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After months of back and forth, the billionaire Elon Musk is reportedly completing his Twitter takeover. Musk recently tweeted a video of him entering the company’s office in San Francisco, carrying a kitchen sink with a “Let that sink in” caption. This idiom is used when you want to let others know that something is finally happening, and they should gradually start to believe it. The Twitter staff recently wrote an open letter to Elon Musk and the company’s board, calling the possible mass layoff a “reckless” act....

Elon Musk opts to subpoena Jack Dorsey for Twitter trial Elon Musk opts to subpoena Jack Dorsey for Twitter trial That being said, the court battle is scheduled to start in October, as Elon Musk is trying to get away from his $44 billion deal to acquire the company. Musk obviously believes having Jack Dorsey there will benefit him, though we still don’t know how. This subpoena refers to “documents and communications reflecting, referring to, or relating to the impact or effect of false or spam accounts on Twitter’s business operations”....

What did Eufy do? What did Eufy do? During Thanksgiving 2022, a researcher for Infosec, Paul Moore, discovered something pretty shocking about the company. He discovered that Eufy has been uploading photos and videos of its customers to its cloud despite stating the exact opposite. Eufy stated that it never uploads any footage or photos of its customers to the internet. Nowhere in any documentation, written or digital, did it say that it uploads anything from the users....

FCC recently certified an upcoming OnePlus smartphone with the model number CPH2469. But it isn’t a new device. Instead, it’s a rebrand of an existing OPPO phone identified by the model number CPH2387. The FCC documents contain a letter from OPPO authorizing OnePlus to re-launch the device with the OnePlus branding. “They (OnePlus) wish to market this product under their own company name,” reads an excerpt of OPPO’s letter, which was first spotted by Android Authority....

For those unaware, Whittaker worked as an AI researcher at Google for 13 years until leaving her post in 2019. She left Google citing differences with the company’s AI ethics work. Whittaker reportedly faced retaliation from Google for speaking out against the company’s contracts with the Department of Defense. As the report by The Information (via) points out, Whittaker said during her exit that Google holds “significant and largely unchecked power” in the field of AI....