Elon Musk acquired Twitter on October 27. Getty Images Elon Musk’s revamped Twitter Blue launch has hit some major snags in the past week. The paid model has paved the way for impersonators and trolls galore, prompting the company to pause its rollout multiple times. Here’s a look at everything that’s happened with verification, from…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Meta will stop any and all development on its smart displays and fledgling smartwatch project, according to Reuters. The company’s executives reportedly told employees — those left after mass layoffs that saw 11,000 people lose their jobs — in a townhall meeting that it would end work on Portal. Meta used to sell Portal to…
Mere hours after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, FTX’s fraught situation worsened dramatically. On late Friday night, the crypto exchange claimed it had been hacked after millions of dollars in digital assets were siphoned from FTX wallets despite the company freezing withdrawals earlier in the day. The exact amount of missing money is unclear,…
Diablo 4’s world will permit players to leave and pick up the story at will, but although it will “allow for non-linearity”, the story will have “a beginning, middle, and end”. In an interview with IGN, Diablo 4 director Joe Shely and general manager Rod Fergusson opened up on what the new adventure has in…
Illustration: The Verge FTX moved users’ funds to offline wallets early Saturday morning after a wave of “unauthorized transactions” drained hundreds of millions of dollars from the beleaguered cryptocurrency exchange. Ryne Miller, the general counsel at FTX US, didn’t confirm a hack, but said on Twitter that the company made the move to “mitigate damage”…
Maybe there are better ways of listening to music after all these years. Brett Jordan / Unsplash Sadly, as much as you might love your current laptop, smartphone, or wearable, they’re not going to last forever. Parts wear out, software slows down, and technology evolves, making older devices more difficult to use and eventually, obsolete….
Rad Power Bikes, the U.S.-based e-bike manufacturer, has made its mark as a direct-to-consumer business selling fat tire bikes that helped shape the COVID e-bike boom. In 2021, the company raised two massive rounds – $150 million in February 2021 and another $154 million just eight months later – that brought its total funding above…
Amid the chaos of the Twitter Blue verification rollout, another major advertising agency has recommended a spending pause on Twitter ad campaigns for its clients. According to an internal memo obtained by The Verge, Omnicom Media Group cited “potential serious implications” for brands following recent events in regard to safety concerns present on Twitter. Omnicom…
Researchers have found evidence of new threat actors using PNG files to deliver malicious payloads. Both ESET and Avast have confirmed seeing a threat actor going by the name Worok using this method since early September 2022. Apparently, Worok has been busy targeting high-profile victims, such as government organizations, across the Middle East, Southeast Asia,…
It would seem that Apple’s mixed reality headset is moving from the realm of rumor into an actual product that you’ll be able to go out and buy: mass production of the device is reportedly going to get underway in March 2023. That’s as per DigiTimes (via MacRumors), with Pegatron said to be the manufacturing…