Anyone who has travelled to India in the last couple of years will have noticed a new identification system at country’s major airports that is called DigiYatra. ‘Yatra’ is Hindi for wandering or travelling, and the idea is to replace the traditional paper boarding pass with facial recognition when travelling …

Police records obtained by The Intercept show Dataminr tracked Gaza-related protests and other constitutionally protected speech. Summary: The article discusses how the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) used Dataminr, a social media monitoring tool, to track protests related to Gaza. In the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack, pro-Palestinian protests …

Former policy director Sarah Wynn-Williams filed a lengthy complaint with the SEC, seen by The Washington Post. Summary: A whistleblower complaint filed by former Facebook policy director Sarah Wynn-Williams expands on claims that Facebook built a censorship tool to gain access to the Chinese market. The 78-page complaint, submitted to …

Elon Musk in the Oval Office.Andrew Harnik/Getty Images SUMMARY: Elon Musk, along with a group of private equity and venture investors, made an unsolicited $97.4 billion cash offer to purchase the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. However, Musk’s offer comes with a condition: he wants OpenAI CEO …

Original article Forget TikTok—DeepSeek is the real deal.VCG via Getty Images Timing really is everything. A week on from TikTok’s short-lived ban over fears of Chinese harvesting U.S. data, despite consistent denials from the platform and its parent that it’s doing anything of the sort, here comes another app that admits to …

Original article Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The new chatbot brings the same capabilities from the public model to government-approved and secure cloud environments for federal workloads. OpenAI unveiled a new chatbot service specifically tailored to federal agency workloads, announcing ChatGPT Gov on Tuesday as the latest artificial intelligence …

Original article/full video Epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher Responds on Brannon Howse Live The Stargate Project was announced at a White House press conference yesterday: The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. …

Original article Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces backlash amidst reported Democratic content blocking across Facebook and Instagram (Getty Images) Meta, the tech giant behind Facebook and Instagram, is facing mounting criticism over a series of platform issues affecting political content related to Democratic Party terms and hashtags, raising questions from …

Original article TikTok is preparing to potentially make the app unavailable to its 170 million American users on Sunday, the same day a U.S. ban is set to go into effect, according to a person with knowledge of the company’s planning who spoke with NBC News. A law signed by …

Original article The draft order does not, however, tackle the full breadth of actions that were expected from a promised identity executive order that has yet to materialize. A cybersecurity executive order expected in the final days of the Biden administration includes instructions for government agencies to ramp up their …

Originally published by Brownstone Institute History will remember this era as the moment when America’s most sacred principles collided with unprecedented institutional power – and lost. The systematic dismantling of fundamental rights didn’t happen through military force or executive decree, but through the quiet cooperation of tech platforms, media gatekeepers, …

Original article Philosophy professor George Matwijec got ChatGPT to acknowledge that the child in the womb is an unequivocally human, living organism at every stage of development and that abortion is the destruction of an unrepeatable human being. ChatGPT Chat with AI, Artificial Intelligence. (Shutterstock) (LifeSiteNews) — AI has captivated …

Original article 14-year-old Henry, right, and Angel, 15, use their phones to view social media. (Rick Rycroft / AP) Landmark policy and legislation moved forward to regulate and monitor social platforms in the past year. While some bills have stalled, others have moved forward and are slated to make a …

Vasmobile Fintelco is launching SkoolID, the African School ID and Smart Payment Card, based on the biometric card platform from IDEX Biometrics. The multi-year agreement sets Vasmobile up to scale across Kenya in 2025 and further expansion into other parts of Africa as of 2026. Vasmobile is offering payment card …

Originally released on DHS.gov WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced that Credence ID, Hushmesh, Netis d.o.o., Procivis, SpruceID, and Ubiqu have each won a government contract to develop technologies that protect the privacy of individuals using digital versions of credentials issued for immigration and travel. …

Originally published on Substack Please do not search for unapproved terms Try searching Google for “President Donald Trump,” which I presume is a very common search term. As you type your query, Google displays search suggestions. And guess what? The world’s biggest search engine makes all sorts of suggestions other …

A blueprint for taking over food chains and natural areas in the name of public health   This is a 2022 article that is still relevant, as we are running up to the WHO’s health assembly that starts May 27.  In the assembly, amendments to the IHR (Internationals Health Regulations) …

View Original Post The Supreme Court has an opportunity to save free speech and, ultimately, free elections in America. At the end of June, two cases regulating social media and government speech censorship are on the docket. The highest court in the land will be focused on cases from Missouri and …

Originally posted on Baltimore Sun 2019 FILE: Campers fill up their super soakers before a water battle at Camp C.O.P.S. in Westminster. (Sun File) What do “Shark Tank,” Abraham Lincoln, and the Super Soaker have in common? Each has  played a part in America’s longstanding and unique history of honoring …

Photo from Trial Site News: https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/photobiomodulation-overview-of-the-pubmed-literature-on-low-level-light-therapy-272cafd0 “Low-level light therapy (LLLT), also known as photo biomodulation (PBM), is a type of optical therapy that uses red or near-infrared lasers or light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for medical treatment. The laser wavelengths involved in PBM typically range between 600-700 nm and 780-1100 nm, with power densities …