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Trump is moving his national security adviser to the UN
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his national security adviser, Mike Waltz, will be nominated as the country’s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) in a “major shake-up of senior aides”. The announcement comes after Waltz was criticised over a WhatsApp group chat that featured him referring to Trump as a “dog” and…
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During FTC antitrust trial, he defends his empire
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that if Instagram “kicks ass” on mobile or if Google buys them, they could easily add pieces of their service that copy what we are doing now. Zuckerberg’s comment came in an exchange with an engineering executive working on Facebook Camera. He was testifying in FTC’s antitrust case against…
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Meta’s new llama 3.1 model is free, powerful and risky
Facebook Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced that he’ll be giving away Meta AI’s “Llama 3.1” open-source AI model to anyone who would like to try it out. “This model is as useful as the best commercial offerings from companies,” Zuckerberg said. The ‘Llama 3.1’ is being offered as a free download through WhatsApp and the…
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Soon, chat apps will be able to work with other messaging apps
WhatsApp is working to allow third-party chat apps to use its platform, but it won’t be adding a separate inbox at the top of the app for third-party messages. “Early thinking here is to put a separate inbox given that these networks are very different,” WhatsApp’s Global Director of Engineering, Jan Brouwer, said. It’s the…
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The New York Times says that Israel is in real danger for three reasons
A Palestinian gunman who carried out a mass killing of 10 Jews in Israel’s Mefalsim last month called his parents and asked them to check his WhatsApp messages for pictures he took of the dead, his father said. The gunman identified by his father asMahmoud called his parents from the phone of a Jewish woman…
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Republicans see the anti- Israel protests at colleges
A Jerusalem University professor has been suspended for defending Israel in a WhatsApp group after the Paris terror attack. Professor Nurit Peled-Elhanan, a lecturer at the college in Jerusalem, had commented that they saw the gaze in the WhatsApp group. She was given a severe reprimand but was able to keep her job. Peled-Elhanan claimed…