For the second time in a year, Apple has issued a warning to “leaking” employees, only for the warning to leak to the public. Taking the form of a news story-like internal memo, the warning comes nearly six years after Apple CEO Tim Cook claimed that Apple would “double down on secrecy on products,” only to see major […]
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IDF’s tweet threatening children with sniper fire enrages social media users
An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman has tweeted an image of a group of Palestinian children seen through a sniper’s lens, along with an ominous warning. Avichay Adraee, the IDF Arabic spokesman tweeted the image on Friday, which appeared to be stamped with red letters reading, “We see you very well.” “Whoever thinks he can […]
Social Media Is Reshaping Sex Work—But Also Threatening It
Sex workers are safer and stronger because of social media, but they’re locked in frustrating cat-and-mouse games with the platforms they feel they helped create. https://media.wired.com/photos/5aa1dfe128213473bea824c3/master/pass/sexworkers_apps.jpg
Olive Garden denies sending a threatening letter to a Seinfeld parody account over a tweet that claimed it stopped selling AR-15 rifles
Wiki Commons A spokesperson for the Olive Garden parent company, Darden Restaurants, denied that it sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Seinfeld parody account on Friday. The apparently fake letter demanded that the account @Seinfeld2000 remove an earlier tweet that said, “respect to Olive Garden for no longer selling AR-15s at all their locations.” It […]
LaVar Ball is already threatening the Lakers over Lonzo Ball’s next contract in an effort to get his other sons on the team.
LaVar Ball is determined to get all three of his sons to play on the same team, preferably with the Los Angeles Lakers. Ball has now threatened to have Lonzo Ball leave the Lakers if they don’t sign his brothers, LiAngelo Ball and LaMelo Ball. LaVar Ball is determined to see all three of his […]
A wave of cheating AI robots is threatening to ruin HQ Trivia [Updated]
Enlarge / They know… (credit: Aurich / Getty) Cheating in online games is an ever-present problem that infects the likes of shooters, MMOs, and open-world crime simulators—and just about everything else. Now a rising tide of cheaters seems poised to threaten mobile general knowledge tester HQ Trivia as it continues to explode in popularity. The daily trivia game […]
A Michigan man is facing federal charges after threatening a mass shooting at CNN headquarters
AP Images / Alan Diaz A man was arrested on suspicion of threatening a mass shooting at CNN headquarters in Atlanta. An FBI investigation determined that the man made the call last week from a Detroit suburb, a local CBS affiliate in Atlanta reported. On the alleged phone call to CNN’s Atlanta headquarters, the man […]
Starbucks quietly killed a drink with a cult following — and people are threatening to boycott (SBUX)
Alex Wong/Getty Images Starbucks has discontinued its mango and peach syrups, killing its peach green tea lemonade. Fans of the beverage are furious. The syrup was discontinued as Starbucks revamps it tea menu. Starbucks has cut its peach green tea lemonade from the menu — and people are furious. This week, people began posting […]
Fake news is threatening a very real war between the US and North Korea
REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein Over the weekend, a story emerged that the United States was in some sort of talks with North Korea, followed in quick succession by a series of tweets from U.S. President Donald Trump rejecting any sort of diplomatic engagement with North Korea. One small problem: There never were any such talks. This […]
Nuclear clouds & flames: More sabre-rattling from N. Korea, threatening ‘suicidal’ Japan
Published time: 3 Oct, 2017 08:16 North Korea vowed to make “nuclear clouds” over Japan, which had called for more pressure on Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programs. It has also said that in case of a nuclear war, Japan will be immediately “engulfed in flames.” Read more The North described the behavior of […]