Tag: Elon Musk
Tech Digest daily roundup: Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council
Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, the advisory group of nearly 100 independent civil, human rights and other organisations. The company, now run by Elon Musk, formed the council […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: Baby Tesla electric car to target VW ID.3
Tesla ends 2022 without delivering either its much-delayed Cybertruck or the new Roadster – but the company is already putting fresh focus on the development of a smaller, cheaper model that could play a bigger […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: Apple sued after AirTag devices ‘used for stalking’
Two women are suing Apple after they claimed AirTag devices made it easier for their ex-partners to track them down. Apple said it had made the devices “stalkerproof” – but a […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: Google opens its first UK tech centre for disabled
If you design technology with disabled people in mind, you design technology better for everyone. This was the sentiment from Google as it opened its first UK research and development […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: Happy 30th Birthday to the text message
The text message is celebrating its 30th birthday – the first was sent to a mobile phone by a Vodafone engineer in Berkshire in the UK on 3 December 1992. […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: Twitter ends Covid misinformation policy
Twitter says it has stopped enforcing its policy on misleading information about coronavirus. According to the company’s website, it stopped taking action against tweets breaching its Covid rules, on Wednesday, […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: Plans to remove harmful content axed from Online Safety Bill
Controversial measures which would have forced big technology platforms to take down legal but harmful material have been axed from the Online Safety Bill. Critics of the section in the […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: New law will make sharing pornographic deepfakes a crime
A planned new law would make sharing pornographic deepfakes without consent a crime in England and Wales. Tackling the rise in manipulated images, where a person’s face is put on […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: FTX owes 50 largest creditors nearly $3.1 billion
Cryptocurrency exchange FTX owes its 50 largest creditors almost $3.1bn (£2.6bn), according to a court filing. The embattled firm, which filed for bankruptcy in the US last week, says it […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: Twitter staff locked out of offices until Monday
Elon Musk has locked Twitter staff out of offices until next week as hundreds of employees reportedly resigned after being given an ultimatum by the billionaire. The closure until Monday […]
