Andy Cohen says Twitter was always a ‘cesspool’ even before Elon

Andy Cohen isn’t the first person you’d think to ask about Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. Then again, the real-time drama of an egotistical billionaire starting social media feuds and making impulsive decisions very publicly sounds like fodder for a Real Housewives plot line.  It’s no secret that Cohen loves to stir the pot. He may…

NASA uncovered a network security flaw that could affect spacecraft

Researchers from the University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, and NASA have discovered a significant security flaw in networking technology used in spacecraft, airplanes, energy generation systems, and industrial control systems.  UoM’s news portal Michigan News reported the flaw abuses a network protocol and hardware system known as time-triggered ethernet, or TTE.  This system allows…

President Jair Bolsonaro has dropped out of sight because he ‘can’t wear pants’ due to a skin infection, Brazil’s vice president says

President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro arrives for a press conference two days after being defeated in the presidential runoff at Alvorada Palace on November 1, 2022 in Brasilia, Brazil. Andressa Anholete/Getty Images Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro lost a tightly-contested presidential election last month. Since then, he has been holed up in his official residence. Brazil’s…

The cooldown in home prices was a ‘once-in-40-years’ move, worse than the 2008 crisis that foiled algorithms, said the CEO of America’s largest home-flipper

Eric Wu is a cofounder and CEO of Opendoor. Opendoor Opendoor CEO Eric Wu says the company’s algorithm didn’t predict housing market shifting so quickly. The quick market shifts rivaled those of the housing crisis of 2008, he said. The company posted third-quarter losses of over $400 million. Opendoor cofounder and CEO, Eric Wu, points…

What derails Elon Musk’s Twitter experiment might not be legislators or users, but exhausted employees rebelling against hustle culture

Elon Musk sent Twitter staff a memo on Thursday confirming job cuts would be announced on Friday. Carina Johansen/Getty Images Users are quitting Twitter, and the federal government is watching it with “deep concern.” Elon Musk recently told employees that “bankruptcy isn’t out of the question.” A workplace culture expert says “exhausted” employees responding to…

See how Singapore Airlines’ chefs develop meals for the world’s longest flights in a luxury spa test kitchen

Golden Door Chef Greg Frey Brady MacDonald/Insider Singapore Airlines partnered with Golden Door Spa on dishes coming to first class in 2023. See inside the $10,500 per week luxury retreat where the next round of menus were created. Golden Door has long attracted celebrities – from Liz Taylor to Oprah Winfrey to Martha Stewart. Singapore…

A top exec at OKX explains his call with Sam Bankman-Fried as FTX scrambled for a rescue – and why he couldn’t give him a billion-dollar lifeline

Sam Bankman-Fried. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images In an interview with Insider, the director of financial markets for OKX recounted two phone calls he had with Sam Bankman-Fried before FTX collapsed. Bankman-Fried initially asked for $1 billion to $2 billion from OKX, but called back hours later asking for more. The exec advised Bankman-Fried to…

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is not getting a “highly requested” New Game+ mode

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will not be getting a New Game+ mode, even though it’s a “highly requested feature”. Whilst developer Ubisoft acknowledged that the “news will come as a disappointment” to some players, because of Valhalla’s “very different structure from its predecessors”, the open-world Viking game will be the first Assassin’s Creed game not to…