A federal judge has ruled that major tech companies must face lawsuits brought by school districts alleging their social media apps have contributed to a mental health crisis among students. The lawsuits target Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, Google, China’s TikTok, and Snapchat.
They’re doing to Elon Musk in 2024 what they did to Mike Flynn in 2017. Now as then, it’s a direct challenge to the rule of law and to democratic procedure. And yes, Donald Trump, too, is a target, albeit indirectly.
Mint Sandstorm, the suspected Iranian state hackers who stole a trove of emails from several of former President Donald Trump’s campaign staffers this spring, reportedly succeeded in getting some of the pilfered documents published this fall, Reuters reported on Friday.
Keith Olbermann called for the “immediate” arrest of Elon Musk “operating on behalf of Russia,” and demanded President Joe Biden “lock him away in a military facility — now.”
CLAIM: Facebook will block new ads about politics, elections, and social issues in the week leading up to the 2024 election on November 5.
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R) has filed a lawsuit against China’s TikTok, accusing the social media giant of knowingly sharing addictive and harmful content with children and teens.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) has announced that he is investigating Google for “censoring conservative speech,” saying the tech giant is manipulating search results leading into “the most consequential election in our nation’s history.”
Apple CEO Tim Cook met with China’s Minister of Industry and Information Technology Jin Zhuanglong in Beijing this to discuss the company’s presence in the country, data security, and cloud services. The executive dubbed “Tim Apple” by President Donald Trump said, “Apple will continue to grow its investments in China and help the high-quality development of the supply chain.”
Crackdown sees seven charged in “first wave” of arrests against trolls of the creator of the Paris 2024 Olympics LGBT-themed ceremony.
A Florida woman has been arrested for allegedly instructing a 10-year-old girl to kill a two-month-old baby via the Roblox gaming platform, with the local sheriff saying he has “never seen anything quite like this.”
Elon Musk’s Tesla has posted significant third-quarter earnings growth, marking a turnaround from earlier struggles this year, while announcing major strategic shifts in its future vehicle lineup and autonomous driving initiatives.
A Florida mother has filed a lawsuit against Character.AI, claiming that her 14-year-old son committed suicide after becoming obsessed with a “Game of Thrones” chatbot on the AI app. When the suicidal teen chatted with an AI portraying a Game of Thrones character, the system told 14-year-old Sewell Setzer, “Please come home to me as soon as possible, my love.”
Facebook’s “Supreme Court” has ruled that Mark Zuckerberg’s social media platforms must unblock a satirical image depicting Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz as the idiotic main characters of the 1994 comedy Dumb and Dumber.
Former President Donald Trump claimed last week that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) never made an effort to persuade Tesla CEO Elon Musk to keep his company in the state before it set up its headquarters in Texas in 2021.
A-List actors including Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon, Rosario Dawson, and more have joined 11,500 Hollywood artists, producers, writers, actors, and other industry insiders to warn about the danger that artificial intelligence represents to creativity and human ingenuity.
Amazon’s popular livestreaming platform Twitch has apologized after Israeli users discovered they were unable to create new accounts, sparking accusations of antisemitism against the company. The company is also under fire for hosting a panel in which pro-Palestinian streamers ranked their peers from “Arab” to “Loves Sabra,” a reference to Israeli-born Jews.
News Corp., the parent company of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, has filed a lawsuit against AI-powered search startup Perplexity, accusing the company of copyright infringement for using their content to train its large language models.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate, a leftist pressure group associated with England’s Labour Party, is seeking to “Kill Musk’s Twitter” by harassing X advertisers in an apparent attempt to meddle in U.S. elections by causing the demise of one of the few social media platforms that allows people to speak freely without being easily banned. “This is war,” a furious Musk declared in response. Musk vows to “go after” the organization and its donors.
Billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates reportedly gave $50 million to a nonprofit organization supporting Vice President Kamala Harris.
Jack Sweeney, a college student known for tracking the private jet travel of wealthy celebrities, had his Meta Threads accounts abruptly suspended, raising questions about the platform’s stance on publicly available data.
Alcon Entertainment, the production company behind the sci-fi film Blade Runner 2049, has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk, Tesla, and Warner Bros. Discovery for alleged copyright infringement. The production company claims they denied Musk’s usage of material from the film due to his support of Donald Trump and his “highly politicized, capricious and arbitrary behavior, which sometimes veers into hate speech.”
A group of Silicon Valley power brokers, led by Elon Musk, are using their wealth and influence to help put Donald Trump back in the White House in 2024.
A conservative PAC is adopting a technologically-savvy strategy of Democrats to encourage turnout for Donald Trump in crucial swing states.
Science startup Heliospect Genomics is marketing a contentious service that allows wealthy couples to screen their IVF embryos for traits like intelligence, raising ethical concerns among experts. The service costs $50,000 to screen 100 embryos.
The U.S. military seeks to develop advanced AI capable of generating fake online personas that are indistinguishable from real people, according to a procurement document recently reviewed by the Intercept.
The once strong partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI, hailed as the “best bromance in tech,” is beginning to show cracks as financial pressures and differing priorities strain the relationship between the two companies.
Online AI chatbots are enabling users to generate explicit nude photos of real people with just a few clicks, raising alarms among experts about a looming “nightmarish scenario.”
The parents of a student in Massachusetts are taking legal action against their child’s high school for punishing him over the use of AI in a class assignment. According to the parent’s lawsuit, being punished for cheating with AI will cause “irreparable harm” to the student.
Vice President Kamala Harris is leaning on celebrities such as pop music superstars Usher and Taylor Swift to increase her support in the final stretch of the 2024 presidential campaign. In a press release on Friday, the Harris-Walz campaign revealed
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has initiated a probe into Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system after reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one incident that resulted in a pedestrian’s death.
Elon Musk spoke at a campaign rally on Thursday for former President Donald Trump in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he urged Trump supporters to make sure they are registered to vote and to talk to everyone they know about voting for the 45th president in order to save the United States and “the future of civilization.”
According to the Washington Post, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and its Instagram, Facebook, and Threads platforms are suppressing content related to the 2024 election, making it harder for users to discuss politics and voting. One influencer suffered from an astonishing 63 percent drop in audience just by mentioning the word “vote” on a post.
Microsoft has been continuing to warn that the U.S. is vulnerable to cyberattacks from China — yet has still maintained closed ties to Chinese government research institutes that could serve as the training grounds for the communist country’s army of hackers.
A leading Eurocrat has called for more controls on speech in order to confront the supposed scourge of “disinformation narratives” within the bloc.
She admits she’s never met him, but top European Commission figure says she’s sure Elon Musk has a problem with “evil”.
Vice President Kamala Harris been dominating Snapchat in the battle for young voters, partly due to the platform’s refusal to reinstate former President Donald Trump’s personal account while simultaneously begging his campaign to advertise on the platform.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has started laying off employees in various departments, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Reality Labs, as part of targeted reorganizations within specific teams.
A federal judge has largely denied Meta’s motion to dismiss claims brought by 34 states alleging that the company designed Facebook and Instagram to be addictive for young users, causing harm to children, local governments, and public health.
An admissions counselor at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, went on an unhinged social media rant, calling former President Donald Trump and his supporters “pieces of shit.”
Google has struck a deal with Kairos Power to build small modular nuclear reactors to power its AI data centers. The search giant joins Amazon and Microsoft in embracing nuclear energy to feed the insatiable power demands of artificial intelligence.
