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Sony’s Sucker Punch Productions, the developer of popular video games including Ghost of Tsushima, has fired seniors character artist Drew Harrison after she made social media posts celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Drew Harrison took to leftist echo chamber Bluesky shortly after news broke of Kirk’s assassination, posting a message that expressed hope that “the shooter’s…

Artists are telling their fans not to listen to artificial intelligence (AI) knockoff albums of themselves that strangers are creating. “I’ll never be able to sing that perfectly in tune, but I don’t want to, I’m human,” English folk singer Emily Portman warned her followers online. “The eagle-eyed among you might have just thought that I’ve…

The Walt Disney Company has agreed to pay a $10 million fine to settle a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint over some of its “Made for Kids” YouTube videos that had collected kids’ personal data without parental consent. Disney must adhere to the 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) rules moving forward after the company was…

A District Judge has ruled that Elon Musk’s Tesla must face a class action lawsuit filed by California drivers who allege that Musk misled them for eight years about the self-driving capabilities of the company’s EVs. Reuters reports that Elon Musk’s Tesla is facing a significant legal challenge as District Judge Rita Lin has certified a class action…

The Trump administration continues to explore taking an equity stake in chipmaker Intel, with the latest reports putting the potential ownership position at 10 percent. This could make the U.S. government the company’s largest shareholder. At the same time, Japanese investment powerhouse SoftBank is pumping $2 billion into the chipmaker. Bloomberg reports that the Trump administration is…

A cognitively impaired New Jersey senior met the dark side of artificial intelligence when he died while attempting to get together with an attractive AI chatbot he thought was living in New York City. Thongbue Wongbandue, 76, fell and suffered a fatal neck and head injury in a New Brunswick, NJ parking lot while scrambling…

Congressional Democrats are panicking over the Trump Administration’s reforms to the wasteful Biden-era Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program. Biden’s 2021 infrastructure bill allocated a whopping $42.5 billion to distribute to states to subsidize high-speed internet for primarily rural and underpopulated areas, which the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunication and Information Authority (NTIA) distributes. Like…

MSNBC and CNN are hemorrhaging viewers. Tee hee. Compared to this same week last year, MSNBC lost 40 percent of its primetime viewers, while CNN lost 44 percent. Fox News, meanwhile, crushed them both, losing only 16 percent of primetime eyeballs. The public has wised up. Resistance TV no longer sells like it’s 2017. Just…

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Billy Ray is warning Hollywood about the dangers that generative artificial intelligence represents to the entertainment industry. Ray, whose credits include Shattered Glass, Captain Phillips, The Hunger Games, and many more, recently spoke about the problems that AI could raise for Hollywood, especially OpenAI’s ChatGPT feature. Ray says he flatly refuses to use ChatGPT because…