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Twitter has had a wild year. After a lot of back and forth, Elon Musk was forced to buy the company, taking it private for about $44 billion. Following the acquisition have been a bunch of changes to Twitter which have been met with mixed reactions across the board. Some folks have even expressed concerns about how Musk may not be the best person to run the company despite owning it.Musk recently took a poll on Twitter asking if he should step down as the Twitter CEO. The poll concluded with 57 percent votes for Yes, and…

Twitter employees built blacklists and actively limited the visibility of entire accounts, according to the second instalment of Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" that shed light on the company's hidden practices of the previous management. "A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavoured tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics - all in secret, without informing users," said the editor of The Free Press…

Image: GettyMicrosoft has released 64 patches addressing security vulnerabilities across its products including 11 flaws which are classed as critical – and six vulnerabilities which are actively being exploited by cyber attackers.  The security flaws impact Microsoft products including Windows, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office and more, some of which have been targeted by malicious hackers for months. Two of the critical updates address security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange…

Hello, it’s Thursday, Nov. 3, and we’re excited to announce the launch of a new L.A. Times newsletter! L.A. Goes Out, with its first edition on Nov. 16, is a curated list of events — big events downtown as well as small happenings around SoCal, art-house cinema, the latest on the dance scene and more — to help local readers plan their weekend. Our colleague and L.A. Goes Out host Steven Vargas told us: “As I was prepping for the launch of L.A. Goes Out, my friend asked me what the newsletter is about. “The first thing…

WhatsApp is actively working on a feature that will allow Android users to export and import their chat backups offline from Google Drive, a screenshot shared by a WABetaInfo suggests. The backup mentioned here is said to include the full chat history, images, videos, and other media files. This feature was first reported to be under development in June this year but the latest development on this update suggests that WhatsApp is pretty much keen to roll it out for beta testing in near future.WhatsApp rolled out a new…

Apple recently released the iPhone 14 series of phones, and the phones will start reaching consumers soon. However, one rumored iPhone service didn't debut at the event. Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter had said that we might see an iPhone hardware subscription service via Apple One at this event, which didn't debut. However, he is now reporting that the service is being actively tested, and we might see it launch later this year.He detailed Apple's remaining 2022 plans in his latest Power On newsletter. In…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A trio of researchers, two from Southern Medical University, in China, and the third from Technische Universität Dresden in Germany, has found a connection between people who place high importance on olfaction and body odor sniffing and a strong sexual desire. In their paper published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, Zi‑lin Li, Thomas Hummel and Lai‑quan Zou, describe…

Nintendo Of America has been accused of enabling sexual harassment and creating an “unsafe and uncomfortable environment for female testers,” allegations the company is reportedly investigating. For a report by Kotaku, the publication spoke to former and current games testers working on Nintendo projects about the alleged abuse. Nintendo Of America uses Aerotek (now reorganized into Aston Carter) to provide contracted games testers, with one former product tester explaining how “your chance was probably worse as a girl.…

Credit: Warner Bros. Netflix has money to burn, as evidenced by the $200+ million funneled into the Russo brothers’ upcoming espionage epic The Gray Man, which is poised to become the latest blockbuster original to split opinion between critics and fans right down the middle, at least based on its current trajectory. While the globetrotting spy saga could indeed launch a multi-film franchise that spins out into prequels, sequels, and TV shows, which is also the plan with the Russo-backed Extraction, the company…

Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has released the ‘ICUBE 2020' report in partnership with Kantar and it predicts that active Internet users (AIU) in India are expected to grow from 622 million in 2020 to 900+ million in 2025. This indicates that there will be a growth of about 45 percent in the adoption of the Internet in India in the next five years. The report says about 43 percent of the total population in India uses the Internet at least once a month at present. And Maharashtra has the highest…