The world’s largest technology companies, known as the “Silicon Six,” have paid nearly $278 billion less in corporate income tax over the past ten years than would be expected based on the average statutory tax rate for U.S. companies, according to a new report by the Fair Tax Foundation (FTF).
Apple has started assembling its latest iPhone 16e model in Brazil, marking a shift in the company’s production strategy as it aims to mitigate the impact of the ongoing trade war between the United States and China.
Minneapolis police have arrested a suspect for a string of Tesla vandalism incidents that resulted in $20,000 worth of damage.
Google has been found guilty of antitrust violations in the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets, marking the second time the tech giant has been ruled a monopolist within a year. Google is expected to appeal the verdict, and the split nature of the decision means a forced breakup action is unlikely.
A federal judge has ruled that Google illegally monopolized some online advertising technology markets, dealing a significant blow to the tech giant’s main revenue source.
The Wall Street Journal claims that world’s richest man Elon Musk has created a complex system of financial agreements and confidentiality requirements for the mothers of his numerous children, leading to worries that the children may “feel illegitimate.”
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg took the stand to face intense questioning by the FTC on Wednesday as the agency seeks to break up Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant.
4chan, the website that serves as a source of much of the internet’s meme culture, has been largely inaccessible since Monday night due to a significant hack, with the extent of the data breach uncertain.
Google is facing a class action lawsuit in the UK for £5 billion ($6.6 billion) in potential damages over allegations that the tech giant abused its stranglehold on the search market to drive up advertising prices.
During the ongoing antitrust trial against Meta, an email revealed that CEO Mark Zuckerberg contemplated separating Instagram from the company in 2018 due to the “non-trivial” risk the government would move to break up his social media empire.
As the Trump administration prioritizes winning the trade war against China, conservative leaders are asking Attorney General Pam Bondi and Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division Gail Slater to remove antitrust challenges that they argue hamstring the United States’ ability to compete with Huawei and the Chinese Communist Party in the global telecom market.
Hertz, the car rental giant that also owns the Dollar and Thrifty brands, is notifying customers of a data breach that compromised their personal information and driver’s licenses.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in federal court on Monday to defend his company against the FTC’s allegations that it acquired Instagram and WhatsApp to create a social media monopoly.
AMD has announced that its key processor chips will soon be produced at TSMC’s new facility in Arizona, marking the first time AMD’s products will be manufactured in the United States. The news comes on the heels of AI giant Nvidia announcing it will produce AI chips and supercomputers in Arizona and Texas.
The FTC’s high-stakes antitrust lawsuit against Meta kicked off today with opening arguments in Washington, DC. Mark Zuckerberg is expected to take the stand to defend his company against the federal government’s claims that the acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp should never have been approved.
Nvidia has announced plans to build AI supercomputers in Texas and invest up to $500 billion in AI production within the United States.
Blue Origin successfully launched and landed its first all-female crew, a star-studded group including pop star Katy Perry, television host Gayle King, and Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez , on Monday morning. The 11-minute flight took the women to the edge of space.
Apple, America’s largest company by market capitalization, is grappling with the intensifying trade war between the U.S. and China. Analysts believe the tech giant is left without clear short-term options to mitigate the impact of tariffs on Chinese imports.
Researchers at security firm SentinelOne have uncovered a large-scale spam campaign that leveraged an OpenAI chatbot to generate unique messages, bypassing spam filters and inundating more than 80,000 websites over a four-month period. Once again crooks are at the vanguard of exploiting AI for illicit gains.
Apple reportedly airshipped a staggering 600 tons of iPhones from its production facility in India to the United States to avoid Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs. The tech giant, at grave risk due to tariffs on China, has expedited the shipment of 1.5 million iPhones since March.
Tesla has halted new orders for its Model S and Model X vehicles in China as the communist country and the USA exchange blows in an escalating trade war. Unlike several other Tesla EVs, Elon Musk’s company exports the S and X models to China from the United States.
Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a “universal” checkout experience, has been charged with defrauding investors. Far from AI assisting shoppers, human contractors in the Philippines were manually completing customers’ transactions.
The FBI is leading an investigation into an act of domestic terrorism that caused an explosion and fire at a Tesla charging station in Lacey, Washington, this week.
The legal battle between OpenAI and its estranged co-founder Elon Musk escalated on Wednesday as the AI company filed a countersuit against the billionaire tech kingpin.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the tech giant formerly known as Facebook, is gearing up for a historic antitrust fight with the FTC set to begin on Monday. The lawsuit, filed during Donald Trump’s first term in office, will determine if Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp were designed to put a stranglehold on the social media market.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook executive, is set to testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee today, claiming that Meta executives undermined U.S. national security and briefed Chinese officials on emerging technologies like AI.
A man from the greater Boston area has been arrested for allegedly vandalizing several Tesla vehicles at a local dealership, as acts of vandalism and domestic terrorism against Elon Musk and his car company continue to escalate around the country.
As U.S. companies hire for remote positions, they face a growing threat from fraudsters using AI tools to create fake identities and credentials. These fake employees then use their company access to cause havoc with malware.
Tesla’s Sentry Mode, a security feature that uses the vehicle’s cameras to record activity around the car when it’s locked and parked, has been responsible for capturing acts of vandalism targeted against Elon Musk and Donald Trump around the country.
Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly lobbying the Trump administration to drop a pivotal FTC case against the company, in what would amount to a major political favor for Meta. Despite Zuckerberg’s multiple olive branches to the Turmp administration, a number of high-profile, pro-MAGA voices are still banned on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms.
Nintendo is facing criticism over the high price tag of its upcoming Switch 2 console, which is set to launch at $450 in the U.S. Despite leftists eager to blame Donald Trump’s tariffs for the console’s high price, Nintendo of America’s top boss has now said that tariffs had nothing to do with the hotly-anticipated gaming machine’s price.
Recent incidents of vandalism targeting Tesla vehicles with swastikas has raised questions amongst leftists about the limits and interpretation of hate crime laws. As violence and domestic terrorism by Trump haters against Elon Musk and Tesla escalate, many on the left are trying to excuse extreme acts of vandalism.
Metropolitan Police Department officials in Washington, D.C., have arrested a husband and wife duo for allegedly vandalizing Tesla vehicles with “political hate speech” as Trump haters escalate their campaign of domestic terrorism and violence against Elon Musk’s EV company. The husband is a former government bureaucrat and his wife is a mover and shaker in the NGO world.
LGBT advocates are sounding the alarm after Google’s YouTube discreetly removed language protecting “gender identity and expression” from its public hate speech policy this year. The change could be a sign that the video platform is moving towards free speech on contentious issues during Donald Trump’s second term.
Details are emerging about accused Tesla Terrorist Paul Hyon Kim, who was arrested for firebombing a Tesla facility in Las Vegas. The cinematographer is a rabid anti-Israel activist and has expressed his support for accused CEO assassin Luigi Mangione.
Microsoft has been pulling back on data center projects around the world, prompting questions about the company’s expectations for future demand of cloud and AI services.
A troubling trend has emerged on social media where marketers and scammers are creating AI-generated influencers with Down syndrome to sell pornography on platforms like OnlyFans.
Google Cloud is at the center of a Customs and Border Protection plan to modernize video surveillance towers that involves deploying machine learning along the southern border, despite previous assurances from the woke Silicon Valley giant to its leftist employees that it was not involved in such projects.
A 27-year-old Portland man has been arrested for allegedly shining a laser inside a Tesla dealership, causing vision problems and discomfort for employees.
EU regulators are gearing up to impose massive fines exceeding $1 billion on Elon Musk’s X for alleged violations of a landmark law aimed at censoring online discussions.
