Amazon’s grocery store business has cost it billions of dollars over the past 15 years and has yet to really cement its foothold in the retail space. Analysts are now referring to the business as Amazon’s most “expensive hobby.”
The popular workplace communication platform Slack is reportedly experiencing issues and is down for many users globally. Companies that rely on Slack to manage their remote workforce have been left scrambling on Tuesday morning as the outage hit right as America’s workday kicked into gear.
Facebook has reportedly placed restrictions on the account of a UK dog rescue charity, severely hampering its ability to raise funds for the operation of the charity. Meanwhile, human trafficking and drug dealing run rampant on the platform around the world.
Twitter has reportedly removed hundreds of fake Chinese accounts and bots that were promoting the Genocide Games while sweeping China’s human rights abuses under the rug.
Hackers reportedly stole hundreds of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) from users of NFT marketplace OpenSea over the weekend, including NFTs from popular collections like Decentraland and Bored Ape Yacht Club.
Apple Store employees around the United States are reportedly attempting to unionize as hourly workers grow frustrated with wages and working conditions. According to the Washington Post, Apple employees are using Android smartphones to discuss unionization to avoid potential snooping efforts by their employer.
Elon Musk’s Tesla has cratered in Consumer Reports’ newest auto brand ranking due to poorly received design changes and reliability issues. Ford has also taken the top-recommended electric vehicle spot away from Tesla with the Mustang Mach-E.
Facebook, now known as Meta, has fired a manager of global community development after he was caught on tape allegedly trying to meet with a 13-year-old boy for sex. The Masters of the Universe claimed to Breitbart News that “the seriousness of these allegations cannot be overstated,” but one TechCrunch reporter claims the company attempted to talk him out of covering the story, claiming it was not newsworthy.
New York City has introduced speed cameras with microphones to ticket cars that breach certain noise levels.
The New York Times recently purchased the popular online word-guessing game Wordle — and appears to have immediately added ad-tracking, sending user data not only to the Times, but also to Google and other third parties.
Far-left Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen has popped back into the news with fresh complaints against Mark Zuckerberg and the Masters of the Universe. Haugen alleges that the company misled investors about efforts to combat climate change and coronavirus “misinformation” in a recent complaint filed with the SEC.
Residents of the Dutch city of Rotterdam are so unhappy with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his $485 million superyacht that many are planning to launch rotten eggs at the billionaire’s boat.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating complaints of Tesla vehicles with Autopilot driver-assist enabled suddenly braking at high speeds. The agency has received 354 complaints from consumers of this “phantom braking.”
E-commerce giant Amazon has removed the Black Lives Matter organization from its AmazonSmile charity platform as the organization faces increasing financial scrutiny. Amazon previously was a major cheerleader for Black Lives Matter, including making large donations to the group and a notorious incident in which founder Jeff Bezos scolded a customer for saying “All Lives Matter” in an email.
Free speech social media network Gab has announced the launch of a “Parallel Economy Fund” to back tech startups and other ventures that reject the surveillance economy and leftist values of the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe.
According to admissions made by its CEO, telecommunications giant Ericsson may have made payments to ISIS and other terror organizations in order to access certain transport routes in Iraq. CEO Borje Ekholm admitted that “unusual expenses” included “transport routes have been purchased through areas that have been controlled by terrorist organizations, including ISIS.”
Google announced this week that it’s planning to introduce new privacy restrictions that will reduce app tracking across its Android devices, similar to the system implemented by Apple that contributed to Facebook’s historic drop in market value due to its impact on Mark Zuckerberg’s invasive targeted advertising. Although Facebook has publicly fought a war of words with Apple over its privacy measures, it is publicly supporting Google’s change.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki recently urged world governments to pass stronger speech laws to restrict speech online deemed “harmful.” Her ominous message is that the path to “more control over online speech” is to pass laws that ignore the First Amendment.
Mark Zuckerberg recently informed employees at Facebook that they should use the bizarre new name “metamates” going forward. According to the social media Masters of the Universe, employees should rank their own interests last using the corporate catchphrase “Meta, Metamates, me.”
Recent studies have revealed that the Chinese-owned social media TikTok can bypass security protections on Apple and Google app stores to gain full access to user data.
Facebook recently claimed in court that Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority broke international law by blocking the social media giant’s purchase of Giphy, a searchable database of animated GIF files for use on social media.
Corporate media tech outlet Protocol notes that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of metaverse requires technology that does not yet exist. One expert explains: “The biggest things that we are looking at in supercomputers today still need to be improved in order to be able to deliver [a metaverse] type of experience.”
Tesla is reportedly facing an investigation by South Korea’s antitrust regulator which claims that the electric car maker exaggerated the mileage capability of some vehicles in its advertising. The investigation focuses on the driving range Tesla advertises for certain vehicles as opposed to what range is typically achieved in Korea’s cold winter climate.
Cryptocurrency trading company Coinbase is attempting to reassure its customers that its platform is stable following a Super Bowl ad featuring a bouncing QR code linking to a signup page for new accounts which promptly crashed the entire website. Coinbase claims the massive response led it to “temporarily throttling our systems.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Facebook (now known as Meta) this week over the company’s use of facial recognition technology in “secretly harvesting Texans’ most personal information,” which Paxton says is in violation of the state’s privacy protections.
A recent analysis of YouTube search results found that users looking for videos relating to the Genocide Games are being bombarded with Chinese propaganda videos.
In a recent article, Vox’s Recode outlines how Apple’s privacy update that allows users to prevent websites like Facebook from tracking them has had a massively negative effect on the social media giant’s revenue. Facebook (now Meta) relies on gaining access to the entire private lives of its users to appeal to advertisers, and Apple’s commonsense policies have caused major problems for Mark Zuckerberg and the Masters of the Universe.
Elon Musk’s Tesla will pay exactly $0 in federal tax this year despite making a record profit of $5.5 billion in 2021. According to the company, it lost money in the U.S. and derived all of its profits from overseas profits, leaving it with no federal tax and just $9 million due in state taxes.
Reports of individuals being targeted for crimes by crooks using Apple’s AirTag tracking devices have increased, with police warning that many are being used in carjacking attempts and stalking. Here’s how to tell if you’re being tracked by an Apple AirTag.
An animal rights group is accusing Elon Musk’s Nueralink of subjecting monkeys to illegal mistreatment and “extreme suffering.” A complaint to be filed with the federal government by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine alleges that in one case, a test monkey for Musk’s brain chip technology was found to be missing fingers and toes “possibly from self-mutilation or some other unspecified trauma.”
Tech giant Google is facing another antitrust complaint filed in the EU related to the company’s digital advertising business. The European Publishers Council compares Google’s stranglehold on the digital advertising business and its built-in conflicts of interest as both ads buyer and seller to “Goldman or Citibank owning the New York Stock Exchange.”
Amazon will cut off paid leave for workers that contract coronavirus if they are not fully vaccinated. According to an internal memo, unvaccinated workers will be required to wear masks in the warehouse while their vaccinated coworkers can go maskless. The changes are expected to take place on March 18, according to Business Insider.
Former Apple employees are alleging that once they left the company, their position at the firm was retroactively updated to “associate,” making it harder for former workers to accurately describe their roles when applying for new jobs. One former employee claims a job verification service was unable to verify her title at Apple, resulting in a lost job opportunity.
Troubled exercise bike maker Peloton held a virtual all-hands meeting this week that was promptly accessed by angry laid-off employees. As former employees added messages like “I’m selling all my Peloton apparel to pay my bills!!!,” the meeting was quickly shut down as yet another failure for the formerly high-flying company.
Twitter posted its first earnings report since appointing its new censorship-happy CEO, Parag Agrawal, and missed analyst estimates on earnings, revenue, and user growth.
Elon Musk’s Tesla has been sued by a California state civil rights agency over allegations that the company is operating a “racially segregated workplace.” The director of the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing said: “After receiving hundreds of complaints from workers, DFEH found evidence that Tesla’s Fremont factory is a racially segregated workplace where Black workers are subjected to racial slurs and discriminated against in job assignments, discipline, pay, and promotion creating a hostile work environment.”
A New York couple describing themselves as “serial entrepreneurs” have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and to defraud the U.S. government in relation to a $4.5 billion Bitcoin heist in 2016.
A recent report by the Wall Street Journal states that researchers believe that China’s social media propaganda army has been flooding Twitter to manipulate the #GenocideGames hashtag relating to the Winter Olympics being hosted in the communist country.
Elon Musk’s Tesla alleges that the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) plans to file a lawsuit against the company soon alleging systematic racial discrimination and harassment within the company and its production facilities.
Exercise bike maker Peloton has reportedly laid off 2,800 employees, representing 20 percent of the company’s workforce, and provided them with a severance package which includes a 12-month subscription to the Peloton exercise service.
