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Scientists with the U.S. government have managed to make significant progress toward successfully utilizing fusion energy, according to The Financial Times. Scientists at the federal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California managed to create net energy gain via a fusion reaction in the past two…
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Elon Musk said that “important” data from Twitter was “hidden” and “may have been deleted” in a Wednesday post on the social media site. “Most important data was hidden (from you too), and some may have been deleted, but everything we find will be released,”…
Read More Elon Musk Responds To Jack Dorsey “Important Twitter Data Was Hidden, May Have Been Deleted”
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is issuing a Consumer Alert warning Floridians about a Google Voice scam that appears to be on the rise. According to some reports, Google Voice scams are a top scam of 2022 —and the Identity Theft Resource Center reports nearly 4,000…
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Matt Taibbi, contributing editor at Rolling Stone, released what Elon Musk has referred to as “The Twitter Files,” Friday afternoon detailing how the social media platform suppressed a New York Post story regarding a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden. The NYP story revealed an email — which…
Read More Musk Releases “The Twitter Files” Details On How Twitter Censored The Hunter Biden Laptop Story
Twitter has stopped enforcement of its COVID-19 misinformation policies, with Twitter users first discovering the change Monday night, according to CNN. Twitter issued a variety of measures since the pandemic’s onset in 2020, including a policy that allowed users to report misinformation directly to Twitter to another…
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Twitter owner Elon Musk announced Thursday that an “amnesty” for most banned accounts would start next week, following a poll posted Wednesday afternoon. “The people have spoken. Amnesty begins next week,” Musk posted on the social media site Thursday, before adding the Latin phrase “Vox Populi, Vox…
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Several prominent online tax filing websites have reportedly been sending Americans’ private financial information to Facebook, even in cases where users did not have an account on the platform, according to a jointly published report by The Verge and nonprofit the Markup. The companies, which…
Read More Report: Tax Filing Websites Might Have Given Facebook Your Financial Information
More than two dozen Meta employees and contractors have faced disciplinary measures, including termination, for allegedly taking bribes to give hackers access to users’ accounts, among other inappropriate actions, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing anonymous sources and documents obtained by the outlet. In…
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Elon Musk said in court Wednesday that he wants someone else to run Twitter, adding that he doesn’t want to be the CEO of any company, according to CNBC News. Musk made the comment amidst a trial where he is being sued by Tesla shareholder Richard…
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NASA confirmed it remains on track for the launch of the Artemis I Moon mission during a two-hour launch window that opens at 1:04 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Nov. 16. The launch countdown will begin at 1:24 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 14. Artemis I is the first integrated…
Read More NASA Sets New Coverage For Artemis I Moon Mission Launch