Enlarge / Tesla cars sit in a parking lot at the company’s factory in Fremont, California on October 19, 2022. Getty Images | Justin Sullivan reader comments 33 Tesla has settled with a Black former factory worker who won a $3.2 million judgment in a racial discrimination case, a court filing on Friday said. Both ..
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Enlarge / National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy testifies about the Boeing door-plug investigation before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on March 6, 2024, in Washington, DC. Getty Images | Kevin Dietsch reader comments 125 A government investigation into a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane’s door-plug blowout has been hampered by a ..
reader comments 30 There are some circumstances where government officials are allowed to block people from commenting on their social media pages, the Supreme Court ruled Friday. According to the Supreme Court, the key question is whether officials are speaking as private individuals or on behalf of the state when posting online. Issuing two opinions, the ..
Enlarge / Signs displayed at the Pornhub booth at the 2024 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo at Resorts World Las Vegas on January 25, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Getty Images | Ethan Miller / reader comments 279 Pornhub has disabled its website in Texas following a court ruling that upheld a state law requiring age-verification ..
Enlarge / Taylor’s C709 Soft Serve Freezer isn’t so much mechanically complicated as it is a software and diagnostic trap for anyone without authorized access. reader comments 75 Many devices have been made difficult or financially nonviable to repair, whether by design or because of a lack of parts, manuals, or specialty tools. Machines that ..
Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino reader comments 78 The Federal Communications Commission today voted to raise its Internet speed benchmark for the first time since January 2015, concluding that modern broadband service should provide at least 100Mbps download speeds and 20Mbps upload speeds. An FCC press release after today’s 3-2 vote said the 100Mbps/20Mbps benchmark ..
reader comments 50 Meta is discontinuing data analysis tool CrowdTangle on August 14. The closure will come three months ahead of the next US presidential election and three years after it was reported that the platform used for spotting misinformation on Facebook and Instagram was causing internal strife. Meta acquired CrowdTangle in 2016. CrowdTangle has ..
reader comments 24 A US federal jury has convicted a dual Russian-Swedish national, Roman Sterlingov, for operating Bitcoin Fog, “the longest-running bitcoin money laundering service on the darknet,” the Department of Justice announced yesterday. Sterlingov ran Bitcoin Fog from 2011 to 2021, moving over 1.2 million bitcoin (approximately $400 million) before he was arrested, the ..
reader comments 39 A recently unsealed court filing has revealed that Meta has sued a former senior employee for “brazenly disloyal and dishonest conduct” while leaving Meta for an AI data startup called Omniva that The Information has described as “mysterious.” According to Meta, its former vice president of infrastructure, Dipinder Singh Khurana (also known ..
Getty Images | BeeBright reader comments 43 The European Parliament today voted to approve the Artificial Intelligence Act, which will ban uses of AI “that pose unacceptable risks” and impose regulations on less risky types of AI. “The new rules ban certain AI applications that threaten citizens’ rights, including biometric categorisation systems based on sensitive ..
