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In a tweet, Musk openly dared local authorities to arrest him, adding that he would join workers on the assembly line and if anyone has to be arrested it should be him. “Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me,” he tweeted Monday afternoon. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 11, 2020 The plant in Fremont, south of San Francisco, had been closed since March 23, as it was deemed a nonessential business that could not open under virus restrictions....

Our lack of contact with alien lifeforms could be due to any number of reasons debated Musk, however, none of them point out that intelligent lifeforms have basically never existed within our Universe. Alternatively, Musk suggests that our isolation is in fact proof that we are living in some form of simulation. He also got one more theory that suggests that we can be part of an experiment being run by an even more advanced alien race that is carefully trying to watch our evolutionary behaviors....

The winner is an AI bot from Elon Musk backed start-up OpenAI who went on to defeat world’s several best players of the game in one-on-one matches multiple times. However, the shocking upset as when the AI bot defeated champion Danylo ‘Dendi’ Ishutin in multiplayer online battle arena Defense of the Ancients 2 (Dota 2) in two back-to-back demonstration matches. Elon Musk celebrated the bot’s victory in a tweet....

The primary objective of the mission, due for takeoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:21 a.m. ET, is to deliver a robotic Dragon capsule with more than two and a half tons of supplies, equipment and experiments — ranging from a new docking adapter for accommodating future U.S.-built spaceships to a virtual-reality headset for the space station’s crew. This was supposed to be the first robotic cargo delivery since a Russian Progress capsule went bust in April, resulting in the loss of the craft’s 3-ton payload....

“As of the end of Q2, we have converted approximately 75% of our Bitcoin purchases into fiat currency. Conversions in Q2 added $936M of cash to our balance sheet,” the company said in its earnings release. Tesla has listed this sum under “proceeds from sales of digital assets” in its second-quarter earnings results. The company said in a shareholder presentation that its year-over-year operating income was mainly affected by several items, including “Bitcoin impairment”, which had a negative impact on its profitability during the second quarter, when it posted $2....

According to Musk who is famous for his futuristic claims, said that people have almost no chance to create a completely safe AI. He claimed that the chances of making AI safe is only 5-10%, but the probability of creating dangerous robots increases every year. Musk like many of his peers is supporting serious regulation of AI, and as soon as possible. Musk’s latest claims follow a warning he made in July that regulation of AI is required because it’s a “fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization....

Founded in 2005, the TV-torrent site EZTV has served torrents for nearly a decade. It has jumped to become one of the most popular torrents website in its niche on the Internet today. EZTV was earlier blocked by the British courts and has been under pressure from copyright violations since the untimely demise of the Pirate Bay domain on Dec 9th, 2014. However it had managed to remain online despite tremendous pressure from the authorities....

Google and Facebook are two of the most sought after companies to work in primarily due to employee pay and benefits, office perks, compensations, and a desirable work environment. Of both the tech-giant companies, Facebook has been rated as the ‘best place to work’ three times in the past 10 years. However, this time the social media giant was ranked 23rd in Glassdoor’s best-places-to-work survey for 2020. This is the company’s lowest position since it was ranked number one in 2011 as the top-rated workplace....

The police officials from Lincoln responded to a robbery call late Saturday night after a man said he attempted to buy an iPhone offered through a Facebook ad. What happened next is out of a con movie. The 20 year old man responded to the ad and went to meet the seller at a Taco John’s about 11 p.m. Saturday. The seller wanted $300 for the phone which the buyer agreed....

For those unaware, Facebook had halted its own solar-powered internet drone project, Aquila last June after years of development. Back then, the company had said that it would no longer build the drones. However, it added that it was still committed to the original goal of bringing more people online and for that it would instead depend on other companies to build aircraft. According to the documents obtained by Netzpolitik under the Australian Freedom of Information Act, show that both the companies plan to test the solar-powered drones in Australian territory....

Frédéric Durand-Baissas, a teacher in France had posted a picture of L’Origine du Monde (The Origin of the World), an 1866 painting by Gustave Courbet that hangs in the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, on his Facebook account. The picture, which is a work of art and depicts a close-up of the female genitalia, was deemed “too offensive” for Facebook and removed by it, further it blocked Durand-Baissas from using Facebook....

For those unaware, following the 2018 Cambridge Analytica app scandal which saw the personal data of 87 million Facebook users compromised, the social media giant established the below 90-day lock-out policy that would block third-party app developers from accessing user data if the app has not been used by the user for 90 days. The expiration period for data access is 90 days, based on when the user was last active....

The end product videos called ‘Riffs’ can also be shared through Facebook or directly on the web. Josh Miller, Product Manager at Facebook says that, “Recently, a few Facebook employees stayed after-hours to work on a side project. Our hunch was that if you could make videos collaboratively, the creative process would be more fun and the final product would be cooler. Today, we are introducing Riff, a creative tool to make videos with friends....

The complaint (PDF) states that “Facebook has created, collected and stored over a billion ‘face templates’ (or ‘face prints’)”, which, ostensibly, are as uniquely identifiable as fingerprints. These have been gathered “from over a billion individuals, millions of whom reside in the State of Illinois”. In 2008, the state legislature had passed the the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), which is alleged to have been violated by Zuckerberg. The complaint notes that a private entity such as Facebook under BIPA is forbidden by law to acquire or have an individual’s biometrics except if it reaches suitable permission, which is constituted by:...

That’s what happened when Facebook itself started declaring people dead when in fact they are not. The social media giant acknowledged the problem after fixing it on Friday saying that there was a “terrible error”. Some two million wayward memorials were posted on profile pages reported the media. “For a brief period today, a message meant for memorialised profiles was mistakenly posted to other accounts,” a Facebook spokesperson told Wall Street Journal....

Speaking at SXSW’s first Online Harassment Summit on Saturday, Bickert said these reports include allegations of hate speech posted on Facebook. She also said that she was unsure as to what percentage is serious and what should be taken off the site. The panel focussed on how far tech companies could and should go in eradicating possibly harmful content on their platforms. “You can criticize institutions, religions, and you can engage in robust political conversation,” said Bickert, of where Facebook draws the line....

The parents, referred to as “Mother” and “Father” in the complaint, said their 12-year-old son suffers from Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome, a condition that gets severe by electromagnetic radiation. According to the suit, the condition that causes headaches, nosebleeds, nausea, and other symptoms, was frequently being experienced by the boy while sitting in the class, after the school had installed a new, more powerful wireless Internet system in 2013. However, the school in a statement said “Isotrope’s assessment was completed in January 2015 and found that the combined levels of access point emissions, broadcast radio and television signals, and other RFE emissions on campus ‘were substantially less than 1/10,000th of the applicable safety limits (federal and state)....

Andrew Otto Boggs, alias “INCURSIO,” 22, of North Wilkesboro, N.C., and Justin Gray Liverman, alias “D3F4ULT,” 24, of Morehead City, N.C. – who were accused of working with a high prolific hacking group called “Crackas with Attitude” (CWA) were arrested on Thursday morning on charges related to their alleged roles in the computer hacking and will be extradited to Alexandria next week, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia....

This 29655 Bitcoins if sold today (current market price 1Bitcoin = $911.00 will fetch the US Government around $ 24,800,000 or 25 million approximately and looks like the DA’s office is going to sell it. But selling the Bitcoins poses a unique problem for the FBI because whatever Bitcoin exchanges are operating as of now are not legally certified by the Federal Reserve. Second thing is that the amount of Bitcoins (29655) is huge and may cause potential mini crash if sold at once....