Linda Yaccarino, the C.E.O. of X, has worked hard to bring back advertisers and fix the platform’s business. But its owner, Elon Musk, is always one whim away from undoing her work.
One of the wildest, most scam-ridden corners of the cryptocurrency industry — memecoins, which are rooted in internet memes — has roared back.
In its first detailed response to a legal challenge, the agency said TikTok’s proposed changes wouldn’t prevent China from using it to collect U.S. users’ data or spread propaganda.
Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the F.T.C. to investigate how car companies handled the data from millions of car owners.
The use of artificial intelligence is exploding around the world, but the technology’s language models are primarily trained in English, leaving many speakers of other languages behind.
“This is not millennial pink. The energy behind it is alive.”
Funds from the ransomware attacks on hospitals subsidized military espionage activities, prosecutors say.
The prominent A.I. start-up said it planned to eventually fold the new technology into its popular online chatbot, ChatGPT.
The bipartisan legislation would impose stricter privacy rules and safeguards for children on the internet and social media, but free speech concerns and fierce industry lobbying pose obstacles.
Passed by voters in 2020, the ballot measure classifies drivers of ride-hailing apps as independent contractors rather than as employees.
In recent weeks, Chinese tech companies have unveiled technologies that rival American systems — and they are already in the hands of consumers and software developers.
A.I. is getting good at math — and might soon make a worthy collaborator for humans.
Shifting views on the economy have led to a “rotation” in the stock market. Small stocks and companies geared toward the economic cycle are rising. Big Tech is lagging.
The social media company will use its Community Notes program to moderate lies about the election, but cracks are already appearing.
Defying sanctions, Russia has obtained nearly $4 billion in restricted chips since the war began in Ukraine. Many were shipped through a cluster of shell companies in Hong Kong.
Consumer-facing A.I. has become a nuisance. But the big breakthroughs may be on the horizon.
The presumptive Democratic nominee has won concessions from Big Tech leaders on A.I., but she hasn’t successfully pushed Congress to regulate.
After Blake Benthall was arrested for running Silk Road 2.0, the infamous illegal drug bazaar, things didn’t go the way you might expect.
Google’s parent company narrowly topped revenue and profit expectations, driven by its search engine and cloud unit, and it said A.I. investments were “driving new growth.”
The flight disruptions brought on by the global I.T. failure were deemed within the control of the airlines, meaning airlines have to reimburse passengers for meals, transportation and hotels. Did your carrier live up to the requirement?
The chief executive of Meta said in an open letter that it was important that the technology was not controlled by a handful of giant companies — including his own.
A.I.’s math problem reflects how much the new technology is a break with computing’s past.
Wiz’s chief executive said the company walked away from a “humbling offer” and would pursue an initial public offering instead.
The House Homeland Security Committee called on the chief executive of the cybersecurity firm to testify on the disruption.
Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen and others have endorsed Donald J. Trump. But President Biden’s withdrawal has re-energized Democrats across the tech industry and may blunt that momentum.
When the president announced he was suspending his re-election bid, the news spread via some unexpected sources.
La comunidad tecnológica, liderada por Sam Altman, de OpenAI, ha financiado programas que ofrecen a la gente dinero sin condiciones. Algunos dicen que es hora de ampliarlos.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg singled out the airline on Sunday for ongoing disruptions and “unacceptable” customer service as it continued to cancel flights.
Carlos Espina forma parte de un nuevo tipo de personalidades de las redes sociales a quienes los políticos, especialmente los de la Casa Blanca de Biden, ven como locutores de la era moderna.
People posing as airline customer service representatives may be making fraudulent attempts to access your money or private data, experts warn.
Elon Musk, David Sacks, Marc Andreessen and other influential figures in technology have endorsed former President Donald Trump.
While in some corners of Silicon Valley people worry about the risks of A.I., a simple failed software update caused a worldwide outage.
With each cascade of digital disaster, new vulnerabilities emerge. The latest chaos wasn’t caused by an adversary, but it provided a road map of American vulnerabilities at a critical moment.
“Happy international blue screen day.”
Here’s a visual explanation for how a faulty software update crippled machines.
Las compañías aéreas, los bancos y los minoristas en muchos países se vieron afectados al no poder acceder a sus sistemas. Las empresas todavía tienen dificultades para recuperarse.
Una plataforma de ciberseguridad utilizada por decenas de industrias en distintos países estuvo en el origen de la falla informática mundial.
A massive outage related to a security update by CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company, crippled airlines and other businesses on Friday.
How Silicon Valley and religious conservatism might converge.
Antitrust cases contend that use of RealPage’s algorithm, which lets property owners share private data, amounts to collusion.
A Starlink de Elon Musk conectou uma aldeia isolada ao mundo exterior — e a dividiu.
CrowdStrike’s cybersecurity software is used by scores of industries, including airlines, hospitals and retailers, to prevent hacks and data breaches.
Airlines to banks to retailers were affected in many countries. Businesses are struggling to recover.
Airlines, hospitals and people’s computers were affected after CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company, sent out a flawed software update.
Planes began taking off again Friday morning after a big tech outage, but it will take airlines a while to get stranded passengers to their destinations.
Once again, a show with little following has become hugely popular once it starts streaming on Netflix.
New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence.
Companies like Getty have begun developing A.I. models with their own data, part of a broader push to build artificial intelligence with licensed content.
El paso de Vance por la industria tecnológica fue crucial para forjar conexiones con ejecutivos e inversores multimillonarios, entre ellos Peter Thiel, David Sacks y Elon Musk.
Meta is discussing taking a stake of as much as 5 percent of EssilorLuxottica, which makes eyewear brands like Ray-Ban and Oakley, people with knowledge of the talks said.
J. Michael Cline was the co-founder of an online ticketing company that changed how Americans went to the movies.
Carlos Espina is among a new kind of social media personalities whom politicians, especially those in the Biden White House, view as modern-day broadcasters.
Melissa Hobley believes in the power of dating apps, but she’s been moonlighting as an old-fashioned matchmaker for over a decade.
Spain has become reliant on an algorithm to score how likely a domestic violence victim may be abused again and what protection to provide — sometimes leading to fatal consequences.
A couple arrived in New York after midnight, and a failed “contactless check-in” process and M.I.A. customer service made their hotel room inaccessible.
Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick has indicated he favors a hands-off approach to A.I. but also wants to increase scrutiny of the biggest tech firms in the field.
Mr. Vance spent less than five years in Silicon Valley’s tech industry, but the connections he made with Peter Thiel and others became crucial to his political ascent.
The social media and rocket companies are based in California, which the billionaire criticized for its recent transgender legislation.
The tech community, led by Sam Altman of OpenAI, has funded programs that give people unconditional cash. Some say it’s time to scale up.
The owner of X broke with tradition at other social media companies to support the former president, as he drives political conversation on his site.
Un artículo escéptico de Daron Acemoglu, economista laboral del MIT, ha desatado un acalorado debate sobre si la inteligencia artificial disparará la productividad.
Claims that President Biden and his allies ordered the attack on Donald J. Trump, or that Mr. Trump staged the attack, started quickly and spread fast across social media.
The search giant’s negotiations to buy Wiz, a cybersecurity start-up, for $23 billion, come as the Biden administration has taken a hard line against consolidation in tech and other industries.
Microsoft’s all-in moment on artificial intelligence has been defined by billions in spending and a C.E.O. counting on technology with huge potential and huge risks.
Las promesas del movimiento de salud y longevidad en internet son tentadoras. Gran parte de su atractivo es la fantasía y el deseo de control, pero son poco efectivas.
Mr. Musk also suggested, without evidence, that the Secret Service may have been “deliberate” in allowing the attack.
A skeptical paper by Daron Acemoglu, a labor economist at M.I.T., has triggered a heated debate over whether artificial intelligence will supercharge productivity.
While Mr. Schmidt was chief executive of Google, he had an extramarital relationship with Marcy Simon, a public relations executive. A decade after they split, things are still messy.
For struggling American video game companies, Saudi Arabia’s investments in the industry have been hard to resist. Not all gamers are happy about it.
Veterinary care has become a multi-billion-dollar industry, creating a fraught emotional and financial landscape for pet owners.
Some far-right commentators have long argued that Democratic Party elites were plotting to replace President Biden. Now those commentators say they’ll be proved correct.
In his picaresque memoir, “My Glorious Defeats,” the Anonymous-movement activist Barrett Brown takes us on a journey of pure, joyous solipsism.
Thanks to a software program, the length, structure and contents of the movie are reconfigured each time it’s shown. It’s the only way the musician would agree to the project.
Researchers have learned plenty about misinformation and how it spreads. But they’re still struggling to figure out how to stop it.
Customers in Europe may see an influx of new apps and services for making tap-and-go purchases.
The best supplements are exercise, a good diet and strong relationships.
SpaceX employees are working on designs for a Martian city, including dome habitats and spacesuits, and researching whether humans can procreate off Earth. Mr. Musk has volunteered his sperm.
As regulatory scrutiny picks up, the tech giant says it is pleased with the progress OpenAI has made with governance and considers its oversight role unnecessary.
The network’s C.E.O., Mark Thompson, has promised a more robust digital strategy as people flee traditional cable packages.
Programmed to find the fastest route without consideration of literally anything else, driving apps endanger and infuriate us on a remarkably regular basis.
The move against the app NGL by the Federal Trade Commission was the first time the agency barred an online service from hosting minors.
The proposed funding, part of the CHIPS Act, is intended to stoke chip packaging, a process that helps drive progress in semiconductors but that takes place mostly in Asia.
Seventh and eighth graders in Malvern, Pa., impersonating their teachers posted disparaging, lewd, racist and homophobic videos in the first known mass attack of its kind in the U.S.
La herramienta estaba destinada a proporcionar estrategias educativas individualizadas para estudiantes de Los Ángeles. Sin embargo, antes de poder hacerlo, la empresa que la creó colapsó.
The total in federal grants to create a dozen “tech hubs” in regions beyond Silicon Valley and the coasts.
One of the world’s most technologically advanced nations has held on to some of the most outmoded devices.
La guerra con Rusia ha impulsado la creación de empresas de automatización de armamento en Ucrania. Algunos de estos robots ya se están usando en el campo de batalla.
Now 76, the inventor and futurist hopes to reach “the Singularity” and live indefinitely. His margin of error is shrinking.
A security breach at the maker of ChatGPT last year revealed internal discussions among researchers and other employees, but not the code behind OpenAI’s systems.
Violent attacks on foreigners have prompted a debate about extreme nationalism online in a country that heavily censors information the government bans.
One Million Checkboxes, a simple online game that invites visitors to click or unclick check boxes, has become an unintentional case study in human behavior.
Deleting duplicates, bad shots and other unwanted files makes it easier to find the good pictures — and gives you room to take more.
Funding for A.I. firms made up nearly half the $56 billion in U.S. start-up financing from April to June, according to PitchBook.
Biden administration officials hope the money will help propel technological innovation in areas that have historically received less government funding.
A favorite of early personal computer users, his company was eventually overtaken by Microsoft Word. He later came out as gay and became an L.G.B.T.Q. activist.
Big Tech is increasingly safe from government regulation.
Driven by the war with Russia, many Ukrainian companies are working on a major leap forward in the weaponization of consumer technology.
Google, Adobe, Snap y otras empresas cambiaron recientemente sus condiciones de servicio para poder usar datos protegidos por leyes de privacidad.
Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.
La mayoría de dispositivos que monitorean la actividad física ofrecen una gran cantidad de datos sobre tu corazón. A continuación te explicamos cómo aprovecharlos.
The Detroit Police Department arrested three people after bad facial recognition matches, a national record. But it’s adopting new policies that even the A.C.L.U. endorses.
The S&P 500 has climbed sharply this year, with few big swings. Below the surface, though, there’s a great deal of turmoil
The deal, which includes a $175 million settlement with the state, keeps the drivers classified as independent contractors, not employees.
The disruption affected mostly visitors with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon service, cutting them off data networks across the continent for 24 hours or more.
N.I.H. officials suggested federal record keepers helped them hide emails. If so, “that’s really damaging to trust in all of government,” one expert said.
Los expertos ofrecen consejos para reconocer las afirmaciones médicas falsas en internet y combatirlas en tus círculos cercanos, sin pelear con nadie.
Experts offer tips for combating false medical claims in your own circles.
A 24-year-old’s sudden death devastated his family — and caught the attention of the movement of vaccine opponents.
The company is requiring many employees to use an app that tracks their in-person attendance.
As it prepares to go public next week, Instacart shows that one secret to making money as a gig economy company is to become an advertising company.
The Democratic presidential challenger continues to espouse extreme ideas, but has dialed that messaging back in large public forums.
The candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination uses logical leaps and rhetorical devices to create false or misleading messages.
A late-summer rise in Covid-19 infections is bringing with it a wave of conspiracy theories.
Heavy reliance on online remote learning during the pandemic drew attention away from more equitable ways of teaching children at home, a UNESCO report says.
La operación de influencia comenzó al menos hace cuatro años y, según la empresa, abarcó miles de cuentas en Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, X, Substack y sitios web chinos.
The campaign began at least four years ago and spanned thousands of accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Substack and Chinese websites, Meta said.
Two weeks after employees filed to organize, the company told some they had to change cities or would lose their jobs. It said the plan had long been in the works.
The iPhone maker’s recent quarter benefited from strong sales in its App Store and other services businesses.
After years of steady growth, many technology companies are laying off workers and giving up millions of square feet of office space in the city.
Overall iPhone sales were up, and revenue for the company’s services business set a record.
A day after nearly 1,100 people were laid off, the struggling company told its remaining workers to prepare for a series of changes.
The rule on price disclosure was written before widespread use of the internet. Regulators are considering an update.
They got lost in this weird moment, where the world is caught between crisis and normalcy, nostalgic for house parties — and Houseparty, too.
The analyst Dan Wang takes stock of how the country’s growth trajectory has changed.
As tech companies cut costs and move to remote work, their left-behind office furniture has become part of a booming trade.
With loosened rules around remote prescriptions, a psychedelic-like drug has become a popular treatment for mental health conditions. But a boom in at-home use has outpaced evidence of safety.
As the companies have shed jobs recently, many teams assigned to combat false and misleading information have taken a hit.
The chief executive, under pressure from activist investors, seeks to do well and do good — but his options are narrowing.
The outcome of a case in federal court could help decide whether the First Amendment is a barrier to virtually any government efforts to stifle disinformation.
California’s law sought to punish doctors who give patients false information about Covid-19.
Also, Russian missile attacks in Ukraine and a major deal for Indian women’s cricket.
The drumbeat of layoffs in Silicon Valley is partly a result of how the pandemic upended the economy.
More hospitals and medical practices have begun charging for doctors’ responses to patient queries, depending on the level of medical advice.
Some of the biggest tech companies have announced tens of thousands of job cuts. But even after the layoffs, their work forces are still behemoths.
Doctors are exasperated by the persistence of false and misleading claims about the virus.
Many reinstated users are tweeting about topics that got them barred in the first place: Covid-19 skepticism, election denialism and QAnon.
Has another autocratic regime ever taken away the right of so many people to lead a normal life?
Two lawsuits in California have pre-emptively challenged a new law that would punish doctors for misleading patients about Covid-19.
Protests are rising as China enacts more lockdowns and quarantines, with no end in sight. The defiance is a test of Xi Jinping’s authoritarian leadership.
Reflecting on what worked and what didn’t.
In his first communications with Twitter’s staff, the company’s new owner painted a bleak picture as more executives resigned.
Lawmakers’ objections to an obscure Chinese semiconductor company and tough Covid-19 restrictions are hurting Apple’s ability to make new iPhones in China.
The company said Covid-19 restrictions were slowing production of the company’s new phones ahead of the holiday season.
A pair of prominent headlines highlights the reversals.
Hundreds of workers are said to have fled, afraid of being forced into quarantine with inadequate food and supplies.
Commutes are still painful, readers say. And it’s hard to give up the joys of working from home. But many of those who have gone back to the office say they like it.
El gobierno chino ha reprimido a muchas empresas tecnológicas pero permite las aplicaciones de citas que fomentan las conexiones sociales.
The massive expansion of online higher education created a worldwide laboratory to finally assess its value and its future.
China has cracked down on many tech companies, but has allowed dating apps that provide social connections to flourish.