It's been a rough week for YouTube's biggest star. Felix Kjellberg — better known to his 53 million subscribers as PewDiePie — was dropped by Disney earlier this week after a Wall Street Journal inquiry regarding Kjellberg's use of racial humour and Nazi imagery; yesterday YouTube itself cut his channel out of "Google Preferred" advertising. Big names on the platform are rushing to Kjellberg's defence today.
This one is a cliffhanger people.
The much-maligned Verizon-Yahoo deal just keeps getting sadder. According to various reports, Verizon is close to revising its deal with fallen tech giant — a move that would slash the price of the deal by about $US250 million ($324 million).
The mid-season premiere of The Walking Dead didn't just have zombies and baseball bats. Match.com launched a live online viewing party where TWD fans could chat about the show, and maybe find someone to bump undead uglies with.
Ecuador's foremost pain in the arse can finally stop tweeting in the third person as @Wikileaks, as he's been doing since 2008. Lets give a hearty (if perplexed) congrats to Julian Assange for "joining" Twitter.
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has taken some major heat from her employees for continuing to advise US President Trump, and that seems likely to continue in the near future. Rometty recently sent out a new internal memo defending her collaboration with the Trump administration, and like every IBM statement to come before it, the whole thing is pretty weak.
Last Thursday, Tesla's plant in Fremont, California — where all the company's cars are manufactured — was thrown a curveball. Jose Moran, a worker trying to rally the plant's 6000+ employees to join the United Auto Workers union (UAW), alleged long hours, low pay and potentially unsafe equipment in a post. Now Tesla CEO Elon Musk has told Gizmodo he intends to look into the situation.
Video: HP's slick new video series — promoting network printer security, of all things, and by proxy selling its own network printers — stars Christian Slater as the Wolf, a hacker taking down big businesses while dressed to impress.
This op-ed from NBN's chief executive Bill Morrow is being posted to the National Broadband Network company's blog today, and is being republished here in full by Gizmodo. Do you agree with his explanation? Do you disagree? Let us know in the comments.
Magic Leap, the mysterious augmented reality company with no actual product, continues to self-destruct. A new lawsuit filed today in Southern Florida District Court accuses the company of creating a hostile workplace for women and of using misleading marketing materials to depict the product's capabilities.
