The Weekly Whatever: Platform hamster gaskets
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Taking a photo with a Samsung smartphone? That’s no moon.
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Court rules that Elon musk unlawfully threatened Tesla employees with the loss of stock options if they decided to be represented by a union.
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Twitter used to get 90% of its revenue from advertising. Now ad revenue is down 89%. Elon estimates the company he paid $44 billion for is now worth $20 billion, not including the $15 billion of debt he took on to purchase it. But he’s sure he can turn things around and make it worth $250 billion…
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Source code for the Twitter algorithm released at Elon’s command confirms that the code was made to give his tweets special treatment.
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Half of all new npm packages are spam. Worse, the other half are JavaScript.
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HP inkjet printers are region locked. Want to move overseas and take your printer with you? Good luck getting ink.
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Microsoft says sure, its AI gives wrong answers, but they’re “usefully wrong”.
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Lebanon gets into an argument about when daylight saving time should start, and ends up with two different time zones depending on who you ask.
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Black children in the UK are 11 times more likely to be strip-searched by police.
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Media retractions increase the accuracy of people’s beliefs, but reduce their trust in the media.
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A company that produced Disney licensed merchandise was secretly funding 4chan.
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Matt Gaetz’ military policy aide is a convicted war criminal who shot a civilian in the head during an interrogation.
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Scientists discover two new species of birds with neurotoxin-laden feathers.