Top tech news for Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Happy Tuesday, everything is broken. Most importantly, late Monday night, T-Mobile experienced what appears to be a fairly large outage across the US, with thousands of customers from California to New York reporting being unable to make calls or use other basic network services. T-Mobile says it now works at “near normal levelsSo hopefully your own connection will be restored by the time you read this.
Next on the fractions list is Twitter, whose “For You” feed has been dominated by Elon. The man himself says that Twitter is currently adjusting the algorithm, presumably to solve the problem. But look, the important context here is that Musk reportedly recently fired a senior employee in a discussion about his tank engagement numbers. Maybe this “bug” is just Twitter’s remaining staff covering their asses?
And now, here’s a silly tweet to start your day: