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EartherEnergy
Exxon’s Newest Activist Investor Is a ‘Space Cowboy’
Exxon announced Wednesday that a third new member has been appointed to the company’s board, following a week of vote counting after the company was caught by surprise by a shareholder insurrection last week led by activist investor Engine No. 1. The new board member, Alexander “Andy” Karsner, currently works as a “Space Cowboy” for … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy and Security
Hacktivist Targets Citizen, Leaking Crime App’s Scraped Data to the Dark Web
“Fuck snitches, fuck Citizen, fuck Andrew Frame and remember, kids: Cops are not your friends,” someone on the dark web recently wrote. That same person claims to have scraped and leaked data from the aforementioned crime reporting app—including information about some 1.7 million public safety “incidents” recorded and cataloged by the company, Motherboard first reported. … Continued
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Tech NewsNews
Clubhouse Announces That Its App Will Be Available on Android Worldwide by Friday
Faced with plummeting app downloads on iOS in recent months, Clubhouse has one thing to say: Hello, Android. The audio-based social network announced on Sunday in a town hall it would be rolling out to Android users worldwide by Friday afternoon, May 21. In a Twitter post, Clubhouse said that it would start its expansion … Continued
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Tech NewsNews
Here’s How to KoЯnify Your Website
AAЯЯЯЯЯЯEEEEEE YOOOOUUUU ЯEEEEAAADDDDYYYYY……. to KoЯnify your website? The golden age of KoЯn came to an end right around the time that everyone suddenly realized they need a website. But history is cyclical, and KoЯn is cool again while the website is dead. After a decade of people teaching themselves HTML or paying through the nose … Continued
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Tech NewsNews
Instagram Realizes It Had a Clubhouse In Its Heart All Along
As more and more social media platforms start cooking up their own Clubhouse clones, Instagram is adding new features to its existing livestreaming service to get in on the voice chat craze. On Thursday, Instagram announced it’s rolling out the option to turn off your audio or video while using Instagram Live. Instagram tested these … Continued
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Tech NewsStreaming Services
Roku Wisely Rebrands Its Soon-to-Debut Quibi Content as ‘Roku Originals’
Quibi content acquired by Roku earlier this year will henceforth be known as Roku Originals, a move that should mercifully allow all of us to move on from the memory of Quibi’s spectacular implosion. When the haul of 75 originals debuts on the platform, they will be ad-supported and free to stream on the Roku … Continued
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Tech NewsNews
The Illuminati or Whatever Meets on Zoom to Fight Back Against Voter Suppression
America’s corporate elites recently held a conference call on Zoom to discuss how to push back against voter suppression bills being pushed by Republican politicians in dozens of states, according to a Monday report by the Washington Post. Despite, or perhaps because of, the total lack of evidence Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election … Continued
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Tech NewsMicrosoft
Microsoft Is Reportedly in Talks to Scoop Up AI Firm Nuance Communications for $16 Billion
Microsoft is in advanced talks to acquire Nuance Communications, an artificial intelligence firm whose speech recognition tech helped develop Apple’s Siri virtual assistant, for as much as $16 billion, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. The deal price being negotiated could value Nuance at around $56 per share, the source said, a roughly … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy and Security
Leak of a Reported 500 Million Profiles Actually Very Boring, LinkedIn Assures Users
Less than a week after personal information from a half-billion scraped Facebook profiles were leaked to the digital underworld, the world’s largest professional network seems to have suffered a similar fate. It would appear that, like Facebook, approximately 500 million scraped LinkedIn profiles are now being sold on the dark web to the highest bidder. … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy and Security
A New Phishing Campaign Sends Malware-Laced Job Offers Through LinkedIn
With unemployment at formidable levels and the economy doing weird, covid-related reversals, I think we can all agree that the job hunt is a pretty hard slog right now. Amidst all that, you know what workers really don’t need? A LinkedIn inbox full of malware. Yeah, they don’t need that at all. Nevertheless, that is … Continued
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Tech NewsNews
Clubhouse Reportedly Thinks It’s Worth $4 Billion Now
Clubhouse, which led a round of investment in January at a reported valuation of around $1 billion, now believes it is worth four times that, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. A new round of funding the audio chat app is negotiating with investors may value the company at around $4 billion, sources told the news agency, … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogle
Pixel 6 Will Reportedly Be the First Phone With Google-Made Chip
Google’s next Pixel phones will reportedly be the company’s first devices powered by its own homemade chip, internally called the “GS101” Whitechapel. According to documentation reviewed by 9to5Google, Whitechapel is used in conjunction with the codename “Slider,” which is a reference to the Google Camera app. It seems likely that Slider is a shared platform … Continued
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Tech NewsNews
LinkedIn Also Has a Clubhouse Rival in the Works Now
The latest platform dipping its toes into the tepid waters of the “social audio experience” is LinkedIn, which confirmed on Tuesday that it’s developing an audio networking integration for its app that will rival the existing voice-only chat app Clubhouse. Clubhouse itself has inspired a host of copycats since its initial rollout in March 2020, … Continued
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Tech NewsNews
LinkedIn Adds Stories-Like Cover Letter Videos to Profiles to Help You Impress Potential Employers
Many of LinkedIn’s newest features makes it feel less like a job-seeking platform and even more like Instagram. But that seems to be what it’s going for. The company today announced that LinkedIn profiles will now include an optional field at the top next to a user’s name to specify their preferred pronouns. Additionally, the … Continued
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Tech News
Boldly Following Every Other Tech Company, Slack Is Cloning Clubhouse Now
Slack—following in the grand old tradition of companies like Facebook, TikTok, and Twitter—is planning on cloning buzzy app Clubhouse’s voice chatroom functionality. Slack, which builds a chat room product primarily used by businesses, already allows users to place audio calls to one another. Per Protocol, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield said in a recent Clubhouse session … Continued
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Earther
The Oil and Gas Industry Is Fighting North Face for Some Reason
The North Face has become the oil industry’s new favorite brand to hate. It all started back in December, when Innovex Downhole Solutions, a company that provides oil and gas well services, placed an order with the North Face for 400 jackets branded with the company’s logo as Christmas presents for his employees. North Face … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Apple’s Suing an Ex-Employee Who Allegedly Leaked Secrets to Media
Everybody loves a good Apple leak—except for Apple. The notoriously secretive company is now suing an ex-employee for stealing and then selling trade secrets to a currently unnamed journalist in exchange for dubious favors. The ex-employee, according to court documents, is Simon Lancaster, who worked as an Advanced Materials Lead and Product Design Architect for … Continued
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Tech NewsStreaming Services
Roku Will Debut Its First Exclusive Series This Month With Cypher
Roku’s first exclusive series to arrive on the Roku Channel will premier this month. The streamer acquired exclusive rights to Cypher, a crime-thriller starring Martin Dingle Wall that centers on a cryptanalyst commissioned by the FBI to help decode an encrypted hit list. To be clear, it’s not a Roku original. Roku didn’t produce it … Continued
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Tech NewsNews
Parler Drops One Lawsuit Against Amazon, and Files Another
Alleged domestic terrorist haven/free speech network Parler has bowed out of its antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. For a blessed moment it seemed we might get a break from conservative bitching and moaning about unfairness. No such luck. In January, following the storming of the capitol, major tech companies rushed to cut ties with the short-lived … Continued