April 28, 2024

Outgoing Silicon Valley lawmaker says big tech needs immigration reform

House Energy and Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee Chair Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) listens to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar as he testifies about the the FY2src in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on Feb. 26, 2src2src in Washington. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Outgoing California Rep. Anna Eshoo’s biggest tech regret isn’t

‘Dumb Racist Twits’: Michigan Tech Professor Replaced After Tirade Against Conservative Students

A Michigan Technological University professor has been relieved of his duties after being caught calling a group of conservative students “childish, stupid, homophobic, dumb, racist twits” for celebrating the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, according to an email obtained by the student group. Young America’s Foundation’s (YAF) student activist organization, Young Americans

Foxconn Pulls out of $19.5 Billion Chip Deal in Setback for Narendra Modi’s Tech Agenda

Taiwan-based tech giant Foxconn announced Monday its withdrawal from a $19.5 billion joint semiconductor manufacturing deal with Indian metal and energy company Vedanta. The deal’s collapse is a setback for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to make India a leading source of computer chips and a personal disappointment because the Foxconn-Vedanta plant would have

Tech glitch allows Bank of Ireland customers to withdraw up to $1K in money they don’t have

Hundreds of Bank of Ireland customers rushed to ATMs across the country Tuesday night after a technical glitch allowed them to withdraw up to $1,000 in money they didn’t have in their accounts, according to local reports. Cars lined up outside the Bank of Ireland location in Lisduggan at 10 p.m. where customers were cashing […]

Smart tech tips to make summer travel cheaper and less stressful

Delays can stack up as the day goes, so your best bet to make sure you get on the plane is to choose a flight before 3 p.m. Wednesday is one of the cheapest days to fly, so there’s your plan: Wednesday before 3. Pro tip: You can check where your plane is to get […]

Report: Saudi Arabia Invested in Firm that Owns Democrat Party’s Campaign Tech

The Saudi Arabian government is an investor in the private company that owns “a virtual monopoly” on software the Democrat National Committee (DNC) uses to aid its candidates, according to the Intercept. Sanabil Investment manages Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the official name of the government’s sovereign wealth fund, which is one of the world’s

Ron DeSantis Signs ‘Digital Bill Of Rights’ Legislation To Curb Big Tech

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Tuesday designed to curb government involvement in Big Tech censorship and data collection. DeSantis signed Senate Bill 262, creating a “Digital Bill of Rights” to protect consumers’ data, according to a press release. The legislation also requires larger search engines like Google to communicate whether they alter search results

Twitter Bans Leftist Tech Reporter for Soliciting Hacked Matt Walsh Material

Twitter has permanently banned the account of Dell Cameron, a leftist reporter for tech outlet Wired, after he broke the platform’s rules on soliciting hacked material after he requested (and obtained) hacked materials from the accounts of conservative commentator Matt Walsh. Wired denied that Cameron violated any of the Twitter rules, even though one of his tweets prior

Musk says Unabomber who died last week ‘might not be wrong’ that tech is bad for humanity

Elon Musk said on Saturday that the Unabomber — despite his twisted, homicidal rampage that killed three people and injured two dozen more — “might not be wrong” in his belief that technology is detrimental to society. The billionaire tweeted the comment the same day the Unabomber, whose real name was Ted Kaczynski, died in […]

How a Tech Bro Bought a Horse on Craigslist—and Became an Internet Villain

On its face, Cyril Bertheau seems to be on a journey that feel-good adventure stories are made of. The 24-year-old announced in March that he was quitting a six-figure tech job to purchase a horse off of Craigslist and ride it more than 2,100 miles from his home in Austin, Texas, to Seattle, Washington, in

Apple crash and fall tech inundating 911 dispatchers with automated calls, reports say

iPhones “crash and fall” feature has been inundating police dispatchers across the country. Getty Images Apple devices’ crash and fall detection features are reportedly flooding 911 emergency service and dispatch centers in states across the U.S. In Red Lodge, Montana, the issue is impacting Carbon County authorities.  “When people crash up there, and they have these watches, […]

Breitbart News Daily Podcast Ep. 250: How the Media Ruined Polling with Trafalgar’s Robert Cahaly, Retired Bomb Disposal Tech Ken Falke Helping First Responders

Host Alex Marlow begins today’s podcast with a breakdown of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, CNN’s pathetic ratings, and the latest on the midterms. We have two guests today. In honor of “National First Responder Day,” our first guest is Ken Falke, the founder of the Boulder Crest Foundation. He is a 21-year combat veteran…

‘Picking Winners And Losers’: Here’s How Congress’ Antitrust Legislation Avoids Regulating Many Big Tech Companies

Last-minute changes to major antitrust legislation working its way through the House appears to exempt several Big Tech companies from being affected by its regulations. “This, by design, is Congress deciding who gets punished and who’s favored,” Berin Szoka, president of technology policy think tank TechFreedom, told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview. “That is…

Feminist Naomi Wolf: Biden Admin, Democrats, Big Tech in ‘Unholy Marriage’

After Dr. Naomi Wolf was suspended from Twitter and YouTube earlier this month for exploring COVID origins, the progressive feminist author and former Democrat adviser appeared on Steve Malzberg’s weekly Sunday commentary show Eat the Press, lashing out at Democrats criticizing the freedom of individuals to challenge mainstream takes on matters of public interest and…

Legal Experts Propose Common Carrier Regulation as Solution for Big Tech Censorship

First Amendment experts proposed using common carrier regulations to prevent “behemoth” big tech platforms from discriminating against users’ free speech, contending that these platforms exercise more control over public discourse than most people in history. The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy hosted a panel of “nationally renowned First Amendment experts” in June, including Eugene Volokh,…

Senate Republicans Oppose Biden Nominee Who Worked For Chinese Tech Company

Three Republican senators condemned a Biden nominee who was previously employed by a Chinese tech company that is currently sanctioned by the U.S. The Senate Intelligence Committee advanced the nomination of Christopher Fonzone to be general counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Wednesday. Fonzone was previously employed as a lobbyist…

Clarence Thomas: Supreme Court Will Soon Have to Address Tech Censorship

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas today outlined a detailed legal argument for why social media companies might need to be subject to strict rules forbidding them from denying service to users for any reason or no reason, including the possibility of designating them as common carriers — which would effectively eliminate their ability to ban…

Virginia Tech Coach Mike Young Insults Jehovah’s Witnesses Before Florida Game

Virginia Tech men’s basketball coach Mike Young took a cheap shot at the religious group Jehovah’s Witnesses on Tuesday during a press call leading up to Friday’s game with the University of Florida. “We’re not playing the Jehovah’s Witness all-star team here. We’re playing the Gators, man, we’re playing the Gators,” Young told reporters. “This is it. This…

Matt Gaetz Rips Corporate Wokeism, Big Government, Big Tech in CPAC Speech

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) — a self-proclaimed “Florida Man” and one of the most vocal supporters of former President Donald Trump and the America First doctrine — ripped the political and foreign policy establishment in a rousing speech Friday evening at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando. Gaetz denounced corporate “wokeism,” noting that he…

Boeing to Outsource 600 U.S. Tech Jobs While Expanding Production in India

The Boeing Company is outsourcing 600 American information technology (IT) jobs to Dell Technologies, which regularly imports foreign visa workers, while expanding its production base in India. This month, Boeing executives announced that they would be outsourcing hundreds of IT jobs to Dell Technologies — about 10 percent of the company’s IT employees — as…

GOP Sen. Kennedy: Hunter Biden Revelations Raise Issue of Why Media and Tech Clamped Down on N.Y. Post Reporting

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) stated that the revelation that Hunter Biden’s taxes are under investigation will bring back the issue “of how and why many major news organizations and social media platforms tried to tap down the New York Post story about the laptop and the things…

Pollak: Mainstream Media, Big Tech Coverup Collapses with Hunter Biden Investigation

The revelation Wednesday that Hunter Biden is under investigation for tax violations relating to his foreign business affairs confirms that the media/Big Tech censorship of stories during the election about his laptop and emails was entirely without merit. When the New York Post reported on October 14 that Hunter Biden had introduced an official from the…

Sen. Marsha Blackburn: Big Tech Censorship Is Election Interference

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News that Big Tech’s political censorship amounted to election interference, offering her comments on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. “I think they interfered with the elections,” Blackburn determined. “Of course they did.” Blackburn recalled ubiquitous social media censorship of revelations related to Joe…

Wire: ‘Public Perception’ Turning Against Tech Giant.

Leaked video shows Google execs troubled by Trump election San Francisco (AFP) – Far-right news website Breitbart on Wednesday posted a leaked video showing Google executives sharing with employees how troubled they were by the election of US President Donald Trump. The leak of the hour-long video from a TGIF (Thank God It’s Friday) town […]

Tech Giants Are Obviously Biased.

It’s truly incredible at this point that anyone could deny the tech giants are discriminating against conservatives to an almost comical extent. Yet, may on the left still do. Of course, they do this while simultaneously demanding that tech companies actually do ban speech, which is always defined (by them) as “hate speech.” A very […]

Tucker Carlson: Google executive clearly wanted Hillary elected in 2016 — What is big tech planning now?

On, Monday Tucker Carlson shares the alleged threat Russia poses to our election has become an obsession. Also, Tucker exposes Google political agenda to increase voter’s turnout in favor of the Clinton campaign in the last election. For two years, the alleged threat that Russia poses to our elections has been official Washington’s obsession. The […]

CONFIRMED: Tech Giants Are Colluding Against Conservatives — Infowars Now Banned from Apple, Facebook and Google-YouTube on Same Day.

Liberal Tech Giants Facebook, Twitter, Google-YouTube and Wikipedia have all stepped up their harassment of conservative publishers since the 2016 election. The far left and Democrats understand that conservatives get their news from online publishers. Since the election The Gateway Pundit found from traffic analysis that Facebook has eliminated 93% of traffic to top conservative […]

US Tech Giants Are Too Big, Too Powerful, & Now Are Running Into Serious Trouble

Within Google, knowledge about Dragonfly has been restricted to just a few hundred members of the internet giant’s 88,000-strong workforce, said a source with knowledge of the project. The source spoke to The Intercept on condition of anonymity, as they were not authorized to contact the media. The source said that they had moral and […]

Tech Tyranny: Facebook Flags Declaration of Independence as “Hate Speech”

The tech tyrants over at Facebook flagged the Declaration of Independence as “hate speech” this week. The Vindicator, a community newspaper in Texas, was posting the Declaration of Independence in chunks, post by post this week to celebrate America’s 242nd year of independence from the British Crown when Facebook’s algorithms flagged it as ‘hate speech.’ […]

Silicon Valley’s Surveillance Capitalism Has Resulted In Big Tech Killing Off Human Privacy

The case against Big Tech seems to be building by the week. And interestingly, some of the most powerful evidence is being provided by those who really know what they’re talking about: tech insiders. Full disclosure: I am a tech insider myself. I run a tech company in Silicon Valley. My wife is a senior […]

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