X, Y and Z Defendants

How Elon Musk’s X weaned me off Twitter for good (almost)

...I enjoyed its absurdist humour and inventiveness, such as a 2015 viral 148-tweet thread which started, “Y’all wanna hear a story about why me and this bitch fell out?...

December 30, 2023

SoftBank Group Corp

SoftBank accused of ‘destroying’ social media app to protect reputation

...Shafi and the other defendants “employed bots to make IRL appear as though it was a growing, thriving app”, SoftBank’s lawyers wrote....

November 15, 2023

FT Live

Attracting and Retaining Global Talent

How are countries, cities and companies competing for the best workforce?

Letter

Letter: Dust is yet to settle on the flexible working revolution

...Gen X, the cohort preceding millennials, and those with young families are in fact proving the most resistant to reversing remote working as they have truly been able to adapt....

February 26, 2024

X Corp

Lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X against anti-hate speech group dismissed

...This case is about punishing the defendants for their speech,” he wrote in the decision....

March 25, 2024

HTSI

The A-Z of the best kombuchas

...Its award-winning Citra Hops kombucha is made from a blend of green tea, earl grey, yerba mate and rooibos teas, laced with citra hops – deliciously tangy and dry. £32.99 for 12 x 330ml, amazon.co.uk The...

January 9, 2024

Letter

Letter: Insurers and banks don’t fail due to lack of capital

...So their response to every crisis is the same: capital must be raised from x to y without ever explaining why x was insufficient in the first place (and y won’t be either)....

March 28, 2024

FT Live

Crypto and Digital Assets Summit

Connecting leaders in crypto with mainstream finance

Unhedged podcast20 min listen

Listener Questions

...For a free 30-day trial to the Unhedged newsletter go to: https://www.ft.com/unhedgedoffer Follow Ethan Wu (@ethanywu) and Katie Martin (@katie_martin_fx) on X....

March 19, 2024

HTSI

10 delicious dishes

...Z.d.G....

April 11, 2024

News in-depthTesla Inc

Tesla’s ‘gravity-defying’ powers at risk as EV market slows

...More than 90 per cent of Tesla’s sales are the Model 3 and Model Y, vehicles with prices starting above $35,000....

April 5, 2024

Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast18 min listen

Samara Joy, 24-year-old jazz sensation

...Lilah is on Instagram @lilahrap and we’re on X @lifeandartpod. You can email us at lifeandart@ft.com. We are grateful for reviews, on Apple, Spotify etc....

February 26, 2024

Transcript

Transcript: Listener questions

...And whether that’s a good world or a bad — and that applies to the Gen Z, Gen X, baby boomers; everybody is playing in this sartorial free-for-all....

March 19, 2024

Jemima Kelly

In defence of the Gen Z challenge to the ‘work ethic’

...X (formerly Twitter) in recent days....

October 29, 2023

Letter

Letter: Declining birth rates are a symptom of a male malaise

...Recent polling is showing that boys and men from Gen Z are now more likely than older baby boomers to believe that feminism has done more harm than good. Young women think the opposite....

February 26, 2024

News updates from February 2: US adds 353,000 jobs in January, US hits Iraq and Syria after drone deaths

Tesla issues software fix for 2.2mn vehicles over warning light issue

...The action affects Tesla’s models 3, S, X and Y, as well as its Cybertruck. Tesla has begun rolling out a software update, the federal regulator said on Thursday....

February 2, 2024

Softbank Vision Fund

SoftBank’s Gen Z social media bust: was IRL the next Facebook or a fraud?

...In 2021, SoftBank’s Son was so taken by the pitch for the Gen Z app that he “wanted to meet within 48 hours and offered a $500mn investment”, Shafi has claimed — five times what the founder had suggested...

January 3, 2024

FT Live

US Pharma and Biotech Summit

Strategies for innovation, pricing and access

Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch

Boomers and millennials have each other’s backs

...Boomers are selfish and conservative, millennials altruistic and progressive....

October 6, 2023

FT Alphaville

FTAV’s further reading

...Elsewhere on Monday… — x.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?...

December 11, 2023

News in-depthMiddle East

Houthis blow open murky world of ship nationality

...“When the Houthis come out and say, ‘We’re going to target ships from X, Y and Z countries’, [it is] difficult to work out which ships fall into these categories,” he added....

March 5, 2024

Work & Careers

Quit-Tok: why young workers are refusing to leave their job quietly

...“I think Gen Z overall is very sceptical and a little bit nihilist,” Judge told the Financial Times....

March 18, 2024

Tesla Inc

Tesla must fix software in more than 2mn US vehicles after safety ruling

...The software update on 2.2mn vehicles covers Tesla’s 3, S, X and Y models and its new Cybertruck, almost every car the company has ever sold in the US, and was ordered because warning lights on the instrument...

February 2, 2024

Elizabeth Pears

Dolly vs Beyoncé: long live the battle for ‘Jolene’

...The rapper Lil Nas X also covered “Jolene”, and as a gay man singing to a woman teased a new level of complexity from it....

April 6, 2024

News updates from December 13: Fed signals rate cuts in 2024, BP former CEO to forfeit up to £32.4mn after ‘serious misconduct’

Tesla told to fix fault in 2mn cars’ partial-autonomy system

...The carmaker will issue a software fix for the models, which include all of its Model X, 3 and Y cars in the US that were fitted with Autosteer, the NHTSA said. Read more on Tesla here...

December 13, 2023

Instagram

Instagram overtakes TikTok in app downloads in race for new users

...Users spent an average of 95 minutes on TikTok in the fourth quarter of last year, compared with 62 minutes on Instagram, 30 minutes on X and 19 minutes on Snapchat....

March 8, 2024

Style

Last-minute gifts that don’t look last-minute

...Follow FTWeekend on Instagram and X, and subscribe to our podcast Life and Art wherever you listen...

December 8, 2023

Film

Girls State, the documentary offering ‘a crystal ball on the US’s political future’

...Much has already been written about Gen Z in this historic and fraught year for elections....

March 22, 2024

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