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New Instagram map feature draws bipartisan backlash from senators
NBC News· 2025-08-11 13:01
And we are back now with a topic a lot of folks are discussing right now. This new Instagram feature that is drawing harsh criticism in some corners. Last week, the Metaowned platform rolling out a location sharing map where users can view one another's live locations.>> Yeah, it prompted swift backlash with critics saying the map is a risk to privacy and safety. And now lawmakers are getting involved. In a letter obtained exclusively by NBC News, two senators called on Instagram to quote immediately abando ...
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vitalik.eth· 2025-08-11 10:42
Echoing something @karpathy recently said, it does frustrate me how a lot of AI development is trying to be as "agentic" as possible, when actually creating *more* paths for human input both creates a better output (now for quite a while going forward) and is better for safety. ...
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Bloomberg· 2025-08-08 13:54
RT Bloomberg Opinion (@opinion)Is riding the NYC subway safer than riding in a car? Or not riding at all?@foxjust crunched the numbers 🎥 https://t.co/jEum2xZFpy ...
Lyft CEO David Risher on Q2 results: We don't see any softness in our business
CNBC Television· 2025-08-07 13:36
We are in San Francisco this morning. Lyft reporting its strongest quarter ever. Rides and bookings jumped uh jumped double digits, but revenue came in just short of estimates.We're going to talk about that and so much more that's going on in this industry right now. David Richer is here, Lyft CEO. It's very nice to see you.We saw your biggest competitor just yesterday, Dra. Um and I I want to get into some of that as well, but let's talk about your earnings. Uh and also what you think this says to the degr ...
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Polyhedra· 2025-08-07 07:42
RT Samuel Pearton (@sampearton)Cars didn’t start with seatbelts.The first car hit the road in 1886.Seatbelts didn’t become standard until the 1960s, and they weren’t widely adopted until the 1980s.Why?Because no one believed they were essential - until the crashes piled up.We’re at the same point with AI. ...
Joe: Trump's threat to federalize D.C. shows he's 'personalizing' national policy
MSNBC· 2025-08-06 19:32
I have to say that somebody from Doge was very badly hurt last night. You saw that. A young man who was uh beat up by a bunch of thugs in DC.And either they're going to straighten their act out in the terms of government and in terms of protection or we're going to have to federalize and run it the way it's supposed to be run. Again, the personalization of policy and politics. I mean, you don't federalize uh a city because a person, you know, got beaten up.Yeah, it's terrible what happened and and it happen ...
Joe: Safety in D.C. important for everyone, not just people the president knows
MSNBC· 2025-08-06 12:49
And more from the president yesterday. The president is threatening to order the federal government to take over Washington DC. In a lengthy social post yesterday, Trump slammed the city's government, which is run separately from the White House, writing, quote, "If DC doesn't get its act together and quickly, we will have no choice but to take federal control of the city and run this city how it should be run and put criminals on notice that they're not going to get away with it anymore." He then doubled d ...
Coast Guard report: Titan submersible disaster 'preventable'
NBC News· 2025-08-06 01:00
It could have been prevented, the US Coast Guard concludes in a more than 300page report on the deadly implosion of the Titan submersible. Five people were killed in June 2023 on their way to the Titanic wreck more than 10,000 ft underwater. Among them, the CEO of Ocean Gate, the company that offered the ultra exclusive and expensive tours.Jason Newower chaired the investigation. Was the company primarily to blame for this tragedy. I believe so.They understood the process. They just didn't follow it. The US ...
Coast Guard report finds Titan submersible disaster was 'preventable'
NBC News· 2025-08-05 20:34
US Coast Guard investigators have released their report on the June 2023 Titan submersible disaster. The report says the implosion that killed all five people on board was preventable. It also says it was partially the result of a quote toxic workplace culture and intimidation tactics at Ocean Gate, the company that operated the submersible.The submersible experienced a catastrophic failure. You may remember just 90 minutes into a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic, setting off a frantic search off the sou ...