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Following a series of massive financial hits to his business, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is no longer one of the 10 richest people in America. He was unceremoniously dropped off the list following the loss of half of his fortune in the last year.

A recent report from the Wall Street Journal claims that e-commerce giant Amazon hired known dangerous trucking companies twice as often as its competitors.

A fire broke out at Elon Musk’s Tesla factory in Berlin, Germany, early Monday morning. The blaze was reportedly in the company’s recycling plant, leading to a local group isto call for a halt in production at the facility.Ber

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) has written a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai demanding that the tech giant provide answers on allegations that the giant throttled the online ads and reach of pregnancy resource centers.

A new lawsuit alleges that Facebook purposefully bypassed safeguards introduced by Apple last year to protect iPhone users from having their data tracked and collected by apps without their knowledge.

More than one million Tesla vehicles have been recalled due to a defect with the vehicles’ windows that means they can injure people due to not complying with federal standards for power windows.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently addressed employees at an all-hands meeting where he expressed his annoyance with the company’s leftist employees and their sense of entitlement. Pichai said, “I remember when Google was small and scrappy,” and added that, “We shouldn’t always equate fun with money.” The comments come in response to complaints that the company is “nickel-and-diming” employees.

Facebook (now known as Meta) is reportedly aiming to reduce costs by at least 10 percent and has been quietly laying off staff to conserve cash.

A recent report conducted by Facebook (now known as Meta) found that the company’s censorship practices violated the human rights of Palestinians — but makes no mention of Mark Zuckerberg’s impact on America and the rest of the world.

Google-owned YouTube has announced major changes to its YouTube Partner Program, allowing creators to earn ad revenue on Shorts, the company’s short-form video content competitor to TikTok. The move signals a major shift by the internet giant to compete with Communist China’s powerhouse social media platform.

The FTC has launched an investigation into tech giant Amazon’s proposed $1.7 billion purchase of iRobot, the company behind Roomba. The acquisition has raised privacy concerns as it may give the e-commerce giant the ability to map customers’ houses.

A Tesla Megapack battery caught fire at PG&E’s Elkhorn Battery Storage facility in Monterey County, California. A shelter-in-place advisory was in place for 12 hours due to fears of toxic smoke from the fire caused by Elon Musk’s battery system, with county officials announcing that even though the fire was “fully controlled” by 7:00 p.m. PT, “smoke may still occur in the area for several days.”

Ridesharing giant Uber recently announced that its systems had been infiltrated by a hacker, now the company is claiming that the hacker is affiliated with the Lapsus$ hacking group that made headlines last year after hacking companies including Microsoft and Nvidia.

Mark Zuckerberg’s insistence on pivoting Facebook (now known as Meta) to focus on a digital metaverse appears to be costing him dearly, with his fortune dropping by $71 billion, or about half his overall wealth, this year alone.

Yet another electric vehicle built by Elon Musk’s Tesla has caught fire and caused serious problems for firefighters attempting to extinguish the vehicle, this time taking over 25,000 gallons of water for firefighters in Stamford, Connecticut, to get the inferno under control.

Thieves in London are targeting gym goers as they exercise, copying credit cards and racking up charges in excess of $11,000. Although recent reports are in the UK, similar scams could pop up anywhere — here’s how to protect yourself.

The head of mobility services for German electronics giant Robert Bosch GmbH has warned the electric vehicle industry of the reliance on battery cells and possible shortages in the future.

Footage of the upcoming video game Grand Theft Auto VI has been leaked by an individual claiming to be the same hacker behind the recent Uber infiltration.

More than three months after Elon Musk announced Tesla employees must return to the office, the company still doesn’t have the room or resources to for its workforce, ranging from a lack of parking to not enough office chairs, according to sources.

Ridesharing giant Uber says that is investigating a “cybersecurity incident” after a hacker claiming to be just 18 years old stated that they have administrator access to company tools.

The filmmakers behind the new film Beautiful Blue Eyes, which stars the late Roy Scheider as a Holocaust survivor, say that Facebook has banned them from advertising or promoting the movie as the title breaches its policy against content that “includes direct or indirect assertions or implications about a person’s race.” After Breitbart News requested comment from Mark Zuckerberg and the Masters of the Universe, the company claimed the banning was “made in error.”

A Canadian Tesla owner claims that after the battery on his $140,000 car died, the automaker told him a replacement would cost $26,000 and locked him out of the vehicle until he pays for a new one.

TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas recently testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, stating that the company will not commit to stopping the transfer of U.S. data to China. 

California has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, alleging that the company violated state competition law through its pricing rules.

A recent report claims that Facebook has been spying on the private messages of American users and reporting them to the FBI if they express anti-government sentiments or question the 2020 election.

Facebook’s Instagram is struggling to compete with China’s TikTok in the short-form video content realm despite the roll-out of its “Reels” feature. According to internal company documents, the daily watch time of Reels is less than 10 percent of the time spent watching videos on the the massively popular China-owned platform.

A GlassDoor review left by an alleged former Patreon employee claims that the company told trust and safety team members to overlook pedophilic content and protect “minor-attracted people.”

Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower who previously served as the company’s head of security, testified before the Senate yesterday — here at four key takeaways from his testimony.

More than two dozen groups that are critical of Amazon’s anti-competitive practices and surveillance capitalism have urged the FTC to block Amazon’s acquisition of iRobot, which develops Roomba vacuum cleaners. According to the coalition,  “Allowing Amazon to absorb a competing smart home device business with access to incredibly detailed consumer data would endanger fair competition and open markets while also jeopardizing consumer privacy.”

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has claimed that the FCC’s rejection of an $886 million Starlink subsidy is “unreasonable” and “grossly unfair,” and that it leaves millions of Americans stranded on the “wrong side of the digital divide.”

Speaking at the Code Conference in Los Angeles, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel gave his thoughts on how China-owned TikTok has dominated the online video market in such a short space of time. Spiegel explained how Communist China has overpowered social media through seemingly unlimited spending, saying: “What nobody had anticipated in the United States was the level of investment that ByteDance made into the U.S. market, and of course in Europe, because it was just something that was unimaginable — no startup could afford to invest billions and billions and billions of dollars in user acquisition like that around the world.”

Despite a major wave of interest in the hit film My Son Hunter resulting in coverage from publications including Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and the Washington Post, trending hashtags on social media, and a feature on Tucker Carlson, Google has deliberately excluded Breitbart articles about the new film from the Google News tab even though as the film’s distributor, Breitbart News is the best source of information on the movie about Joe and Hunter Biden. After Breitbart News requested comment on the matter from the Masters of the Universe, a week-old Breitbart article on the movie appeared on page two of the News tab.

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin, saw its latest rocket launch fail during liftoff this Monday. No humans were aboard the capsule, which separated from the rocket and parachuted to Earth after the mission was aborted. The rocket flew out of control after what the company called an “anomaly.”

First responders in Oklahome have begun special training to handle electric vehicle (EV) crashes and fires following a growing number of incidents throughout the U.S. One training coordinate explained why special EV training is required, explaining: “They burn significantly hotter so they can throw a 2,000-degree flame out like a torch.”

Elon Musk’s lawyers have sent a third termination notice to Twitter to end his $44 billion acquisition deal with the company, this time objecting to Twitter paying a severance package to its former security head Peiter “Mudge” Zatko in June. Zatko recently came out with an explosive whistleblower against the complaint alleging terrible security practices and not paying serious attention to the problem of bots and other fake accounts.

Content subscription platform Patreon has reportedly laid off its security team sparking cybersecurity concerns among users, many of which threatened to leave the platform.