Elon Musk misled Twitter investors while trying to get out of acquisition, jury says
At the time, Musk had tweeted that Twitter had too many bots, which is why he was trying to renege on his commitment to buy the company.
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Jury finds Musk owes damages to Twitter investors for his tweets
On Friday, a jury in California determined that Elon Musk had misled investors in Twitter via public statements that depressed the price of the company’s stock ahead of his ultimately successful purchase of it. Because it was a class action…
Show HN: Red Grid Link – peer-to-peer team tracking over Bluetooth, no servers
I go on a lot of backcountry trips where I barely get cell service. If my group splits, nobody knows knows where anyone is until you regroup at camp or at your destination. You can buy Garmin radios or try…
Ghostling
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You’re likely already infected with a brain-eating virus you’ve never heard of
There’s a virus you may have never heard of before that is estimated to infect up to 90 percent of people and lurks quietly in your cells for life—but if it becomes activated, it will destroy your brain. If that’s…
Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
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There Aren’t a Lot of Reasons to Get Excited About a New Amazon Smartphone
The company is reportedly building a new AI-powered mobile device. If Amazon follows through on the plan, experts warn it would be next to impossible to break into a crowded market.
An automated moderation error left Tumblr users panicked
Tumblr users were left scrambling on Wednesday after dozens of accounts were banned in the same afternoon by an automated system. Numerous users contacted The Verge about the incident, claiming that the wave of bans disproportionately seemed to impact accounts…
We rewrote our Rust WASM Parser in TypeScript – and it got 3x Faster
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Heart Attack and Stroke Risk Jumps When People Stop Taking GLP-1s
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