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Chef Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa Facebook page was hacked last week, and it was kinda a big dill. Instead of the recipe for the 75-year-old culinarian’s signature “engagement chicken” or her roasted vegetable lasagna, someone shared instructions for a copycat Olive Garden chicken scampi. Twitter user Emily Pressman posted a screenshot of the hacked Facebook page to the social media …

TikTok Chief Operating Officer V. Pappas is stepping down after five years with the short-video company owned by China’s ByteDance, according to an email seen by Reuters on Thursday. In an email to staff, Pappas said they would be taking on an advisory role for the company during the transition. “Given all the successes reached at TikTok, I finally feel the time is right to move on and …

Mark Zuckerberg is ready for a throwdown. After Twitter owner Musk, 51, challenged the Facebook founder — who recently won his first amateur Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournament — to a “cage match” this week, the 39-year-old said he’s game following months of back-and-forth on social media. Mark Zuckerberg, who just won his first amateur Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournament, was challenged by Elon Musk to a …

The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sued Amazon, alleging the e-commerce behemoth illegally deceived customers into signing up for its Prime program and then “sabotaged” their attempts to cancel. The federal agency claims Amazon violated the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act by using deceptive tactics — known as “dark patterns” — that pushed customers to enroll …

Microsoft employees are reportedly eyeing the exits in the wake of mass layoffs and other unpopular moves at the tech giant. Just 47% of Microsoft employees said they would remain at the company if they received a comparable job offer from another firm, according to the results of a leaked May internal survey called “Daily Signals.” The dismal figure marked …

SoftBank’s billionaire CEO Masayoshi Son admitted he “had a big cry” after soul-searching last year — because he realized that he would never be able to live out his dream to become an architect. “I had a big cry. The tears didn’t stop for days,” the Japanese tech tycoon told shareholders Wednesday during the company’s annual meeting in Tokyo, according …

Twitter owner Elon Musk said he is ready to throw down with Meta boss and noted martial arts enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg. Musk, 51, challenged the 39-year-old Facebook founder – who recently won his first amateur Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournament – to a “cage match” after Zuckerberg’s Meta-owned Instagram reported plans to build a text-based social media platform to rival Twitter. The …

Elon Musk condemned the words “cis” and “cisgender” as “slurs” on Twitter after a user complained about receiving harassing messages from “trans activists” calling him “cissy.” “The words ‘cis’ or ‘cisgender’ are considered slurs on this platform,” Musk tweeted on Wednesday. “Repeated, targeted harassment against any account will cause the harassing accounts to receive, at minimum, temporary suspensions.” The censure …

Conservative female politicians tend to appear happier and more attractive in pictures than liberal politicos, a new artificial intelligence study conducted in Denmark found. Published in the Nature-owned journal Scientific Reports in March, the research found AI can predict a person’s political ideology with 61% accuracy by analyzing just one headshot. The scientists inputted about 3,200 publicly submitted photos of …

Billionaire Elon Musk blasted President Biden’s latest call for more taxes on the richest Americans on Tuesday — arguing the Democratic leader wouldn’t risk upsetting deep-pocketed campaign backers. Biden drew Musk’s ire on Saturday, when the president’s official Twitter account wrote that it was “about time the super-wealthy start paying their fair share.” But the Twitter owner argued that lower-income …