HSBC has agreed to acquire the UK arm of Silicon Valley Bank for a nominal fee of £1, following the collapse of the bank due to its specialization in lending to technology companies.
Following the train derailment in Ohio last month, there was something of a groundswell among some Republicans calling for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to resign. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was among those calling for that, while a group of House Republicans introduced a resolution, later withdrawn, calling for Buttigieg to step down.
The U.S. Special Operations forces are reportedly considering using deepfakes as a weapon of war or propaganda tool, according to federal procurement documents cited by an Intercept report.
The federal government’s central technology arm jeopardized nearly one million online accounts by rejecting facial recognition technology when it was required for the high-security accounts, then cited “equity” to justify years of lying about its compliance with federal rules, The Daily Wire has learned.
The FBI and the Department of Defense helped to research and develop the software needed for facial recognition in street cameras and drones, according to internal documents.
Since the racial reckoning triggered by the death of George Floyd in the summer of 2020, corporations have opened their checkbooks and flashed their woke credentials.
