X’s Premium users can no longer hide their blue checks
[ad_1] X giveth, and now X taketh away. The platform is eliminating the ability for Premium users to hide their...
X’s ‘complimentary’ Premium push gives people blue checks they didn’t ask for
[ad_1] Just as Elon Musk said, X is doling out free Premium and Premium Plus memberships to accounts with a...
Terrorists are allegedly buying blue checks on X
[ad_1] A report from the nonprofit Tech Transparency Project (TTP) alleges that X has been selling premium subscriptions to subjects...
Withings’ new multiscope device checks vitals for telehealth visits
[ad_1] Aside from a brief on-again-off-again thing with Nokia, Withings has been quietly establishing itself as a home health powerhouse...
Apple is sending out checks for ‘batterygate’ class action claims
[ad_1] Checks are apparently hitting the bank accounts of people affected by Apple’s decision to slow down iPhones with older...
Blue checks aren’t protecting sex workers from X’s porn crackdown
[ad_1] When X (formerly Twitter) launched paid subscription verification, Mistress Rouge, a professional dominatrix, hoped that it would help her...
Twitter aka X rolls out Community Notes ‘fact checks’ for videos
[ad_1] Creators of AI videos, deceptive edits, and manipulated clips – beware. Community Notes has now been rolled out on...
Google’s Chrome extensions’ safety checks might actually make browsing safer for all
[ad_1] Google is planning to “proactively highlight” Chrome extensions that have been made unavailable in the Chrome Web Store. An extension...
Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks
[ad_1] Twitter Blue, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X Blue, now includes the option to hide the notorious...
Twitter users are now wondering if mandatory blue checks are illegal
[ad_1] Okay, I’ll admit it: I did not expect the Twitter checkpocalypse to result in Dril accusing Elon Musk of...
Chaos reigns after Twitter’s blue checks vanish
[ad_1] The blue checkmarks that once christened an echelon of elite Twitter users as trustworthy — or at least probably...
Twitter removes Legacy Blue Checks and sparks anger, confusion, ennui
[ad_1] As promised, Twitter Legacy Blue verification checks started quietly disappearing from user accounts Thursday afternoon. Now the only way...
EpiC MeMe PoSTer Elon Musk promises to ditch legacy blue checks on 4/20. Twitter rolls eyes.
[ad_1] Elon Musk — chief Twit and PoStEr oF EpiC MemEs that peaked in 2013 — claimed he would actually,...
Elon Musk’s date for removing legacy Blue checks on Twitter surprises no one
[ad_1] In a week in which Twitter CEO and enfant terrible Elon Musk changed his Twitter handle to something we...
Twitter will kill ‘legacy’ blue checks on April 1
[ad_1] Twitter has picked April Fool’s Day, otherwise known as April 1, to start removing legacy blue checkmarks from the...
TECNO’s flagship MEGABOOK S1 2023 checks all the right boxes for everyday use
[ad_1] MWC 2023 just wrapped up in Barcelona where thousands of tech companies gathered to show off the latest advances...
Tumblr’s Twitter-parody blue checks have actually boosted its revenue
[ad_1] Back in November 2022, Tumblr saw an opportunity in Twitter's blue-check verification scheme. Parodying the $8 blue check offered...
Fake news tweets take off as Twitter blue checks go up for sale
[ad_1] Elon Musk's Twitter dropped its new pay-for-play verification checkmark on Wednesday (Nov. 9) and, shocker, it was a huge...
Tiger Global, fickle checks and the difficulty of acceleration • TechCrunch
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Datafold launches open-source diffing tool to execute data validation checks
[ad_1] To further strengthen our commitment to providing industry-leading coverage of data technology, VentureBeat is excited to welcome Andrew Brust...
