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Tag: Computers and the Internet

Lina Khan, Aiming to Block Microsoft’s Activision Deal, Faces a Challenge

Lina Khan, the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, has pledged to usher in a new era of trustbusting of America’s corporate giants, recently...

Tell Us How Your Family Uses Alexa

Amazon has not figured out how to get customers to buy stuff with Alexa, its digital assistant, which is largely a disappointment for the...

Inside the Frantic Texts Exchanged by Crypto Executives as FTX Collapsed

The day before the embattled cryptocurrency exchange FTX filed for bankruptcy, Changpeng Zhao, the chief executive of the rival exchange Binance, sent an alarmed...

F.T.C. Sues to Block Microsoft’s $69 Billion Acquisition of Activision

The deal between Microsoft and Activision has been under review by 16 regulators around the world, but the F.T.C. is the first of three...

How Is Everyone Making Those A.I. Selfies?

Have you noticed that many of your friends are suddenly fairy princesses or space travelers? Is your Instagram feed overrun with Renaissance-style paintings of...

Sunny Balwani, No. 2 Theranos Executive, Is Sentenced for Fraud

Ramesh Balwani, the former chief operating officer of the failed blood testing start-up Theranos, was sentenced on Wednesday to nearly 13 years in prison...

Sympathy, and Job Offers, for Twitter’s Misinformation Experts

In the weeks since Elon Musk took over Twitter, dozens of people responsible for keeping dangerous or inaccurate material in check on the service...

As Elon Musk Cuts Costs at Twitter, Some Bills Are Going Unpaid

SAN FRANCISCO — Before Elon Musk bought Twitter last month, the company’s executives had racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel invoices...

What Elon Musk Is Doing to Twitter Is What He Did at Tesla and SpaceX

Elon Musk was sleeping at the office. He dismissed employees and executives at will. And he lamented his company was on the verge of...

Can Big Tech Get Bigger? Microsoft Presses Governments to Say Yes.

In recent weeks, Microsoft has accused Sony, its chief video game rival, of misleading regulators. Its lawyers have showed off game consoles, including an...

Inside Gary Gensler’s SEC Campaign to Rein In the Crypto Industry

In March, eight months before his cryptocurrency empire imploded, Sam Bankman-Fried joined a video call with Gary Gensler, a longtime financial regulator who now...

Elon Musk Reinstates Trump’s Twitter Account

Mr. Musk, a longtime self-described “free speech absolutist,” had said in May that he would reverse the permanent ban of Mr. Trump on Twitter...

Elizabeth Holmes Is Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Theranos Fraud

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the failed blood-testing start-up Theranos, was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison on...

Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language

To hear some people on TikTok tell it, we’ve spent years in a “panoramic.” Or perhaps it was a “panini press.” Some are in...

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