Enlarge / Forthcoming “Edit Tweet” option as seen in a post by Twitter’s communications team. (credit: Twitter ) Twitter is adding an edit button, the company said yesterday. The “Edit Tweet” option will become available “in the coming months” to users of the paid Twitter Blue subscription, with a potential rollout to other users later […]
Enlarge (credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Intel, one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, is suspending business operations in Russia “effective immediately, ” the company announced on Tuesday. “Intel continues to join the global community in condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine, ” the company said in a statement . Intel stopped shipping chips […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Jeffrey Coolidge) One America News has officially been removed from DirecTV, as the TV provider resisted pressure from Republicans to keep the right-wing network in its channel lineup. A DirecTV spokesperson confirmed to Ars today that the channel removal went ahead as scheduled. OAN’s future is in doubt as the […]
Enlarge / Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2021. (credit: RAMIL SITDIKOV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images) Roskomnadzor, Russia’s censorship authority, issued another demand on Tuesday for Wikipedia to remove what it called “unreliable socially significant information. ” The agency warned that failure to comply could lead to fines of up to 4 million rubles ($50, 000). The […]
Enlarge / Elon Musk at a press conference at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas on February 10, 2022. (credit: Getty Images | Jim Watson) Elon Musk is joining Twitter’s board of directors in a deal that prohibits him from buying more than 14.9 percent of the company’s stock, Twitter announced today. The news of Musk joining […]
Enlarge / Tesla CEO Elon Musk at an opening event for Tesla’s Gigafactory on March 22, 2022, in Gruenheide, southeast of Berlin. (credit: Getty Images | Patrick Pleul) Elon Musk has purchased 9. 2 percent of Twitter’s stock, he revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO bought […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) What’s it like to spend $10, 000 for Internet support and wait six months for Comcast offers to hook it up? Jonathan Rowny knows the answer. Rowny and his wife and child moved from Virginia to Washington state in May 2021. Rowny told Ars that before closing on the house in […]
Enlarge (credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev | Getty Images) Russian Twitter users noticed something strange when they tried to access the service on March 4: They couldn’t. For the previous six days, anyone trying to access Twitter from within Russia saw their Internet speed slow to a crawl, no matter how fast their connection. Then came the […]
Enlarge / Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. (credit: Jason Connolly-Pool/Getty Images) The Biden administration slapped a new round of sanctions on Russia, with a focus on technology companies that support the Russian war effort in Ukraine. Among the sanctioned companies is Mikron, Russia’s largest chipmaker. “We will continue to target Putin’s war machine with sanctions from […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) The last time Western sanctions hit Russia after it annexed Crimea, President Vladimir Putin turned to Huawei to rebuild and upgrade the territory’s communication infrastructure. Now, the particular controversial Chinese technology company is positioned to aid the Putin regime on a much larger scale, despite the threat of […]