump’s imminent second presidential term and competing methods, such as X’s Community Notes. Meta decided not to invest more money in its program. Now he hopes that Facebook and Instagram users themselves will decide what content is disinformation or not. In the statement in which Zuckerberg announced
Latin American fact-checkers prepare for Meta’s next moves– BC Read More »
A significant proportion of people today live in towns and cities that grew up around trade, industry and automobiles. Think of the docks of Liverpool, the factories of Osaka, the car obsession of New York’s Robert Moses or the low-density sprawl of modern Riyadh. Few of these places were created with human health in mind.
It’s official: boring cities are bad for your health– BC Read More »
In its initial responses, ChatGPT did not provide any links to products. But he readily supplied them to me when I asked, and although I didn’t click on each and every one of them, none of them seemed to be hallucinations. Claude, on the other hand, apologized and said that “you can’t actually link directly
In addition to the trove of books, the Institutional Data Initiative is also working with the Boston Public Library to scan millions of articles from different newspapers that are now in the public domain, and says it is open to forming similar collaborations in the future. The exact way in which the books data set
“When we talked to the workers, they just wanted to go back to the cockroaches, how the studio owner charges them for toilet paper or makes them work when they have their period. I couldn’t get people to talk to me about platforms, and that’s completely valid because of course you’re mad at the guy
The multibillion-dollar adult streaming industry is fueled by horrific labor abuses– BC Read More »
The glow of the tech bro halo is fading, and by 2025, the glamor sheen of the IT industry will fade. continues to fadealso. While other STEM fields are making strides to expand participation in their workforces, year after year, computer science, a supposedly innovative field, fails to recruit, retain, and respect women and nonbinary
The US government has been imposing similar export controls on China aimed at limiting its ability to produce advanced silicon for years, but the controls apparently did not stop Huawei from developing competitive chips for training large AI models. The Chinese tech giant, which was temporarily paralyzed by US sanctions half a decade ago, samples
