Month: March 2023
Twitter claims ‘legacy’ blue checkmarks will start to disappear on April Fools’ Day
Twitter has announced that it’ll start “winding down” its legacy verified program and removing “legacy verified checkmarks” starting on April 1st, and is telling users to subscribe to its Blue subscription if they want to keep their blue check. There’s a lot to unpack here. First, the announcement isn’t necessarily…
Read More
Congress seems more determined to ban TikTok than ever
TikTok’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, seemed to arrive at the Capitol well-prepared. Taking his seat before dozens of House Energy and Commerce Committee members Thursday, he opened a packet of notes, diligently indexed with sticky notes. In the packet, there appeared to be a sheet matching the names and faces…
Read More
Is Jack Dorsey going to get blown up by Hindenburg Research?
How’s our favorite Bitcoin maxi Jack Dorsey doing? Well, the short sellers at Hindenburg Research published an absolute barn-burner of a report alleging widespread fraud at his company, Block. Besides that, Hindenburg says Block misled its investors and is engaging in predatory lending practices. Oh, okay! Block is threatening to…
Read More
This sneaky credit card stealer hides within payment processors to avoid security scans
A sneaky new credit card stealer has been discovered hiding in places that are difficult to scan, and thus managing to steal payment (opens in new tab) information without triggering any alarms. A report from cybersecurity experts Sucuri notes how it stumbled upon the malware when called in to investigate…
Read More
Twitter Blue subscriptions roll out globally, despite missing many promised features
People all over the world can now pay for Twitter, as the company has announced that its Twitter Blue subscription service is now available globally. While the subscription has been pretty widely available before (you could sign up for it in almost 50 countries), the expanded availability reflects the company’s…
Read More
TikTok ban hearing: all the news on the US’s crackdown on the video platform
“It’s our understanding that they’re looking at the eyes.” One of the long-running tropes of these hearings is “how much does anyone in the room, including the CEOs and the members of Congress, actually understand the tech at hand?” To that end, I submit TikTok’s Shou Chew explaining that TikTok…
Read More