Author: Christopher Hutton
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Meta removing Facebook News tab in US and Australia as legislation looms
Meta will remove Facebook’s News tab from interfaces in the United States and Australia, affirming the company’s pivot away from news while governments around the world consider laws to force it to compensate local outlets. The platform announced late on Thursday that the Facebook News tab would start disappearing for users in the two countries…
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Meta removing Facebook News tab in US and Australia as legislation looms
Meta will remove Facebook’s News tab from interfaces in the United States and Australia, affirming the company’s pivot away from news while governments around the world consider laws to force it to compensate local outlets. The platform announced late on Thursday that the Facebook News tab would start disappearing for users in the two countries…
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Musk sues OpenAI for breach of contract for becoming for-profit company
Elon Musk sued OpenAI and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, alleging that the company responsible for the popular chatbot ChatGPT breached its contract by ditching its initial goal of helping humanity to become profitable. The lawsuit, filed in a San Francisco court late Thursday, notes that Musk was approached by Altman in 2015 for his assistance…
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Top Big Tech critic snubbed for key House panel in setback to GOP antitrust hopes
House Republicans are set to hand libertarian Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) the gavel for the subcommittee responsible for antitrust, a snub to one of Republicans’ most vocal Big Tech critics and a sign the conference will try to steer clear of major clashes with Silicon Valley. Top Republican Big Tech critic Ken Buck (R-CO) was…
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Russian hackers take down 14 U.S. airport websites, including Springs, Denver
Russian hackers claimed responsibility for taking down the websites of more than a dozen U.S. airports, including Denver International among some of the nation’s largest. Colorado Springs Airport’s website also was hacked early Monday morning, according to a statement from airport spokeswoman Dana Schield. “Because the Colorado Springs Airport website is hosted on the city’s…
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Amazon restricts LGBT product sales in UAE after government pressure: Report
Amazon has restricted items and search results involving LGBT products and issues on its website within the United Arab Emirates. The Big Tech shipping company decided to restrict product sales Monday after the Emirati government gave Amazon’s local operation until Friday to comply or else face penalization, according to documents reviewed by the New York…
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Fired up: NASA discovers exoplanet that is constantly ablaze
One recently investigated exoplanet appears to be the epitome of “hell on earth.” NASA announced plans on Thursday to study two exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope after it finalizes its setup in the next few weeks. One of these planets, known as “55 Cancri e,” is considered a “super-Earth” and appears to be…
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‘Over my dead body’: Palin tells TPUSA conference she won’t get vaccinated
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin drove a crowd into a frenzy when she told them she would never get a vaccine. “It’ll be over my dead body that I’ll have to get a shot,” Palin told attendees of Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2021 in Phoenix, AZ. “I will not do that. I won’t do it, and they…
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Amazon faces climate activists and employee protests
If Amazon packages arrive slowly this week, it may be due to one of several protests against the company on Black Friday. Amazon is coming under immense pressure from climate activists and union employees on one of the busiest days of the year. The effort is being advanced by Make Amazon Pay , a coalition…
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Colorado officials drop the term ‘sex offender,’ say it’s too negative
Colorado is dropping references to “sex offenders” from its vocabulary due to the title’s negative connotations. The Colorado Sex Offender Management Board voted Friday to no longer recognize the term “sex offender” in its proposals. The board, which handles the development and evaluation of rules for rehabilitating and monitoring those labeled sex offenders, voted 10-6…