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Biden’s @POTUS account retweets Elmo

President Joe Biden’s @POTUS X account responded to a post from the account of the “Sesame Street” character Elmo. Tuesday’s tweet from the president’s account came after an earlier post on the Elmo account went viral.Monday, Red Monster social media accounts posed A seemingly innocuous question, “Elmo is just checking in! How’s everyone doing?” But […]

IBM offers employees new retirement account that looks a lot like a pension – Yahoo Finance

On January 1, IBM put the brakes on the 5% salary-to-dollar competition for employees in its 401(k) plans and began offering portable “retirement accounts” to most of its U.S. employees. In other words, the company has eliminated some defined contribution plans and added something like an old-fashioned pension. While traditional defined benefit pension plans remain […]

SEC account hack result of ‘SIM swap’ attack, agency says

The hacking of the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) account earlier this month was the result of a “SIM swap” attack, an agency spokesperson announced Tuesday. An “unauthorized party” used SIM swapping to gain control of the phone number associated with the SEC's X account and reset the […]

X launches dedicated Payments account, crypto community speculates – Cointelegraph

Elon Musk's “everything app” There is. X App is expected to introduce in-app payment services by mid-2024. However, it has not been confirmed whether this feature will support payments beyond traditional fiat currencies. X, @XPayments account on January 21st. Source: X This account has no posts yet, but it has a gold badge to indicate […]

SEC, Gensler face bipartisan backlash over X account hack

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler said after the agency's social media accounts were hacked last week and falsely claimed to have approved several much-anticipated Bitcoin investment funds. It faces bipartisan political backlash. The SEC ultimately approved an exchange-traded fund (ETF) to hold Bitcoin about 24 hours later, but the agency's high-profile blunder […]