The 8086 microprocessor was a groundbreaking processor introduced by Intel in 1978.It led to the x86 architecture that still dominatesdesktop and server computing.While reverse-engineering the 8086 fr

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Elon Musk plans to reinstate nearly all previously banned Twitter accounts — to the alarm of activists and online trust and safety experts. After posting a Twitter poll asking, “Should Twitter offer a

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Guest Essay I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It. Nov. 18, 2022 Credit... Justin Lane/EPA, via Shutterstock By Mr. Roth is a former head of trust and safety a

If you’re terminally online—and let’s be honest, if you’re reading this you are—you’ll know all about Twitter’s new management. For a whole year Twitter and Musk’s “will they / won’t they” dance both

SAN FRANCISCO — New owner Elon Musk struggled Friday to harness the chaos he’s unleashed at Twitter, summoning the remaining engineers to the San Francisco headquarters and issuing new edicts on conte

On November 3rd programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick, along with theJoseph Saveri Law Firm, filed a class action lawsuit against GitHub, Microsoft(its parent company), and OpenAI. The lawsuit , fil

Published 17 November 2022 Share page About sharing Image source, Reuters By Noor Nanji Business reporter, BBC News Elon Musk has told Twitter staff that they must commit to working "long hours at hig

Privacy is a right. This is a fact in many states , and it’s one of our fervent beliefs at Consumer Reports. But that doesn’t mean privacy is easy. Anyone who’s tried to make their digital life more p

On November 4, just hours after Elon Musk fired half of the 7,500 employees previously working at Twitter, some people began to see small signs that something was wrong with everyone’s favorite hellsi

The social media service, which is undergoing changes from its new owner Elon Musk, has descended into a messy swirl of spoof messages and parody accounts. Credit... Jason Henry for The New York Times

Over $370 million was mysteriously withdrawn from FTX and FTX US late on November 11, despite the company freezing withdrawals. An FTX account administrator wrote on the FTX support Telegram, "FTX has

56 mins ago - Technology Axios Illustration: Natalie Peeples/Axios Twitter's head of trust and safety and the company's interim head of advertising have both left the company, Axios has learned. Both

The headset Luckey No, this is not a headline that reflects Mark Zuckerberg fully losing his mind to his pursuit of the metaverse. Rather, we are talking about Palmer Luckey, the original founder of O

Published 10 November 2022 comments Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images By Michael Race Business reporter, BBC News Elon Musk has told Twitter staff that remote working will end and "d

Let me start with the punchline: Something like 80% of most “knowledge work” is about to get replaced by artificial intelligence. I’m not professionally educated or trained in AI, but I’ve read probab

“The Jews” is trending on Twitter, and its algorithm has selected Ye as a “Top” person to follow while Elon Musk fires roughly half of the company’s staff, including many of its policy experts and con

The billionaire planned to begin layoffs as soon as Saturday, people with knowledge of the matter said. Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco. Layoffs had been expected and feared by Twitter employe

Illustration by Alex Castro You fucked up real good , kiddo. Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself, and there is no possible way to grow users and revenue without m

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The world’s richest man closed his blockbuster purchase of the social media service, thrusting Twitter into a new era. By Kate Conger and Kate Conger reports on technology from San Francisco and Laure

Basecamp has had one foot in the cloud for well over a decade , and HEY has been running there exclusively since it was launched two years ago. We've run extensively in both Amazon's cloud and Google'

No matter what ranking system you look at, whether the TIOBE Index, the Popularity of Programming Language Index, RedMonk’s bi-annual language rankings , or GitHub’s yearly State of the Octoverse , Ja

So admittedly I don’t really understand or necessarily care about being “polite” with my Twitter content and that has gotten me into some trouble. You can sign the petition if you would like to show y

AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans. Now one of Google’s own thinks there’s a ghost in the machine. By June 11, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EDT SAN FRANCISCO — Google engineer Blake Lemoine ope

Microsoft has forgotten to renew the certificate for the web page of its Windows Insider software testing program. Attempting to visit the Windows Insider portal was returning the familiar "Your conne

WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The chief executives of major U.S. passenger and cargo carriers on Monday warned of an impending "catastrophic" aviation crisis in less than 36 hours, when AT&T (T.N) an

Alex Caton put a lot of thought into his girlfriend’s Christmas present this year. The 24-year-old found a stunning picture taken by a local photographer of her hometown of Mississauga, 17 miles south

Remember when BMW wanted to charge drivers to use Apple CarPlay ? How about the subscription required for the Mercedes EQS's rear-wheel steering functionality in Europe? It turns out that luxury marqu

This is yet another step in Microsoft’s quest to position itself as the global leader in cybersecurity. But while this may appear a noble endeavour, all is not quite as it seems. Microsoft technology

Moments before announcing Facebook is changing its name to "Meta" and detailing the company's “metaverse” plans during a Facebook Connect presentation on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg said “some people wi

Twitter reported last week that its timeline algorithm is more likely to amplify right-wing politicians than left-wing politicians. The social media company prioritizes content (presenting it higher i

Facebook sent out a companywide notice on Tuesday ordering employees to preserve documents and communications dating back to 2016 in response to legal inquiries from around the world, according to int

Homepage Government Government Image: Joshua Olsen The US government is warning companies about a bug in a software library used to synchronize time via the GPS navigational system that will rollback

Sept. 18, 2021 12:01 am ET Should the U.S. invest in a generation of new intercontinental ballistic missiles? What has really propelled decades of consistently rising computer performance? Is research

Tom Smith, a veteran programmer, shows how Codex can instantly generate computer code from a request in plain English. Credit... By Jason Henry A.I. Can Now Write Its Own Computer Code. That’s Good Ne

Published 15 August 2021 Share page About sharing Image source, The Great Londini By Sophia Smith Galer BBC Trending With a huge online following behind him, the Great Londini is taking on the trolls

Technical debt is incurred when the software or system designers take shortcuts to ship a feature faster, increasing the overall complexity of the system. The goal is to optimize the present rather th