Category: Tech

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) congressional staff asked Minnesota officials to change her listed birth year from 1981 to 1982 in May 2019, according to emails reviewed by the New York Post. The request came several months after Omar entered Congress and followed a political opponent’s…

Character.AI, a generative AI chatbot startup notorious for allegations of driving a 14-year-old boy to suicide, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with Disney in the lead to buy its assets. The Verge reports that the company, known for building online bots used for chatting…

Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), boasted on Tuesday that Iran has “reached the level of developed countries in nuclear science and technology.” Eslami praised the “scientific talent, creativity, and managerial capacity” that made this putative leap forward in nuclear…

CLAIM: Left-wing personalities and politicians have claimed the White House app contains “spyware” via “a location tracker with NO WAY to disable it.” VERDICT: FALSE. Tech security firm NowSecure reported that its testing of the White House app found no evidence of location data being…

Epic Games, the publisher behind Fortnite, has pushed back the release of a game made in collaboration with Disney built around Marvel and Star Wars characters, while instructing developers to build the title using an “AI first” production model. Bloomberg reports that the game, slated…

German police have impounded a humanoid robot and are investigating who, if anyone, was in charge of it when it sexually molested a 16-year-old girl. A 16-year-old girl was molested and harassed by a humanoid-type robot in the German city of Cologne — which notoriously…

Electric utilities across the country are tightening their rules on new AI data center customers, requiring binding financial commitments, collateral and steep engineering fees to separate genuine projects from speculative ones, known as “phantom” data centers in the industry. The Wall Street Journal reports that…

Character.AI, a generative AI chatbot startup notorious for allegations of driving a 14-year-old boy to suicide, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with Disney in the lead to buy its assets. The Verge reports that the company, known for building online bots used for chatting…

Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), boasted on Tuesday that Iran has “reached the level of developed countries in nuclear science and technology.” Eslami praised the “scientific talent, creativity, and managerial capacity” that made this putative leap forward in nuclear…

CLAIM: Left-wing personalities and politicians have claimed the White House app contains “spyware” via “a location tracker with NO WAY to disable it.” VERDICT: FALSE. Tech security firm NowSecure reported that its testing of the White House app found no evidence of location data being…