Employment platform LinkedIn has announced it is slashing hundreds of jobs and phasing out its app in China as part of a “streamlining” process amid declining revenue. Ruiqi Chen, editor at LinkedIn News, announced the move on May 8, noting that the platform plans to reduce roles across its sales, operations, and support teams. LinkedIn will also…
Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Removing Inactive Accounts, Freeing up Desired Usernames
Twitter owner Elon Musk said the platform is permanently removing inactive accounts to release desirable usernames back into rotation, a move that had long been promised but never delivered. While Twitter does have an inactive account policy in place, it hasn’t done much to enforce it. The platform encourages users to log in at least…
Tech Companies Announce Mass Layoffs Amid Economic Woes
May 8, 2023
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The mass layoffs that started late last year have continued into 2023, amid recession fears and economic slowdowns. So far, the number of tech layoffs globally this year has exceeded the total number from a year ago. According to data compiled by online tracker Layoffs.fyi, the running total of tech layoffs to date is 191,416,…
Video Contest Marks New Platform’s Latest Effort to Make Social Media Work for Communities
Gan Jing World, a new social media platform, has launched a Mother’s Day short video contest with up to $1,000 in prizes. The event marks the technology company’s first contest and latest campaign to forge a social community of kindness. Gan Jing means “clean.” Its official website says that the name reflects Gan Jing’s mission…
Google Is Rolling Out Password-Killing Technology to All Its Accounts
Google this week said it is rolling out an update for its users that it describes as “the beginning of the end of the password.” Known as “passkeys,” the tech giant wrote that “passkeys for Google Accounts are available” starting this week. Google also suggested that passwords may eventually be phased out for its products,…
AI Chatbot Could Become Real Threat If Controlled by Oppressive Power: Cybersecurity Expert
May 5, 2023
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AI chatbot, such as ChatGPT, could become a real threat if it is controlled by an oppressive power like China and Russia, according to Rex Lee, a cybersecurity adviser at My Smart Privacy. He pointed to the recent remark of British computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, the “Godfather of AI,” who recently left his position as…
Twitter Alerts Back on Track for NYC Subway After Week Off
May 5, 2023
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NEW YORK—Service alerts for New York City’s subway, commuter trains and buses were back on Twitter on Thursday, a week after transit officials balked at paying to provide the information. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority lost access last week to Twitter’s application programming interface to send out automated alerts about service changes and emergencies. The MTA…
Kamala Harris Meets With Tech CEOs to Probe AI Risks
May 5, 2023
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Vice President Kamala Harris met with the CEOs of Alphabet, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft on May 4 to discuss the risks surrounding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) after the White House announced a $140 million investment in AI research institutes. In a statement, Harris said she had discussed with the tech leaders the “ethical, moral, and legal responsibilities” they…
Elon Musk Says Censorship Enthusiasts Are ‘Less Than Thrilled’ With Twitter’s User-Sourced Fact-Checks
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has praised the platform’s Community Notes feature for “ending censorship in guise of virtue” and handing control of the “narrative” back to ordinary people. Musk made the comments in a tweet responding to Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon, who wrote on the platform that Twitter was previously “a place where false narratives were…
Artificial Intelligence Is Expected to Cut 8,000 Jobs in IBM: CEO
International Business Machines Corp. expects to pause hiring for roles as roughly 7,800 jobs could be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) in the coming years, CEO Arvind Krishna told Bloomberg News on Monday. Hiring specifically in back-office functions such as human resources will be suspended or slowed, Krishna said, adding that 30 percent of non-customer-facing…
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