Pebble, a social network that branded itself as a “friendly” alternative to Elon Musk’s X/Twitter, and built by a team primarily made up of former Twitter employees, has announced its decision to cease operations due to financial constraints and a challenging competitive landscape.
Tesla is embroiled in a high-stakes legal battle over a fatal accident allegedly caused by a malfunction in its Autopilot system. In the latest twist in this legal drama, the plaintiffs are claiming that Elon Musk’s company knew about malfunctions in its “Autopilot” software two years before the fatal crash occurred.
Honda and General Motors have ended a joint venture aimed at creating a new range of cost-effective electric vehicles (EVs).
The surviving members of The Beatles have announced their so-called final song “Now and Then” is set to be released November 2.
George Washington University President Ellen Granberg responded to the students that projected pro-terror, anti-Israel messages onto a library on the school’s campus in the wake of the Palestinian terror group Hamas murdering more than 1,300 Jews in Israel, saying the messages were “antisemitic” and were in violation of university policy. Her weak comment on disciplining the students is that the school “will take appropriate steps in accordance with university policies.”
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), immediately began a pressure campaign to discredit the Hunter Biden “Laptop from Hell” story in 2020, newly disclosed documents show.
The new Speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) previously blasted Twitter for acting as an “FBI subsidiary” in the years before Elon Musk took over the company.
A significant number of the world’s leading advertisers have withdrawn their ads from X, formerly known as Twitter, following its acquisition by Elon Musk. According to new market data from consulting firm Ebiquity, big brands have not returned to X/Twitter.
An FBI investigation has uncovered a shadowy “cash-for-Bitcoin” scheme in New York City, where a group has been accused of laundering at least $30 million through a covert service aimed at helping crooks wash cryptocurrency they steal.
Woke tech giant Google has been ordered to pay $1.1 million to Ulku Rowe, a female executive at Google Cloud, following a jury’s verdict in a gender discrimination lawsuit. Rowe sued Google claiming that not only was she paid less than her less-experienced male counterparts, but that the leftist Silicon Valley company retaliated against her when she raised concerns.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) suspended the robotaxi permit of self-driving car company Cruise “effective immediately,” saying the General Motors-backed company’s driverless vehicles “are not safe for public operation.”
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, formerly Facebook, is being sued by 42 U.S. states in multiple lawsuits accusing the tech giant of harming young people’s mental health with addictive Facebook and Instagram features. The states, however, have not filed a similar complaint against the Chinese-owned app TikTok, which has shown itself to be a danger to young people.
Students at George Washington University projected pro-terror, anti-Israel messages onto a school library in the wake of the Palestinian terror group Hamas murdering more than 1,300 Jews in Israel.
A new data “poisoning” tool is reportedly giving artists the ability to fight back against generative AI, causing artificial intelligence training data to become scrambled when tech giants scrape their original work. As one artist explains, “It is going to make [AI companies] think twice, because they have the possibility of destroying their entire model by taking our work without our consent.”
Okta, an identity and authentication management software company whose products are widely used in business and education, has fallen victim to a security breach where hackers accessed sensitive customer information through its customer support management system.
X/Twitter owner Elon Musk slammed Wikipedia dysfunction on Monday, condemning the site for the biases of its hierarchy of elite editors, rejecting comparisons to his platform’s Community Notes feature, which does not have different tiers of editors. Musk couldn’t help trolling Wikipedia boss Jimmy Wales, responding with the site’s regular plea for donations with an offer of $1 billion if it changes its name to “Dickipedia.”
The world of robocalling is evolving, with generative AI now enabling scammers to mimic the voices of people we know, making fraudulent calls seem more trustworthy and heightening the risk of successful scams.
Convoy, a digital freight booking company, has announced its shutdown due to the inability to find a suitable buyer amidst a challenging freight recession. The company’s failure is especially embarrassing given that it counted creepy billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates as prominent supporters.
Elon Musk’s X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, is shrinking under his leadership, according to new data from the mobile research firm Apptopia. A significant decrease in daily active users has created a growing gap between people who use the app every day and those who log in as little as once a month.
A staffer at the conservative student group Turning Point USA was attacked by a pro-Hamas mob near a pro-Israel rally in Skokie, Illinois, on Sunday, the organization said. The attack in the heavily Jewish suburb of Chicago, which included the staffer being hit with a flag pole, was caught on video.
A divided Supreme Court ruled the Biden White House can resume censoring conservatives on social media for now; Alito called it “highly disturbing.”
Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) held a conference in May regarding “harm reduction” that featured a panel on denouncing “whiteness.”
Pedophiles are using AI to generate “astoundingly realistic” child sexual abuse images that many people may find “indistinguishable” from real pictures, an online safety group has warned.
Consortium News, a news website focused on foreign policy founded by an award-winning journalist who helped break the Iran-Contra story in the 1980s, is suing NewsGuard and the U.S. government over alleged collaboration to suppress its reporting, which is critical of U.S. foreign policy.
Giant music publishers including Universal Music have taken legal action against artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, accusing it of unlawfully using copyrighted song lyrics to enhance its chatbot technology.
Amazon is reportedly testing humanoid robots and a new sorting technology, aiming to enhance automation and efficiency in its warehouses. The technologies could have a troubling impact on the number of humans employed in the e-commerce giant’s extensive network of warehouses.
Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave has stepped down from his position following a storm of controversy stirred by his remarks on Israel and Hamas.
A 1981 DeLorean, the famed time-travel car from the 1985 film Back to the Future, shocked car enthusiasts when one was found with just 977 miles on the odometer in a Wisconsin barn.
Jon Stewart clashed with Apple TV+ over subject matter for his show, such as China, where Apple does big business.
A Tesla-owning couple in Edinburgh, Scotland, were left speechless when they received a colossal repair bill of $20,698 from Elon Musk’s car company to fix their EV’s battery. Tesla blamed “rainwater ingress” for turning the electric car into an pile of junk.
The FTC is contemplating an investigation into Microsoft’s adherence to cybersecurity commitments following the massive email hack the revealed troubling vulnerabilities in the tech giant’s defense mechanisms. Hackers were able to access sensitive information in corporate and government email system thanks to Microsoft’s security failures.
China on Wednesday launched its “Global Artificial Intelligence Governance Initiative” at the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) forum in Beijing.
A Columbia University Professor slammed “coward” university professors over their responses — or lack thereof — to “pro-terror student organizations” in the wake of the mass murder of Jews in Israel by Hamas.
Climate worrier Greta Thunberg deleted her post calling for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire “in solidarity with Palestine and Gaza” after the public noticed that she had an octopus in her photo, in reference to Nazi propaganda that depicted Jews as an octopus with tentacles all over the world.
Apple TV+ has about 12 million subscribers, and only 40,000 were tuning in to watch Jon Stewart. Now that’s funny.
In an attempt to enhance revenue streams and user experience, X, formerly known as Twitter, is set to introduce two new subscription tiers, as announced by the company’s owner, Elon Musk.
Millions of user records from DNA testing company 23andMe have been leaked online by a hacker, marking the second significant breach in recent weeks.
Elon Musk’s Tesla is championing a call for the implementation of stricter fuel economy standards and the termination of a credit program that currently benefits automakers selling gas-powered vehicles alongside electric vehicles (EVs).
North Korea and other “nation-state criminal actors” are attempting to use artificial intelligence to write “malicious software,” a U.S. security official said Wednesday, in what appears to be the first time the U.S. government has publicly confirmed the use of AI in cyber warfare.
An official social media account for the nation of Israel slammed Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg for launching a strike “in solidarity with Palestine and Gaza” after Hamas terrorists slaughtered at least 1,400 people inside the Jewish state and wounded 3,800 more.
