Ticketing and event management company Eventbrite has deleted an upcoming event, titled “Save Our Kids,” featuring author and Critical Race Theory (CRT) opponent James Lindsay.
Voyager Labs, a tech startup claiming its AI can predict crimes based on personal data from social media, faces a legal showdown with Facebook over privacy concerns.
MGM Resorts International is in crisis management mode as a significant cybersecurity breach forces the shutdown of various systems, including its main website, online reservations, and in-casino services. Legions of gamblers were shocked when even the casino giant’s slot machines stopped working temporarily.
One of the most powerful companies in the world may have swung millions of votes for the Democrats in many elections, with no repercussions whatsoever. According to psychologist and Big Tech researcher Dr. Robert Epstein, that is what Google is doing every day, but especially around election time.
U.S. v Google, arguably the biggest antitrust case since the one brought against Microsoft in 2001, begins today.
Coca-Cola has launched “Y3000,” a limited-edition beverage designed to “taste like the future” and billed as “co-created” by AI to determine its flavor and packaging.
Filmmaker Tim Burton is the latest prominent Hollywood director to sound the alarm about artificial intelligence technology, saying A.I. is “like a robot taking your humanity.”
A driverless San Francisco Cruise robotaxi came under sustained attack on Sunday night by an unidentified assailant in an act of vandalism all caught on video.
Former Anheuser-Busch Executive Anson Frericks has called Bill Gates’s nearly $100 million investment into Bud Light stock a mistake.
Threads, the app linked to Meta-owned Instagram and touted as a “sane” alternative to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, is blocking searches related to coronavirus and vaccines, per reports.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm decided to show America how great electric cars are — and only proved the technology isn’t even close to ready.
More than one in five Americans are concerned their jobs “will become obsolete because of technology,” according to a Gallup poll.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk raged against creepy Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates for shorting Tesla stock, questioning Gates’s commitment to environmental sustainability. The revelations come from a new book about Musk, in which he calls Gates an “asshole to the core” that is “categorically insane.”
U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm embarked on a four-day road trip in an electric vehicle this summer and faced a few issues, including trouble locating chargers, long downtimes as batteries slowly refilled, and even having the police called on her.
OpenAI, the developers of the massively popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, has officially acknowledged that AI writing detectors are not as reliable as once thought, casting doubt on the efficacy of automated tools in distinguishing between human and machine-generated content.
Chinese hackers broke into a Microsoft engineer’s corporate account, leading to the unauthorized access of email accounts belonging to senior U.S. officials, casting a shadow over the tech giant’s cybersecurity measures. The hack occurred in June, but the company just completed an internal investigation that pointed the finger at its own sloppy security practices.
Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League, the leftist nonprofit that has become infamous for smearing conservatives and opponents of progressivism, has branded its online critics “white supremacists” and “anti-semites.”
Sweden putting a new emphasis on printed books, quiet reading time and handwriting practice and devoting less time to tablets.
Faruk Fatih Ozer, the mastermind behind collapsed Turkish cryptocurrency exchange Thodex, has been handed a staggering 11,196-year prison sentence for a series of crimes including fraud, money laundering, and leading a criminal organization. Ozer’s crypto exchange resulted in losses as high as $2.6 billion for investors.
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a modified version of an injunction in the landmark Missouri v. Biden case, blocking the White House and federal agencies from pressuring social media companies to censor American citizens.
The world needs global digital IDs and Artificial Intelligence should be regulated by the United Nations, the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen said.
Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater lamented that the tech industry’s takeover of Hollywood essentially destroyed filmmaking.
News Corp CEO Robert Thomson recently raised alarms about the growing influence of AI-generated content in the media landscape, criticizing its left-wing bias and potential for spreading inaccuracies. Thomson argues that the end result could be an “ever-shrinking circle of sanity surrounded by a reservoir of rubbish.”
President Joe Biden’s Department of Education has opened a civil rights investigation into New College of Florida, following a complaint alleging, in part, that author and New College of Florida board member Christopher Rufo “misgendered” the college’s former Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) director, who uses “ze/zir” pronouns.
The House Energy and Commerce committee, led by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), is planning to investigate the state of the video marketplace in America, as streaming companies like Google-owned YouTube and Disney-owned Hulu make a bid for dominance in TV distribution.
Apple has urgently rolled out software updates to counter a newly discovered “zero-click” vulnerability that allows spyware to infiltrate its devices. Owners of iPhones, iPads, and Macs, and even Apple Watches should immediately update their device by following the instructions at the bottom of this article.
In an unprecedented move, the attorneys general from all 50 states and four territories have sent a collective letter to Congress, calling for the establishment of an expert commission to address the exploitation of children through AI-generated child pornography.
Elon Musk’s decision to not activate Starlink’s satellite communications during a critical moment in the Ukraine conflict has sparked a heated debate on the role of private tech companies in international affairs. Musk took to his X/Twitter platform to defend the decision by claiming, “If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.”
A fatal Tesla crash in Spokane County, Washington, has sparked a renewed discussion on the safety and environmental implications of electric vehicles, particularly when they catch fire. One firefighter described the explosion of the electric vehicle built by Elon Musk as “an odd fire because it went off like bottle rockets.”
Toyota, one of the world’s leading automakers, recently had to suspend operations in 12 of its 14 Japan-based factories due to a massive IT failure, resulting in a daily production loss of approximately 13,000 cars. The problem? The carmaker ran out of hard drive space.
Social media giants Instagram and TikTok are under scrutiny for allowing ads featuring AI-generated sexual content to bypass their moderation systems, raising questions about what children and teens when they log in.
Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC) stockholders overwhelmingly voted to extend the deadline for its merger agreement with Trump Media & Technology Group Corp (TMTG) that would unlock millions in financing for former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social.
Google has tentatively settled a contentious antitrust lawsuit concerning its Google Play Store, potentially resolving complaints from consumers and multiple state attorneys general that the internet giant used its massive power to dominate the market for Android apps.
Tesla’s highly-anticipated Cybertruck may face yet another delay, as signs of Elon Musk’s last-minute design changes and a lack of concrete details raise concerns among industry experts and customers alike.
Tech outlet Gizmodo’s parent company, G/O Media, has laid off its Spanish-language editorial team and replaced them with AI-generated translations. The move is a stunning turnaround for leftist media outlets that once snidely suggested blue collar workers “learn to code.”
The company has announced that it will shut down the News Tab for users in the UK, France, and Germany, in what it described as “part of an ongoing effort to better align our investments to our products and services people value the most.”
Actor Rob Reiner was fact checked by “Community Notes” on X, formerly known as Twitter, after he falsely claimed Tarrio had “violently stormed” the U.S. Capitol on January 6, when the fact is that the Proud Boys leader wasn’t in Washington, D.C. that day.
Harvard University has been named 2023’s worst school for free speech by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). The organization recently released its annual college free speech rankings, in which it dubbed the state of free speech at the Ivy League school “abysmal.” Harvard’s rating of zero out of 100 is a full 11 points lower than its closest woke rival.
