Businesspeople

Over the weekend, Twitter co-founder and CEO of Block Jack Dorsey officially put his outsized weight behind a leading anti-vaxxer for president. Dorsey can now join other tech execs like his strained friend Elon Musk endorsing extremist political candidates, helping to spread even more misinformation online like water from a sprinkler.NPR Is Going Dark on Twitter | Future TechOn Sunday, Dorsey retweeted a Fox News report about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who argued that he could beat former President Donald Trump and Florida…

Image: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)Meta CEO and avid Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know that he definitely didn’t get choked out at a competition last month. But, if you have the video of Mark Zuckerberg getting choked out at a Brazilian jiu-jitsu competition last month, please send it to Gizmodo.DJ Right Winger Booted, Facebook Bites Twitter, and Four Day Work Weeks Work | Editor PicksThe New York Times reported on Friday that Zuckerberg, who began training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu during the…

Binance was hit with a new lawsuit from the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission Monday. The federal regulator unleashed 13 charges against the world’s largest crypto exchange and its founder Changpeng Zhao Monday, alleging violations of U.S. securities law, accusing the company of operating an illegal exchange.NPR Is Going Dark on Twitter | Future Tech“Through thirteen charges, we allege that Zhao and Binance entities engaged in an extensive web of deception, conflicts of interest, lack of disclosure, and calculated…

Former NBCUniversal advertising chief Linda Yaccarino assumed her role as Twitter CEO today, taking the reigns from the company’s mercurial owner, Elon Musk, who months ago promised he would give up the CEO role once he “found someone foolish enough to take the job.”Twitter Verification is a Hot MessAlthough little information has been given about when she would officially join the company, her start date is sooner than the window previously given by Musk, per The Wall Street Journal. Last month, the Twitter owner…

There is a long tradition of posing puzzles at interviews for technical positions. Despite my respect for puzzles, I don’t believe one’s ability to solve one quickly in a high-pressure situation provides an accurate forecast for their future job performance. Google, once known for its notoriously difficult interview puzzles, retired the practice in 2013, with the senior VP of people operations at the time stating that they were “a complete waste of time. They don’t predict anything. They serve primarily to make the…

Image: KWJPHOTOART / Shutterstock.com / Maja Hitij / Staff / Getty ImagesLast year, Elon Musk made a radical proposal for his shiny new version of Twitter. The little white checkmark in a blue circle that came with “verification” would no longer signify that your identity had been verified. Instead, it would be a paid feature of Twitter Blue; one that would you $8 a month. For this, you get a boost in the algorithm, the power to change the color of the Twitter icon on your phone, and many other thrilling bonuses. Will w…

Photo: Piotr Swat (Shutterstock)Altman is also an investor in Neuralink, the notorious Elon Musk founded research startup that is trying to create a human brain-computer interface. During a C round of funding in the summer of 2021, Altman ponied up a significant chunk of change to the creepy company’s ongoing mission. Neuralink’s operation hasn’t been without the occasional hiccup—the biggest of which is the fact that its test subjects—a crew of unfortunate Macaque monkeys—keep dying. Indeed, last February, the company…

Twitter’s head of trust and safety, former diehard Elon Musk fan Ella Irwin, publicly resigned from her position Thursday just hours after her boss publicly rebuked his own content moderation team. Irwin’s staff had taken action against a transphobic film by Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire. The Elon Musk Twitter Saga, Part 1 of Who Knows?Though the exact reasons for Irwin’s departure remain unclear, her public announcement came the same day CEO Elon Musk sided with Daily Wire CEO ​​Jeremy Boreing over a content moderation…

Photo: Angela Weiss / AFP for Getty (Getty Images)Despite Twitter only being valued at a third of what Elon Musk bought it for, the CEO and tech tycoon has just reclaimed the crown of richest man in the world.NPR Is Going Dark on Twitter | Future TechAccording to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, Musk’s net worth recently ticked up to $192 billion edging out Richard Arnault, CEO of LVMH, who has a net worth of $187 billion. As CNN Business reports, the two have been duking it out for months, with Musk snagging the title in…

Ukraine’s citizens and military has relied on Starlink terminals for communication, but the country has also previously used it to operate drones in a combat capacity, much to Elon Musk’s chagrin.Photo: Chris McGrath (Getty Images)The Department of Defense said Thursday it was purchasing SpaceX Starlink satellite communication terminals and other services, and all that’s being put on a plane to be used by the Ukrainian military to help fight back the ongoing Russian invasion.Twitter Investor Sues Elon Musk Over Sneaky…