Monthly Archives: August 2022

Miami’s mayor says people are flocking to Florida because its low taxes are the opposite of ‘the socialist model’ seen in New York and California

Miami mayor Francis Suarez MARCO BELLO/AFP via Getty Images Over the past few years, Americans have flocked to Florida’s white-hot housing market. Miami mayor Francis Suarez says it’s because the state rejects the “socialist” model of high taxes and regulation. But what Floridians lack in taxes, they make up for in costs associated with natural…

With student-loan payments set to resume in just over a week, lawmakers are making their last-ditch efforts to sway Biden’s debt relief plans. Here’s what they’re saying.

President Joe Biden Drew Angerer/Getty Images Student-loan payments are set to resume in just over a week. Lawmakers are using this time to sway Biden’s decision on a payment pause extension and debt cancellation. Advocates want Biden to go big on forgiveness. Critics worry it will exacerbate inflation. Long-awaited relief could finally be in store…

Former Apple employee pleads guilty to stealing self-driving car secrets

Back in 2018, former Apple employee Xiaolang Zhang was arrested at San Jose International Airport where he was going to board a last-minute flight to China. Zhang was accused of transferring a 25-page document that includes the engineering schematics of a circuit board for the company’s self-driving vehicle, along with technical manuals describing Apple’s prototype,…

Troubled ‘Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic’ remake reportedly switches studios

The Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake is reportedly back in development… at a different studio. According to Bloomberg, one of Saber Interactive’s studios in Eastern Europe has taken over the project after it was put on indefinite hold by Aspyr Media in July. Aspyr had been working on the project for years…

Whistleblower accuses Twitter of being ‘grossly negligent’ towards security

Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, says the company has misled regulators about its security measures in his whistleblower complaint that was obtained by The Washington Post. In his complaint filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, he accuses the company of violating the…