He says that “almost every aspect of X” has been rebuilt while he was head of product, including its timeline, Android app, chat, and notifications. Going forward, the “next leaders” mentioned are Benji Taylor leading design with iOS lead Jonah Katz and Mridul Singhai leading the product team. Bier previously co-founded the startups tbh (acquired
Out of the dozens of services I’ve tested, Home Chef is my favorite meal kit service for beginner cooks. It’s super user-friendly thanks to the detailed instructions and simple, delicious recipes. If you’re experienced in the kitchen, you’ll still love the end results, but this service is especially great for cooks building their confidence. Every
Nikita Bier has stepped down as head of product at X, Elon Musk’s social media platform, after a little more than a year in the role. Bier wrote Wednesday that he thinks it’s “time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster,” adding that he’ll continue to advise the company.
Apple’s iCloud Private Relay feature is designed to obscure your web traffic so sites like advertisers, unscrupulous governments or malicious attackers can’t trace that traffic back to you. But it turns out the mechanism isn’t actually as private as Apple says. As reported by 404 Media, security researchers at software company Mysk discovered that even with
xAI’s Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a “massive improvement” over Wikipedia, apparently hasn’t been updated since April 24th, according to a report from Lawfare. “As far as we can tell, no entry has changed in more than three months,” Lawfare said. Grokipedia launched in v0.1 in
In a talk that was a last-minute addition to the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, employees from OpenAI presented new details about a recent, high-profile incident of rogue AI hacking that has created a maelstrom within the AI and cybersecurity industries. About two weeks ago, OpenAI disclosed an incident in which