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After years of claiming the tech will end up dooming humanity, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has officially joined the race to develop artificial intelligence (AI) with the launch of a new company called xAI. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of Twitter announced on Wednesday, July 12, that the new AI company’s goal […]

Meta’s new text-based Threads platform has gained over 100 million users just a week after its launch, but is already engaging in aggressive censorship of “wrongthink,” leading many to wonder whether the platform will have much long-term success. Launched on July 5, Threads has quickly gained popularity after promising a more positive and engaging “public […]

The United States Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released an interim report this week blowing the lid on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for colluding with Ukraine to illegally censor Americans. House investigators revealed that the FBI colluded with foreign agents at the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) to pore […]

Big Government is taking a bizarrely defensive approach with regards to its Censorship Industrial Complex, which it claims has “nothing to do with censorship.” These were the exact words uttered by Nina Jankowicz, the former head of the federal government’s Disinformation Governance Board, a division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in an interview […]

Humanoid robots showcased their potential to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) put forward by the United Nations in a press conference. The “AI for Good Global Summit” in Geneva – the world’s first ever press conference involving both humans and robots – featured these robots. It was organized by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) […]

Smartphones are useful and powerful devices, but a study has found that they may compromise your data through spyware apps. The study, which was conducted by computer scientists from New York University and the University of California San Diego, focused on the hidden dangers of spyware apps. These apps can be difficult to detect, and they can […]

As if warning the United States not to overpower China economically, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) suddenly declared new export restrictions on gallium and germanium, two metals crucial for semiconductor manufacture. The announcement came just days before U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen headed to China to discuss economic and trade relations. According to the Wall […]

Actress and stand-up comedian Sarah Silverman has sued Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and OpenAI – maker of artificial intelligence (AI) software ChatGPT – over alleged copyright infringement. Silverman was joined by authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in two copyright infringement lawsuits filed July 7 in a San Francisco federal court. The three plaintiffs accused Meta […]

Amid ongoing protests in France following the tragic killing of 17-year-old Nahel M. by the police, the French government has passed a new law granting expanded surveillance powers to law enforcement agencies. On July 12, 80 lawmakers voted in favor of a provision allowing the police to remotely activate cameras, microphones and GPS on phones […]

>> shaquille brewster, you have done great reporting. kimberly, great to have you on the program. appreciate it. taylor swifts tour is taking the globe by storm, and ticket master is cracking under the pressure of fans looking to buy tickets. the problem this time, her shows in france next summer. the site had to halt sales after a glitch tuesday left fans in a lengthy online queue. when i say lengthy, well, sometimes more than a million people were waiting to buy tickets. this problem is some...