Tuesday, November 29, 2022

‘No Cooperation’: How Sam Bankman-Fried Tried to Cling to FTX

Lawyers and executives struggled to persuade the 30-year-old entrepreneur to give up control of FTX.

Emails and text messages show how lawyers and executives struggled to persuade the 30-year-old entrepreneur to give up control of his collapsing crypto exchange.


By DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

Monday, November 28, 2022

Sympathy, and Job Offers, for Twitter’s Misinformation Experts


Seeing false and toxic information as a potentially expensive liability, companies in and outside the tech industry are angling to hire people who can keep it in check.


By Tiffany Hsu | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

Thursday, November 24, 2022

Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Computer Design Innovator, Dies at 91


He was a lead designer of the computers that cemented IBM’s dominance for decades. He later wrote a book on software engineering that became a quirky classic..


BY RYAN MAC, MIKE ISAAC AND KELLEN BROWNING | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

Friday, November 18, 2022

Elon Musk’s Twitter Teeters on the Edge After Another 1,200 Leave


Mr. Musk sent emails on Friday asking to learn about Twitter’s underlying technology as key infrastructure teams have been decimated.


BY RYAN MAC, MIKE ISAAC AND KELLEN BROWNING | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Collapsed Crypto Exchange FTX Could Owe More Than 1 Million Creditors


In a court filing on Monday, the cryptocurrency exchange said it was in touch with “dozens” of regulators across the world.


BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

Friday, November 11, 2022

A Verifiable Mess: Twitter Users Create Havoc by Impersonating Brands


The social media service, which is undergoing changes from its new owner Elon Musk, has descended into a messy swirl of spoof messages and parody accounts.


BY RYAN MAC, BENJAMIN MULLIN, KATE CONGER AND MIKE ISAAC | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

Thursday, November 10, 2022

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Smartphones Are Like Cars. So Why Don’t We Maintain Them?


Regularly replacing our phones takes a toll on our wallets and the environment. We should instead take care of them as we do our cars.


BY BRIAN X. CHEN | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

Saturday, November 5, 2022

Fed Up With Political Text Messages? Read On.


In this polarized climate, hundreds of Americans told us they agree on one thing: Campaigns must stop spamming voters’ phones with unwanted political texts.


By NATASHA SINGER | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Security Training Group Asks Musk to Rid Twitter of Antisemitism


An organization that helps secure Jewish facilities across North America said Twitter had an “antisemitism problem,” and asked its new owner to fix it.


BY NICO GRANT | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure