Fifteen years after playing Mark Zuckerberg in “The Social Network,” actor Jesse Eisenberg is sharing his honest views on what the Meta CEO is doing now. Eisenberg talked on NPR’s “Fresh Air” show on Tuesday. He expressed his sadness about Zuckerberg’s choice to get rid of the fact-checking system on Meta’s platforms, like Facebook and Instagram. As an actor, your role is to really get to know your character, even if they are a bad guy in the movie. “Your role is to protect your character, correct?” he said. “I thought a lot about this guy and how he felt…
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A large number of government papers that have been kept secret and relate to important and controversial killings in American history, including the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, might soon be opened to the public. This is just the beginning of the latest story about the killings, which have captured people’s attention, led to conspiracy theories, and sparked important discussions for many years. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at declassifying government records related to the murders of former President John F. Kennedy, his brother and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights icon…
U.S. officials have charged five people for their suspected roles in a plan where North Korean IT workers got remote jobs with many American companies over several years. On Thursday, the Department of Justice revealed that they have charged North Korean citizens Jin Sung-Il and Pak Jin-Song, Mexican citizen Pedro Ernesto Alonso De Los Reyes, and U.S. citizens Erick Ntekereze Prince and Emanuel Ashtor. The Department of Justice announced that the FBI arrested Ntekereze and Ashtor. A check of Ashtor’s home in North Carolina uncovered a “laptop farm” that contained company laptops. This was used to trick organizations into believing…
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has a new temporary chairman: Doug Gurr, who used to work at Amazon. The news comes as the U.K. aims to be a country that supports growth and technology by reducing rules and regulations, with a focus on artificial intelligence (AI). The country is also nearing the end of a long investigation into the domestic cloud services market that had Amazon fully in the CMA’s crosshairs. In its release on Tuesday, the government highlighted Gurr’s experience at Amazon to help “boost growth and support the economy,” saying that he will bring valuable knowledge…
Indonesia’s antitrust agency, KPPU, fined Google 202.5 billion Rupiahs, which is about $12.6 million, on Wednesday. This fine was for breaking antitrust laws regarding its payment method for the Google Play Store. The KPPU told Google to stop requiring users to use Google Play Billing in the Google Play Store. It also requested that Google allow all developers to join the User Choice Billing (UCB) program and provide them with a 5% discount on service fees for a year after the choice is made, according to its statement. In 2022, the antitrust agency began looking into Google because of its…
OpenAI plans to work with Japanese company SoftBank and Oracle, among others, to create several AI data centers in the U.S. The Stargate Project, a joint effort, will start with a big data center in Texas and will later grow to include other states. The companies plan to invest $100 billion in Stargate at first and up to $500 billion in the next four years. They claim it will create hundreds of thousands of jobs and maintain America’s advantage in AI. “The Stargate Project is a new company that plans to create new AI systems for OpenAI in the United…
With help from Mert Ozkan and Huseyin Hayatsever KARTALKAYA, Turkey (Reuters) – On Tuesday, a fire at a hotel at a ski area in Turkey’s Bolu mountains killed 66 people. In the middle of the night, guests were so scared they had to jump out of windows. Ali Yerlikaya, the Interior Minister, said at the Kartalkaya ski area in northwest Turkey that 51 people were also hurt. Authorities say the fire started on the kitchen floor of the 12-story Grand Kartal Hotel around 3:30 a.m. (00:30 GMT). A group of fire trucks and ambulances circled the burned-out building with a…
Black Eyed Peas have canceled their stop in Las Vegas, which was set to begin on February 15 at PH Live at Planet Hollywood. For months, rumors have been going around online that the residency was sold for less than it was worth. However, the group, which includes Will.i.am, Apl.de.ap, and Taboo, said on social media that the cancellation was because of “current circumstances.” The group wrote on Instagram Stories, “To our dearest Peabodies: It is with a heavy heart that we must inform you that our Las Vegas shows will not be proceeding as planned due to current events.”…
Elon Musk’s hand gesture during a celebration for President Donald Trump’s inauguration sparked online comparisons to a Nazi salute. However, a leading antisemitism watchdog dismissed the speculation, calling it a display of enthusiasm rather than a deliberate signal. The billionaire dismissed the backlash as a “tired” smear campaign. Musk’s Stage Appearance and Gesture Addressing a crowd at Washington’s Capital One Arena, Musk received thunderous applause, enthusiastically pumping his arms and shouting “Yesssss.” In his speech, Musk called the event a pivotal moment: “This was no ordinary victory. This was a fork in the road of human civilization. This one really…
The cryptocurrency world buzzed with excitement over the weekend as Donald Trump’s memecoin, $TRUMP, exploded in value, only to take a hit after his wife, Melania Trump, launched her own competing token. The $TRUMP coin got off to a roaring start on Friday, climbing from $6 to an impressive $75 and pushing its market cap past $14 billion, according to Coinbase. Backed by Trump’s family business, the coin’s meteoric rise was met with criticism, with skeptics accusing the former president of capitalizing on his supporters for financial gain. Melania Joins the Fray with $MELANIA The crypto drama escalated on Sunday…
On Monday, Jan. 20, Donald Trump will take the oath of office again in front of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. The event starts at noon ET and both fans and opponents are likely to pay a lot of attention to it. What To Look Forward To On January 20, 2025 There will likely be a lot of people at the next event, since Akamai’s previous hosting of Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017 was the biggest live news event they had ever done. Even though the guest list isn’t official yet, Joe Biden, members of Congress, the Supreme Court,…
Since TikTok’s future in the U.S. is unclear, it seems like the big social networks are working extra hard to add features that will make millions of people want to switch: Bluesky said on Sunday that its app will soon have a custom feed for vertical movies. You can now find popular videos in Bluesky’s mobile app’s Explore tab. You can swipe up to see more videos, just like in any other short video app. You can pin the feed to your home screen or add it to your list of feeds. “We had to join the video fun too—Bluesky…
By adding a vertical video feed, social network X is hoping to make money off of the fact that ByteDance apps like TikTok and Lemon8 are no longer available in U.S. app stores. For people in the U.S., the company is adding a video tab to the app’s bottom bar so they can quickly find videos on the site. In a post on Sunday, the company said, “An immersive new home for videos is rolling out to users in the US today.” X users can already scroll up and down through short movies by tapping on a video in the…
In Washington, D.C., In his farewell message to the country on Wednesday, President Joe Biden said that the United States was becoming a “oligarchy” of tech billionaires. But what does an autocracy really mean? What does an oligarchy mean? To put it simply, an oligarchy is a small group of people who control what the government does. It was very mean of Biden to use the word “oligarchy” to compare the current situation—when the richest men in the world are supporting President-elect Donald Trump—with some of the worst governments in history. Next week, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, will co-host…
Thursday was SpaceX’s seventh test flight of its huge Super Heavy-Starship giant rocket. The company was able to “catch” the first stage booster back at its firing stand, but it lost its new-generation Starship upper stage spacecraft, which apparently broke apart on its way to space. Federal officials say that falling pieces of the destroyed Starship temporarily slowed down flights leaving Miami, Florida. After the launch, eight minutes and 27 seconds, the Starship’s telemetry stopped working because the engines stopped working or shut down without warning. Later, SpaceX stated that the ship had been destroyed in a post on X…
Chinese apps like Xiaohongshu (RedNote) have become more popular in the U.S. because TikTok users don’t want the government to ban the popular app because of national security worries. Today, just days before the US ban on the popular app TikTok goes into effect, more American users have downloaded apps from China that are similar to TikTok. But it’s still not clear if any of these Mandarin apps will really take the place of TikTok, which has 170 million users in the US. It was the most downloaded free app in the U.S. Apple Store this week, and it was…
China-Over 500,000 TikTok users have recently joined the Chinese social media app RedNote to protest what they see as an impending ban on the short video app in the US. This has brought RedNote a lot of attention. In China, the platform is called “Xiaohongshu” and is a famous lifestyle app where people share their stories and give advice. A few things about the app are shown below: WHAT DOES THIS APP DO? RedNote is often thought of as Instagram that has been tweaked to work better in China. “Little Red Book” is what its Chinese name, Xiaohongshu, means in…
It looks like it doesn’t end with them. The legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni is still having an effect on other people in the entertainment business. The latest big names to get involved are Marvel president Kevin Feige, Disney CEO Bob Iger, and director Tim Miller. The lawyer for Baldoni, Bryan Freedman, sent Feige and Iger a letter putting a hold on the case on January 7 because of his client’s “anticipated claims” against Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, and other unknown parties. Variety has seen a copy of the letter, which tells the company to keep all…
Mark Zuckerberg told Meta employees on Tuesday that the company would be letting go of “extensive” low-performing workers. This would affect about 5% of the company’s staff. For some employees, the layoffs made them wonder how their work would be judged and raised morale worries. Business Insider saw that employees wrote about their feelings on a private message board. A lot of people asked what the changes would mean in real life. Some workers wanted Meta to raise its standards, but others wanted more information about the process, especially since Meta is getting rid of third-party fact-checkers and rolling back…
The Competition and Markets Authority, which is the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog, is starting its first official review of 2025 right away. This is because its new rules went into effect this month. Google is the market leader in Search, and it’s looking into what it could do to make the competition stronger. This includes Google’s new work in AI search and its huge search advertising business. People who want to speak on the investigation have until February 3 to do so. Because of its new rules, the CMA plans to look into Big Tech twice this month. Keep an eye…
TikTok has said that the app will be shut down in six days because the Supreme Court is currently considering a law that would ban it. So we thought it was time to check out some other apps that might be able to fill the TikTok-shaped hole in our lives. TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has until January 19 to get rid of its operations in the U.S., or it will be banned in the country. TikTok is hoping that the rule will be put on hold, but if it doesn’t, the app will be banned in the country. While there…
The Department of Transportation announced on Friday that 49 applicants will receive another $636 million in funding for charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. Unfortunately, Tesla’s application for nearly $100 million to fund a charging route for big trucks was once again turned down. While the list of winners was made public, Tesla’s name was not on it. The company’s partner on the project, California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District, told Parhlo World that Tesla had applied for this round. Tesla has had a hard time getting its electric big rig program up and running, which is why they turned…
Mastodon, a decentralised social network, announced on Monday that it is going to set up a new non-profit organisation in Europe and give ownership of key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components to that organisation. This means that the project won’t be run by just one person. The group is trying to set itself apart from social networks run by CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Eugen Rochko, who is currently CEO and creator of Mastodon, will hand over some management duties to the new organisation and focus on the product strategy. The exact terms of this deal have not…
President-elect Donald Trump is getting a lot of bad press after one of his top advisors seemed to back out of a big campaign promise. A lot of times, Trump has said that he would end the war between Russia and Ukraine within 24 hours or even sooner. But Trump chose retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg to be his special envoy to the two countries. Last week, he told Fox News that it would take longer, repeating what Trump had said earlier. He said, “Let’s set it at 100 days, go back, and figure out a way we can do…
Meta There has been a fight between CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple for a long time. In a new talk with Joe Rogan, he made fun of Apple again. The CEO said that Apple hasn’t come up with any new ideas in a while and didn’t like the ecosystem that the iPhone maker created. Mark Zuckerberg is aiming his gun at Apple again. In an interview on the “Joe Rogan Experience” show that came out on Friday, the CEO of Meta talked about some problems he has with Apple. This is the latest in a ten-year battle between the two…
Tesla has shown off a brand-new Model Y for China and other Asian-Pacific markets. This is the first big change to the SUV since it came out in 2020. The redesign comes at a time when Tesla delivered fewer cars in 2024 than it did in 2023. It was the first drop from one year to the next since the company began selling mass-market cars in 2012. In China and some nearby countries, the new Model Y could start shipping as early as March. It’s not yet clear when Tesla will bring this version to the U.S. and Europe. It…
At CES 2025, Nvidia showed off a prototype AI avatar that lives on your PC’s screen. R2X is an AI assistant that looks like a figure from a video game. It can help you find your way around in computer apps. The Nvidia AI models are used to render and animate the R2X image. Users can run the avatar on any popular LLM, like OpenAI’s GPT-4o or xAI’s Grok. People can text or talk to R2X, send it files to be processed, or even let the AI assistant see what’s going on your screen or camera in real time. Recently,…
X said today that it will now label profiles that are parodies or comedy to make them stand out from other accounts. People, including newsreaders, have in the past thought that posts from fake accounts were real comments made by real people or organisations. X said that the label would show up on posts and users alike. “We’re adding profile labels to parody accounts so that it’s easy to tell them apart from other accounts and their content on our platform.” It said in a post, “We made these labels to make things clearer and to make sure that users…
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is trying an iOS app that can be used by anyone for its chatbot Grok. Until now, only X users could use Grok. The app is now available in several countries, such as the U.S., Australia, and India. It can receive real-time data from the web and X and has generative AI features that let it rewrite text, summarize long paragraphs, do some Q&A, and even make images from text prompts. “Grok is an AI-powered assistant that is meant to be as honest, helpful, and interested as possible.” The listing says, “Get answers to any…
While the year is still young, Apple may already be “Sherlocking” a new iOS app they want to call Invites. There aren’t many details about how this app might look yet, but it could be similar to Evite or Partiful. Based on what 9to5Mac found in the iOS 18.3 beta 2 code, Apple may be working on a new way to share event tickets for both real-life and virtual events. The story said that this app would work with iCloud and that there might also be a web version of it on iCloud.com. Apple already lets you invite people to…
The open-source video player VLC, which was created by the nonprofit VideoLAN and has been downloaded over 6 billion times, has hinted at an AI-powered subtitle system. VideoLAN showed off the new feature at CES. It uses open-source AI models that run directly on users’ devices instead of the internet or cloud services to create real-time subtitles for any video. These subtitles can then be translated into many languages. The company didn’t say when it was going to add the tool. The first people to use VideoLAN were students at Ecole Centrale Paris in 1996, who wanted to stream movies…
On Tuesday, Microsoft promised to spend $3 billion in India over the next two years as it steps up its competition with Google and Amazon. On Wednesday, it announced a wide range of AI partnerships in India’s most important industries. The CEO of the tech giant, Satya Nadella (pictured above), announced deals with five large groups in the areas of healthcare, education, manufacturing, and railroads. This includes a deal with the Indian Ministry of Electronics and IT. As part of that deal, Microsoft will help the ministry’s IndiaAI Mission Datasets platform by collecting data and making fake data. By 2026,…
The Japanese tech company Casio has revealed that ransomware in October stole the personal information of about 8,500 people. A ransomware attack happened on October 5 at Casio. Hackers got to private data and made many of the company’s systems useless. A post on the dark web that Parhlo World saw said that the Underground ransomware group claimed the attack and said it had taken more than 200 gigabytes of data from Casio’s computers. In a post on Tuesday, Casio revealed that the hacking group—which security experts have linked to RomCom (or Storm-0978), a cybercriminal group with ties to Russia—accessed…
Google is putting together a new group to work on AI models that can mimic the real world. In a post on X, Tim Brooks said that he would be leading the new team. Brooks was one of the co-leads on OpenAI’s video creator, Sora, but left to work at Google’s AI research lab, Google DeepMind, in October. It will be a part of Google DeepMind. Brooks wrote Monday morning, “DeepMind has big plans to make huge generative models that simulate the world.” “I’m hiring for a new team with this mission.” Brooks’s post led to job postings that said…
At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nvidia revealed its highly anticipated RTX 5000-series GPUs, introducing four new models: RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070. These cards bring advancements in architecture and design, with varied pricing that offers both good and bad news for buyers. Here’s a complete breakdown of what we know so far. How Much Will the RTX 5000 Series Cost? Nvidia has adjusted its pricing strategy for the RTX 5000 series compared to the RTX 4000 lineup. Here’s the cost for each model: The mixed pricing strategy could shift market dynamics. AMD and Intel,…
On Sunday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company is losing money on its $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro plan because more people are using it than the company thought they would. In several posts on X, Altman said, “I chose the price myself and thought we would make some money.” When ChatGPT Pro came out at the end of last year, it gave users access to o1 pro mode, an improved version of OpenAI’s o1 “reasoning” AI model. It also increased the speed of some of the company’s other tools, such as the Sora video maker. OpenAI has raised about…
Zoe Saldana led Emilia Perez to major wins at the Golden Globes 2025 on Sunday night, while Demi Moore claimed her first-ever award at the age of 62. Other standout winners included Shōgun and The Brutalist. The 46-year-old actress won Best Supporting Actress – Musical or Comedy early in the evening, followed by Netflix’s Emilia Perez securing the top honor for Best Film – Musical or Comedy. The glamorous event, held on January 5 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, featured a star-studded red carpet. Demi Moore delivered a moving acceptance speech as she received Best Actress –…
At the height of his career, Sean “Diddy” Combs’ extravagant parties were the pinnacle of celebrity culture. These events brought together stars like Justin Bieber, Mariah Carey, Paris Hilton, and Jennifer Lopez, while Jay-Z and Beyoncé used the stage to release new music. Diddy’s parties weren’t just gatherings; they were cultural moments, described by his former publicist Rob Shuter as unforgettable experiences. Today, Diddy is in a Brooklyn jail, far from his days as the “party king.” Facing federal charges of sex trafficking and racketeering, as well as over a dozen civil lawsuits alleging assault, rape, and sexual extortion, his…
There are more and more high-profile AI models that didn’t come out when they were supposed to. Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of the AI company xAI and a billionaire, said last summer that Grok 3, xAI’s next big AI model, would be ready by the “end of the year” 2024. Grok, xAI’s answer to models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini, can look at pictures and answer questions. It also runs some parts of Musk’s social network X. Musk wrote in a July post on X, “Grok 3 should be really something special by the end of the…
A revealing new documentary, Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy, has debuted its trailer on Peacock. The 90-minute feature delves into the early years of Sean “Diddy” Combs, the music mogul who now faces significant legal challenges. Exclusive Interviews Shed Light on Combs’ Past The documentary offers intimate accounts from those who knew Combs personally, including childhood friends, former bodyguards, and past interns. Singer Al B. Sure!, who was romantically linked to Kim Porter—Combs’ late ex-partner—also provides his perspective. Disturbing Allegations Revealed in the Trailer The trailer paints a troubling picture of Combs’ behavior over the years: Combs Faces…