Blogs

• This could be Apple's biggest product launch since the Apple Watch -Apple may be just one day away from unveiling its most ambitious new hardware product in years.
• Teachers are on the front lines of a battle to change how teens use social media -A high school English class may not sound like the typical forum for educating kids on the risks of social media, but that hasn't stopped Jennifer Rosenzweig.
• Why China's answer to Boeing isn't as 'homegrown' as it seems -China is claiming a historic win this week after its answer to Boeing and Airbus, the C919, took to the skies for its first commercial flight.
• Amazon fires Alabama warehouse worker who led union push -An Amazon worker who helped lead a milestone organizing effort to form what would have been the company's first US union at a warehouse in Alabama said she has been fired by the e-commerce giant.
• Twitter loses its top content moderation official at a key moment -Twitter has lost its top content moderation official just weeks before the company is set to undergo a regulatory stress test by European Union officials focused on its handling of user content, in the latest sign of turbulence at the company under owner Elon Musk.
• Airbnb sues New York City over its short-term rental restrictions -Airbnb on Thursday sued New York City over its restrictions on short-term housing rentals, in a legal dispute that pits the company's concerns about its ability to operate in a key market against the city's efforts to address an affordable housing crisis.
• Apple may soon show off its biggest and riskiest new hardware product in years -Next week, Apple may unveil its most ambitious new hardware product in years, but it's in a product category that is anything but a proven winner.
• Elon Musk says his Shanghai factory makes the 'highest quality' Teslas -Tesla CEO Elon Musk has wrapped up his first trip to China in three years, after meeting a string of government officials and thanking workers at the company's mega factory in Shanghai.
• Twitter's head of trust and safety says she has resigned -Twitter's head of trust and safety Ella Irwin told Reuters on Thursday that she has resigned from the social media company.
• Reddit sparks outrage after a popular app developer said it wants him to pay $20 million a year for data access -Twitter has been widely criticized for trying to charge transit agencies, third-party app developers and academics for data access to its platform, a move opponents say has forced independent apps to shut down and threatened research on misinformation and hate speech.
• National Eating Disorders Association takes its AI chatbot offline after complaints of 'harmful' advice -An eating disorder prevention organization said it had to take its AI-powered chatbot offline after some complained the tool began offering "harmful" and "unrelated" advice to those coming to it for support.
• Job site ZipRecruiter cutting 20% of its staff -Fewer employers looking for workers means 270 employees at job search site ZipRecruiter will soon be out of a job.
• Chinese star banker Bao Fan detained by country's top anti-graft body, state media says -One of China's top tech bankers, who went missing in February, has been in the custody of the country's top anti-graft watchdog since his disappearance and has had his detention extended, according to a state media report.
• Meta threatens to pull news content in California if bill to pay publishers passes -Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, threatened to remove news from its social media sites in California if the state passes a bill requiring big tech companies to pay news outlets for their content.
• Amazon corporate workers stage walkout, citing 'lack of trust' in leadership -Amazon corporate workers staged a walkout on Wednesday to signal a "lack of trust" in the company's leadership, in what is perhaps the most visible sign of dissent among the e-commerce giant's office workers in recent memory.
• Amazon to pay more than $30 million to settle FTC privacy complaints over Alexa and Ring -Amazon has agreed to pay more than $30 million to settle two federal lawsuits alleging that the tech giant violated users' privacy ? including that of children ? through its Alexa voice assistant and its Ring doorbell cameras.
• Twitter may be worth only a third of its pre-Musk value, Fidelity says -A Fidelity fund has slashed its estimate of Twitter's value amid ongoing chaos at the company, implying the social media platform may be worth only a third of its value compared to when Elon Musk acquired it in October.
• -Center for AI Safety Executive Director Dan Hendrycks discusses the risks of unregulated Artificial Intelligence.
• What Elizabeth Holmes' life in prison could look like -Once a Silicon Valley icon and paper billionaire, Elizabeth Holmes will now have to wake every morning at 6 a.m., hold a job paying as little as $0.12 an hour, and share bathing facilities at a prison camp in southern Texas.
• Elizabeth Holmes reports to prison -Elizabeth Holmes reported to prison on Tuesday, capping off a stunning downfall for the disgraced founder of failed blood testing startup Theranos.