Grok's website and app are being used to produce extremely graphic, sometimes violent, sexual imagery of adults that is far more explicit than images on X
A WIRED review of outputs hosted on Grok's official website shows it's being used to create violent sexual images and videos, as well as content that includes apparent minors.
Analysis: as crypto sheds $1T+, the Trump family's fortune has fallen to ~$6.7B from $7.7B in early September; President Trump's TMTG stake fell by ~$800M
In President Donald Trump's second term, crypto assets transformed his family's wealth. Now the Trumps — and their followers …
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to ask Apple to remove the app
Here's What We Know ABC Columbia : Apple removes ICE tracking apps Joe Sommerlad / The Independent : Apple pulls ICE tracking apps after pressure from the White House thesun.my : A...
Apple's removal of ICEBlock raises questions about the limits of what the company will resist under the Trump administration's increasingly outrageous demands
Ashley Oliver, reporting for Fox Business: … Fox, in its opening paragraph, describes Bondi as having “asked” …
Analysis: since April 2, President Trump has excluded over $100B in US smartphone and laptop imports from tariffs, highlighting conflicting administration goals
Exclusions reflect conflicting goals: to rip up the rules of global trade while cushioning US consumers.
The US House passes the GENIUS Act, sending the stablecoin bill to Trump for his signature, and advances two other crypto bills to the Senate for consideration
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to create a regulatory framework for U.S.-dollar-pegged cryptocurrency tokens known …
Analysis: nearly 70 Trump administration officials and nominees held crypto or investments in blockchain or digital-asset firms at the time of their selection
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Meta elects new board directors: UFC CEO and outspoken Donald Trump supporter Dana White, former Microsoft executive Charlie Songhurst, and Exor CEO John Elkann
Is a Choke Button Coming Soon? Robert McGreevy / The Daily Caller : Major Trump Ally Dana White Joins Meta's Board As Zuck Sheds Left-Wing Bias Clyde Hughes / UPI : Meta names Dana...
Meta donates $1M to President-elect Trump's inaugural fund; sources say Mark Zuckerberg gifted Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to Trump at Mar-a-Lago on November 27
President-elect had blasted the tech tycoon during the presidential campaign, but ties have been improving
Trump Media & Technology Group's stock jumps 10%+, hitting a $7B+ market cap, as Donald Trump beats Kamala Harris, despite losing $19M+ in Q3; TSLA rises 10%+
Veteran Investor Predicts US Economy Could ‘Take Off’ Craig Trudell / Bloomberg : Tesla Soars While EV Rivals Slump as Trump Win Upends Market Rohail Saleem / Wccftech : Trump's Ne...
Elon Musk's gamble on Donald Trump pays off, as Trump wins the race; Trump gave Musk a lengthy shout out in his victory speech, calling him “a super-genius”
“A star is born: Elon,” said Donald Trump in a lengthy shout out to his biggest donor while claiming victory in the US presidential race on Wednesday morning.
CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts had 17.1B views since July 2024
In the run up to the high-stakes 2024 presidential election, Elon Musk has posted a blizzard of false and misleading claims …
An analysis of the top 100 US congressional X accounts: since July 2023, Republicans had nearly all the posts with 20M+ views and saw bigger gains in followers
A Washington Post analysis found that Republicans are posting more, getting followed more and going viral more now that the …
The US Treasury's FinCEN proposes labeling international crypto mixing as a “primary money laundering concern”, citing its use by Hamas and other illicit actors
Under pressure to address reports that Hamas and other terrorist groups are partially funded with crypto …
Chainalysis says some recent media reports about the supposed use of crypto by terrorist organizations might be overstating metrics and using “flawed analyses”
But It's Deadly Hannah Lang / Reuters : US lawmakers urge White House crack down on Hamas use of crypto after Israel attack Assad Jafri / CryptoSlate : Chainalysis says crypto usag...
Chainalysis says recent media reports about the supposed use of crypto by terrorist organizations might be overstating metrics and using “flawed analyses”
- Chainalysis said some recent reports about the supposed use of crypto by terrorist organizations might be overstating metrics and using “flawed analyses.”
How Tom Brady's crypto ambitions, including a bet on FTX, collided with reality, an example of the humiliating reckoning facing celebrities who embraced crypto
The superstar quarterback is among the celebrities dealing with the fallout from the crypto crash. Others, like Taylor Swift, escaped.
Instagram Threads feels like Twitter's early days, offering users an insta-network underpinned by Meta's infrastructure that helped surpass smaller rivals
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times :
Hands-on with Threads: fairly basic text-based messaging app, log in via Instagram, no hashtags, can't search for anything other than user handles, and more
Programming note: I really was trying to take a vacation, but this felt like it was worth the one-day interruption.
Elon Musk offering no timeline for Twitter's “temporary” reading limits, and CEO Linda Yaccarino keeping mum, may give Meta a perfectly timed launch for Threads
With users in uproar over restrictions and outages … Jody Godoy / Reuters : Musk's Twitter rate limits could undermine new CEO, ad experts say BBC : Confusion at Twitter continues ...