Meta agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit by the state of Texas over the Facebook owner’s unauthorized use of biometric data by users, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Tuesday. The suit, filed by Paxton in February 2022, accused Meta of capturing and using the biometric data of millions of Texas residents — which was contained in uploaded photos and videos on Facebook — without legally required permissions. The...

The FBI told two Senate committees in a hearing Tuesday that it has identified a possible social media account "believed to be associated with" the Trump rally shooter Thomas Crooks that reflects "anti-semitic" and "anti-immigrant" beliefs, suggesting for the first time a possible motive. "Some of these comments, if ultimately attributable to the shooter, appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes, to espouse political violence and are described as extreme in nature," FBI...

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by Cindy Harper, Reclaim The Net: A video uploaded by a citizen journalist, known by the pseudonym “Dancer,” was removed from YouTube after the Bohemian Club issued a copyright strike against the footage, which captured scenes from the secretive Bohemian Grove’s annual ceremony. Dancer filmed parts of the “Cremation of Care” ceremony, a private event […]

by Jon Forrest Little, Silver Seek: OpenAI seeks ‘vast quantities’ of nuclear fusion energy to power superhuman AI OpenAI’s energy demands will be substantial. Not just OpenAI but this set off an AI arms race which will turn into an Energy Sourcing Stampede. Grids are already stressed out in USA. (Remember Texas, California, Mid Atlantic, […]

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