Tag: Tech
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Has Been Charged With Fraud By US Authorities
Overnight a court filing was released detailing fraud allegations against Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of collapsed crypto firm FTX. The Securities and Exchange Commission says that whilst the entrepreneur “portrayed himself as a responsible leader of the crypto community”, in fact he misled clients and “improperly diverted their assets” to…
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Elon Musk Insisted That The Crowd That Booed Him At A Dave Chappelle Show Were Actually Cheering For Him
As the embarrassing moment began trending on Monday morning, Musk tried to salvage some dignity. “Truth resonates,” he wrote in response to a tweet of his own about prosecuting Anthony Fauci. “So does a crowd full of boos,” one user responded. “Technically, it was 90% cheers & 10% boos (except…
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10 Years Later, The Ikea Monkey Is Thriving
On Dec. 9, 2012, a woman shopping at an Ikea in Toronto saw an unusual customer: a Japanese snow macaque. A photo she took of the monkey balefully staring out the glass door in a little shearling coat blitzed across the internet, and a meme was born: the Ikea monkey.…
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The Computer Company Raspberry Pi Hired An Ex-Cop And People Are Pissed
Numerous people have been upset at the way Raspberry Pi has addressed criticism on social media. Among them is James Spencer, a London-based developer. “In my head they’ve always been this grassroots company just trying to do computer stuff with makers and hackers,” he said via Twitter DM. Spencer raised…
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Apple Finally Will Let You Encrypt iCloud Backups. Here’s Why That’s Important.
Apple will let people encrypt most data backed up to iCloud from their iPhones and iPads, the company announced on Wednesday. The feature will be available in the US later this month and around the world in 2023. Previously, Apple only encrypted sensitive information, such as people’s health data, credit…
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The Eve 6 Guy Advises A Man With A Literal Broken Heart And A PhD Student Who Detests Her Work
The thing I’m most grateful for is that those early years of success, and even the rudderless floundering that followed, are what facilitated (and subsidized) my eventually becoming an artist many years after my band’s commercial success. I still balk at using the term “artist” self-referentially, but here’s what I…
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