Monthly Archives: October 2022

Pressure mounts for regulators to investigate TikTok over potential ‘Big Brother-type surveillance’ after reports of plans to track Americans’ locations

Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Forbes reported TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, planned to use the app to surveil Americans. Public Citizen on Thursday urged lawmakers and the FTC to investigate TikTok and ByteDance. The consumer rights group joins a growing chorus of bipartisan calls to investigate the Beijing-based company. Public Citizen in a letter…

Why “generative AI” is suddenly on everyone’s lips: it’s an “open field”

If you’ve been closely following the progress of Open AI, the company run by Sam Altman whose neural nets can now write original text and create original pictures with astonishing ease and speed, you might just skip this piece. If, on the other hand, you’ve only been vaguely paying attention to the company’s progress and…

A top national security prosecutor has joined the team investigating Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents, indicating the probe is heating up, WaPo reports

Documents seized by FBI at Mar-a-Lago. Department of Justice David Raskin joined the team investigating Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents, The Washington Post reported. The prosecutor recently oversaw a case of an FBI analyst who pleaded guilty to keeping classified materials at home. Raskin is regarded as one of the US’s most successful terrorism prosecutors, WaPo reported….

Paul Pelosi secretly called 911 while in front of the intruder and spoke in ‘code’ to dispatcher to convey what was happening: ‘Why are you here? What are you going to do to me?’

Paul Pelosi attends the Time 100 Gala 2019 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 23, 2019 in New York City. Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan/Getty Images House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband was attacked by an intruder at their San Francisco home Friday. Police said Paul Pelosi was somehow able to make a 911 call during the…