Malevolent Technology
Elon Musk has admitted that he listens to podcasts about the fall of civilization to help him get to sleep at night, despite it being one of his biggest worries.
“I listen to podcasts about the fall of civilizations to fall asleep,” the billionaire Tesla boss said at the Milken Global Conference in Los Angeles on Monday.
Mr Musk was asked what keeps him up at night and responded, “Anything that’s a civilizational risk,” including plummeting birth rates and “anything that undermines the foundations of democracy in America or elsewhere” as well as “anything that’s leading us away from a merit-based system.”
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Read MoreThe watchdog group Empower Oversight has released new documents related to the ongoing controversy over US taxpayer-funded research for ‘gain of function’ studies at the Wuhan, China lab that many experts believe was the source of Covid-19.
According to Empower Oversight, the National Institutes of Health “resisted transparency and delayed releasing document on the research, the subsequent spread of the disease, the role of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and failures to properly oversee EcoHealth Alliance.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci led NIAID at the time. EcoHealth Alliance is a controversial nonprofit that received large amounts of US government funding and partnered in controversial bat coronavirus research with a goal of developing a vaccine to use if Covid ever jumped from bats to people.
Fauci seemed to work diligently to make the public believe the idea of a “lab leak” was not very credible. Instead, he argued, it was likely that Covid jumped from bats to people through an unidentified natural route.
At the time, he didn’t disclose his own role in approving the controversial research and funding for it.
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Read MoreStanding behind a podium with a parody of the WEF logo, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the banning of all lab-grown meat in the state of Florida.
“What we’re protecting here is the industry against acts of man, against an ideological agenda that wants to finger agriculture as the problem, that views things like raising cattle as destroying our climate,” DeSantis said.
“These will be people who will lecture the rest of us about things like global warming. They will say you can’t drive an internal combustion engine vehicle. They’ll say that agriculture’s bad. Meanwhile, they’re flying to Davos in their private jets.”
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Read MoreThe class action lawsuit was brought forward by representative plaintiff Deborah Douez in 2012 after her name and account were used in a “sponsored story” ad without her knowledge or permission.
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The suit alleged Facebook violated the privacy acts of the provinces and owe users damages for breaching their privacy.
In January, lawyers for the plaintiffs and Facebook owner Meta announced a settlement has been reached. The settlement is a “compromise of disputed claims” and is not an admission of liability or wrongdoing by the defendant, said court-appointed claims administrator MNP Ltd.
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Read MoreFour years ago, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong was treated as a heretic when he insisted on leaving politics out of work. Now he looks prophetic.
In September 2020, Brian Armstrong, the CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase, did something unthinkable in Silicon Valley: he said there would be no politics at his company.
This was right after the summer of George Floyd and Covid lockdowns and microaggressions in the workplace—when companies as conventional as Nordstrom and IBM were all of a sudden issuing official statements in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, and established financia
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Read MoreMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella arrives for a meeting with Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella arrives for a meeting with Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo AFP
Microsoft’s chief executive officer met the president of Indonesia on Tuesday, pledging a $1.7 billion investment in artificial intelligence and cloud computing to help develop the archipelago’s AI infrastructure.
Indonesia is Southeast Asia’s biggest economy with a population of around 280 million across its sprawling archipelago and there is a growing demand for data centres and AI tech in the region.
Satya Nadella held talks with President
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Read MoreEuropean satellite group SES will acquire US rival Intelsat for $3.1 billion, the companies said Tuesday, seeking to compete in a race for space-based internet service led by Elon Musk’s Starlink.
The merger, which follows year-long talks, comes as Musk already has a constellation of internet satellites while Amazon has launched its own tests.
“In a fast-moving and competitive satellite communication industry, this transaction expands our multi-orbit space network,” SES chief executive Adel Al-Saleh said in a statement.
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After joining TikTok in 2018, twin sisters Prisma and Princy Khatiwada built a following of nearly eight million on TikTok with videos of their synchronised dance routines
After joining TikTok in 2018, twin sisters Prisma and Princy Khatiwada built a following of nearly eight million on TikTok with videos of their synchronised dance routines AFP
When Nepal suddenly announced a ban on TikTok last year, lawyer Sunil Rajan Singh was determined to fight what he said was a government effort to hide its wrongdoings.
The hugely popular video-sharing platform has faced restrictions in several countries for allegedly breaking data rules and for its supposed harmful impact on youth.
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