Much of FTX’s business data, including emails, Slack messages and transaction logs, was held by Sullivan & Cromwell, the law firm that took control of… Read More »Mountain of FTX evidence: emails, chat logs, code and a notebook
Enlarge / Hand-colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives in 1876, probably the most widely distributed illustration of Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment. Franklin is erroneously… Read More »Your favorite illustration of Franklin’s kite experiment is probably riddled with errors
BuzzFeed turned the increasing power of social media into a digital media company worth more than a billion dollars at its peak. But when technology… Read More »BuzzFeed’s Botatouille chatbot puts an AI spin on food advice
Talk about a fire sale. With limited interest in GIF platforms and UK regulators forcing a sale, Meta has decided to sell Giphy to Shutterstock… Read More »Meta has no choice but to sell Giphy to Shutterstock for a loss of $262 million
The news The Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, issued a public advisory on Tuesday warning of the risks of using… Read More »Social media poses a “profound risk” to teen mental health, warns the Surgeon General
Days after TikTok users filed a lawsuit to block Montana’s TikTok ban, TikTok has kept its promise to fight the ban and filed its own… Read More »TikTok is suing to prevent Montana from enforcing its “unconstitutional” ban
Silicon Valley got its name from computer chips, but it no longer plays a central role in shaping how they are made. A major supplier… Read More »Silicon Valley Selected $4 Billion Chip Research Center
Getty Images Researchers have devised a low-cost smartphone attack that cracks the authentication fingerprint used to unlock the screen and perform other sensitive actions on… Read More »Here’s how long it takes for a new BrutePrint attack to unlock 10 different smartphones
TikTok sued Monday to prevent Montana from banning the popular video app, stepping up its efforts to stop a ban that would be the first… Read More »TikTok is suing Montana for state ban
Enlarge / A class action lawsuit alleges that DoorDash makes it seem to customers that the distance and effort of a delivery are changing rates,… Read More »Lawsuit accuses DoorDash of charging iPhone users more for identical orders
Credit…Desiree Rios/The New York Times Eight years after a controversy over black people being falsely labeled as gorillas by image analysis software — and despite… Read More »Google’s Photos app still can’t find gorillas. And neither can Apple’s.
Another person has died in an outbreak of highly drug-resistant bacteria linked to contaminated eye drops, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in… Read More »Another dead in a horrific eyedrop outbreak that now spans 18 states
Since ChatGPT debuted in November, hundreds of millions of people have experimented with the online chatbot, which can answer questions, write poetry, compose emails and… Read More »OpenAI introduces ChatGPT app for iPhone
Enlarge / An iPhone is undergoing repairs. Every time a new iPhone comes out, a team of technicians in the French city of Toulouse begins… Read More »France is fighting to save your iPhone from an early death
Small, fast-moving US tech companies are using the war in Ukraine to demonstrate a new generation of military systems, but face the challenge of selling… Read More »Tech start-ups are making their way to the US defense industry via Ukraine
