By Audrey Tang Business Nov 26, 2024 3:45 AM Embrace the Shift to ‘Prosocial Media’ Engagement and profits on social platforms are built on fomenting dissatisfaction and disinformation—but there’s a better alternative. Illustration: Carmen Casado Today, our information feeds and social media are largely governed by algorithms optimized to maximize engagement, often amplifying the most…
Carlton Reid Gear Nov 25, 2024 7:00 AM Cybertruck’s Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles Since launch, Tesla’s polarizing electric pickup has been beset by quality issues, and is now heading to be one of the most unreliable EVs made yet. Strangely, Cybertruck owners may not care one bit….
By Paresh Dave Business Nov 25, 2024 6:00 AM The Future of Online Privacy Hinges on Thousands of New Jersey Cops Removing your phone number and address from the internet can be exceedingly difficult. A multibillion-dollar lawsuit led by an unlikely privacy crusader could soon catalyze change for everyone. Serial entrepreneur Matt Adkisson has made…
Joel Khalili Business Nov 22, 2024 1:00 PM Elizabeth Warren Calls for Crackdown on Internet ‘Monopoly’ You’ve Never Heard Of US senator Elizabeth Warren and congressman Jerry Nadler have demanded the government investigate whether VeriSign, steward of the .com domain, is ripping off customers and violating antitrust laws. Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images US senator Elizabeth…
Kate Knibbs Business Nov 21, 2024 2:55 PM New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence As part of an ongoing copyright lawsuit, The New York Times says it spent 150 hours sifting through OpenAI’s training data looking for potential evidence—only for OpenAI to delete all of its work. Photograph: Yuki Iwamura; Bloomberg/Getty Lawsuits…
Carlton Reid Gear Nov 22, 2024 7:30 AM The World’s Biggest EV Maker Has the Industry’s Worst Human Rights Appraisal Amnesty International has issued a report charting the supply chains and human rights due diligence policies of 13 major EV manufacturers. The results are a world away from the clean, safe future that electric vehicles…
Steven Levy Business Nov 22, 2024 10:00 AM Bluesky Says It Won’t Screw Things Up The not-a-Twitter-clone is exploding, and its CEO promises to not repeat old social-media mistakes. Her strategy? Massively empower users to decide how the service works. Photograph: Jaap Arriens/Getty Images Like the conflicted cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, journalists, pundits and people…
