Credibility of legacy media put to test as a US children’s rights body sues major news companies for free speech, antitrust violations
Core partners of TNI’s “coalition of the willing” include the AP, Agence France Press, the BBC, CBC/Radio-Canada, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the Financial Times, First Draft, Google/YouTube, The Hindu, The Nation Media Group, Meta, Microsoft, Reuters, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Twitter and The Washington Post.
Mind-reading technology: With brain-machines now in use human, rights may expand to cover thought crime and thought data violations
For the first time, mind-reading technology looks viable by combining two technologies that are readily available — albeit with a hefty price tag. MRI machines currently cost anywhere between $150,000 and $1 million.
Why British women are shunting their fussy midgets and shopping for ‘Viking babies’ in Dutch sperm banks
Customers, whether single women or couples, can log in to the website and choose their donor at leisure. They are provided with a photograph of the donor as a child, often an audio file of his voice talking about himself, and a run-down of his physical qualities such as eye and hair colour, height, weight and educational standard.
Artificial Intelligence is dangerous to humanity’s future and civilisation, new poll finds
When it came to religious beliefs, Evangelical Christians were more likely to “strongly agree” that AI presents risks to humanity, standing at 32 per cent compared to 24 per cent of non-Evangelical Christians.
Retiring password: Google transitions to passkeys to enhance online security by restricting phishing
Passkeys can sync between your devices through end-to-end encrypted services like Google Password Manager and iCloud Keychain. Or you can set up passkeys on multiple devices by generating a QR code on a device that’s logged in to your Google account that will anoint another device where you want to log in.
How the AI ogres Hollywood writers and studios fed in science fiction have returned to eat them up
In Hollywood, AI is helping to erase wrinkles from an aging performer’s face, clean up an actor’s liberal use of f-bombs and draw animated short films with the aid of OpenAI’s Dall-E, which can create realistic images. Some writers are experimenting with creating scripts.
Covid lies: Majority of media workers ignore their colleagues and continue to blame failures in journalism on Tucker Carlson
Furthering this point, Thacker highlighted a potential conflict of interest between Twitter and one of the Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers, J&J. In Thacker’s previous “Twitter files” revelations, he found that Twitter partnered with J&J on a Covid-19 vaccine “marketing strategy.”
Experts label SpaceX rocket explosion illustrates Elon Musk’s ‘successful failure’ business formula
SpaceX acknowledged that several of the Super Heavy’s 33 powerful Raport engines malfunctioned on ascent and that the booster rocket and Starship failed to separate as designed before the ill-fated flight was terminated.
SpaceX’s 120-metre Starship rocket explodes, burns 4 minutes after lift-off for round the world trial run
In the weeks leading up to the flight, Elon Musk gave 50-50 odds that the spacecraft would reach orbit. The company plans to use Starship to send people and cargo to the moon and, eventually, Mars.
Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, which’s tied to presidential poll storm in Kenya sue US’ Fox News for defamation
Dominion in 2021 sued Fox Corp and Fox News, contending that its business was ruined by the false vote-rigging claims that were aired by the influential American cable news outlet known for its roster of conservative commentators.
