IT総合 Twitter shareholders approve Elon Musk’s $44 billion buyout offer
Elon Musk might have cold feet about his offer to buy Twitter, but the company’s shareholders are still here for i...
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IT総合 IT総合 Roblox will give a handful of game developers $500,000 each to build its future
Roblox is announcing a wave of new funding for developers building the cutting edge of games on the platform. The compan...
IT総合 Roblox inches toward a deeper, more mature vision for the metaverse
Roblox outlined a vision for the future of its busy social gaming platform on Friday, incrementally ushering its communi...
IT総合 Elon Musk can lean on the Twitter whistleblower but he can’t push the trial date back
A Delaware judge will allow Elon Musk to incorporate new information from Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko into his co...
IT総合 Google lets the Parler app back into the Play Store
Truth Social isn’t allowed in Google’s app store yet, but another ostensibly anything-goes social network in...
IT総合 California pushes ahead with its own children’s online privacy protections
California lawmakers have passed a bill that seeks to make apps and other online spaces safer for kids in the absence of...
IT総合 Elon Musk taps the Twitter whistleblower for help in his quest to get out of the deal
With the Twitter trial date rapidly approaching, Elon Musk’s legal team sent a subpoena to former Twitter head of ...
IT総合 Jack Dorsey says his biggest regret is that Twitter was a company at all
Jack Dorsey might be out of the picture at Twitter these days, but he’s still waxing philosophical about the compa...
IT総合 Meta just erased a Proud Boys network stealthily organizing on Facebook and Instagram
It’s been almost four years since the Proud Boys were banned from Facebook, but apparently its members are still t...
IT総合 Meta and Twitter purge web of accounts spreading pro-U.S. propaganda abroad
In the post-2016 U.S. election world, secretive online campaigns designed to influence global politics are nothing new. ...
IT総合 Google workers call on the company to expand abortion and privacy protections
A group of more than 600 Google employees is pressing the company to expand worker health benefits, divest itself of som...
IT総合 Reddit launches a new developer portal to give third-party apps and bots a boost
Any Redditor knows that the best thing about Reddit is bearing witness to the strange and occasionally brilliant stuff t...
IT総合 Facebook will disable new political ads a week before US midterm elections
Meta loosely outlined how it plans to brace its platforms for the upcoming U.S. midterm elections Tuesday, starting with...
IT総合 After the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, online threats quickly turn into real-world violence
Threats of violence reached a fever pitch reminiscent of the days leading up to the Capitol attack following the news th...
IT総合 Google says AI update will improve search result quality in ‘snippets’
If you’ve ever Googled something only to be met with a little info box highlighting the top answer, you’ve encountered o...
IT総合 The DOJ is reportedly prepping an antitrust suit against Google over its ad business
The Department of Justice is preparing a second major antitrust suit against Google, according to new reporting by Bloom...
IT総合 Former Twitter employee found guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia
A former Twitter employee suspected of spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia was found guilty, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Th...
IT総合 WhatsApp is adding new privacy options, including screenshot blocking and a stealth mode
WhatsApp is introducing a small flurry of privacy-minded tweaks into the messaging app, the company announced on Tuesday...
IT総合 Apple adds the battery percentage icon back in the latest iOS beta
Apple is on the cusp of introducing a tiny change with an outsized impact on the quality of life of iPhone users everywh...
IT総合 Alex Jones and Infowars finally face the music for sowing Sandy Hook conspiracies
Infowars founder Alex Jones took the stand today in a trial that will determine what he owes to the parents of a child k...
IT総合 Discord says Android users won’t be left hanging anymore
Discord announced new measures to bring its Android app into parity with its iOS counterpart today. The changes will imp...
IT総合 Study of Facebook friendships explores how economic mobility works in the US
A large-scale study of Facebook data sheds new light on the ties between Americans — and how those relationships in turn...
IT総合 Twitch builds toward a ‘layered’ safety approach with new moderator tools
Moderating an online community is hard, often thankless work — and it’s even harder when it happens in a silo.
On ...
IT総合 Roblox is getting a major visual makeover
A social network of virtual pocket worlds with a daily user base roughly the size of Spain’s population, Roblox is ubiqu...
IT総合 Discord’s new Xbox integration will let you send voice chats to your console
Xbox is adding support for Discord voice chat, bringing a reliable, well-loved universal chat app to Microsoft’s g...
IT総合 Twitch is adding a ‘charity mode’ that simplifies streaming for a good cause
Streaming to raise money for a good cause is a big deal on Twitch, but the platform has always pointed creators elsewher...
IT総合 Amazon sues admins from 10,000 Facebook groups over fake reviews
If the reviews of the last completely necessary and not at all superfluous thing you bought on Amazon looked like so muc...
IT総合 Elon Musk pushes for the Twitter trial to start next year
With Twitter pressing for a quick trial, Elon Musk’s lawyers are making a case to slow things down.
In the lawsuit...
IT総合 Sony officially owns Bungie now
The ink is dry on Sony’s acquisition of Bungie, the gaming company that created sci-fi hits Halo and Destiny.
Both...
IT総合 Lawmakers ask Facebook and Instagram to explain why they removed abortion posts
In a letter to Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Senators Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren ...