Google employees compare Sundar Pichai to ‘Shrek’ villain after CEO’s $226M payday amid layoffs: report

Google employees compare Sundar Pichai to 'Shrek' villain after CEO's $226M payday amid layoffs: report

Google employees are reportedly grumbling about CEO Sundar Pichai’s massive salary — amid a wave of 12,000 layoffs and cuts to office perks — with some comparing the tech tycoon to the imperious villain in “Shrek.” Pichai’s $226 million windfall last year prompted the wave of criticism since the disclosure on the search giant’s internal messaging system, according to CNBC, …

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Facebook parent Meta says ChatGPT-related malware is rising

Facebook parent Meta says ChatGPT-related malware is rising

Facebook owner Meta said on Wednesday it had uncovered malware purveyors leveraging public interest in ChatGPT to lure users into downloading malicious apps and browser extensions, likening the phenomenon to cryptocurrency scams. Since March, the social media giant has found around 10 malware families and more than 1,000 malicious links that were promoted as tools featuring the popular artificial intelligence-powered chatbot, it said in …

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Jack Dorsey’s Bluesky social network may compete with Twitter

Bluesky illustration

Elon Musk has outraged social media’s elite by letting anyone get Twitter verification for $8 — and Jack Dorsey is looking to capitalize on the situation. Bluesky Social, which Twitter co-founder Dorsey founded in 2021, has since amassed just 50,000 monthly users versus Twitter’s nearly 400 million and Instagram’s 2.3 billion. But unlike Twitter and Instagram, users on Bluesky have …

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Physicist Michio Kaku exposes ‘dangerous’ side of AI chatbots

Physicist Michio Kaku exposes ‘dangerous’ side of AI chatbots

A famed theoretical physicist has issued a stark warning about the dangers of software like ChatGPT. Michio Kaku said AI chatbots appear to be intelligent but are only actually capable of spitting out what humans have already written. The technology, which is free, is unable to detect whether something is false and can therefore be “tricked” into giving the wrong …

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Apple Q2 profits beat forecasts with iPhone’s record sales

Apple Q2 profits beat forecasts with iPhone's record sales

Apple on Thursday reported quarterly revenue and profit above Wall Street’s expectations, with iPhone sales rising and wearables sales slipping less than analysts had feared despite a continuing slump in the consumer electronics market and a cloudy economic outlook. Apple said sales for its fiscal second quarter ended April 1 fell 2.5% to $94.84 billion, better than analyst expectations of a 4.4% …

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Social media app Clapper hyped as ‘TikTok for adults’

Social media app Clapper hyped as 'TikTok for adults'

A growing social media platform that’s being billed as “TikTok for adults” is garnering applause from new users. Clapper, a Texas-based company founded by Edison Chen, aims to provide a place where the parents of TikTok users can express themselves, D Magazine reports. “We want to create a space for the older generations to feel more comfortable,” Chen told the …

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Regulators are ‘greatest threat to innovation’

Regulators are ‘greatest threat to innovation’

In a surprise move last week, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority moved to block Activision Blizzard’s $68.7 billion merger with Microsoft. Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick – whose company is behind blockbusters like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Candy Crush – declined to comment on the merger’s future specifically. But Kotick did share his thoughts on the …

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‘I don’t necessarily expect it to work’

'I don't necessarily expect it to work'

Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel confirmed that he is signed up to be cryogenically frozen when he dies so that he can potentially be revived in the future – even though he is skeptical that the technology actually works. Thiel, who has an estimated net worth of $8.13 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, spoke candidly about the life-preserving …

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Bruno Fernandes: How one man transformed Manchester United’s fortunes

Bruno Fernandes: How one man transformed Manchester United's fortunes

CNN  —  There hasn’t been much to shout about at Manchester United over the last few years. The success enjoyed under legendary manager Alex Ferguson feels like a distant memory for a global fan base that has watched its once great club lurch from one bad decision to another. An FA Cup win in 2016 under Louis van Gaal and …

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