TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Will an effort to limit and eventually ban cash payments work in a nation where 80 to 90 percent of payments are made in cash? On Wednesday, the Mexican government inched closer to passing a law that would begin the process of phasing out cash payments and requiring digital payments. The “Digital Economy Law” was Read More…
The company at the center of recent “rogue AI” incidents is deeply connected to Israeli intelligence and the Effective Altruism movement. On Friday, September 18, Google acknowledged that its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot had “escaped its testing environment in May and hacked into three companies.” According to Google, the AI models found passwords available online Read More…
Millions of Mexican citizens have had their phone lines disconnected after refusing to register their identities with phone companies. The Mexican government and Mexican telecommunications companies have disconnected millions of phone lines belonging to citizens who failed to register their phones with their identities. The move comes just two months after the government announced a Read More…
A new survey of Americans found Gen Z and Millennials more likely to question the official story of 9/11—including considering the claim that US officials knew and let the attacks happen. As Americans prepare to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, a recent survey of more than one thousand American adults indicates that Read More…
A new Columbia University–led study found that pregnant women who lived in areas with fluoride levels near or above the current levels recommended by the US CDC were more likely to have children who scored lower on problem-solving tests. Columbia University researchers have published a study detailing how the children of mothers exposed to fluoridated Read More…
A long-delayed, over-budget biometric program is set to become the largest centralized database of biometric data collected from Americans and foreigners who have visited the United States. After being troubled by delays and budget concerns for nearly a decade, the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) program will become the US government’s largest biometric database when Read More…