November was a bleak month for tech workers. Meta, Amazon, Lyft, Stripe and Twitter laid off thousands of employees. Microsoft and Google announced hiring slowdowns.The cutbacks and hiring freezes affected not only...
Read moreMost A.I. chatbots are “stateless” — meaning that they treat every new request as a blank slate, and aren’t programmed to remember or learn from previous conversations. But ChatGPT can remember what...
Read moreWhen a SWAT team showed up in front of her house in January and demanded over a loudspeaker for anyone in the home to come out with their hands up, Ruby Johnson...
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO — Stewart Butterfield, the chief executive of Slack, a workplace communication platform owned by Salesforce, said on Monday that he would leave his position in January.Mr. Butterfield, who helped found...
Read moreAmanda Laven, a Q.A. employee involved in the union campaign at the studio, said workers were frustrated that the company had tried to stop their union election on the grounds that it...
Read morePhone cameras were rolling, so the TikTok influencer bent her knees, adjusted her stance and swung her club at a golf ball that had been placed near the edge of a precipice...
Read moreIt was, on the surface, a typical example of reporting the news: a journalist obtains internal documents from a major corporation, shedding light on a political dispute that flared in the waning...
Read moreThe World Cup has historically been a boon for Twitter, bringing in record traffic and an influx of advertising dollars.But this time, when the global soccer tournament started on Nov. 20, Twitter’s...
Read moreOn Twitter itself, researchers said the increase in hate speech, antisemitic posts and other troubling content had begun before Mr. Musk loosened the service’s content rules. That suggested that a further surge...
Read moreListen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon | GoogleElon Musk accuses Apple of trying to sabotage Twitter. But after his visit with Apple’s C.E.O., Tim Cook, things are...
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