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Mark Zuckerberg blasts Biden administration for pressuring Meta to censor COVID content—‘I regret that we were not more outspoken’

“I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any administration in either direction—and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.”

Fortune

Mark Zuckerberg says Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor Covid-19 content in 2021

Meta CEO also admitted Facebook was wrong to suppress a The New York Post story about Hunter Biden in the lead-up to the 2020 election

The Independent UK

Meta CEO Zuckerberg Admits Pressure From Biden Administration

Meta CEO Zuckerberg discloses pressure from Biden administration to censor COVID-19 content, emphasizing cooperation with investigation.

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Meta CEO Zuckerberg Says US Pressure On Covid-19 Posts Was 'Wrong'

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes US government pressure on his social media platforms to take down certain Covid-19 content in 2021 was "wrong," and said he would resist similar attempts in the future, according to a letter submitted to a US congressional committee.

International Business Times

The Centibillionaires Club: 15 People Worth Over $100 Billion And Three More About To Join Their Ranks

Although there are only 15 centibillionaires, their combined wealth is around $2.3 trillion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

International Business Times UK

OpenAI's AGI safety team has been gutted, says ex-researcher

A group of OpenAI researchers ensuring that a future AGI system does not pose catastrophic or even existential danger has been decimated.

Fortune

Meta’s response to the Apple Vision Pro could be its smartest move… or its biggest mistake

A recent leak revealed that Meta is scrapping plans for a headset that could compete with the Apple Vision Pro. It could be a genius move for Meta — or a big mistake.

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Vapes for sale by the kilo: TGA launches investigation into e-cigarette importer

Chinese company's Facebook ad offers vapes for $34.50 a kilo.

Newcastle Herald

Meta Plans Large Expansion Into Use Of Geothermal Power

The clean energy would help power the technology company's data centers

International Business Times

Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech

DPS plans to spend millions in taxpayer dollars on a controversial software, used first as part of Governor Abbott’s border crackdown, to “disrupt potential domestic terrorism.”

Texas Observer

Iranian hackers posing as tech support target U.S. presidential campaigns, Meta reveals

Meta uncovered an Iranian hacking network impersonating tech support to target WhatsApp accounts of Trump and Biden staff.

Latin Times

The Vision Pro's struggles may have scared Meta off of a high-end mixed-reality headset

Meta has reportedly been working on a high-end mixed reality headset, but has pulled the plug on the project.

iMore

Talk about rock solid — tech giants unite to create global standard on... concrete?

Open Compute Project has partnered with tech giants to push the use of "green concrete" in data center construction.

TechRadar

Meta’s Apple Vision Pro competitor reportedly cancelled — Meta responds

Report suggests that Meta has axed a possible Quest Pro 2 over the difficulties of reaching a consumer-friendly price point.

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A banned promoter of cancer ‘cures’ was hijacked by genAI. Now the internet is ‘flooded with garbage’

Australian Barbara O’Neill’s ‘natural self-healing’ remedies found a certain audience through her own efforts. But her image has run wild thanks to unaffiliated groups exploiting her name on social media

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Iranian Hackers Target Whatsapp Accounts Of US Administration Staff

Iranian hackers targeted WhatsApp accounts of U.S. political officials in a broader election interference effort, posing as tech support agents for Microso...

Android Central

Report suggests Quest Pro 2 has been canceled, but a Meta exec says that's not the whole story

A report claimed that Meta has stopped developing the Quest Pro 2, but the company's CTO Andrew Bosworth has more to say.

Barchart

Has Nvidia Stock Run Up Too Far Ahead of Its Q2 Earnings?

Nvidia stock has risen sharply from its August lows amid optimism that it will deliver stellar earnings for fiscal Q2. While Wall Street analysts are getting bullish on NVDA ahead of the report, the recent rise means that the margin of safety is quite low heading into the confessional.

The Independent UK

With their massive resources, corporations could be champions of racial equity but often waver

A Missouri nonprofit founded in 2015 to help address the issues that contributed to the police shooting death of Michael Brown Jr. and the riots that followed has faced the same lament many philanthropies face

Android Central

Instagram is letting you share songs right from your profile

You'll soon be able to add a track to your Instagram profile, giving your feed a fresh, personal vibe.

The Conversation

Disney wrongful death legal case exposes potential pitfalls of automatically clicking ‘I agree’

Disney has U-turned on a bid to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit in the US by relying on the terms of service for a simple streaming trial.

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