Twitter owner, Elon Musk, has enlisted hacker George Hotz, also known as geohot, to help him fix Twitter. Hotz will work on Twitter's faulty search function. He will also try to fix the "nondismissable login pop up that users encounter after scrolling a bit."
Hotz employment with Twitter is an unpaid internship and will last for 12 weeks. It all began when the hacker criticized the Twitter engineers who were unwilling to be part of Musk's new Twitter following his acquisition of the social media company. Hotz then stated he'd do 12 weeks of unpaid internship at the company for the cost of living in San Francisco. When the tweet reached Musk's attention, he accepted the engineer's offer and gave him leave to try his hands at the problem.
Hotz came to the limelight when he hacked the PlayStation 3 and published explicit info for the Sony console over ten years ago. Sony later responded with a lawsuit. However, it was eventually settled out of court following Hotz's promise to stop meddling with the console. The vehicle automation software engineer is also notorious for jailbreaking the iPhone's carrier lock.
By the way, this is not the first such interaction between Musk and Hotz. Back in 2015, Hotz was in conversation with Musk for a role at Tesla. However, it never materialized because Musk kept changing the terms. At least, that was what Hotz stated during an interview with Bloomberg. Tesla, on the other hand, stated that Hotz's claims on his tech beating out their autopilot AI were extremely unlikely.
