Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has advocated for X to rethink its new geo-inference system. The call comes amid growing scrutiny of how tech firms collect and use customer data. Buterin Flags Privacy Risks in X’s Country Labels Social media platform X recently rolled out a new feature that shows the country of origin for user […]
It is “another milestone for the Everything App,” said X CEO Linda Yaccarino on Jan 28. “Visa is our first partner for the X Money account, which will debut later this year,” she added. The social media company will use Visa Direct, Visa’s solution for real-time money transfers, to load money into X Money’s wallet. […]
Dean Norris, best known for his role in Breaking Bad, has become the target of hackers again. His X account was recently compromised to promote a fraudulent meme coin named DEAN. Details from the Exploit An X user who shared a screenshot of the deleted posts described the incident as one of the “most believable” […]
On Aug. 12, X owner Elon Musk said there appeared to be a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack on the micro-blogging platform, “working on shutting it down.” A DDOS attack aims to disrupt a website or service by flooding the network with spurious traffic in an effort to prevent users from accessing the site. “As […]