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NASA to Live-Stream Launches, Spacewalks on Netflix

NASA plans to launch its live-streamed programming on Netflix — featuring rocket liftoffs, astronaut spacewalks and live views of Earth from the International Space Station — to the “broadest possible audience,” starting this summer, the space agency announced Monday.

An Atlas V rocket of United Launch Alliance (ULA) lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 a

Cover Up: Wikipedia Editors Propose Deleting UK Grooming Gangs Scandal Article

An article on Wikipedia about the growing scandal over Pakistani-heritage grooming gangs targeting young white women in the United Kingdom and politically-correct government cover-ups of their crimes was nominated for deletion last week by Simon McNeil, a Marxist socialist and science fiction author from Canada who edits as “Simonm223” on the online encyclopedia. He claimed the article was a biased split of the article on child sexual abuse in the UK pushing a “fringe” view. McNeil was criticized on social media for the move, many noting a blog post he wrote that supported exposing children to sexual kinks and fetishes at Pride marches.

small girl at pride parade

Microsoft Researchers Partner with Sanctioned Chinese Universities to Empower Surveillance State

Microsoft Research Asia, an influential research institute based in Beijing and Shanghai, has continued to conduct AI research at high risk of abuse, including facial recognition, with sanctioned Chinese universities linked to the communist country’s military. Despite these ties Microsoft insists there are guardrails against such sensitive research at the institute.  

Microsoft Research Asia helps China's surveillance state