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After buying 9.2 per cent stake in micro-blogging site Twitter in early April, the world’s richest man Elon Musk is now about to buy the entire stake in the company for a whopping $44 billion. Soon, Twitter is likely to be owned by Elon Musk, or is it? A deal that was all but done, before Musk “temporarily put it on hold”, to ascertain the veracity of a number of “fake” or “spam” accounts on the social media platform. But is this an avenue being explored to get out of the mega deal preceded by acrimonious attempts to ‘save’ the company by existing investors? In contemporary times, Musk is a self-proclaimed champion of free speech and has been advocating several big reforms at Twitter. Musk has repeatedly maintained that the social media micro-blogging site has huge potential that needs to be properly harnessed. While an expression of the same free speech by Twitter’s Board made it difficult for Musk to buy Twitter, however, he was willing, in the event that the deal did not get … [Read more...] about Elon Musk, Free Speech and Twitter Deal – Why This Raises More Questions than Offers Answers

Glasses on a computer screen showing the logo and search box of the Google search engine. (Photo by Sergei KonkovTASS via Getty Images) NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! Most of us know at least some basic keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl + C for copy, Ctrl + V for paste, and the infamous Ctrl + Alt + Delete for when things aren’t going so well. That’s not all. You can use your keyboard to paste text without its original messy formatting, take a picture of your screen, and create a virtual desktop to keep work and life separate. Tap or click here for seven shortcuts that will help you save even more time . Speaking of time, here’s a 30-second privacy check you need to do if you use Google or Facebook regularly. Do it now while you’re thinking of it. There are more ways to cut to the chase beyond a few keystrokes. If you use Google’s Docs, Sheets, and Calendar, here’s a smart, quick way to create new files and events without clicking through … [Read more...] about This one hidden Google shortcut will save you time every single day

When Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, it threw New Jersey into an ad hoc experiment in online voting. The storm made landfall just days before the presidential election, and along with an estimated $30 billion in damages, it also wiped out hundreds of polling places, leaving many people without a place to vote. Beyond that, many residents were displaced from their homes, unable to even receive or cast an absentee ballot by mail. In a bid to keep the displaced from becoming disenfranchised, the state turned to the internet for help. New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno launched the U.S. into an impromptu experiment in mass online voting— designating the citizens as “overseas voters” and thereby  granting them the ability to request and return ballots online, either by email or by fax. Had New Jersey’s experiment gone well, it would have been a major victory for advocates of online voting, who’ve long argued that the internet could be a valuable tool to protect the right to vote and … [Read more...] about Why You (Still) Can’t Vote Online

SINGAPORE: Since the start of the year, at least 149 people have fallen prey to a scam involving spoofed work emails, with losses amounting to at least S$70.8mil (RM225.24mil). In a statement on Saturday (May 21), the police said the scammers, using a hacked email account or email address, would impersonate the colleagues, business partners or suppliers of the victims. Often times, these spoofed email addresses would include subtle misspellings, or replacement letters, which might not be obvious at first glance. Victims would get emails informing them that there was a change in bank account number, with a request that they make payment to other bank accounts. Having been duped into believing that the emails were genuine, the victims would transfer funds to the new accounts. In some cases, victims were instructed to purchase gift cards and provide the activation keys for their supervisors. Victims realised they had fallen prey to a scam only when … [Read more...] about SG victims of spoofed work emails suffer losses of over S$70mil, 149 victims in 2022