steelseries.my.id - Page 40 of 193 - Responsive Technology

Billionaire Elon Musk has reportedly completed a $44 billion deal to purchase Twitter, capping off a tumultuous transition period for the influential social media company.

The Washington Post, citing a person familiar with the matter, reported on Thursday evening that Musk’s takeover had begun. He also fired key executives such as Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s head of legal policy, trust, and safety, The Post reported. CNBC and Insiders also reported that Musk is now in charge of Twitter.

Twitter, Agrawal, Segal and Gadde didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Musk appeared to herald his new ownership situation late Thursday with a characteristically brief tweet saying, “the bird is freed.”

By closing the deal, Musk avoided what could have been a messy public trial between him and Twitter. The social media company and Musk were initially scheduled to go head to head in a five-day trial on Oct. 17. A Delaware judge delayed the trial and gave Twitter and Musk until Friday to close the deal.

Twitter sued Musk in July after the Tesla and SpaceX leader said he wanted to back away from purchasing the company for $54.20 per share. Musk alleged that Twitter misrepresented information about the number of fake and spam accounts on its platform. Twitter, on the other hand, accused Musk of trying to end the deal because his personal wealth had fallen and the acquisition became more expensive for him.

Musk’s plan to acquire Twitter and

‘Andor’ Episode 5 Explained: Cassian Grapples With New Rebel Allies’ Mistrust

No Comments

| Computer, Computers

Star Wars series Andor continued its low-key rebellion last Wednesdayas episode 5 hit Disney Plus. We return to mercenary Cassian (Diego Luna), after he got caught up with a ludicrously dangerous rebel plot to commit a heist on an Imperial garrison and snatch the payroll.

The sixth episode is landing on Disney Plus this Wednesday.

He doesn’t know it’s part of a wider rebellion being led by Senator Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) on galactic capital Coruscant. Working with recruiter Luther Rael (Stellan Skarsgard), she’s trying to avoid detection as she covertly gathers resources for the nascent Rebel Alliance against Empire, but spies are watching her every move.

Cassian also drew the attention of the Empire by stealing from themand Imperial Security Bureau Supervisor Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) suspects there’s a wider rebel movement at work.

The show takes place five years before Rogue Onewhich revealed the events leading into the original Star Wars film A New Hope, in an era when Imperial forces expand their totalitarian grip over the galaxy. Beware, SPOILERS lie ahead.

Rebel mistrust

ALDHANI — Much of this episode is spent with our extremely tense rebel heroes as they prepare for their operation at the Imperial garrison. They don’t trust the squirrelly Cassian — who’s still using his late adoptive father Clem’s name as his alias — since he was added to the crew at the last minute.

However, it’s also clear that

US Under Scrutiny as Compensation For Climate Crisis Victims Tops COP27 Agenda

No Comments

| Computer, Computers

As the two-week-long UN climate summit COP27 kicked off in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt, on Sunday, climate experts and small and developing countries celebrated an early victory. After 27 years of UN-led climate negotiations and 30 years of activist campaigns, the issue of compensation for victims of the climate crisis has made it onto the agenda for the very first time this year.

The issue of compensation is known as “loss and damage,” which refers to the loss and damage of cultures, of livelihoods, of properties and of lives due to the human-induced climate crisis. This year has seen many such tragedies occur across the globe, from the flooding that has devastated Pakistan and Nigeria, droughts in the Horn of Africa and cyclones in the Caribbean.

The people who suffer the very worst impacts of loss and damage live in regions that have historically low emissions and have contributed the least to causing climate change. As such, there’s a general consensus extending from climate justice activists all the way to governments that these people should be compensated for the losses and damages they’ve experienced.

But this consensus has only been reached in the past few months. Even at COP26 last year, smaller and developing countries pointed fingers at a group of wealthier countries, led by the US, for watering down language on loss and damage in the Glasgow Climate Pact.

The US is the largest historical emitter of greenhouse gases of any country in the world. It also holds significant power

I’ve Found a Way to Get That Horror Movie Fix Without the Nightmare Fuel

No Comments

| Computer, Computers

Every year as the weather cools and the 12-foot Home Depot Halloween skeleton resumes its reign of terror, right around the time I confront my first shower spider of the season, I get the strange urge to watch a horror movie. The only problem: I’m a scaredy-cat.

My personal Venn diagram of spooky-scary-but-not-too-creepy movies is but a tiny sliver. Hocus Pocus 2 isn’t scary enough, but Halloween Ends is a cortisol spike I don’t need in my life. Ghostbusters: an insult to my aesthetic needs. Smile? More likes Face Screaming in Fear emoji. What about Nope? The title says it all.

It’s hard to scratch the spooky-season itch when your skin’s as thin as the gossamer spun by that shower spider I mentioned, which was real, by the way. It sounds counterintuitive – either watch horror movies or don’t, right? But when all of Twitter experiences Midsommar-induced insomniaor when a scientific study identify the scariest movie of all time, how can I not want to know more?

Whatever it is about horror that simultaneously attracts and repels normal humans, I have it too. I don’t know why I “need” to find out who the killer was in Scream. I guess it’s just a natural human impulse, a tug of war between can’t-look-away and can’t-look. We all enjoy the delicious thrill of the macabre, to an extent. I just need it in smaller doses.

File this under “nothing I do is actually that quirky” (see also:

Twitter’s delaying the launch of Blue with verification until after the elections

No Comments

| Computer, Computers

Twitter’s pushing back the launch of its new Blue subscription with verification until after this week’s midterm elections, according to a report from The New York Times. According to an internal memo viewed by the outlet, a manager working on the project said they’ve “made the decision to move the launch of this release to Nov. 9, after the election.”

Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, announced the new $7.99 per month Twitter Blue earlier this month with perks like fewer ads, search priority, the ability to post longer videos, and the ability to pay your way to verification. Under Musk’s new rules, anyone can get a verified checkmark if they pay for Blue, sparking concern over whether users will be able to tell real accounts from fake ones.

These concerns have only grown ahead of the midterm elections, as verified users posing as politicians and news outlets have the potential to cause confusion. Before Musk’s takeover, verified checkmarks were assigned by Twitter to notable figures who could prove their account belongs to them, with the intent of fighting attempts at impersonation. The platform also had specific rules barring users with parody or unofficial fan accounts from obtaining the badge. It’s not clear how Musk plans on addressing users impersonating others on the platform, but an “Official account” label for notable users, as spotted by app researcher Nima Owji could be a part of that plan, while subscribers’ checkmarks would have a small popup noting the source of their status.