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The father of a motorcyclist killed when a Tesla driver using the EV’s “Autopilot” feature struck him from behind has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Elon Musk’s electric car giant, claiming the company knowingly sold dangerous technology. The Seattle Times reports that Jeffrey Nissen, a 28-year-old Stanwood resident, was riding his Yamaha motorcycle on April…

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that Microsoft will introduce significant changes to prevent American consumers from facing increased utility bills resulting from the company’s data center construction for AI operations. The President wrote that tech giants must “pay their own way” to power their data centers. CNBC reports that President Donald Trump revealed through a…

Former Meta chief AI scientist Yann Lecun has publicly questioned the appointment of Alexander Wang as the company’s new AI boss, raising concerns about potential talent retention issues for Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant. CNBC reports that Yann Lecun, widely recognized as one of the “Godfathers of AI” and Meta’s former chief AI scientist, has criticized…

An estimated 325,000 people from other countries who hold California REAL IDs will have to brave the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) again and replace them because of a software error. The redo effects about 1.5 percent of REAL ID holders in the state, the department explained. The DMV will notify those recipients, all of…

Team Trump released the figures through the @TrumpWarRoom account on X on New Year’s Day, with the caption “WINNING!” X Strategies and its CEO, Alex Bruesewitz, head up the Team Trump accounts. “President Trump is the most followed and respected leader in the world and his movement is only getting bigger. Our reach on social…

The U.S. State Department doubled down on its decision to sanction UK and Euro-citizen pro-censorship activists, as anti-“hate” NGO boss launches fight against being deported to Britain. U.S. Undersecretary of State Sarah B Rogers has told The Times of London that America is particularly focussing on European free speech issues because it is culturally important to the…

Reuters claimed on Monday to have viewed a draft report from the Pentagon that said China “is likely to have loaded more than 100 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) across its latest three silo fields” which are located near the Mongolian border. According to Reuters, the Pentagon believes China has quietly loaded over a hundred solid-fueled…

A Hungarian technology firm is making what its chairman called a “giant leap” for bilateral cooperation after committing $100 million to a leading U.S. commercial space company, marking the first time a Hungarian enterprise has taken an ownership stake in a major American space player. Budapest-based 4iG announced Friday that its space and defense subsidiary…

A major U.S.–South Korea trade deal is unraveling amid an escalating crackdown by South Korean President Lee Jae-myung and lawmakers against American-founded technology company Coupang, prompting alarm inside the Trump administration and on Capitol Hill over the future of bilateral trade. The dispute has now spilled directly into U.S. trade policy. The Office of the…

Video game hardware sales in the United States experienced a significant decline in November, reaching the lowest point for the month since 2005. Apparently, Sony’s PlayStation, Microsoft’s Xbox, and Nintendo’s Switch are not on Santa’s list this year. The Verge reports that the video game industry in the United States faced a challenging November as…