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Green Trucks, Red Ink: Rivian Loses $33,000 for Every Electric Pickup Sold

Rivian Automotive, a market leader in producing electric pickup trucks, has struggled with producing electric vehicles (EVs) that can accomplish tasks their gasoline engine counterparts handle with ease. A new report from the Wall Street Journal shows the company also struggles with profitability. The company reportedly loses an average of $33,000 for every truck it sells.

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe

PragerU Video on the Importance of Columbus Day Features Breitbart News Reporter Alana Mastrangelo

PragerU has published a video on the importance of Columbus Day featuring Breitbart News reporter Alana Mastrangelo, who has stern words for woke leftists attempting to erase the holiday. Mastrangelo explains, “Here’s what this is really about. This is cultural Marxism. And one of the central tenets is to erase our history, so that we lose sight, not only of where we came from, but of who we are as a people.

Breitbart News reporter Alana Mastrangelo appears in a PragerU video on Columbus Day

Sick and Twisted: Scammers Target Parents with AI-Generated Copies of Their Children Begging for Help

A sophisticated and twisted new phone scam is targeting parents in New York City, with fraudsters utilizing advanced AI to mimic the distressed voices of their target’s children. One woman who was scammed by a call seeming to come from her 14-year-old daughter crying and claiming to have been arrested explains, “I’m aware it was really stupid – and I’m not a stupid person – but when you hear your child’s voice, screaming, crying, it just puts you on a different level.”

distressed woman on phone

Busted: Elon Musk’s Woke X/Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino Doesn’t Even Have the App on Her iPhone Home Screen

Linda Yaccarino, the newly appointed CEO of Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, has raised eyebrows by displaying an apparent lack of alignment with Musk’s plans and seemingly minimal engagement with the platform she leads during interviews at the recent Vox Code Conference. Yaccarino accidentally revealed on video that her company’s app isn’t even on her iPhone’s home screen.

Future Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino

State Department Emails Compromised by China Following Microsoft Hack

Hackers purportedly linked to the Chinese government infiltrated the State Department after hacking a Microsoft employee earlier this summer, pilfering around 60,000 emails from the inboxes of 10 employees, revealing sensitive information including travel itineraries and diplomatic deliberations.

Hacker in a dark hoody sitting in front of a notebook with digital Chinese flag background

Nobody Wants to Use Mark Zuckerberg’s X/Twitter Clone ‘Threads’

Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads, the social media platform launched by Facebook (now known as Meta) as a “sanely run” alternative to X/Twitter, is grappling with a significant decline in user attraction, ranking it near the bottom of the most popular social media platforms. A new analyst report has revealed that the troubled platform ranks only ahead of social media also ran Tumblr for user acquisition.

Mark Zuckerberg deep in thought (Drew Angerer /Getty)

Boss of Private Messaging App Signal Labels AI as ‘Surveillance Technology’

Meredith Whittaker, the president of private messaging app Signal, shed light on the intrinsic link between AI and Big Tech’s surveillance capitalism, emphasizing the profound implications of the technology on privacy and user data during her appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. Whittaker went so far as to label AI as “surveillance technology,” which may be why the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe are rushing to integrate AI into everything they do.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg closeup

Back from the Dead: Senate Democrats Urge FCC to Reinstate ‘Net Neutrality’

Twenty-seven Senate Democrats have written a letter urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reinstate Title II common carrier regulations on internet service providers, a regulatory move marketed to the public as “net neutrality,” little more than two weeks after the Biden White House appointed a new commissioner to the agency.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., walks through a Senate corridor after telling her Democra