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Tesla sued by family of California teenager killed in fiery Cybertruck crash
Lawsuit alleges the design of the vehicle’s door handles is at fault for Krysta Tsukahara’s death Tesla is being sued by the parents of a teenager killed in a crash involving one of its Cybertruck pickups last fall. The incident involved four passengers who were in the vehicle when it hit a tree and caught…
Is TikTok about to go full Maga? – podcast
Investigative journalist Emily Baker-White on the deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to Trump allies Last week, Donald Trump signed an executive order approving a proposed deal to keep TikTok operating in the US. The $14bn deal, if finalised, would see the transfer of TikTok’s US operation from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to a…
‘Cancel Netflix’: Elon Musk leads rightwing backlash over trans character in kids’ show
Resurfaced clip from Dead End: Paranormal Park led Musk to encourage his followers to cancel their subscriptions Elon Musk, the multibillionaire and self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist”, has in recent days trained his attention on getting people to cancel their Netflix subscriptions in protest of what he claims is the company’s “woke bias” and inclusion of…
UK government resumes row with Apple by demanding access to British users’ data
New access order by Home Office would seek access to the tech company’s encrypted cloud backups The UK government has renewed its confrontation with Apple over access to customer data by demanding a backdoor into the tech company’s cloud storage service – targeting British users only. The Home Office had previously sought access to data…
Anti-Defamation League takes down extremism research after Musk leads rightwing backlash
Prominent US Jewish advocacy and anti-hate organization removed over a thousand pages of research The Anti-Defamation League, one of the most prominent Jewish advocacy and anti-hate organizations in the US, removed over a thousand pages of extremism research from its site on Tuesday night following online backlash from rightwing influencers and Elon Musk. The ADL’s…
California police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U-turn
San Bruno officers pull over Waymo but say a ticket wasn’t issued, as ‘our citation books don’t have a box for “robot”’ If a driver makes an illegal U-turn, but no one is behind the wheel, does the car still get a ticket? A police department in California grappled with this existential question last week.…
Murdoch’s TikTok? Trump offers allies another lever of media control
Under the known terms of the deal with China, TikTok would get a new board, including Murdochs and Ellisons Donald Trump revealed last week the US and China are close to inking a deal to let TikTok continue operating in the US. Details are not final, but should the agreement go through as has been…
US border patrol collected DNA from thousands of US citizens for years, data shows
CBP officers took DNA samples from about 2,000 citizens, some as young as 14 and many who never faced criminal charges, new analysis shows In March 2021, a 25-year-old US citizen was traveling through Chicago’s Midway airport when they were stopped by US border patrol agents. Though charged with no crime, the 25-year-old was subjected…
Murdoch, Ellison and China: what we know about the US’s TikTok deal
TikTok’s future in the US has been in limbo for over year, but the Trump administration has signaled a deal is coming For a week, the White House has signaled that a deal to transfer ownership of TikTok to a US company is forthcoming. Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order this week…