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☆ The 5 key takeaways from the Twitter whistleblower
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-24 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

Here's more on some of the top takeaways from Zatko's disclosure. And it has created internal workflows to ensure users know that when they cancel their accounts, Twitter will deactivate the accounts and start a deletion process, Twitter said. Partly due to its cybersecurity issues, Zatko's disclosure says, Twitter's data centers are constantly at risk of going down. Twitter also knowingly misled the FTC and French regulators on its intellectual property rights violations, the disclosure claims. The FTC settlement was supposed to force Twitter to shape up after hackers in 2009 gained access to internal Twitter systems.

The complaints, obtained by CNBC, were filed by nonprofit law firm Whistleblower Aid, which is representing Twitter's former head of security, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko. Whistleblower Aid, which also represented Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, verified the authenticity of the documents with CNBC. A Twitter whistleblower is alleging "extreme, egregious deficiencies by Twitter" related to privacy, security and content moderation, according to complaints filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice. If government regulators were to find Twitter misled consumers about its security protocols, that may be considered a violation of its 2011 agreement with the FTC. At the time, Twitter was barred for 20 years from misleading consumers about how it protects their security and private information.

☆ Elon Musk scores a rare win in Twitter-acquisition lawsuit as the company is ordered to hand over documents from fired general manager
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-15 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Last week Musk's attorneys demanded that documents from 22 Twitter employees be handed over. Judge Kathleen St. Jude McCormick on Monday ordered Twitter to comply in part with a motion to compel from Musk's attorneys. They requested documents from 22 additional Twitter employees they said had information on the company's process of analyzing spam or "bot" accounts. Musk's motion to compel for the additional documentation was filed last week confidentially, which means it doesn't appear on the court's docket. While Musk's attorneys pushed for document production from many additional Twitter employees, McCormick relented only on Beykpour.

☆ Technologies like virtual reality and robotics could reduce the energy industry's carbon footprint and advance workers' skill sets
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-11 | by ( Chris Daniels | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Governments have also taken actions to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from the oil-and-gas sector to meet their net-zero goals. "This has created a ripe opportunity for technology to play an even greater role in the energy sector." However, to realize the full value of technology investments, energy leaders will need to upgrade workers' skill sets and attract higher-skilled labor in areas like robotics, software engineering, and data analytics. 'Digital twins' optimize energy projectsOil-and-gas leaders are using virtual reality and augmented reality to create "digital twins" of current energy projects for training and simulation-based learning. A path to highly skilled job creationMortlock said these kinds of developments will help the energy sector combat market instability and stakeholder pressure to improve their carbon footprint.

☆ How creators are making money by going live on YouTube, TikTok, Amazon, and more
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-13 | by ( Geoff Weiss | Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Career prospects for livestreaming creators extend far beyond the gaming space. And Aussie sleepfluencer Jakey Boehm earned $34,000 in one month via TikTok Live, where fans pay to thwart his rest – turning on neon lights, for example, or loud music. Brands are also embracing TikTok Live, paying three times as much for sponsored streams as compared to static posts. Insider has spoken with a handful of creators, startups, and industry insiders about the rise of livestreaming and how creators are making money by going live. How streamers are making money on YouTube:How streamers are making money on TikTok:How streamers are making money on Instagram:How streamers are making money on Twitch:How streamers are making money on Amazon Live:

☆ Twitter is building new features including a version of Google Alerts despite Musk takeover uncertainty
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-03 | by ( Tasmin Lockwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Twitter is building new features, including one similar to Google Alerts. They will then receive push notifications for tweets relating to the query, similar to Google Alerts send to an email inbox. In screenshots posted on Twitter, Roussel shows a bell icon to the right of the search bar after searching in the Twitter app. https://twitter.com/evowizz/status/1531753374047260674Users can already receive search notifications via TweetDeck by turning on alerts for specific columns, as noted by 9to5Google. It comes as Twitter was plunged into turmoil following the apparent takeover by Musk and an internal shake-up.

☆ Musk gets Twitter for $44 billion, to cheers and fears of 'free speech' plan
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-26 | by ( Greg Roumeliotis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Musk’s move continues a tradition of billionaires' buying control of influential media platforms, including Jeff Bezos’ 2013 acquisition of the Washington Post. [1/2] Elon Musk twitter account is seen through Twitter logo in this illustration taken, April 25, 2022. Musk, who is worth $268 billion according to Forbes, has said he is not primarily concerned with the economics of Twitter. The White House declined on Monday to comment on Musk's deal, but said President Joe Biden has long been concerned about the power of social media platforms. "The president has long talked about his concerns about the power of social media platforms, including Twitter and others, to spread misinformation."

☆ MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says he's spending at least $1 million a month to build his social media empire, with 2 apps he hopes will rival YouTube and Facebook
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-17 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mike Lindell has quietly launched his Frank Speech app, which he hopes will rival YouTube. Lindell told Insider he plans to launch Frank Social, a competitor to Facebook, at the end of March. However, the pillow CEO told Insider that he's not quite done yet. Lindell also noted that Frank Social — the social media platform he is building — is due to launch in the last week of March. When asked if Frank Social would be viewed as a competitor to Trump's Twitter-like Truth Social, he said he thought of it as an alternative to Facebook.

Persons: Mike Lindell, Frank, Lindell, Frank Social, I've, Emerald Robinson, Frank Speech Organizations: YouTube, Facebook, Service, Frank Speech, Apple, Google, Android, Lindell, Twitter Locations: Wall, Silicon, Lindell, United States, Dallas, Detroit

☆ OPINION: Play-to-earn games like Axie Infinity are blowing up right now, but they look a lot like Ponzi schemes
▼ + stars: | 2022-01-11 | by ( Paul Butler | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

He suggests Axie Infinity only creates value by taking money from new players and distributing it to established players. One of the most apparently successful examples of web3 that people point to, aside from art NFTs, is so-called play-to-earn games. NFT EconomyAxies, the tradable characters at the center of Axie Infinity, are tradable as NFTs outside of the official Axie Infinity game. I've focused on Axie Infinity because it's the prominent, genre-defining play-to-earn game. I fully suspect that the pitfalls that it has encountered are ones that all play-to-earn games will eventually encounter.

☆ Warehouse giants like Amazon and others are desperate for more robots, but human workers worry they make the job more dangerous
▼ + stars: | 2021-08-31 | by ( Andrew Moseman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

As a new workday dawns in the warehouse, workers take their places around the floor to start their shifts. Amazon, the industry juggernaut, began bringing robots into its warehouses after purchasing the robotics company Kiva Systems in 2012. This year, it launched a billion-dollar fund focused on logistics and supply-chain robotics companies, the biggest splash in a sea of warehouse robotics investments and acquisitions. A Harvard Business Review survey of 77 warehouse workers in 2022 found that they viewed automation in warehouses slightly more positively than negatively. While workers worried about job loss and dealing with tech malfunctions, they were optimistic that robots could make their work safer and more productive.

☆ Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian Oligarch Indicted by U.S., Is Known as ‘Putin’s Cook’
▼ + stars: | 2018-02-16 | by ( Neil Macfarquhar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

They’re the work of bots and trolls, and one of the most skilled countries at deploying them is Russia. During the 2016 presidential election, suspected Russian operators created bots on Twitter to promote hashtags like #WarAgainstDemocrats. Facebook is one common platform for Russian trolls and bots, which, in 2016, used fake accounts to influence U.S. elections. Facebook believes that ads on divisive issues created by Russian trolls were shown to Americans over four million times before the elections. Federal investigators and experts believed Russian trolls created Facebook groups like Blacktivist, which reposted videos of police beatings, or another, Secured Borders, which organized anti-immigrant rallies in real life.

Persons: Ludmila Savchuk, Ben Nimmo, Savchuk, Hillary Clinton, Melvin Redick, ”, Vladimir Putin Organizations: Twitter, Internet Research Agency, Facebook, Federal, Borders Locations: Russia, St, Petersburg, London, Russian, “, St . Petersburg

☆ Chatbots are gaining traction
▼ + stars: | 2017-05-11 | by ( Laurie Beaver | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Chatbots are gaining popularity globally, according to a new survey by LivePerson. BI IntelligenceOnly 11% of those surveyed globally reported a negative perception of chatbots, while the remaining 51% had neutral stances. Chatbots used for productivity purposes — such as scheduling — ranked lowest, as only 14% of those surveyed did so in the past year. The report also forecasts the potential annual savings that businesses could realize if chatbots replace some of their customer service and sales reps. Forecasts the potential impact chatbots could have for businesses.

Persons: Chatbots, chatbots, Laurie Beaver Organizations: Intelligence, Business, BI, US, HP, CNN, Insider Intelligence, Google Locations: France, Japan

☆ 80% of businesses want chatbots by 2020
▼ + stars: | 2016-12-14 | by ( Insider Intelligence | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Businesses are beginning to see the benefits of using chatbots for their consumer-facing products, according to a survey by Oracle. And 48% said that they already use automation technology for these business functions, with 40% planning to implement some form of automated technology by 2020. Twenty-nine percent of customer service positions in the US could be automated through chatbots and other tech, according to Public Tableau. Foreseeing immense potential, businesses are starting to invest heavily in the burgeoning bot economy. The report also forecasts the potential annual savings that businesses could realize if chatbots replace some of their customer service and sales reps.

Persons: Laurie Beaver Organizations: Intelligence, Oracle, HP, CNN, Insider Intelligence, Business, Google Locations: France, Netherlands, South Africa

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