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According to a recent report from the MIT Technology Review, a woman’s Roomba robot vacuum cleaner recently took photos of her on the toilet and somehow the photos ended up on Facebook, shared by gig workers in a foreign country.
A lawyer that is the mother of a Girl Scout was recently targeted by facial recognition tech and removed from an event at Radio City Music Hall due to Madison Square Garden Entertainment’s ongoing legal issues with her law firm — even though she personally has nothing to do with the litigation. One lawyer commented, “The fact they’re using facial recognition to do this is frightening. It’s un-American to do this.”
The FTC has reportedly fined Epic Games, the developers behind the megapopular Fortnite video game, $520 million over children’s privacy violations and item shop charges. All parents of Fortnite gamers are familiar with the incessant request of gamers to buy more “V-bucks,” the currency used to make in-game purchases.
According to a recently fired legal complaint, Tesla has been accused of firing two California-based employees in violation of labor laws for being part of a wider group that was discussing and drafting letters critical of CEO Elon Musk.
E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly agreed to settle two European Union antitrust cases related to the company’s alleged treatment of third-party sellers on its platform. The company will dodge any fines in relation to the cases.
Gary Wang, co-founder of FTX, and Caroline Ellison, former co-CEO of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research, have both pleaded guilty to federal offenses in the Southern District of New York, according to a statement released by U.S. Attorney Damian Williams this week.
Tesla CEO and Twitter owner Elon Musk has been arguing with Tesla investors in recent days as the electric car company’s stock price continues to plummet. Long-time Tesla bull Ross Gerber complained that Tesla has “no CEO,” while Musk steadfastly claimed that the drop in Tesla shares is strictly due to macroeconomic factors.
Disgraced FTX founder and Democrat super donor Sam Bankman-Fried has agreed to be extradited to the United States from the Bahamas, where he’s currently being held under charges of fraud.
According to information revealed in the latest Twitter Files release, the FBI paid Twitter over $3.4 million in U.S. tax dollars for “administration costs” related to the staff’s time spent working with the feds.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have both reportedly invested in Synchron, a new brain-computer interface startup that aims to compete with companies like Elon Musk’s Neuralink.
Shortly after facing major backlash over the introduction of a new policy that would see links to outside social media platforms banned on Twitter, Elon Musk posted a poll asking users to vote on whether he should continue as CEO. 57 percent of respondents voted that it was time for Musk to step down. Although it isn’t clear if Musk will actually step down, his Tesla shareholders are likely hoping he will.
A recent report from the New York Post claims that Twitter’s top ranks are filled with ex-FBI agents and executives. Many of these employees were swept away by Elon Musk’s massive layoffs, but some feds are likely still on the payroll.
KoGuan Leo, Tesla’s third-largest shareholder and self-professed Elon Musk fanboy is calling for Musk to step down as CEO, stating that he has “abandoned Tesla” and the company has “no working CEO.”
According to a recent study, TikTok suggests possible harmful content around topics such as self-harm and eating disorders to new users within minutes of joining the platform. The app is overwhelmingly popular with teens
Elon Musk’s Twitter has reportedly begun blocking links to many major Mastodon servers, one of the most popular Twitter alternatives, marking the site as “potentially harmful.”
During a recent Twitter Spaces discussion about the suspension of a number of journalists from Twitter, Elon Musk abruptly left the conversation. A few minutes later, the entire Spaces feature was disabled across the platform.
A former Twitter employee has been found guilty of spying on Twitter users on behalf of the Saudi royal family and has been sentenced to three years in prison.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sold more than $3.5 billion worth of Tesla stock this week in his second round of sales since purchasing Twitter. In early November, Musk sold $4 billion worth of Tesla shares. In a post that may explain the sale, Musk stated: “At risk of stating obvious, beware of debt in turbulent macroeconomic conditions, especially when Fed keeps raising rates.”
Twitter has blacklisted the account that published public information about the movement of Elon Musk’s private jet, claiming it violates the site’s rules. Elon Musk had previously called the account “free speech.”
Since Elon Musk’s takeover, many cost-cutting measures have been implemented at Twitter. Now, a recent report claims that the company is no longer paying rent on its San Francisco offices and is considering not paying severance to certain former employees.
Disgraced FTX founder and Democrat Super Donor Sam Bankman-Fried has reportedly been denied bail and will be held at the Bahamas’ notorious Fox Hill prison where conditions have been described as dangerous and cramped.
Disgraced FTX founder and Democrat super donor Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested on a number of charges including orchestrating a “years-long fraud.” Here are some of the previous allegations made against Bankman-Fried leading up to his arrest.
Elon Musk’s Twitter dissolved its Trust and Safety Council on Monday night. This comes days after three members of the council announced their resignation saying that contrary to Elon Musk’s claims, “the safety and wellbeing of Twitter’s users are on the decline.”
Elon Musk’s Twitter is auctioning off dozens of items including fancy espresso machines, memorabilia, and supplies from its San Francisco headquarters. Following a mass layoff of the company’s notoriously leftist staff, Musk apparently believes it is time to clean house in another way.
Elon Musk’s Twitter is set to relaunch its “Twitter Blue” feature today which will bring a number of changes to the company’s verification badge system. Along with some changes to its system, users who sign up via Apple iOS devices will pay a higher subscription price to account for the tech giant’s 30% “app tax.”
New Twitter owner Elon Musk recently appeared onstage with Dave Chappelle at one of the comedian’s recent shows at the Chase Center in San Francisco where he was loudly booed by the crowd.
The fourth part of the “Twitter Files” series was published Saturday night by journalist Michael Shellenberger, outlining how Twitter executives twisted the platform’s rules with the intention of blacklisting former President Donald Trump on January 7, 2020.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney recently stated that he’s willing to go to the Supreme Court to fight Apple’s control of the App Store, but hopes Congress steps in first. Commenting on the massive power shared by Google and Apple over apps, Sweeney said, “It’s incredibly dangerous to let the world’s most powerful corporation decide who can say what.”
In the latest Twitter Files exposé, it was revealed that Twitter shadowbanned accounts to suppress their reach and virality, especially prominent conservatives. There’s just one problem — these tools are almost identical to Elon Musk’s current policy of “freedom of speech, not freedom of reach.” Based on Musk’s comments, it seems unlikely any of the freshly exposed tools are going to be dropped from the platform, leaving Americans seeking free speech at the mercy of nebulous terms like “hate speech.”
Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter, has urged current CEO Elon Musk to release all “Twitter files” related to the Hunter Biden laptop story. Dorsey never released such information when he ran the company, choosing instead to run an astoundingly opaque company.
The Facebook Oversight Board, popularly known as the platform’s “Supreme Court,” said on Tuesday that the company’s controversial system that applies a different moderation process for posts from VIPs is set up to “satisfy business concerns” and risks doing harm to normal users. The board, stacked with leftists, believes the answer is more censorship.
Apple is reportedly being sued by two women who claim that the company’s AirTag tracking devices have made it easy for stalkers to track and harass victims.
Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company Neuralink is reportedly under federal investigation for possible animal-welfare violations after 1,500 animals were allegedly killed during testing. The investigation was reportedly sparked by massive employee backlash to the mass death of animals.
Twitter owner Elon Musk claims that Apple has “fully resumed” advertising on the social media platform following a meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook that apparently ended an escalating feud between the tech titans.