Twitter began verifying public figures to forestall scammers from distributing faux information. New proprietor Elon Musk, nonetheless, thinks the blue test is only a standing image, and one folks ought to pay for. The platform’s new proprietor has reportedly determined customers will want to join Twitter Blue to take care of verification, which can enhance to $20 a month. It’s additionally reported Musk has given Twitter staff till November seventh to implement the modifications, or he’ll begin firing folks.
I’m positive the blue test is, for some, little greater than a bragging proper, but it surely’s additionally Twitter’s repair to a reasonably knotty downside. Back within the day, it was straightforward sufficient to create an account posing as a revered newswire to pump out faux inventory data. The velocity of Twitter’s platform means folks can retweet one thing controversial a few inventory worth to their followers earlier than they’ve clocked it got here from the Well Street Jourral. Although, given Twitter’s new proprietor was accountable for the Funding Secured tweet, possibly that’s simply allowed now.
– Dan Cooper
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The 14- and 16-inch variants have been delayed.
If you have been hoping to snag a 14- or -16-inch M2 MacBook Pro earlier than the vacation season, brace your self. A brand new report suggests whereas Apple had deliberate to launch the high-end machines this fall, the corporate has kicked issues again. Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman now believes we gained’t see these fashions till March on the earliest. Hopefully, no one is dropping an excessive amount of sleep over it, particularly given simply how a lot energy the prevailing fashions are nonetheless throwing round.
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Netflix renews ‘The Witcher,’ recasts Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia
In Hollywood, all square-jawed hunks are replaceable.
Netflix’s widespread adaptation of The Witcher is getting a fourth season, however with out the star energy of its authentic main man. Henry Cavill, who performed Geralt of Rivia for the present’s first three seasons, is (reportedly) liberating up his schedule to as soon as once more play Superman. Taking his place on the present is Liam Hemsworth, the youngest member of the Hemsworth appearing clan, with a jaw that’s solely marginally much less sq. than his predecessor.
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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a picture of the solar ‘smiling’
A Happy Little Sun, there.
If Bob Ross have been alive right this moment, that is the kind of information that, I’m positive, would put a giant ol’ smile on his huge ol’ face. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured a picture of the solar the place it appears prefer it’s smiling. The reason behind that is little greater than the coincidental clustering of coronal holes, but it surely’s sufficiently cute that we think about it’ll be everybody’s desktop background for the subsequent month a minimum of.
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