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Elon Musk brands Reuters article a lie over low-cost car scrapped claims

Paul Hill — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 06:16:02 +0000

Elon Musk has called a Reuters article a lie after it claimed that Tesla has scrapped its low-cost car project. The article had several sources who said Tesla was pivoting to robotaxis instead. Read more...

Twitter's suicide prevention feature restored hours after it went missing

Hemant Saxena — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 18:32:01 +0000

It was reported earlier that Twitter had removed the suicide prevention feature that promoted suicide prevention hotlines to users looking up certain content. However, the service is still active. Read more...

Twitter hack could have been aided by more than 1,000 employees

Usman Khan Lodhi — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 05:04:01 +0000

According to former employees, more than a thousand people had access to internal tools that could hand control of Twitter accounts to others. This includes the firm's employees and contractors. Read more...

Plex launches more than 80 live TV channel for users worldwide

Paul Hill — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 13:00:01 +0000

Plex has announced the launch of live TV streaming. The platform has launched 80 live TV channels that can be viewed anywhere in the world, licenses permitting. The channels vary widely in content. Read more...

Amazon in contact with two COVID-19 test makers for workforce

Paul Hill — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 14:52:01 +0000

Amazon is working with two firms to acquire COVID-19 testing equipment that it can use to ensure members of its workforce are not infected. The tests check for existing cases rather than antibodies. Read more...

Reuters: Yahoo was snooping on user emails en masse [Update]

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:14:01 +0000

According to a recent Reuters report, Yahoo received, and complied with, a 2015 request by government intelligence agencies to search all users' emails for specific information. Read more...

NeoBytes :) Reuters employee starts Reply All chaos after sending an email to 33,000 people

Justin Luna — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 10:02:40 +0000

Recently, an employee of Thomson Reuters has accidentally sent an email to 33,000 of his colleagues. Ironically, many employees replied to the message, using the "reply all" button. Read more...

Toshiba overstated profits, CEO and board members might have to resign

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 00:22:01 +0000

A recent probe into Toshiba's finances revealed profits overstated in the billions. The scandal may force the CEO and other board members to step down from the helm of the company. Read more...

Indicted Anonymous ally: I was really an "undercover" reporter

John Callaham — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:07:16 +0000

The lawyer for the Reuters employee who was indicted this week for helping the hacker group Anonymous now says his client was actually an "undercover" journalist trying to learn about the group. Read more...

Reuters employee indicted in Anonymous hacking case

John Callaham — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:31:59 +0000

The US Justice Department indicted Reuters employee Matthew Keys on three counts on Thursday, claiming Keys gave the hacker group Anonymous passwords from the Tribune Company when he worked there. Read more...

Reuters website hacked, spreading lies about Syrian situation

Paul Ferson — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 19:42:32 +0000

Reuters was hacked on Friday, with an account being hacked and used to spread misinformation about the situation in Syria, and specifically about the Free Syrian Army's movements. Read more...

Reuters Photos Gummed Up Google News

Steven Parker — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:54:07 +0000

Algorithmic accidents at Google News have been blamed for matching the wrong photos to stories, including a really unfortunate one caught by Newsweek. Putting the right pictures with the right stories has proved a challenge... Read more...

Reuters opens a news bureau in Second Life

Todd Tanner — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:39:49 +0000

Joining CNET News, Reuters has now opened a new news bureau inside Linden Lab's "parallel world" game Second Life. The story here is that Reuters will now bring their own news, photos, and video news... Read more...

Reuters releases Linux financial software

Tom Warren — Mon, 03 Feb 2003 09:17:08 +0000

Financial information software from Reuters is now available for Intel-based servers from Hewlett-Packard running Red Hat's Linux, the companies plan to announce Monday. The product, Reuters Market Data System, is the result of... Read more...

Reuters rolls out Oracle e-learning system

Sun, 03 Nov 2002 04:39:29 +0000

Reuters expects to save over Â£1m a year by replacing classroom-based training with e-learning. The news agency and information provider is rolling out Oracle's iLearning management system as part of an overall self-service... Read more...