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A peer-reviewed study and multiple major outlets report that AI systems’ water footprint in 2025 is estimated between about 312 billion and 765 billion liters, a range that overlaps and, at its upper ...
DuckDuckGo’s browser now includes a built‑in Passwords & Autofill system and a Sync & Backup feature that can import, encrypt, and sync saved logins and autofill “Identities” across devices; DuckDuckG...
Major tech companies and prominent tech figures have publicly engaged with or financially supported Donald Trump’s 2025 presidency through inauguration donations, meetings at Mar‑a‑Lago, and participa...
In 2025 Tor Browser substantially reduces the chance that websites or ordinary trackers can link your browsing to your real IP address or device fingerprint, because it routes traffic through multiple...
John Lasseter was accused by multiple former employees and reports of a pattern of at Pixar and Disney Animation, including persistent unwelcome touching, kisses, and leering that made staff uncomfort...
DuckDuckGo’s search results and its Smarter Encryption feature focus on enforcing HTTPS (the TLS-encrypted HTTP protocol) by maintaining and using a large, continuously generated list of sites that su...
Newly released House Oversight emails and prior reporting show numerous prominent scientists and faculty had financial or personal ties to Jeffrey Epstein — including Lawrence Summers, Marvin Minsky, ...
In 2025, Tor Browser makes it materially harder for ordinary observers to link a visitor’s real IP or device to .onion sites by routing traffic through volunteer relays and stripping many browser iden...
MSN (Microsoft News) has published multiple stories that were later debunked or criticized by independent fact‑checkers and news organizations, with prominent examples documented in late 2022 and Nove...
Available reporting shows several named corporate “Founding,” “Signature,” and program sponsors for America250—most prominently Walmart (Founding Sponsor) and The Coca‑Cola Company (Signature Partner)...
DuckDuckGo has had a commercial relationship with Microsoft that affected how its browser handled Microsoft-owned tracking scripts: DuckDuckGo acknowledged a “search syndication” or ad partnership tha...
Microsoft and DuckDuckGo have a commercial relationship: DuckDuckGo uses Microsoft (Bing/Microsoft Advertising) as a search and ad partner, which has at times produced contractual limits on DuckDuckGo...
Supporters initially responded to the Trump-branded T1 phone and Trump Mobile with enthusiasm and pre-orders, while critics — journalists, industry analysts and tech outlets — have accused the project...
Twitter/X publicly says it reports instances of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — principally the content and accounts that post or share that material — to the National Center for Missing and Expl...
Multiple reputable outlets and released documents show that Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with prominent scientists and that several Nobel laureates attended events he funded or associated ...
Documents and reporting show Jeffrey Epstein cultivated formal and informal ties with prominent scientists and institutions—funding research, convening conferences, serving on advisory panels, and rou...
DuckDuckGo remains an independent, privately held company with no public IPO filing reported and no widely reported sale to a major tech acquirer through 2024–2025; company materials and private‑marke...
The European Commission ordered X to preserve "all internal documents and data" related to its AI chatbot Grok through the end of 2026, extending an earlier retention requirement tied to algorithms an...
MSN is widely classified by independent media-rating organizations as a generally reliable news aggregator with a left‑center slant rather than a repeat offender for demonstrable falsehoods , but evid...
Jeffrey Epstein funneled millions into science and to prominent scientists and institutions; for example, Epstein gave at least $6.5 million to Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics and related ...