France signed into law this week a ban on domestic, short-haul flights when the journey can be completed in less than two-and-a-half hours by train. The new decree, which seeks to reduce carbon emissions, prohibits “regular public passenger air transport services.” … Read More
A fake image of an explosion near the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., may have been created by artificial-intelligence tools. But that didn’t stop it from being spread by dozens of accounts on social media — and the stock market briefly … Read More
Sending Chinese chip company shares soaring What just happened? China has banned the operators of critical information infrastructure from purchasing chips made by Micron. Beijing claims the move, which has seen China’s chip stocks rally, came after the US memory giant … Read More
DUBLIN, May 22 (Reuters) – Meta (META.O) was hit with a record 1.2 billion euro ($1.3 billion) fine by its lead European Union privacy regulator over its handling of user information and given five months to stop transferring users’ data … Read More
The U.S. military’s chief information officer and former CIA deputy director John Sherman said his office will assume control of all 5G-related activities in the U.S. military and expand the military’s 5G pilot programs — a move critics said could … Read More
Greetings from Tyler, There have been a lot of times over the years where you think the population has lost its mind. The anchors with furrowed brows, so transparent in their deceit. So the long-awaited Durham Report has come out. … Read More
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has spoken of an “historic opportunity” for Arab states to remake their region “with the least amount of foreign interference”, in his first trip to an Arab League summit in over a decade. He said Arab … Read More
Colorado State University officials deny the controversial bat disease research lab will conduct gain-of-function experiments, but locals opposed to the facility cite evidence the university is already conducting risky research on deadly pathogens. Colorado State University (CSU) is proceeding with … Read More
The attorney for the white New York City hospital worker who was accused of trying to take a rental bicycle from a Black man in a viral video says that the woman paid for the bike herself — and has … Read More
Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging the German bank facilitated the late Jeffrey Epstein‘s sex-trafficking ring, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs. The suit was filed last year in New York … Read More