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  • Tutorial class / section of a course during an English lesson in a school library at the “lycee prive Saint Francois de Sales de Troyes” private secondary / high school (10). Students, Secondary / high school students’, team work, guidance. (Photo by: Andia/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Tech

    Schools declare war against a new tech tool that students can use to cheat

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Satya NadellaTech

    Microsoft just got its first ever labor union in the U.S.—and it’s the largest in the history of the video game industry

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • a Microsoft logo on the side of an office buildingTech

    Microsoft just got its first U.S. labor union for jobs that are traditionally ‘treated poorly, paid very little, and treated as replaceable cogs’

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • The Activision Blizzard Booth during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, June 13, 2013. Microsoft is headed for a battle with the Federal Trade Commission, filing a formal challenge Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022, over whether the U.S. will block the tech giant’s planned takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)Tech

    Microsoft steps up to antitrust fight with FTC over $69 billion Activision acquisition

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • UKRAINE – 2022/04/26: In this photo illustration, Twitter logo is seen on a smartphone screen and Elon Musk Twitter webpage in the background. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Tech

    Elon Musk’s Twitter says users can no longer link to ‘prohibited platforms’ Facebook, Instagram, or Mastodon

    By Matt O'Brien, Brian P.D. Hannon, and others
  • Elon MuskTech

    Elon Musk reinstates suspended journalists as rift deepens between Twitter and media organizations: ‘Self-inflicted wound’

    By Mae Anderson, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • Elon MuskTech

    The guy who tracks Elon Musk’s private jet says his Twitter account was suspended without any explanation of what rule he broke

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives at court during the SolarCity trial in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Musk was cool but combative as he testified in a Delaware courtroom that Tesla’s more than $2 billion acquisition of SolarCity in 2016 wasn’t a bailout of the struggling solar provider. Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Twitter declares war on sharing location information about others after banning an account that tracks Elon Musk’s private jet

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • FILE – SpaceX’s Elon Musk waves while providing an update on Starship, on Feb. 10, 2022, near Brownsville, Texas. Musk’s Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, the advisory group of around 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations that the company formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform. The council had been scheduled to meet with Twitter representatives Monday night, Dec. 12. But Twitter informed the group via email that it was disbanding it shortly before the meeting was to take place, according to multiple members. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald via AP, File)Tech

    Here’s how Elon Musk is changing what appears on your Twitter feed

    By Matt O'Brien, Barbara Ortutay, and others
  • FILE – SpaceX’s Elon Musk waves while providing an update on Starship, on Feb. 10, 2022, near Brownsville, Texas. Musk’s Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, the advisory group of around 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations that the company formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform. The council had been scheduled to meet with Twitter representatives Monday night, Dec. 12. But Twitter informed the group via email that it was disbanding it shortly before the meeting was to take place, according to multiple members. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald via AP, File)Tech

    Musk’s Twitter dissolves its Trust and Safety Council moments before it was to meet with the company

    By Matt O'Brien, Barbara Ortutay, and others
  • THE US ARMY OF THE 'FUTURE' AT FORT IRWINTech

    Pentagon cloud contract to be shared by Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle in $9 billion deal

    By Tara Copp, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • Elon MuskTech

    Elon Musk fires outsourced content moderators who track hate and harmful posts on Twitter

    By Barbara Ortutay, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • Twitter officesTech

    As Musk warns of Twitter’s potential collapse and a pivotal content moderation exec departs, the FTC voices ‘deep concern’

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Elon Musk.Tech

    Musk says ending remote work is the only way to save the bird: ‘There is a good chance Twitter will not survive the upcoming economic downturn’

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Twitter headquarters is shown in San Francisco on Nov. 4, 2022. Twitter said Tuesday, Nov. 8, that it will add a gray “official” label to some high-profile accounts to indicate that they are authentic, the latest twist in new owner Elon Musk’s chaotic overhaul of the platform’s verification system. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)Tech

    ‘I don’t know what marketer wants to go near that’: Advertisers unconvinced after Musk tries to reassure them that Twitter chaos won’t hurt them

    By Matt O'Brien, Mae Anderson, and others