CNN – Social Media/Technology

By Clare Duffy and Brian Fung, CNN Business Twitter lacks the resources and motivation to search for and remove foreign intelligence threats within its operations even as it has received warnings of possible spies in its ranks, former head of security Peiter “Mudge” Zatko told lawmakers in his first public appearance since blowing the whistle

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Uber and one of its subsidiaries paid $100 million to New Jersey after an audit by the state’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development determined the ride-share company improperly classified hundreds of thousands of drivers as independent contractors. Workers classified as independent contractors don’t receive benefits such as unemployment, temporary

By Donie O’Sullivan, Brian Fung and Sean Lyngaas, CNN Extreme heat in California has left Twitter without one of its key data centers, and a company executive warned in an internal memo obtained by CNN that another outage elsewhere could result in the service going dark for some of its users. Twitter, like all major

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple on Monday released its next-generation mobile software, iOS 16, with new features that allow users to personalize their iPhone lock screens and change how they text friends through iMessage. Among the most anticipated changes is the ability to edit and unsend recently sent iMessages, or mark the messages

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Twitter on Monday pushed back at a new attempt by Elon Musk to walk away from their $44 billion acquisition deal over a payment the company is said to have made to a former employee who later turned whistleblower, calling the billionaire’s move “invalid and wrongful.” Musk on Friday sent

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business A Blue Origin rocket experienced a “booster failure” during an uncrewed launch of its New Shepard rocket from West Texas on Monday morning, triggering an abort system that allowed the capsule to parachute to Earth. “This was a payload mission with no astronauts on board. The capsule escape system functioned

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business The days of using a paper clip to perform microsurgery to extract a tiny SIM card from a little tray in your iPhone may be coming to an end. At its closely-watched press event this week, Apple revealed that it is ditching the physical SIM cards and trays on its

By Reuters Tesla Inc (TSLA) is considering setting up a lithium refinery on the gulf coast of Texas, as it looks to secure supply of the key component used in batteries amid surging demand for electric vehicles. The potential battery-grade lithium hydroxide refining facility, which Tesla touted as the first of its kind in North

By Matt Egan, CNN Business Digital World Acquisition Corp., the blank-check firm seeking to merge with former President Donald Trump’s media venture, announced Friday it will avoid an imminent liquidation. Digital World failed to receive shareholder approval by Thursday’s deadline to extend its merger agreement. However, the shell company said in a Friday filing it