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Betting in Roblox sounds ‘very fun’ to its chief executive and is a ‘brilliant idea’ if done in ‘educational way’

The CEO shared his take on prediction markets in Roblox.

Destructoid · Nov 21, 2025

OpenAI execs whine about the New York Times lawsuit and user privacy during live NYT event, get roasted by NYT journalist: 'It must be really hard when someone does something with your data you don't want them to'

You love to see it.

PC Gamer · Jul 2, 2025

Leading tech journalist quits Substack over platform’s Nazi newsletters

Reporter Casey Newton takes more than 170,000 subscribers elsewhere over company’s failure to police extremist content

The Guardian - US · Jan 12, 2024

Why can't Twitter and TikTok be easily replaced? Something called 'network effects'

The two popular social media services have amassed such an entrenched community of users that displacing the platforms is no small feat. Experts say it might not stay that way forever.

WEKU · Apr 12, 2023

GPT-4 debuts and Google beats Microsoft in race to add A.I. to office tools

Google is also giving business customers access to its most powerful language models

Fortune · Mar 14, 2023

TikTok officials go on a public charm offensive amid a stalemate in Biden White House

The hit video app is facing an existential crisis, and it is hoping promoting its reorganization will help convince Americans that it is independent from its Chinese owner.

WEKU · Feb 2, 2023

DOJ Antitrust Suit Seeks To End Google Ad Dominance. The Market Is Already Taking Care of That.

Plus: Journalism versus qualified immunity, Mississippi bill would end civil asset forfeiture, and more...

Reason · Jan 25, 2023

Elon Musk says Twitter needs subscribers to survive. Here’s why he needs a better lifeline

There’s only a slim chance that Twitter can attract enough paying users to replace ad revenue.

Fortune · Nov 11, 2022

Elon Musk’s Twitter Reportedly Wants Some People Back After Firing Them

Twitter is reportedly asking some of the thousands of workers it fired to return to work.

Zenger · Nov 8, 2022