Proud Boys Leaders Walk Free After Trump Releases All January 6 Rioters
Four Proud Boy leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy are among the hundreds of Capitol rioters who will go free after pardons and sentence commutations are issued by the newly inaugurated president Donald Trump. Enrique Tarrio, who was the leader of the right-wing gang at the time of the insurrection four years ago, has been sentenced to 22-years behind bars-the...
UK to unveil ‘Humphrey’ assistant for civil servants with another AI plan to cut bureaucracy
A week after the UK government announced sweeping plans to make huge investments into AI, it sheds more light on how this will play out in the public sector. On the agenda: AI assistants to speed up public services; data sharing transactions between siled departments; and a new AI tool - dubbed "Humphrey" after a character in an old...
Donald Trump 2.0 Grift Is On
As President Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States on Monday, activists and opportunists are already looking to cash in on the new Trump era—including the president himself. called $ TRUMP to "celebrate victory and have fun," warning that "it is not intended to be ... an investment opportunity." Trump announced the launch on...
Neo-Nazis Love Nazi-Like Salutes Elon Musk Made at Trump’s Inauguration
Neo-Nazis celebrate Elon Musk making two Nazi-like salutes during a speech to tens of thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump on Monday. Musk said during a speech at the Capital One Arena in Washington DC, a few hours after Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in...
The White House website is basically a Marvel Movie Trailer Now
Helicopter. Some more helicopters. Men wear saluting uniforms. Fighter jets over the White House. American flag. A man looking into the distance. Bald eagle. Pointing. Another American flag. Another helicopter. More pointed. More greetings. Thumbs up. A silhouette. It could easily have been a trailer for anyone from the seemingly endless stream of Hollywood films about threats to the...
Trump Memecoin’s ‘Money-Grab’ Economy
In this sense, claims Jacob Silverman, coauthor of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud, the TRUMP coin setup seems to have some characteristics of the "classic memecoin pump-and-dump"-a maneuver. issuers keep a large amount of coins, promote the project, then issue their holdings, devaluing the coins and giving huge losses to others. investors. "If...
Flipboard’s new surf app also adds its own video feed
After the ban on TikTok took effect on Sunday, social network Bluesky launched a special feed for videos on the platform. Now, Flipboard's newest app, Surf, which is dedicated to exploring the open social web and decentralized services like Mastodon and Bluesky, is taking advantage of the move to introduce its own video feed. First, Surf's video feed is...
DeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 in certain benchmarks
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released an open source version of DeepSeek-R1, a so-called reasoning model, which it claims performs as well as OpenAI's o1 in certain AI benchmarks. R1 is available from AI dev platform Hugging Face under the MIT license, meaning it can be used commercially without restrictions. According to DeepSeek, R1 beats o1 in AIME, MATH-500,...
MAGA Influencers Take a Victory Lap, With Big Tech Picking Up the Tab
At the Power 30 party sponsored by TikTok, conservative content creators encouraged new subscribers, dancing to top 40 hits for hours in Make America Great Again hats with TikTok-labeled earmuffs. At another TikTok-sponsored party at the Capital One arena Saturday night, conservative creators received company merchandise, like koozies with graphics of Trump dancing or earmuffs in pink and blue...
RedNote Recruits US Influencers to Promote App Amid TikTok Ban
While the future of TikTok remains in the balance, Xiaohonghshu, better known as RedNote in English, is trying to gain new popularity by collaborating with US influencers who can help promote the company and bring more Americans to the platform. The Chinese lifestyle and travel app, which has more than 300 million monthly active users, climbed to the top...
