1 hour ago Tesla hit with second lawsuit over deadly California Cybertruck crash

Parents of another victim of 2024 crash say ‘catastrophic’ design flaw to blame for deaths of three peopleTesla is being sued by the parents of a another victim killed in a Cybertruck crash in the quiet town of Piedmont, California. This is the second suit filed against the car maker this week alleging a design flaw in its vehicle is to blame for the deaths of the passengers involved in the accident, according to court filings.The parents of Jack Nelson allege that the company that helped Elon Musk become the world’s richest man knew about the flaw for years and could have moved faster to fix the problem but did not, leaving the passengers trapped amid flames and smoke that eventually killed them. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris pleads guilty to sexual abuse of a child

The Gateway Church founder resigned last June after admitting to inappropriate sexual behavior with a ‘young lady’ in the 1980s

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29 h. ago OpenAI now worth $500 billion, possibly making it the world's most valuable startup

OpenAI could now be the world’s most valuable startup, ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX and TikTok parent company ByteDance, after a secondary stock sale designed to retain employees at the ChatGPT maker

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48 h. ago Nirvana again defeats alleged child sexual abuse image lawsuit over Nevermind cover

Spencer Elden, who was photographed as a baby and put on the cover of the 1991 album, has attempted to sue the band twice, claiming it constituted child sexual abuseA federal judge again threw out a lawsuit by a man who accused grunge rock band Nirvana of distributing child sexual abuse images by using a photograph of him as a naked, swimming baby on the cover of its breakthrough 1991 album Nevermind.US District Judge Fernando Olguin tossed out the lawsuit filed by plaintiff Spencer Elden for a second time after finding that no reasonable jury would consider the picture pornographic. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago YouTube agrees to pay $24.5M to settle Trump lawsuit filed after his January 6 insurrection suspension

The deal makes YouTube the final Big Tech company to bend the knee — following Elon Musk’s X and Facebook’s parent company Meta

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7 d. ago GOP lawmaker with 'joebidennnn69' screen name to plead guilty to sharing child sex abuse videos

A former Republican South Carolina House member has agreed to plead guilty to distributing child sexual abuse material

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1 week ago Who are Elon Musk's parents? Billionaire's father accused of child sexual abuse

Elon Musk’s father Errol Musk has been accused of child sexual abuse by five of his own children and stepchildren

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1 week ago Elon Musk’s father accused of sexually abusing his children and stepchildren

Errol Musk, rarely mentioned by his tech billionaire son, dismissed New York Times report as ‘nonsense’ and ‘false’Errol Musk, the 79-year-old father of tech billionaire Elon Musk, has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren since 1993, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.The outlet said those allegations could be why the entrepreneur, who temporarily served as an adviser to the second Trump administration, rarely mentions his father – and that family members of Elon Musk have reached out for help, prompting him to sometimes take action to intercede. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Chatbot site depicting child sexual abuse images raises fears over misuse of AI

Child safety watchdog calls for child protection guidelines to be built into AI models from the outsetA chatbot site offering explicit scenarios with preteen characters, illustrated by illegal abuse images has raised fresh fears about the misuse of artificial intelligence.A report by a child safety watchdog has triggered calls for the UK government to impose safety guidelines on AI companies, amid a surge in child sexual abuse material (CSAM) created by the technology. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago UK Snapchat predator jailed for 14 years for raping girl, 12, and exploiting dozens of others

Stuart Latham admitted 49 offences in one of UK’s biggest online child sexual abuse casesAn “abhorrent” Snapchat predator has been jailed for 14 years for raping a 12-year-old girl and exploiting dozens of others in one of the UK’s biggest online child sexual abuse investigations.Stuart Latham, 22, is believed to have solicited explicit images from hundreds of girls, most aged between 11 and 13, on social media over the space of a year. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Real risk’ of Scotland falling behind in tackling grooming gangs, Tories claim

A Tory amendment which would have required research into child sexual abuse and exploitation to be carried out was voted down by MSPs,

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS on Coldwater: It's brave to tackle male cowardice, but this story just isn't believable

Television has few taboos any more. Dramas about mental illness, sexual dysfunction, even child abuse, are commonplace now when they would have been unthinkable 20 years ago.

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2 w. ago Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit

Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that cultureI was there. I kept the receipts. I remember how normalized the sexual exploitation of teenage girls and even tweens by adult men was, how it showed up in movies, in the tales of rock stars and “baby groupies”, in counterculture and mainstream culture, how normalized rape, exploitation, grooming, objectification, commodification was.The last Woody Allen movie I ever saw was Manhattan, in which he cast himself as more or less himself, a dweeb in his mid-40s, dating a high school student played by Mariel Hemingway. She was my age, 17, and I was only too familiar with creeps, and the movie creeped me out, even though it was only long afterward that I read that she said he was at the time pressuring her to get sexually involved with him in real life.Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. She is the author of Orwell’s Roses and co-editor with Thelma Young Lutunat...

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