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Elon Musk said his deal to buy Twitter Inc. TWTR -2.19% was on hold pending details on the amount of fake accounts on the social-media platform, prompting a sharp slide in the company’s shares in premarket trade. “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,” Mr. Musk said in a tweet early Friday. He linked to a…

Palantir Technologies Inc. PLTR -21.94% shares fell more than 20% after the company forecast that its sales growth is slowing as its government business drags down growth. The data-mining company on Monday projected sales of $470 million in the current quarter, up 25% from a year earlier. That would be the slowest growth rate since the company made its public market debut in 2020. Analysts had projected sales of $484 million, according…

Apple’s AirTags have been sending out “phantom” alerts that are confusing iPhone users, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. The AirTags, which launched last year, feature anti-stalking measures that are designed to alert users when an unknown AirTag has been detected on their person over an extended period of time. The idea is to discourage AirTags from being used to track people without their consent. The WSJ reports that these false alerts generally occur in the middle of the night and have started…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In response to the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress pumped trillions of dollars into the economy in the form of stimulus checks, expanded unemployment benefits, and targeted spending to bolster specific industries such as airlines. The massive package apparently staved off a long, deep recession. But which elements were the most effective in the complicated, intertwined modern…

Now WhatsApp users can pause/resume recording voice messages, draft preview, and do a lot more. Check the details regarding the update here. WhatsApp allows its users to send voice notes other than the normal text messages. The voice messaging feature was launched in 2013 and you can find a speaker/mic like icon beside the messaging box to record and send voice messages. It can be known that voice messages are quick and easy to send and are protected by…

If you applied for financial aid through Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in the US in early 2022, there’s a very good chance some personal information was provided to a platform that’s completely irrelevant to the process: Facebook. This report from The Markup exposed that, as early as January 2022, the US Department of Education sent data from website visitors to Facebook, potentially including information submitted on forms like first and last name, country, phone number, and email address, via the…