During Tesla’s third-quarter earnings call, Elon Musk once again reminded everyone that his endgame is to become a comic book supervillain. Musk told investors that unless they give him a $1 trillion compensation package, he might walk away. He reasons that he needs enough control to feel “comfortable” building what he literally called a “robot…
Oct 27 (Reuters) – What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, opens new tab, Editor-At-Large, Finance and Markets Sign up here. Trade and inflation relief are driving world stock markets sharply higher on Monday, as we begin a packed week of big central bank meetings and heavyweight tech earnings. I’ll get…
Writing is a trade that doesn’t require many tools at all. One of the greatest decisions in my writing when it came to putting together longer works, though, was my move from a word-processor app to the writing-specific app, Ulysses. But most of my friends are writers, too, and I see Scrivener on their screens…
When people sign up for a dating site like Tinder, they don’t expect their profiles and personal information to be searchable — especially by a scorned lover, or worse. But that’s what popular apps like Cheaterbuster or CheatEye seem to be doing under the guise of being able to “catch cheaters.” Last week, 404 Media…
China and Russia have deployed attractive women to the United States to seduce unwitting Silicon Valley tech executives as part of a “sex warfare” operation aimed at stealing American technology secrets, according to a report. Industry insiders told The Times of London that they have been approached by would-be honeypots — some of whom have…
An app intended for teens to make and connect with new friends is being used “like Tinder for kids,” sources told The Post. New York City teens told The Post that Wizz, which is advertised for ages 12-18, is similar to a dating app in the way you swipe through profiles — and that some underage…
Here is a funny thing about valuation “bubbles” involving financial instruments. In every individual case, you unavoidably end up asking: “What were they thinking?” Or stated differently, what causes a significant part of the supposedly rational investing public to collectively lose their minds for a relatively brief period? A few tulip bulbs, for example, were…
Hello and welcome to Regulator. Of all the strange, unintended consequences stemming from major lawsuits, I never thought that the Trump administration’s power to force Apple to remove ICE-tracking mobile apps from its stores could have been connected to a legal battle over Fortnite V-Bucks. Yes, we are talking about the in-game digital currency that…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Millions of private messages meant to stay secret are now public. Two AI companion apps, Chattee Chat and GiMe Chat, have exposed more than 43 million intimate messages and over 600,000 images and videos after a major data leak discovered by Cybernews, a leading cybersecurity research group…
An hours-long crash of Amazon Web Services sparked a wave of tongue-in-cheek, apocalyptic memes Monday as social media users coped with the disruption of major sites and apps around the world. Posts on X, Reddit and more mocked the meltdown with viral images including Homer Simpson warning “The end is near,” the popular cartoon-dog meme…