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Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP)Elon Musk talks a big game about freedom of expression. The billionaire refers to himself as a “free speech absolutist,” and spent the last year making bold promises about undoing Twitter’s perceived history of suppressing distasteful ideas. But the old saying goes, you should judge a man by his actions, not his words. By that metric, it seems Musk loves censorship, and the list of examples just keeps getting longer.One shining example is Musk’s willingness to silence the opponents of foreign…

It’s not quite a cage match, but Australia’s online safety commissioner is ready to rumble down under with Elon Musk. Julia Inman Grant, a former regional Twitter exec herself and now an Australian government official, has issued a legal warning to the Musk-owned site, that could lead to a fine of up to 700,000 Australian dollars (~$475,000 USD) per day, if ignored.NPR Is Going Dark on Twitter | Future TechThe country’s eSafety Commission is seeking information and assurance from Twitter over how it is handling hate…

Twitter owner Elon Musk is still making big decisions on the social media platform, even if he’s no longer CEO. Overnight, Musk decreed that the words “cis” and “cisgender,” denoting the alignment of a person’s birth sex and their gender identity,were now considered slurs on Twitter and that users who engaged in “harassment” with these words would face consequences.NPR Is Going Dark on Twitter | Future TechMusk’s revealed Twitter’s new policy in a tweet, his preferred method of communication, shortly after midnight on…

What would you give to see two of the world’s richest men throwing poorly aimed haymakers at each other? Better give that one some serious thought because The Verge is now reporting that Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk may get into a fight.NPR Is Going Dark on Twitter | Future TechIf you’re wondering what I mean by a “fight,” I mean like a fight-fight. A physical fight. A punching-and-kicking type of a fight. A fight where one guy eventually falls down on the mat and another guy stands over him sweating and bleeding and…

Illustration: Jody Serrano / Gizmodo / Getty ImagesFormer Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, who was estimated to have a personal wealth of $4.5 billion in the heyday of her failed fraud of a blood testing company, can’t afford to pay the victims she bilked $250 per month in restitution, her attorneys said this week.NPR Is Going Dark on Twitter | Future TechThe Justice Department said in a court filing it wanted Holmes to pay the monthly $250, or at least 10% of her income, to victims of Theranosafter she gets out of prison.…

A new survey of some of the country’s CEOs has revealed that 42% of them think AI will end humanity within the next decade. Meanwhile, AI is already ravaging the workforce, and CEOs are responsible.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksThe report comes from CNN, and the outlet cites figures from the Yale CEO summit, revealing that nearly half of the surveyed CEOs think that artificial intelligence could spell doom for humanity in the next five to 10 years. 34% of the 119 surveyed…

Shortly after taking the helm from Elon Musk, Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino is making it clear that she’ll be frictionless against Musk’s incoherent “vision” for the social media platform.Read more... Shortly after taking the helm from Elon Musk, Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino is making it clear that she’ll be frictionless against Musk’s incoherent “vision” for the social media platform.Read more... FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an…

Photo: Samuel Corum, Twitter, YouTube (Getty Images)Digitally altered and AI-generated videos, dubbed “deepfakes,” have existed for years and have recently seen drastic improvements. Those videos, mixed with the extreme reach of social media and declining trust in traditional media, have experts worried of harmful rises in political disinformation; those same experts are also worried we’re quickly approaching a new, more complicated issue: lawyers and liars claiming real videos are fakes. How to authenticate a piece of…

Yesterday, Gizmodo put out a call to action to track down the video of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s highly publicized Brazilian jiu-jitsu match where he may or may not have been choked out by a competitor. Now, that video has been shared...just not with us.DJ Right Winger Booted, Facebook Bites Twitter, and Four Day Work Weeks Work | Editor PicksThe video of Zuckerberg’s match, which occurred last month in Woodside, California, was shared by NPR. The match has been highly publicized as conflicting reports emerged regarding…

Cybertruck lovers longingly waiting to see Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s futuristic tanks on the road may have to wait a little longer—yet again.Tesla Investors Not Happy With Mr. Tweet's TweetsThe latest bump in the road for Cybertruck comes at the hand of Mustapha El Akkari, the Tesla group manager of raw materials who played a key role in supply chain management for the Cybertruck and other Tesla vehicles. According to a report in The Information, El Akkari quit to go to electric truck manufacturer Rivian, where he will become…