Tag: Tech and Transformations
Twitter Files: Elon Musk’s trompe-l’oeil revelations about the “shadow ban”
“Do not amplify”. These three innocuous words can condemn you to wander in the limbo of Twitter for eternity… When they are attached to a profile in the internal version…
Twitter Blue: how does the paid subscription system wanted by Elon Musk work?
It was a month ago. On November 9, the launch of the new Twitter Blue, the paid subscription to authenticate your account on Elon Musk’s social network, was done in…
War in Ukraine: Microsoft, the “cyber-bulwark” against Russian attacks
Hours before our interview at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, north of Seattle, Tom Burt sent Kiev two new alerts about impending cyberattacks. It’s routine for this calm sixty-something who has…
Should we do without Microsoft and Google tools at school? Two experts debate
YES/ There are effective free and sovereign alternatives By Stefane Fermigier, co-president of the National Free Software Council (CNLL) This decision is not surprising. These office automation or videoconferencing tools,…
Vanessa Fara Rabesandratana (Ledger): “Vierzon is becoming attractive”
If Vanessa Fara Rabesandratana remains in the shadows, this is far from the case with the start-up she co-founded in 2014. Ledger has become the fifteenth French “unicorn”. Although she…
“Zero Covid”, geopolitical tensions: Apple’s Chinese trap
Beijing built a city for the iPhone. Or more exactly for its manufacturer, the Taiwanese group Foxconn. Zhengzhou is an agglomeration of 6 million inhabitants, capital of Henan province, 1400…
Plagiarism, cheating on exams… The revolution of AIs that create texts from scratch
Write a surrealist poem, a dissertation on the industrial revolution, a debate on censorship… ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new conversational robot knows how to write everything, just ask it. Launched a few…
is this the end of free social networks?
In this episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon analyzes the necessary transformation of social networks with Anne Cagan, head of the Tech section at L’Express. Listen to this episode and…
“A master manipulator”: after the FTX crash, the strange defense of Sam Bankman-Fried
Bankruptcies, John Jay Ray III has seen a parade. The experienced American liquidator was at the forefront of the iconic fall of energy giant Enron twenty years ago. Catapulted to…
Takeover of Activision by Microsoft: Lina Khan, the terror of American tech
The frustration must be strong. With the storm in global tech, the time has never been better for startup takeovers. But the mammoths of American tech must be content to…