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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is monitoring employee activity across hundreds of popular websites and applications, including Google, LinkedIn, and Wikipedia, as part of an effort to collect data for training its AI models. Reuters reports that the social media giant has implemented a new employee tracking tool called Model Capability Initiative, or MCI, which captures keystrokes and mouse clicks from workers using their corporate computers. The initiative aims to gather real-world examples of how people interact with computers to improve Meta’s AI agent development. According to internal documents, the list of monitored sites extends beyond external platforms to include Meta’s own…

Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad has maintained its security lockdown throughout the week in the hopes that U.S. and Iranian negotiators might return to resume the talks that broke down last weekend. On Friday, President Donald Trump said his envoys are returning to Pakistan and Iran’s foreign minister appears to be en route, as well. Islamabad’s lockdown has been close to the pandemic in its intensity, with shops closed, streets empty, and office staff working from home. Public unrest with the stringent security precautions is growing, especially among laborers who cannot earn wages or find lodgings. “It is like we are…

Officers cut the symbol out of the religious head covering before returning it to him, Alex Sinclair has complained A lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has said that he was detained by police for wearing a kippah with the Israeli and Palestinian flags on it.Alex Sinclair said in a post on Facebook on Thursday that he had been sporting the kippah for 20 years due to “a messy ambivalence of my Jewish-Zionist identity” and it was never a problem.But a few days ago, a man approached him at a cafe in his hometown of Modi’in in central Israel,…

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on Thursday published a memo that accused China of conducting “industrial-scale” theft of artificial intelligence (AI) technology from American firms. “The U.S. government has information indicating that foreign entities, principally based in China, are engaged in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distill U.S. frontier AI systems,” said the memo from OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, as first seen by the Financial Times (FT) on Thursday. “Model distillation” means harvesting the output from existing large AI systems to create smaller ones, rather like a cuckoo bird laying its eggs in the nests of…

Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and adviser Jared Kushner will head to Islamabad, Pakistan, on Saturday for another round of negotiations with Iran, and Vice President JD Vance “is on standby” and could potentially join them there. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the plans on Friday afternoon, first on Fox News and then to reporters moments later. “As you know, and I spoke about it earlier this week, the president was flexible in granting an extension of this ceasefire. Throughout this time, the President has decided to dispatch Special Envoy Witkoff and Jared Kushner back to Islamabad. The Iranians…

The same leftist elites who enjoyed spasms of outrage for the better part of a year after the Saudi government was accused of murdering the Washington Post’s Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 now have zero problem accepting $200 million from those same Saudis when it means bailing out their precious Metropolitan Opera House. Well, now the bailout is dead, and everyone’s pretty upset and looking to blame the Bad Orange Man. According to the far-left New York Times, sometime last year, the 142-year-old Met went crawling to the Saudis for a bailout. In exchange for a $200 million endowment payable over…

President Donald Trump’s firm defense of the nation’s borders slashed the number of people with dreams of migrating into the United States, according to a 2025 poll just released by Gallup. “In 2025, 15% of adults worldwide who say they would like to move permanently to another country name the U.S. as their preferred destination, the lowest level recorded in nearly two decades of Gallup research,” said Gallup’s press release. Still, the 15 percent adds up to 134 million who would migrate into the United States if enabled by pro-migration Democrats, business groups, and establishment Republicans, such as amnesty advocates Rep.…

Dan Eggen, a Washington Post editor for nearly three decades, has been found dead at his home. He was 60 years old. The Post reported that Eggen, who worked on three Pulitzer Prize-winning projects and shaped the D.C. outlet’s White House, Congress, and presidential politics, was found dead on Tuesday. His former wife, Stephanie Armour, confirmed his death. The cause of death is pending an autopsy, but law enforcement believes no foul play was involved. Eggen played a key role in the outlet’s winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for its investigations behind the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the network behind…

The Pentagon has suggested punishing Madrid for blocking bases and airspace during the war on Iran, according to an internal email cited by the outlet The US is allegedly weighing unprecedented measures to punish NATO members it believes failed to support its war against Iran, Reuters reported on Friday, citing an internal Pentagon email. The options are said to include the possible suspension of Spain from the bloc, according to the outlet.The document, reportedly circulating at high levels in the Department of War, expresses deep frustration with European NATO members who denied the US access to their bases and airspace…

Tesla vehicle registrations in California fell by nearly a quarter in the first three months of 2026, with Elon Musk’s EV giant recording more than 10,000 fewer sales compared to the same period in 2025. The entire EV market in California has crashed, with Q1 registrations down 40 percent to levels not seen since 2021. Electrek reports that data from the California New Car Dealers Association’s Q1 2026 Auto Outlook report shows Tesla registered 31,958 vehicles in California during the first quarter, representing a decline of 10,253 units from the 42,211 vehicles registered in Q1 2025. This translates to a…