Meta is up to its usual tricks again, suppressing unfavorable stories.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/tech/meta-nonprofit-newspaper-independent-journalist-alleged-censorship/index.html
#CoSoNews
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has released its first report on partial automation in cars. It's not good. Tesla has the two worst-performing software systems.
https://www.iihs.org/ratings/partial-automation-safeguards
#CoSoNews #news
Vinyl records are now so hot they move UK inflation.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/business/vinyl-records-uk-inflation-basket/index.html
#news #CoSoNews
Chinese Influence Campaign Pushes Disunity Before U.S. Election, Study Says.
https://archive.ph/mJ3Cw#selection-337.0-337.75
#news #CoSoNews
NuScale's small, modular nuclear power generator cancelled due to plunging prices of renewable energy.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/first-planned-small-nuclear-reactor-plant-in-the-us-has-been-canceled/
#CoSoNews #news
Musk refused to testify in Twitter stock probe, claimed SEC is harassing him
After being sued by SEC, Musk says he wants US regulators to be punished.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/sec-sues-musk-saying-he-refuses-to-testify-in-twitter-stock-investigation/
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DoD plans to build thousands of autonomous weapons in just two years. The strategy is central to stopping China from invading Taiwan.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/replicator-is-dods-big-play-to-build-thousands-of-autonomous-weapons-in-just-two-years
#CoSoNews #war #technology
US Army wants to arm its robot dogs with remote-controlled rifles.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/quadruped_dogs_gun_xm7/
#AI #CoSoNews #News
MIT scientists build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, water
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/02/mit_concrete_battery/
#science #CoSoNews #News
China assigns important diplomat to help broker peace between Ukraine and Russia.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-08/china-making-move-ukraine-putin-xi-zelenskyy-us/102313290
#CoSoNews #News #Ukraine
Grandmother Shot While Sitting on Balcony of Delray Beach Apartment: Police
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/grandmother-shot-while-sitting-on-balcony-of-delray-beach-apartment-police/3017538/
#guns #news #CoSoNews
Central Park gate honors wrongly imprisoned ‘Exonerated 5’.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/central-park-gate-honors-wrongly-imprisoned-exonerated-5-rcna62534
This report completely erases TFG's role in whipping up hate against these 5 innocent black boys. Even when DNA evidence absolved them and they were exonerated, he insisted they were guilty. NBC News should do better.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/19/what-trump-has-said-central-park-five/1501321001/
#CoSoNews #news #BLM #justice
Wells Fargo fined $1.7 billion for ‘illegal activity’ including unjust foreclosures, vehicle repossessions.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/20/investing/wells-fargo-cfpb-foreclosure-fine/index.html
#corporatecrime #DOJ #WellsFargo #CoSoNews #News
A hate crime in TN isn't a hate crime until you can name the suspect.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/18/us/tennessee-interracial-family-fire-hate-crime-reaj/index.html
#news #CoSoNews #hatecrime
Meta threats fail to derail US news bargaining laws.
https://archive.ph/RAXoJ
#news #CoSoNews #JCPA #congress
Australians have lost at least $7.2 million to the 'Hi Mum' scam. How does it work and why is it so lucrative for cybercriminals?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-12/inside-the-hi-mum-text-scam-how-it-works-whos-behind-it/101726762
#CoSoNews #CoSoSec
Leaked documents indicate over 300 members of far-right paramilitary Oath Keepers may be current or former DHS employees, Project on Government Oversight reports.
https://news.yahoo.com/leaked-documents-indicate-over-300-230536493.html
#CoSoNews #news
Retired tech guy. Moved from Australia to U.S. in '88. Spent over 50 years in computers, storage and software. Progressive.