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Journalist Kara Swisher’s long-anticipated memoir Burn Book hit the shelves today. Apparently, a long list of other writers have also been hard at work writing about her experience as well. On the day after her book launch, Amazon is flooded with AI-generated Swisher biographies, complete with cover art from beyond the uncanny valley. Top 5 Shopping Tips for Amazon Prime DayThere’s Kara Swisher Book: How She Became Silicon Valley’s Most Influential Journalist by Cheryl J Stackhouse and Brotherhood Press. Not to your…

If Kara Swisher’s new memoir, Burn Book, doubles as a history of the internet and its often jarring impact on our lives over the past three decades, it’s only natural. As she was establishing herself as an uncommonly well-sourced journalist, the online world was about to take off: The rise of AOL, followed by its disastrous merger with Time Warner, was among the dramatic arcs she chronicled early on.Since then, Swisher has been the most entrepreneurial of reporters, both in the doggedness of her work and the ever-evolving…

In her new memoir, Burn Book, Kara Swisher cites a 2014 profile that dubbed her “Silicon Valley’s Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist.” She might prefer to downplay the first and emphasize the second. Some people would switch that around. But there is no dispute about Swisher’s impact: When it comes to tech punditry, she’s at the top of the heap.No tech journalist has built a bigger brand for herself. Her three-decade career is a study in hard work and uncommon confidence. She rose from being a reporter at The…

Elon Musk, never one to let criticism of him go without a response, took a shot at tech journalist Kara Swisher over her recent podcast on Twitter’s future. Swisher responded to that shot with a shot or two of her own in a tweet barrage. On Thursday, Swisher posted a new episode of her New York Magazine podcast “On With Kara Swisher” titled “Will Elon Musk Turn Twitter Into Yahoo Mail?” in which she and a panel of guests tore into Musk and his impact on Twitter, from growing tech glitches after a slew of…

Stephen King isn’t the only writer who’s engaged in a war of words on Twitter with new owner Elon Musk. Veteran tech journalist and co-host of the Pivot podcast Kara Swisher, who has written for New York magazine and The New York Times, retweeted Tuesday’s Semafor article that reported Musk had in May secretly asked Sam Bankman-Fried of now-bankrupt FTX to make a $10 billion investment in the now-private company. Bankman-Fried declined, but did agree to roll the $100 million stake he owned in Twitter to Musk.…

Kara Swisher, one of the most revered technology journalists of our time, is going out with a bang at her very last Code Conference.Today, the journalist announced on Twitter that Tim Cook, Jony Ive, and Laurene Powell Jobs would be joining her for a discussion at Code 2022, the annual conference that features some of the top minds in the technology, business, and political industries.Swisher confirmed that this year's code, after twenty years of hosting the conference, would be her last. So, to celebrate her last…