Want a new Facebook account? Just hand over your private email password
RT | Just when you thought Facebook couldn’t get more invasive, the social network has been caught asking new users for the password to their email accounts.
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Facebook left hundreds of MILLIONS of users’ private data exposed to the public on Amazon’s cloud servers, report claims
Daily Mail | The data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users is being stored in plain sight on Amazon’s cloud servers, security researchers have found.
Radiation concerns halt Brussels 5G development, for now
Brussels Times | Plans for a pilot project to provide high-speed 5G wireless internet in Brussels have been halted due to fears for the health of citizens, according to reports.
‘I don’t want women getting beaten up & their records crushed’: Zuby on trans sport issue (VIDEO)
RT | The only way to tackle the “gross injustice” of the trans sport issue is to “snap out of delusion” and be intellectually consistent, otherwise risk of annihilating women from sport, according to British rapper Zuby.
Google employees demand conservative AI ethics board member is sacked for ‘transphobia’ after she said you can’t ‘change the definition of women to include men’
Daily Mail | A group of Google employees are trying to remove a member of a newly-formed AI ethics board because her opinions do not match theirs.
Robots given a sense of humour could KILL because they might think it’s funny, expert warns
Daily Mail | AI experts are trying to give some robots a sense of humour to improve them.
A Volcano That Could Completely Cover Mexico City With Volcanic Ash Just Erupted 200 Times In A 24 Hour Period
Michael Snyder | The most dangerous volcano in Mexico just erupted 200 times in a 24 hour period, but there has been an almost total blackout about this in the U.S. media.
Mick Jagger’s Coming to America for Surgery?
Rush Limbaugh | He’s from the U.K. Why isn’t he getting heart valve replacement surgery in the U.K. with the national health system?
New Big Brother? India’s ‘Project Insight’ in full force, searches social media for unpaid taxes
RT | A new computer system, which will monitor the social media activity of people for signs that they don’t pay their taxes, goes online in India on Monday. Those who like to brag about their wealth may now think twice.
The robots that learned to reproduce: Scientists teach AI-powered bots to ‘mate’ by combining pieces of their code
Daily Mail | Evolutionary roboticists have been testing radical methodologies that allow robots to ‘mate’ with one another autonomously.
Twitter considers annotating tweets from Donald Trump and other officials if they violate its policies as it struggles to crack down on offensive content that may be of public interest
Daily Mail | Twitter could soon annotate tweets that violate its policies on offensive content.
UK Sees China’s Huawei’s ‘Risks’ to Telecom Networks
Sputnik | Officials in the United States have been increasingly public in voicing their concerns that Huawei’s equipment could be used by Beijing for spying or sabotage, particularly their 5G phones.
Execs from Google, Microsoft, and other top tech firms are grilled about putting ‘ethics before business interests’ during Silicon Valley summit on artificial intelligence
Daily Mail | ‘When have you put ethics before your business interests?’
NASA will send astronauts back to the moon within FIVE YEARS: Mike Pence reveals aggressive new 2024 deadline as he calls on the space agency to ‘reignite the spark of urgency’
Daily Mail | Vice President Mike Pence spoke at fifth meeting of the National Space Council.
Bokhari: When Will Big Tech Stop Amplifying NewsGuard-Approved Conspiracy Theories?
Breitbart | Big tech has long since caved to the power of big journalism. The spread of the Russia collusion hoax, fully approved of by Microsoft partner NewsGuard, is only the latest example.