Stephen Ayres (L), who has pleaded guilty to entering the Capitol illegally on January 6, talks to US Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell (R) at the conclusion of a full committee hearing on “the January 6th Investigation,” on Capitol Hill on July 12, 2022. OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images A January 6 defendant apologized to…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Court documents show that Elon Musk and a 36-year-old Neuralink executive are the parents of 8-month-old twins. Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images Twitter has sued Elon Musk for his attempt to walk away from his agreement to buy the company. Musk last week accused Twitter of several instances of “breach,” in effect nullifying the…
A much-loved YouTube account featuring calm hip-hop beats is back online today, after two popular radio live streams (the oldest of which has been playing non-stop for two years) got yanked from the platform due to bogus copyright claims. In a tweet, the owner of the Lofi Girl channel — which has been streaming relaxing…
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams is stepping as CEO of Medium. Williams announced the decision on Tuesday. Writing on Medium (where else?), he said he’s handing the company over to Tony Stubblebine, the CEO of Coach.me. Stubblebine may not be a household name, but the two have a long history together. Before Williams went on to…
The iOS 16 public beta is here, which means you can get a taste of Apple’s upcoming mobile software before its stable release. As we saw at WWDC in June, the iPhone is slated to get a whole new lock screen, edit and send options in iMessage, improved dictation, a Medication tracker, new sharing features…
Twitter today announced that it is rolling out a new feature called Unmentioning, which is designed to allow Twitter users to remove themselves from conversations they do not want to participate in or be notified about. Twitter users who have been @mentioned in a conversation can now go to their Mentions tab and select the…
This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q2 2022. It was last updated on July 12, 2022. April We terminated 138 YouTube channels and 2 Ads accounts as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Russia. The campaign was linked to a Russian consulting firm and was…
If you’ve been on the internet for long enough, you’ve probably come across “Rule 34” before. It is a rule/axiom of the internet that was created in the early 2000s. There are comments, memes, and videos about it on social media platforms and other websites. As you might have guessed, rule 34 is just one…
Photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images The New York Times will soon let you link your Wordle stats to a NYT account, a change that should fix one of the most annoying aspects about the online puzzle game. Right now, your Wordle stats don’t sync across browsers or devices, meaning that if you…
Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Tweets from former President Donald Trump inspired the violence at the US Capitol on January 6th, a former Twitter employee who worked on platform and content moderation policies told congressional investigators in testimony released on Tuesday. The employee, whose identity remains anonymous, specifically pointed to a December 19th tweet from…