A former Apple engineer who was accused of stealing computer files with trade secrets about Apple’s car division and was caught attempting to flee the country to Communist China pleaded guilty to the charges in federal court this week.
A Facebook bug on Wednesday morning filled user feeds with endless posts from celebrity accounts into crypto scams and PayPal requests, leading many to mock Mark Zuckerberg and the Masters of the Universe with silly posts that the platform happily spread far and wide.
As Elon Musk continues his ongoing legal battle with Twitter over his decision to back out of his $44 billion acquisition of the company, Musk’s legal team has submitted a subpoena for evidence from former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
Top Wall Street analysts recently stated that they could only think of one comparison to TikTok in terms of its addictive nature — crack cocaine. According to Wall Street, Communist China’s TikTok could “ruin” the internet.
Former Twitter security chief Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko has come forward with a shocking whistleblower complaint alleging that the company purposefully misled regulators about poor security and spam. In the complaint filed with the SEC, DOJ, and FTC, Zatko contends that the company lacks basic security practices and prioritizes user growth above all else, claiming CEO Parag Agrawal is “lying” when claims to fight spam.
Facebook (now known as Meta) reportedly has proposed a new plan to work with the Wikimedia Foundation to use AI to improve the accuracy of articles on the left-wing “encyclopedia” Wikipedia.
Former President Donald Trump and his Trump Media & Technology Group reportedly enjoyed a 550 percent increase in downloads of the Truth Social app in the week following the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago.
In a recent article, the New York Times tells the story of a father who attempted to seek telemedicine treatment for his son amidst the coronavirus pandemic, sending photos of his son to the doctor for inspection at the request of the medical office. Google tagged the images as child abuse material, disabled his account, and reported him to the police.
Apple employees have reportedly begun petitioning against the tech giant’s plans to demand workers return to offices for three days a week starting next month. Apple employees have mounted repeated protests against returning to the office. The employee group “Apple Together” labeled the woke company racist, writing that returning to the office “will make Apple younger, whiter, more male-dominated, more neuro-normative, more able-bodied, in short, it will lead to privileges deciding who can work for Apple, not who’d be the best fit.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently shared a screenshot of his digital avatar inside the metaverse. Following intense ridicule, Zuckerberg quickly announced a metaverse graphics update and shared photos of a new version of his avatar.
A new web-based tool found at InAppBrowser.com allows users to see the detailed information that apps like TikTok and Instagram track when using their in-app browsers.
In a recent article, Bloomberg details Bill Gates’ efforts to lobby Joe Manchin over the climate and spending bill known as the “Inflation Reduction Act” even though it won’t reduce inflation according to nonpartisan experts. Gates worked hard to ensure the passage of the bill as it would further his creepy vision of a transition to clean energy.
A software researcher recently claimed that China-owned TikTok’s in-app browser is capable of monitoring and recording user keystrokes, which the company has since confirmed. Of course, the Chinese company is quick to state that the code in its app is only used for “debugging,” but this may be another lie from the company known for its mistruths.
Apple is urging users of iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers to update their devices immediately after discovering a security flaw that could allow hackers to take control of devices. The security bug has been “actively exploited” according to the Silicon Valley giant.
Dodge unveiled its new electric concept car, the Charger Daytona SRT, this week, marking the company’s first all-electric car that may replace the popular Challenger and Charger muscle cars. When the company announced it was killing off its powerful sedans, it said, “We are celebrating the end of an era — and the start of a bright new electrified future — by staying true to our brand.”
Electric vehicle owners are becoming increasingly frustrated about the state of public EV charging, with drivers complaining of broken chargers, janky software, and smashed screens.
Not long after former President Donald Trump branded Tesla CEO Elon Musk a “bullshit artist,” House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy lavished Musk with praise, calling him the “Thomas Edison of our time.”
Fire department officials are raising awareness of the dangers of electric vehicle battery fires, calling on regulators to increase electric vehicle safety standards for emergency responders. One fire department chief called electric cars “trick birthday candles” due to their tendency to reignite even after the fire has been put out.
Earlier this year, Toronto announced the development of a new development in the “quayside” area in the heart of the city. The announcement marks the final nail in the coffin of Google and its Sidewalk Labs division’s plans to turn the neighborhood into a “smart city” full of surveillance technology to track residents’ every move.
Apple’s AirTag tracking devices were recently used to help police arrest a baggage handler who stole luggage from passengers at an airport in Florida.
Facebook, once the most popular social media platforms in the world, has reportedly plummeted in popularity among younger users according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
The Wall Street Journal claims that Apple argued that it deserved a cut of some of Facebook’s ad revenue and attempted to broker a deal with Facebook that didn’t work out. Since then, Apple has introduced its App Tracking Transparency feature which has negatively affected Facebook’s advertising revenue, setting off a privacy war between the Masters of the Universe.
The LinkedIn profiles for hundreds of China-owned Tiktok and ByteDance employees reveal that many used to work for Chinese state media, and in some cases still maintain their employment with Chinese government mouthpieces.
Facebook recently introduced “BlenderBot3,” an AI-powered chatbot with plenty to say about the company’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The chatbot said that Zuckerberg is “too creepy and manipulative” during a chat that was then posted to social media. Asked if the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, the chatbot replied, “I believe the election was stolen from him.”
Tesla drivers have begun performing their own tests of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) tech after a recent viral video showed a Tesla vehicle plowing through a child mannequin. The video demonstrates a failure of Tesla’s emergency braking system, while a Lexus slows to a halt several feet away from the fake child.
Facebook (now known as Meta) has reportedly been rewriting websites that its users visit, allowing the company to track them across the web after they click links in its app by “injecting” tracking code. The security researcher that sounded the alarm say that the tracking code allows Mark Zuckerberg to “monitor all user interactions, like every button and link tapped, text selections, screenshots, as well as any form inputs, like passwords, addresses and credit card numbers.”
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) voted on Thursday to allow Google to go ahead with a pilot program that would allow campaign emails to bypass spam filters. That plan was developed in response to heavy criticism of Gmail, which a study demonstrated filtered more conservative emails out as spam when compared to their leftist opponents.
Bad News for Subsidy King Elon Musk: FCC Rejects SpaceX’s Request for $900 Million in Aid for Starlink Internet
The CEO of social media optimization service HyperSocial faced major backlash this week after posting a crying selfie following the layoff of a number of employees.
Mark Cuban, the billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner and crypto enthusiast, has been extremely critical of cryptocurrency projects in recent months, calling digital land in the metaverse “the dumbest shit ever.” Cuban is an investor in Yuga Labs, which recently made $317 million in metaverse land sales.
A former employee of left-wing social media giant Twitter has been found guilty of using his position within the company to spy for the government of Saudi Arabia.
Ford is increasing the starting prices of its electric F-150 Lightning truck by as much as $8,500 due to “significant material cost increases and other factors.”
Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold roughly $6.9 billion worth of Tesla stock in the past week according to recent SEC filings. The sale of 7.9 million shares of Tesla comes just months after Musk claimed “no further TSLA sales planned” on social media.
Snapchat’s parent company Snap is reportedly in the early stages of planning layoffs, according to two sources.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on Friday that inventors must be human in another blow to computer scientists who believe AI machines should be recognized as inventors on patents.
Over 100,000 cars have reportedly been cut from North American production this week due to chip shortage. The auto industry has reportedly been forced to cut production by more than a million vehicles this year.
Google is taking legal action against smart speaker company Sonos with two lawsuits alleging that the company is infringing on a number of its patents. The two companies have been locked in an ongoing legal war for years, with Sonos previously winning a case against the Masters of the Universe. The smaller company claims the lawsuits are designed to “retaliate against Sonos for speaking out against Google’s monopolistic practices.”
Tech and e-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly purchased iRobot, the maker of the popular automated home vacuum Roomba, for $1.7 billion. Jeff Bezos’ company is likely just as interested in the ability to map customers’ homes as it is in adding vacuums to its growing empire of products and services.
Twitter recently confirmed that a vulnerability in its code led to the exposure of data of anonymous users on the platform. Private user data on more than 5.4 million accounts was accessed before the company patched the bug that let malicious actors into the system.
Visa and Mastercard have reportedly suspended card payments for advertising on Pornhub and its parent company MindGeek following controversy over whether the adult video websites could be facilitating child pornography.
