Slack’s big 2023 redesign has been rolling out for the past couple of months now, so there’s a solid chance it’s running on most or all of your workspaces.
As with most redesigns, the new look has been divisive, with users bemoaning its extra navigation layers and (for a time, at least) missing functionality. Fast Company polled readers on LinkedIn this week and found that only 17% of respondents said they loved it. The plurality had mixed feelings, at 41%.
Rebrands are rarely popular. When Twitter became X, it was a “bad joke.” When SunTrust and BB&T became Truist, the brand evoked “toothpaste” and “linoleum.” When Philip Morris became Altria, “names [were] changed to protect the guilty.”
So eye-rolling was to be expected when social media giant Facebook announced on October 28, 2021 that the company was changing its name to Meta.
At the time, some critics viewed the re
Innovation is constant in technology, and unfortunately this applies to cybercriminals as well. As long as new software, systems, and devices are being developed and launched into the world, there will always be someone looking for soft spots to exploit. With October being Cybersecurity Awareness Month, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on how the AI innovations of the past year have had an impact on cybersecurity as a whole.
Defenders have always been at a disadvantage due
Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense case is finally being presented. The crux of that case is, essentially, that he has an explanation for everything.
After weeks of prosecution testimony in which the defense neither scored points nor sold a story, Bankman-Fried took the stand Friday to give his version of events.
Bankman-Fried is presumably carefully coached. During breaks in testimony, his parents rushed to a small conference room with the image adviser they’ve hir
Vintage is hot these days, which means you can find items that went out of style decades ago at the most fashionable stores for the young and hip. First, records and record players, which you used to only be able to find at thrift shops, were popping up in trendy stores. Now, your useless old iPod is officially on trend.
If iPods being “vintage” makes you feel old, you’re not alone. But the 2001 invention is now considered “a genuine piece of vintage retr
From applicant tracking systems to AI-powered recruitment tools built for speed, automation in the hiring process is here to stay. But how and how much automation should be incorporated into the process continues to be a big topic of debate among job seekers and hiring managers.
Now an interesting new survey from the Harris Poll and the employment platform Indeed has revealed that companies may risk turning off older job candidates if they lean too heavily on robot overlords when hi
When Elon Musk began to transform Twitter into X, a slew of people who had either once worked for the platform or were simply ardent users launched various efforts to build better alternatives. One of them was Gabor Cselle, who from 2014 to 2016 worked as a group product manager at Twitter, tweaking the timeline and new-user experience.
Cselle’s product, T2—which later rebranded to Pebble—was designed to be a kinder, safer alternative to Twitter. Trust and safet
Forty-one states and the District of Columbia filed lawsuits against Meta on Oct. 24, 2023, alleging that the company intentionally designed Facebook and Instagram with features that harm teens and young users.
Meta officials had internal research in March 2020 showing that Instagram—the social media platform most used by adolescents after TikTok—is harmful to teen girls’ body image and wellbeing. But the company swept those findings under th
One year ago, Elon Musk took over Twitter. The acquisition was the culmination of a blistering six months in which one of the world’s richest men campaigned vehemently to buy the company, then tried equally hard to wriggle out of the deal, before finally accepting defeat.
He marched into Twitter’s offices on October 26, 2022, carrying a detached bathroom sink. “Let that sink in!” he tweeted. Hilarious. The next day, the deal was complete and Musk was the
Put the child of two lawyers on the stand, and he’ll answer questions like a lawyer, or so Sam Bankman-Fried indicated in what looked to be a preview of his trial testimony scheduled for Friday.
Bankman-Fried, facing federal fraud charges, took the stand after lunch Thursday in a hearing conducted without the jury present so that Judge Lewis A. Kaplan could evaluate some legal issues ahead of the defendant’s anticipated testimony in front of the jury.
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