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The women’s-only Texas prison that disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes will call home for the next decade used male guards to conduct “shower checks” and has faced a half-dozen sexual misconduct allegations in the past year, according to a former inmate at the federal minimum-security lockup and official records. Lynn Espejo, who spent nearly two years at Bryan Federal Prison …

Amazon has paid $25 million to settle federal allegations that tens of thousands of its employees had access to Alexa users’ voice recordings picked up by the smart device’s speakers. US regulators made the allegation in a complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission that has resulted in the $25 million settlement, according to Bloomberg News. The FTC claimed that …

Elon Musk is being accused of insider trading in a proposed class action by investors accusing the Tesla CEO of manipulating the cryptocurrency dogecoin, costing them billions of dollars. In a Wednesday night filing in Manhattan federal court, investors said Musk used Twitter posts, paid online influencers, his 2021 appearance on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” and other “publicity stunts” to trade profitably at their …

Stock photo provider Getty Images has asked London’s High Court for an injunction to prevent artificial intelligence company Stability AI from selling its AI image-generation system in Britain, court filings show. The Seattle-based company accuses the company of breaching its copyright by using its images to “train” its Stable Diffusion system, according to the filing dated May 12. Stability AI has yet …

Facebook parent Meta threatened to remove all news content in California ahead of a key vote by state lawmakers Thursday on whether to advance a bill requiring Big Tech firms to pay media outlets. The California Journalism Preservation Act would require “online platforms” to fork over a “journalism usage fee” to outlets whose content appears on their sites. “If the …

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the company’s next mixed-reality headset, the Quest 3, in a Thursday morning Instagram post – setting up a looming clash with Apple as it prepares to release its own pricier version. Zuckerberg said the Quest 3 will be priced starting at $499 for the 128GB model and be “the first mainstream headset with high-res color …

A former employee of Amazon’s Ring doorbell camera unit spied for months on female customers in 2017 with cameras placed in bedrooms and bathrooms, the Federal Trade Commission said in a court filing on Wednesday when it announced a $5.8 million settlement with the company over privacy violations. Amazon also agreed to pay $25 million to settle allegations it violated children’s privacy rights when it …

TikTokers have started a disturbing new trend of using generative artificial intelligence to depict grisly murders and other heinous true crimes committed against children. The resulting video clips — modified deepfakes, as they do not alter existing images but instead create new ones — show young children, sometimes bruised, narrating their chilling real-life experiences with computer-generated voices. Notable murders spoken …

Billionaire Elon Musk was showered with praise during a trip to China this week, with people on social media calling him “a pioneer,” “Brother Ma” and “a global idol” while the CEO of Tesla, Twitter, SpaceX and other companies also met in person with three government ministers. Since landing in Beijing on Tuesday, Musk has met with China’s foreign, commerce and industry ministers and has dined with Zeng Yuqun, …

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg marked Memorial Day by doing “the Murph Challenge” — a grueling workout that included 100 pull ups, 200 push ups, 300 squats, and a mile-long run, all of which was done wearing a 20-pound weighted vest. The tech boss, who has taken up the martial art of Brazilian jiujitsu, authored a Facebook post that included a …