Alphabet Inc.’s Google services appeared to be back up after facing a brief global disruption on late Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Reports of the outage dropped to less than 500 incidents in the United States, as per Downdetector, which collates status reports from a number of sources. At the peak of outage,…
Peter Menzies: Meta Balks at Ottawa’s Plan to Force Tech to Fund Cash-Strapped Media
Commentary Facebook has fired a shot across the bow of the Trudeau government’s plan to bail out cash-starved mainstream media. In a withering response to Australia’s 12-month review of legislation forcing online entities to share revenue with designated news publishers, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, makes it clear that, as things stand, it has no interest…
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August 4, 2022
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Commentary Many of us with a libertarian frame of mind presume as a matter of theory that the interests of business are at odds with those of government. That’s generally true for businesses of a certain size. The regulations and taxes one faces in running an enterprise in the “land of free” are utterly shocking,…
Court Rejects Google Motion to Dismiss Antitrust Lawsuit, Orders Company to Produce Documents
A federal judge has rejected Google’s attempt to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit, ruling that plaintiffs have “adequately alleged” a claim under a key antitrust law. Rumble, a video platform, sued Google in 2021, charging that the company violated the Sherman Act, an 1890 law that outlaws anti-competitive practices. Among the violations, according to the suit: Google…
CDC Met With Big Tech Officials in Bid to Tackle COVID-19 Misinformation, Emails Show
July 29, 2022
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) met with executives from Big Tech companies in an effort to cut down on narratives deemed by officials as COVID-19 misinformation, according to newly released emails. The CDC hosted meetings on May 14 and May 28 in 2021, with slides outlining what the government agency described…
Elon Musk Responds to Report of Alleged Affair With Google Co-Founder’s Wife
July 25, 2022
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is contesting the veracity of a recent “exclusive” report alleging that he had an affair with the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, calling it “total bs” and denying that claims that he and Brin are no longer friends. Musk took to Twitter on Sunday evening to dispute the report by the Wall Street Journal, which…
Elon Musk Calls WSJ ‘Way Sub Tabloid’ for Article on Alleged Affair With Google Co-founder’s Wife
July 25, 2022
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is contesting a recent “exclusive” report alleging that he had an affair with the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, calling it “total bs” and denying that claims that he and Brin are no longer friends. Musk took to Twitter on Sunday evening to dispute the report by the Wall Street Journal, which alleged that the…
Elon Musk Says WSJ ‘Way Sub Tabloid,’ Denying Alleged Affair With Google Co-Founder’s Wife
July 25, 2022
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is contesting the veracity of a recent “exclusive” report alleging that he had an affair with the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, calling it “total bs” and denying that claims that he and Brin are no longer friends. Musk took to Twitter on Sunday evening to dispute the report by the Wall Street Journal, which…
17 Attorneys General Warn Google About Censoring Pregnancy Crisis Centers
A coalition of 17 attorneys general is threatening Google with an anti-trust investigation if it censors pregnancy crisis centers from search results related to abortion. Pregnancy crisis centers are different from abortion centers in that they provide resources for women who choose to carry their babies to full term. The attorneys general of Virginia and…
Google Fires Engineer Who Warned Company’s AI Bot Is ‘Sentient’ and Hired an Attorney
Google recently confirmed that it has fired the engineer who claimed the firm’s LaMDA artificial intelligence had become sentient. In a statement on July 22, Google confirmed it terminated engineer Blake Lemoine after he told the Washington Post in June that LaMDA—short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications—had the cognitive ability of a 7- or 8-year-old…
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