Category: Tech

Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) pressed Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on Tuesday night to disavow Epstein-linked Democrat megadonor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, who has donated to the incumbent’s campaign. “Jon, one of your largest donors is Reid Hoffman. He slept on Epstein Island. He stayed…

The FBI arrested an OpenAI employee from Saudi Arabia on charges that he hid a covert listening device inside the company’s executive conference room to spy on the AI giant’s inner workings. CNBC reports that the DOJ announced Tuesday that Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi…

Mark Ruffalo, left-wing star of Marvel’s The Avengers series, is has called out California’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom, this time over Newsom’s effort to torpedo a state-wide billionaire tax. Ruffalo blasted Newsom in an X post where he railed that the Gov. constantly “sells out…

A cyberattack has disrupted refrigeration, delivery and pricing systems at supermarket chains across France, Belgium and the Netherlands, impacting at least 700 stores so far. The hack caused fridges to heat up to 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius). CNBC reports that the attack forced…

Anthropic claims that small AI models are close to being able to copy themselves across internet-connected home devices, like smart ovens and Android TV boxes, which could let them skip the need for expensive data center infrastructure. CNBC reports that the AI lab laid out…

The FBI arrested an OpenAI employee from Saudi Arabia on charges that he hid a covert listening device inside the company’s executive conference room to spy on the AI giant’s inner workings. CNBC reports that the DOJ announced Tuesday that Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi…

Stanford University sparked backlash after hosting a professional dominatrix and self-described “silly bimbo” to its lecture students. The elite university’s Structured Liberal Education (SLE) hosted dominatrix and author Brittany Newell as a guest speaker last week — a move that “divided students, with one questioning…

A cyberattack has disrupted refrigeration, delivery and pricing systems at supermarket chains across France, Belgium and the Netherlands, impacting at least 700 stores so far. The hack caused fridges to heat up to 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius). CNBC reports that the attack forced…

Anthropic claims that small AI models are close to being able to copy themselves across internet-connected home devices, like smart ovens and Android TV boxes, which could let them skip the need for expensive data center infrastructure. CNBC reports that the AI lab laid out…

Netflix announced about 1,000 employee layoffs this week, or about six percent of its 16,000-person staff. Previously, Netflix’s largest layoff was half that — 450 job cuts in 2022. In a company-wide memo, co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters wrote in part, “We wanted to…