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Two years ago, the tech world erupted into one of the ugliest gender-related scandals it has ever seen. Serial entrepreneur and one-time wunderkind who sold a company to for $40 million at the age of 16 and another one for $300 million at the age of 25, Gurbaksh Chahal pled guilty to misdemeanor battery and…
The first time I ever wrote something about Max Levchin, it was in BusinessWeek, and I cited as evidence of his calculating data obsession that he once graphed his girl friends’ bra sizes over time to see how his taste in women was changing. His PayPal mafia friends thought it was a little unfair. Said…
(Image: ZDNet) Senior Trump administration aides communicating over encrypted messaging apps may be violating federal record-keeping laws. The Wall Street Journal reported that political aides close to the president are using Signal, an end-to-end encrypted messaging app. And it’s not just in the White House. Aides close to the New York governor and the mayor…
Image Credit: Brad Jonas for Pando From The Gender Wars Desk This member-only article was unlocked for you by Doug Henwood. Unlock expires 1 day, 14 hours from now. For unlimited access to all of Pando, become a Pando member for just $10 a month. I first moved to Silicon Valley in 1999. I have seen no…
Do you want to log in or join Facebook? Security Key for safer logins with a touch People ask all the time what they can do to make their online accounts more secure. Like most security professionals, I recommend setting up two-factor authentication (login approvals). That means when you log into Facebook from a new…
storytext Uber’s CEO drove home a simple message to employees this week: We must work with President Trump. At the company’s weekly all hands meeting, CEO Travis Kalanick addressed concerns about his working relationship with Trump by claiming it’s necessary in order to fulfill Uber’s mission of improving global transportation. “We’ll partner with anyone in…
Trump and staff still use private email and bad security settings for Twitter [Updated] Update January 27: Following our coverage, the emails associated with President Trump’s @POTUS account were updated to what appears to be government addresses. “The most awesome stage” Last year, Facebook’s VP of Design thought the TNW Conference main stage was the…
Joe Trippi pioneered the use of social media as a fundraising tool. As campaign manager for Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean in 2004, he started a trend that has reinvented that way politicians run for office. But he believes that many politicians are still missing out on the power of the internet once they’re elected….
Trump is in power, and one of his first acts has been to gag government agencies. After the National Park Service bruised his ego by retweeting a New York Times tweet showing Trump’s inauguration numbers to be lower than President Obama’s 2009 crowd, they were ordered to stop all tweets, including scheduled ones. He then…
Image: Twitter White House Press Secretary and shouting ball of wax Sean Spicer has tweeted plenty of dumb things. (And who among us hasn’t?) This morning, though, he may have accidentally compromised the security of his Twitter account. At 8:42am Spicer sent a string of nonsense out to the world: “n9y25ah7.” It’s not long enough…