While performing at his concert recently in the UK, Nigerian singer Omah Lay looked through the crowd and called up a girl to the stage.

The pair danced while he performed his hit song 'Bend You' amid cheers from concertgoers. Things suddenly turned raunchy as the curtains fell and their silhouettes can be seen passionately kissing, hugging and grinding.

Footage circulating on social media shows the woman's Ghanaian boyfriend looking on while shaking his head.

Another footage shows the dejected boyfriend walking home after the concert. Apparently the girlfriend thought she did nothing wrong, as her friends can be heard telling her otherwise.

The girl has since posted another video saying she bought the tickets to the concert, and had apologized to her boyfriend.

On his part, the boyfriend asked the public for advice in a video he posted on social media. "Please Advice me, I took my Girl to Omah Lay’s Concert and she went On stage completely disregarded my presence and started dancing Seductively with Omah Lay, I am here thinking if I should stick with her or just move on with my life I want you guys to let me know, what do you think I should do?”

Reactions to the videos were swift and harsh on social media. Many said he'd have dropped her the moment she went on that stage and never talk to her again.

Other critics point to the girl's action as another sign of the degenerate celebrity culture pervading the western world.

WATCH the video featuring Omah Lay, the woman and her boyfriend

Billie Eilish(a.k.a. Pirate Baird O'Connell), a singer and song writer, had appeared to throw shades at the social media influencers and so-called TikTokers invited to the People's Choice Awards event on Sunday.

Hall, a social media personality and bareknuckle fighter, who attended the event, roasted Eilish in a video posted on his social media page.

The video triggered an online backlash against the bareknuckle fighter mainly from fans of the singer.

Apparently unbothered, Hall published another video mocking the backlash.

WATCH Bryce Hall videos roasting Eilish and mocking the backlash

OpenAI launched Sora, a text-to-video AI model that can generate 60-second-long photorealistic synthetic HD video (not audio yet) from written prompts. It “can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions," according to the ChatGPT maker which made the announcement Thursday  on X.

"Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions," OpenAI wrote on X.

The also company posted on X, few examples of what Sora can do including the following prompt, with the generated video:

Prompt: “Beautiful, snowy Tokyo city is bustling. The camera moves through the bustling city street, following several people enjoying the beautiful snowy weather and shopping at nearby stalls. Gorgeous sakura petals are flying through the wind along with snowflakes.”

The model can also generate a video based on a still image, as well as fill in missing frames on an existing video or extend it.

OpenAI also claims: "The model has a deep understanding of language, enabling it to accurately interpret prompts and generate compelling characters that express vibrant emotions. Sora can also create multiple shots within a single generated video that accurately persist characters and visual style."

The current model has weaknesses, according to the company. It may struggle with accurately simulating the physics of a complex scene, and may not understand specific instances of cause and effect. The model may also confuse spatial details of a prompt, for example, mixing up left and right, and may struggle with precise descriptions of events that take place over time, like following a specific camera trajectory.

Commenting Sunday on Sora, Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk, who is a co-founder of OpenAI, pans the vaunted model's capabilities contrasting it with the complex real-world AI which his company is developing for the EV maker's full self-driving(FSD) software.

"Where Tesla video generation exceeds OpenAI is that it predicts extremely accurate physics," Musk wrote on X. "That is essential for self-driving."

Livestreamer Adin Ross has unfollowed his girlfriend Demisux on social media after video surfaced of her allegedly cheating on the Jewish social media personality, with her ex Silky.

Demisux apparently lied to Ross, that she was with her family. It turns out she was allegedly having a quality time with her ex.

Both Demisux and Silky are also livestreamers.

Commenting on the leaked video on Sunday, Ross joked in since-deleted X post, "black history month(celebrated in February in the U.S.) is kicking my ass huh?" He's referencing Silky, who's black. The Jewish livestreamer was recently scammed by two other black artists live on stream -- rapper 21 Savage, to the tune of $250,000 in a card game; and rapper Playboi Carti who appeared on Ross' stream for 6 minutes and left with hundreds of thousands of dollars without staying for the agreed duration for which he was promised $2 million.

Ross further commented on Demisux's cheating scandal in another post: "Silky and I spoke for an hour this morning. Before shit got posted.  He told me  the truth and told me everything I needed to know. I appreciate u silky… leave silky Saleen and ex and everyone in the house out of it they had nothing to do w it. They helped me because I was under the impression the person was with her mom. The hurt feeling I have has nothing to do with them.  It’s got everything to do with the other person tho I just pray for them and wish them nothing but the best. I’m fr hurt shits crazy."

On her part Demisux said in a post: "yes i told him im going to see my parents and i went out with my friends but i didnt even know silky was gonna be there otherwise i wouldnt of went."

Critics in the manosphere-redpill community like respected podcaster Myron Gaines of Fresh And Fit podcast have often advised young men to never date seriously any girl that is involved in anyway in social-media-influencer culture or sex industry.

"Those girls are for recreational use only," Gaines tells his viewers. "Find a girl who's willing to turn off her Instagram account for you."

Gab blocked IP addresses in Israel from accessing its website, as the pro-free speech social media platform works to thwart aggressive cyber attacks from the Jewish state. However Israelis can still access Gab using VPN.

“We were fed up with the porn profiles,  JIDF propagandists, and other subversive behavior that we've encountered over the years all emanating from the same IP sources in the same country," Gab CEO Andrew Torba said in a statement regarding the block. "It was time to put an end to it, so we did.”

The blocking of IP’s from Israel was reportedly related to cyber attacks and repeated violations of TOS from bad faith government actors and special interest groups trolling the site.

Jewish activists and organizations like the ADL have been trying to shutdown the least censored social media platform and have routinely smeared  CEO Torba as antisemite.

Spotify has reportedly reached a $250 million, multi-year deal with it's star podcaster Joe Rogan that will allow his popular podcast Joe Rogan Experience to be distributed broadly across multiple platforms. According to the company, the new arrangement involves an upfront minimum guarantee for Rogan, plus a revenue sharing agreement based on ad sales.

Under Rogan's previous deal struck in 2020, Spotify paid more than $100 million to bring the JRE to Spotify exclusively in a bid to jump-start podcast listening on its platform. The deal ties his payout -- estimated to land around $180 million to $220 million by the end of its term this year -- to audience-number targets.

Under the new licensing agreement, Spotify will sell ads for and distribute the JRE across several podcast platforms, including in a video format on YouTube. Spotify stands to make more money from ads it sells as the podcast reaches a very large audience.

The deal comes as viewer behavior especially among younger audience evolves. Video clips of long-form livestreams and shows from one platform like Rumble or Spotify, are watched on multiple platforms, giving content creators and advertisers a wider exposure and media market respectively.

To comply with EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple in its upcoming iOS 17.4 update, is making a number of major changes to the way its mobile operating system works within the EU region, including allowing users to sideload apps on the iPhone.

According to a blog post, Apple announced it will finally allow developers to create and distribute apps without using the company's App Store.

While developers who use a non-Apple store won't have to pay a fee to the company, apps that are downloaded more than a million times a year and those distributed through App Store, will pay a fee of 0.50 euros for each download over a million.

Apple will now take a cut of up to 17%, plus another 3% fee, for payments made on apps distributed on its App Store. That's down from a long-held maximum commission of 30%.

In another major change, Apple is going to allow alternative browser engines to run on iOS within the EU. Before now, Apple has allowed lots of browsers but only one browser engine - WebKit which powers its Safari. With this change, Chromium-based and Gecko-based browsers like Brave and Firefox respectively are allowed on the App Store.

Each developer will have to be authorized by Apple to switch engines “after meeting specific criteria and committing to a number of ongoing privacy and security mitigations,” Apple said in the blog post, at which point they’ll get access to features like Passkeys and multiprocessing. Apple’s also adding a new choice screen to Safari so that when you first open the browser, you’ll be able to choose a different default if you want.

As part of the new changes, App developers will have access to Apple's near-field communication tech, so users can make contactless payments with their phones without using Apple Pay and Apple Wallet system.

Apple is grudgingly making these changes as evident in its announcement. "This change is a result of the DMA’s requirements, and means that EU users will be confronted with a list of default browsers before they have the opportunity to understand the options available to them,” the company says. “The screen also interrupts EU users’ experience the first time they open Safari intending to navigate to a webpage.”

Developers are not happy with Apple's plan however, calling it "malicious compliance."

"They are forcing developers to choose between App Store exclusivity and the store terms, which will be illegal under DMA, or accept a new also-illegal anticompetitive scheme rife with new Junk Fees on downloads and new Apple taxes on payments they don't process," Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said on X.

New Argentine President Javier Milei gave widely-praised speech at the discredited World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of anti-freedom liberal globalists and European left-wing fascists in Davos, Switzerland this week.

"Today I’m here to tell you that the Western world is in danger," Milei, a self-described anarcho-capitalist elected to office in November based on his commitment to slashing government spending, said. "And it is in danger because those who are supposed to have defended the values of the West are co-opted by a vision of the world that inevitably leads to socialism and thereby to poverty. Unfortunately, in recent decades, motivated by some well-meaning individuals willing to help others, and others motivated by the wish to belong to a privileged caste, the main leaders of the Western world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism," he continued. "We’re here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world, rather they are the root cause. Do believe me, no one [is] in a better place than us Argentines to testify to these two points."

The speech resonated with many on social media, who praised his pro-freedom message contrary to the globalist anti-freedom agenda of the WEF where many speakers slammed X owner Elon Musk for his content moderation policy for the platform.

Musk was apparently so pleased with Milei's speech that he posted a sexually explicit meme that attracted a lot attention.

WATCH Javier Milei's speech.

US officials confirm that a coalition of western nations including UK, Germany and Australia launched military air strikes against Houthi positions in Yemen, with the participation of ships, warplanes, and submarines.  - targeting radar sites, marching platforms, missiles, and coastal monitoring sites 

SpaceX launched US Space Force's X-37B space plane to orbit early morning(UTC) Friday(Dec. 29). The USSF-52 mission was the rocket company's 95th launch of 2023, followed just hours after by Falcon 9 rocket launch of 23 Starlink satellites from the nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, marking the company's 96th and final launch of the year.

No other family of orbit-class rockets has ever flown more than 63 times in a year. SpaceX's Falcon rockets have now exceeded this number by roughly 50 percent. Competitors in the United States, such as United Launch Alliance(ULA) and Rocket Lab, managed far fewer flights in 2023. ULA had three missions, and Rocket Lab launched its small Electron booster 10 times.

Nearly two-thirds of SpaceX's missions this year were dedicated to delivering satellites to orbit for SpaceX's Starlink internet network, a constellation of now over 5,000 satellites. The rocket company also launched five missions with the Falcon Heavy rocket.

Highlights from SpaceX's 2023 Falcon launch schedule included three crew missions to the International Space Station, and the launch of NASA's Psyche mission to explore a metallic asteroid.

In all, SpaceX's Falcon rockets hauled approximately 1,200 metric tons of payload mass into orbit this year. This "upmass" is equivalent to nearly three International Space Stations. And most of this was made up of the mass-produced Starlink satellites.

The back to back launches Friday morning(UTC) took off 2 hours and 54 minutes apart, the shortest turnaround between two SpaceX flights in the company's history. It also set a modern era record at Cape Canaveral, Florida, with the shortest span between two orbital-class launches there since 1966. The Florida spaceport was the departure point for 72 orbital-class rockets in 2023, also an unprecedented level of launch activity there.

"Congrats to SpaceX team on achieving 96 launches in 2023," SpaceX's founder and CEO Elon Musk wrote on X, Friday.

Counting the two Starship test missions, SpaceX ends the year with 98 flights, including 91 Falcon 9s, five Falcon Heavy rockets. These flights were spread across four launch pads in Florida, California, and Texas.

Musk set a goal of 100 launches this year, up from the company's previous record of 61 in 2022. But a spate of bad weather and delays before this final Falcon Heavy launch of the year kept the company short of 100 flights.

Commenting on the potential mission schedule frequency with Falcon Heavy and Starship, Must wrote: "The super heavy booster can be used more frequently than the ship, as it returns in about ~6 minutes and can theoretically be ready for reflght in an hour. The ship needs to complete at least one orbit, but often several to have the ground track line back up with the launch site, so reuse may only be daily. This means that ship production needs to be roughly an order of magnitude higher than booster production. To achieve Mars colonization in roughly three decades, we need ship production to be 100/year, but ideally rising to 300/year."

"Congrats to the entire Falcon team at SpaceX on a record breaking 96 launches in 2023!" Jon Edwards, vice president of Falcon launch vehicles at SpaceX, wrote on X. "I remember when Elon Musk first threw out a goal of 100 launches as a thought experiment, intended to unlock our thinking as to how we might accelerate Falcon across all levels of production and launch. Only a few years later and here we are. I’m so incredibly proud to work with the best team on Earth, and so excited to see what we achieve next year."

The rocket and satellite company looks poised to set more records next year. In 2024, SpaceX aims for an average of a dozen launches per month, for a total of 144 rocket flights. New launches are already slated for January 2 and 3.

Far-left media outlet The New York Times(NYT) is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging that both companies' large language models (LLMs) which power ChatGPT and Copilot, “can generate output that recites Times content verbatim, closely summarizes it, and mimics its expressive style.” This “undermine[s] and damage[s]” the Times’ relationship with readers, the outlet alleges, while also depriving it of “subscription, licensing, advertising, and affiliate revenue.”

The NYT claims that OpenAI and Microsoft built their AI models by “copying and using millions” of the publication’s articles and now “directly compete” with its content as a result. The complaint also argues that these AI models “threaten high-quality journalism” by hurting the ability of news outlets to protect and monetize content. “Through Microsoft’s Bing Chat (recently rebranded as “Copilot”) and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Defendants seek to free-ride on The Times’s massive investment in its journalism by using it to build substitutive products without permission or payment,” the lawsuit states.

The media outlet claims it has attempted to negotiate with both companies for months to “ensure it received fair value for the use of its content,” but failed to reach a solution. Meanwhile, the release of AI models trained on the Times’ content has proven “extremely lucrative” for both Microsoft and OpenAI, the lawsuit states. NYT is asking for them to be held liable for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” for allegedly copying its works. It’s also asking the court to prevent both companies from training their AI models using its content, as well as remove NYT's content from the companies’ datasets.

“We respect the rights of content creators and owners and are committed to working with them to ensure they benefit from AI technology and new revenue models,” OpenAI spokesperson Lindsey Held said in an emailed statement to The Verge. “Our ongoing conversations with the New York Times have been productive and moving forward constructively, so we are surprised and disappointed with this development. We’re hopeful that we will find a mutually beneficial way to work together, as we are doing with many other publishers.”

While outlets like The New York Times, BBC, CNN, and Reuters have moved to block OpenAI’s web crawler, others like Axel Springer, which owns Politico and Business Insider, and the Associated Press have all struck deals with OpenAI to train its models on their news stories.

Social media platform X suffered a global outage early morning UTC Thursday as thousands of users across several countries reported issues loading content on their timelines.

The outage which started around 0530 UTC, affected many countries including the UK, US and India, with the site showing a message reading “Welcome to Twitter! This is the best place to see what’s happening in your world. Find some people and topics to follow now,” instead of users’ normal feed content.

Meanwhile some other features like Spaces were working on the platform, as users including news reporters and some X employees joined several Spaces conversations about the outage.

The platform returned to normal for users at about 0700 UTC. It's not yet clear what caused the outage

Amazon's streaming platform Twitch is updating its moderation policy to allow some previously prohibited content including nudity and erotic play. The woke company has faced backlash for its uneven handling of content moderation amid growing competition from alternative platforms like Rumble and Kick.

The platform will now allow “deliberately highlighted breasts, buttocks or pelvic region” if the stream has a Content Classification Label (CCL), which Twitch launched in June as a way for creators to warn users if their stream contains sexual themes, gambling, vulgarity, or other mature content. The same goes for drawn, animated, or sculpted “fully exposed female-presenting breasts and/or genitals or buttocks regardless of gender,” along with “body writing on female-presenting breasts and/or buttocks,” Twitch said in a blog post announcing the changes.

Twitch will no longer take action against streams featuring erotic dances like strip teases. The platform will also no longer require a label for streams involving twerking, grinding, and pole dancing.

The platform is keeping its restrictions on sex games, sexual violence, or porn, maintaining that those are “entirely prohibited.” And users won’t see mature streams on the homepage, though they can still search for labeled content or find it directly on a creator’s channel.

This doesn’t mean streams containing mature-rated games will be removed from the homepage, though. Twitch handles them separately: it detects when users are playing games with a Mature rating and automatically applies a “Mature-rated game” label instead.

We also recognize that not everyone wants to see certain content, so we’re updating our criteria for homepage recommendations, Twitch said in the blog post.

Angela Hession, Twitch’s chief customer trust officer, says the platform updated its policies after receiving “consistent feedback from streamers” that they were “confusing and that it can be difficult to know how their content will be interpreted.”

Instead of having separate rules for sexually suggestive content and sexually explicit content sections, Twitch merged the two into a Sexual Content Policy within the Community Guidelines as part of its update today. Hession says the former sexually suggestive content policy “was out of line with industry standards and resulted in female-presenting streamers being disproportionately penalized.”

Critics slammed the streaming company for allowing the promotion of degenerate content on the platform to children, while banning streamers for expressing political opinions.

"Pornhub watch out for stiff competition from Twitch," an X user wrote Tuesday, referencing the porn website Pornhub.

High School art teacher, Emily Swinkowski, 27, faces charges of enticement of a child and child exploitation, in connection with an incident at Water Valley High School, Mississippi, where she was arrested for allegedly sending nude photos to a sixteen-year-old boy.

Another student learned about the photos and tipped off the principal, who contacted the police, according to District Attorney Jay Hale. Swinkowski resigned and turned herself into the authorities last Monday. She was freed on $50,000 bond.

Swinkowski's case is part of a growing trend of female teachers sexually abusing their young students who often don't report such cases to authorities or to their parents.

Male teachers unlike their female counterpart, often face harsher legal and social repercussions when they're caught engaging inappropriately with their underage students.

Female perpetrators are often not reported or are given more lenient sentences in court. Critics have called for school authorities and local law enforcement to take a more aggressive stance against female sexual perverts in schools.

Apple recently announced that the iPhone giant will adopt Google's RCS (Rich Communication Services). This will bring a number of iMessage-style features to texts between Android and iPhone users, including read receipts, typing indicators, and higher-quality images and videos. However this move will reportedly not settle the ridiculous green vs blue messaging bubbles debate.

On Android, SMS texts are denoted by a light blue color, while RCS messages are denoted by a dark blue. On iPhone, Apple uses blue bubbles to denote what it believes is the most secure way for users to communicate, which is iMessage. Non-iMessage messages are denoted by somewhat of 'second class' green bubbles, if you're a participant in the ridiculous bubbles debate.

Apple’s new implementation will reportedly be blue for iMessage and green for RCS and SMS.

The green vs blue bubbles debate has become a ridiculous cultural staple over the years. Google and Samsung have both used the color of bubbles in advertising campaigns criticizing Apple for not supporting RCS.

Apple finally caved but partially, hence the ridiculous green vs blue bubbles cultural debate continues.

SpaceX launched NASA's Psyche spacecraft -- atop Falcon Heavy rocket -- to interplanetary transfer orbit on October 13 from Kennedy Space Center. The probe is headed to a metal asteroid of the same name(officially designated as 16 Psyche).

This is a footage of Falcon Heavy's reusable side boosters landing back on Earth after the launch.

Psyche will now travel six years and ~3.5 billion kilometers to the metallic space rock currently orbiting the Sun in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Beginning in August 2029, the spacecraft will spend 21 months mapping and analyzing the asteroid's surface from multiple orbits.

WATCH the landing of Heavy's side boosters.

Google announced that chromebooks released in 2021 or later will be eligible to receive automatic security updates for 10 years after their release; and owners of older ChromeOS devices will have the option to turn them on. The company currently guarantees eight years of automatic updates to Chromebooks.

The tech giant also notes in its press release that “even if a Chromebook is no longer receiving automatic updates, it still comes with strong, built-in security features.”

Google says that starting in 2024, it’s also rolling out updates to its Chromebook repair program that will allow technicians to make software fixes without a physical USB key. The company estimates that this will make software repairs faster by “over 50%.”

That guaranteed automatic update period for a chromebook begins at the time when Google certifies the device, not when it’s actually in the owner’s hands. Because of the time it takes for individual buyers, schools and businesses to purchase and actually start using new computers, they commonly end up getting four to five years of use out of them in practice.

The new guaranteed automatic update period is a big change to Chromebooks that could help them last a few years longer with users.

Rachel Goodle, 22, allegedly had sex in her classroom with one of her male students for one hour, at Oak Creek High School in Wisconsin, USA. The defendant pleaded not guilty to second-degree sexual assault of a child under the age of 16 and sexual assault of a student by school staff.

Goodle has been trying in civil court, to block the release of her disciplinary records which should be a public record because she was a public employee. She has filed another lawsuit against the school with her attorney claiming "they could likely adversely impact Goodle's right to a fair trial."

The district is still trying to dismiss her first lawsuit and during a preliminary hearing on Tuesday (August 29), a court heard that a video showed Goodle with the young student in the class room with "the lights turned low."

Detective Zach Case explained: "One of those videos showed them together in her classroom on December 2 for approximately a little over an hour to an hour-and-a-half with the lights turned low and the door was closed."

Initial internal school investigation uncovered footage of Goodle and the student having an apparent "close relationship."

This includes images of the pair "spending an inordinate amount of time together, and arriving and sitting together at a school sporting event. The two sat away from the student section,” which sparked concerns, ultimately leading to police involvement.

After initial denial by the alleged victim, his family and Goodle, a follow-up interview with the student in May implicated the defendant. "Throughout the school year, they had been in a somewhat friendly relationship," said Case.

The student then admitted that the pair had sex in the teacher's classroom, Case added.

If convicted, Goodle could face over 40 years in prison.

British boxer Daniel Dubois, 25, faced off Saturday night, against Oleksandr Usyk, 36, in front of 40,000 boisterous fans at the Tarczynski Arena, Wroclaw, Poland. But the Ukrainian champion's victory will be overshadowed by the referee's decision regarding a potential low blow by Dubois.

Dubois, a huge underdog, floored the champion in a controversial fifth round. With Usyk wincing in pain on the canvas, the referee ruled the shot -- which appeared to land on the belt line -- a low blow.

Usyk took three minutes and 45 seconds before declaring he was fit to resume -- fighters are allowed five minutes when caught with a low blow.

The 36-year-old regained control, reasserted his dominance in round seven and dropped Dubois in the eighth with a flurry of shots before the referee halted the contest following another knockdown in the ninth.

"I didn't think that was a low blow, I thought it landed and I've been cheated out of victory," Dubois said after the fight.

Dubois' promoter Frank Warren agreed, calling it a "complete home decision" as he criticized referee Luis Pabon and said he plans to appeal the decision. "I like Usyk, but he was not fit to go on and they gave him a couple of minutes to recover."

Usyk made a successful second defense of his WBA 'Super', IBF and WBO belts; and retained his undefeated record, winning a 21st professional bout, to keep hopes of a blockbuster fight with Tyson Fury alive.

"I'm ready to fight Tyson Fury," Usyk said. "I feel good. I am grateful for my team, my family, my children. I love you. I'm grateful for my country and the Ukrainian army. Thank you so much."

WATCH Daniel Dubois vs. Oleksandr Usyk highlight

Right-wing presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio 60, was shot this week, at a campaign rally in the capital, Quito. Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso confirmed the killing of Villavicencio on social media, Wednesday.

Video circulating on social media from the campaign show Villavicencio being brought out and ushered to an awaiting car before busts of gunshots are heard.

"Outraged and shocked by the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio," Lasso wrote in a post on X. "My solidarity and condolences to his wife and daughters. For his memory and his fight, I assure you that this crime will not remain unpunished. Organized crime has gone very far, but all the weight of the law will fall on them."

Villavicencio's assassination occurred less than 2 weeks before the South American nation's election. In remarks referencing a rival candidate, during a campaign stop days earlier, the 60-year-old had hinted at a threat to his life. "Here I am Mrs. Luisa González, they have told me to wear a (bulletproof) vest but here I am in a sweaty shirt, let the drug lords come, let the hitmen and vaccinators come," he said.

WATCH the moment Villavicencio was shot in Quito.

Last week, about a dozen Russian and Chinese ships sailed near Alaska's Aleutian Islands as part of a joint naval exercise. The provocative move, experts say, indicates the two countries' disregard for a weak and flailing US President Joe Biden.

Video posted by Russia's Defense Ministry on Saturday shows what appears to be the participating vessels sailing in formation and the firing of weapons into the ocean, as part of what it described as an anti-submarine exercise.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that the joint patrol had already covered 2,300 nautical miles in a transit that had taken the Russian and Chinese Navy ships to "the southwestern part of the Bering Sea," where they had practiced "joint tactical maneuvering, conducted communications training and carried out helicopter landings and take-offs from the decks of each other's ships."

According to US officials, four US Navy destroyers operating in the Pacific Ocean monitored the ships' movements from various distances. Navy's P-8 maritime surveillance aircraft was also deployed.

The Pentagon was reportedly tracking and expecting the joint exercise for several weeks. On Sunday US Northern Command said in a statement that the Russian and Chinese naval formation patrolled "near Alaska" last week but "was not considered a threat." "Air and maritime assets under our commands conducted operations to assure the defense of the United States and Canada," the NORTHCOM statement said, adding that "the patrol remained in international waters and was not considered a threat."

A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington reportedly said in a statement: "According to the annual cooperation plan between the Chinese and Russian militaries, naval vessels of the two countries have recently conducted joint maritime patrols in relevant waters in the western and northern Pacific Ocean. This action is not targeted at any third party and has nothing to do with the current international and regional situation."

Alaska's Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, slammed the joint exercise. "We have entered a new era of authoritarian aggression led by the dictators in Beijing and Moscow," Sullivan said. "In recognition of this reality and our state's unrivaled strategic location, for years, I've been pressing the Navy and each successive administration to commit to a greater Naval, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps presence in Alaska, more Arctic-capable vessels, and more infrastructure."

Military experts also warned that China and Russia are emboldened because of Biden's weak and rudderless foreign policy, as the administration is mired in the Russian-Ukraine war.

“In the future, the Chinese Navy could conduct more far sea patrols like this, either alone or together with other countries," Chinese military expert Fu Qianshao reportedly said. "The Americans should get used to it. The US should not forget that it frequently sends warships and warplanes to other countries’ doorsteps for so-called freedom of navigation operations, including to the South China Sea and the Taiwan Straits.”

X Corp has filed a lawsuit against far-left extremist group the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), according to documents filed in San Francisco federal court. It claimed that the anti-free-speech activist group is illegally "scraping" its servers and cherry picking hateful posts as part of "a scare campaign to drive away advertisers," from the social media platform(formerly known as Twitter).

CCDH, which is known for its smear campaigns against conservatives on social media, published a 'research' article in June asserting that X allowed explicitly racist and homophobic posts despite policies to the contrary, even after they'd been reported. Their conclusion is apparently based on a very small sample posts on the platform which they probably sought out.

In a blog post called "Protecting the public’s right to free expression," X explained its reasoning for filing the legal claim. "X is a free public service funded largely by advertisers," the post states in part. "Through the CCDH's scare campaign and its ongoing pressure on brands to prevent the public’s access to free expression, the CCDH is actively working to prevent public dialogue." The social media company pointed out that the anti-free speech group used poor methodology, and failed to study all 500 million posts on the service each day. It also maintained that the far-left group was taking funding from competitors and foreign governments as part of an "ulterior agenda," to censor people who disagree with them politically.

X also noted that the CCDH scraped its data, accessing it without authorization from Brandwatch, an X partner that provides "consumer & market insights," "brand monitoring" and more. It added that CCDH's "'research' cited in a Bloomberg article 'contained metrics used out of context to make unsubstantiated assertions about X (formerly Twitter).'"

"That’s why X has filed a legal claim against the CCDH and its backers," X stated in the blog. It also accused the CCDH of "targeting people on all platforms who speak about issues the CCDH doesn’t agree with," "attempting to coerce the deplatforming of users whose views do not conform to the CCDH's ideological agenda."

CCDH in a post on X, said: "The public has the right to know if and how @ElonMusk’s leadership has led to more hate speech on Twitter. By threatening us, Musk is trying to hide the truth about his own failures. Platforms must be held accountable for spreading hate & lies."

Replying to entrepreneur Mike Solana who wrote that the public deserves to know from where CCDH is getting their funding, X owner Elon Musk said "We will find out when those donors testify under penalty of perjury."

The social media platform on Friday, officially rolled out its ads revenue sharing program for content creators globally who meet the eligibility criteria. This comes after the company gave payouts to some eligible creators earlier this month; and amid its rebranding from Twitter to 𝕏.

According to a support page for the program, to be eligible for the program, you need to be subscribed to X Blue or be a Verified Organization; have “at least 15M impressions on your cumulative posts within the last 3 months,” and have at least 500 followers. Interested users can apply from the monetization tab in settings.

You’ll get payouts after 𝕏 determines that you’ve generated more than $50. “We want the process to be as simple as possible, so all eligible 𝕏  Blue and Verified Organizations subscribers are entitled to revenue share so long as they meet the eligibility criteria and join,” the company says.

The social media company which is in the middle of rebranding, is pursuing owner Elon Musk's vision of building a so-called "everything app," which incorporates payments processing, ecommerce, video and audio calling in a type of super app.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta launched a Twitter clone Wednesday, and Elon Musk has already revealed dubious operation behind the building of Threads by the Facebook founder.

Threads allows users to create accounts with their Instagram usernames, as well as connect with people they follow on the image-based platform which Meta said in October has around two billion monthly active users.

"Our vision is to take the best parts of Instagram and create a new experience for text, ideas, and discussing what's on your mind," Zuckerberg said in a Wednesday evening Instagram post.

The night that Threads was launched, Alex Spiro, Musk's personal lawyer sent Mark Zuckerberg a formal letter regarding Twitter's "serious concerns" about the legality of the microblogging app.

Spiro claims in the letter, that Meta used "Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property" to build Threads. He accuses the social media company of hiring "dozens of former Twitter employees," some of which "improperly retained Twitter documents and electronic devices." He also suggested the Zuckerberg-founded company had been "crawling and scraping" Twitter data on users and followers by reminding the company such activity is "expressly prohibited." Twitter imposed temporary rate limits for all users  over the weekend.

"To be clear, no one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee -- that's just not a thing." Meta's ommunications head Andy Stone wrote in a follow up Threads comment, responding to Twitter's suggestion that Meta was "scraping" data: "Interesting, given that Threads is powered by INSTAGRAM."

Critics roundly mocked the Zuckerberg company for copying yet another social media app. Meta is notoriously known for copying features and apps of other social media companies. "Zuckerberg said fuck the cage match, and used the 'CTRL + C' to 'CTRL + V' buttons;" a Twitter user joked, referencing the 'copy' and 'paste' keyboard shortcuts

Following recent measure imposed to deter aggressive scrapping and system manipulation by bad actors, Twitter explains in a blog Tuesday, the rationale behind their decisions.

The company writes:

"To ensure the authenticity of our user base we must take extreme measures to remove spam and bots from our platform. That’s why we temporarily limited usage so we could detect and eliminate bots and other bad actors that are harming the platform. Any advance notice on these actions would have allowed bad actors to alter their behavior to evade detection.

At a high level, we are working to prevent these accounts from 1) scraping people’s public Twitter data to build AI models and 2) manipulating people and conversation on the platform in various ways.

Currently, the restrictions affect a small percentage of people using the platform, and we will provide an update when the work is complete. As it relates to our customers, effects on advertising have been minimal.

While this work will never be done, we’re all deeply committed to making Twitter a better place for everyone.

At times, even for a brief moment, you must slow down to speed up."

In her first remarks since the social media company announced the rate limits, CEO Linda Yaccarino tweeted: "When you have a mission like Twitter -- you need to make big moves to keep strengthening the platform. This work is meaningful and on-going."

Twitter has also eased the restriction on access to twitter.com. Users can now read tweets and view profile pages without having to log in.

A video clip from an LGBTQ event held at the White House over the weekend, surfaced on Monday, showing transgender activist taking his top off after meeting President Joe Biden. Rose Montoya, who pretends to be a woman, met with the president and his wife Jill Biden on Saturday during the administration’s celebration of Pride Month.

The viral video shows Montoya meeting with the Bidens before standing on the White House lawn with his top off and hands covering his breasts.

The video drew widespread condemnation, with many critics accusing the unpopular senile president of promoting degeneracy and desecrating the White House with LGBTQ flags.

“No, this isn’t another hookers-n-blow photo from Hunter’s laptop, it was the Pride party on the White House lawn two days ago hosted by Joe,” said radio host and conservative commentator Dana Loesch. “They also didn’t hang the American flag right according to code.”

Asked about the incident, a Biden administration's spokesperson said: "This behavior is inappropriate and disrespectful for any event at the White House... Individuals in the video will not be invited to future events.”

WATCH viral clip of Rose Montoya going topless

Apple announced an augmented reality headset called Vision Pro, Monday, that looks like a pair of ski goggles; and according to CEO Tim Cook, “seamlessly” blends the real and digital world. “It’s the first Apple product you look through, and not at.”

Vision Pro is positioned as primarily an AR device, but it can switch between augmented and full virtual reality using a dial. It features a separate battery pack and is controlled with eyes, hands, and voice. It will start at $3,499 and launch early next year, starting in the US market with more countries coming later in the year.

Critics argue that aside from the exorbitant price, the idea of such a big goggle on the face is unhealthy and ridiculous.

Apple also announced a new operating system for its Vision Pro headset, visionOS, which according to the tech giant, has been designed from the ground up for spatial computing and will have its own App Store where people can download Vision Pro apps and compatible iPhone and iPad apps.

Other announcements by Apple include: the 15-inch MacBook Air, Mac Studio with M2 Max and M2 Ultra; the Mac Pro with M2 Max and M2 Ultra, iOS 17 for iPhone, iPadOS 17 for iPad, macOS Sonoma for Mac, FaceTime for Apple TV, watchOS 10.

WATCH Apple's presentation of the Vision Pro

After the 2020 elections, big tech companies like Meta, pre-Elon Musk Twitter, and YouTube started cracking down on so-called election denial and misinformation. Former President Donald Trump was banned from all the major platforms in an unprecedented move. This led to rise in popularity of alternative platforms like Gab and Rumble.

Since then, Musk has bought Twitter, and is aggressively working to make the platform the "digital town square" and an "everything app" where users share and consume all types of content and make payments.

Rumble is also fast becoming the place to be on, for content creators who value creative freedom; as big tech platforms aggressively censor and ban creators.

Apparently YouTube has started feeling the competition heat, as disgruntled content creators flee to Rumble, Odysee, Twitter and other pro-free speech platforms. In a recent blog post, the streaming giant announced a reversal of its so-called election integrity policy.

"We first instituted a provision of our elections misinformation policy focused on the integrity of past US Presidential elections in December 2020, once the states’ safe harbor date for certification had passed," the company writes in the blog. "Two years, tens of thousands of video removals, and one election cycle later, we recognized it was time to reevaluate the effects of this policy in today's changed landscape."

The streaming giant in about face, announced: "In the current environment..., we will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections. This goes into effect today, Friday, June 2."

Critics argue that by "current environment," YouTube really means that with the 2024 election coming up in the US, social media users now have viable alternatives like Rumble and Twitter which are making aggressive moves to become the pro-free speech global digital town square. And YouTube is fast becoming a boring and restrictive left-wing echo chamber like the legacy media.

President Joe Biden gave a commencement address on Thursday, at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation in Colorado Springs, Colorado; and discussed the War in Ukraine, China, and climate change. Following his remarks, the 80-year-old took a nasty fall while walking on stage. He appeared to collapse, landing on his right hip before being helped up by an Air Force official, plus two Secret Service agents.

Biden's fall Thursday comes almost two years after he fell on the steps while boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews. He also recently stumbled at the G7 Summit in Japan.

Former president and leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump seemed to find out about Biden's tumble on the spot while fielding questions during a campaign stop in Iowa state, Thursday.

"He actually fell down? Well, I hope he wasn't hurt," Trump said. "The whole thing is crazy. You've got to be careful about that... even if you have to tiptoe down the ramp.... That's a bad place to fall... that's not inspiring."

WATCH the moment Biden tumble while walking on stage at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation in Colorado Springs, CO.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been re-elected as Turkish president after winning the presidential run-off, according to the head of Turkey's Supreme Election Council. YSK Chairman Ahmet Yener officially announced that the 69-year-old won with 52.14% of the votes.

"Even if all of the results that have not been entered into the system yet go to a presidential candidate, the results will not change," Yener said. With 99.43% of ballot boxes opened, Erdogan's rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu received 47.86% of the votes, he added.

"The only winner is Turkey," a happy Erdogan told cheering supporters on top of a bus in Istanbul. "Bye, Bye, Kemal," he taunted his rival. The 69-year-old thanked his fans as they waved flags; and slammed opposition parties for embracing pro-LGBT policies. At one point, he burst into a song for his supporters.

Kilicdaroglu on his part said the election was unfair, in a fiery speech. "You should know that we will stand against those difficulties awaiting us," he said.

Erdogan became Turkish prime minister in 2003, and president in 2014. This victory keeps him for a third 5-year term in power.

Many western liberal politicians and leaders worked unsuccessfully to help the opposition defeat Erdogan.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis 44, will reportedly announce his candidacy in the 2024 United States presidential elections, in a special event to be broadcast on Twitter Spaces Wednesday, with the social media platform's owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. This is the first time such announcement is made by a major candidate first on social media.

Musk confirmed the event during an interview Tuesday, at the WSJ CEO Council summit. "Yes we'll be interviewing Ron DeSantis, and he has quite an announcement to make," he said. "It'll be the first time that this is happening on social media; and with real time questions and answers, not scripted." The SpaceX CEO had revealed that he voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

Wednesday's event will be moderated by entrepreneur and tech investor David Sacks, at 2200 UTC on Wednesday(May24).

DeSantis will be filing his paperwork with the Federal Election Commission which will officially launch his presidential campaign. The 44-year-old will be running against other candidates including former President Donald Trump, in the upcoming primary elections to elect the Republican Party's nominee to challenge Biden in 2024 presidential elections.

The governor is viewed favorably by Republican voters who appreciate his bold political stance and cultural fights in the Sunshine state against LGBTQ and Democrat activists, and 'woke' corporations like Disney.

Twitter is removing accounts that have not been active on the social media platform in the last several years, paving the way to make some dormant handles or usernames available to users. Twitter CEO Elon Musk revealed this in a tweet Monday.

“We’re purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years, so you will probably see follower count drop,” Musk tweeted. In reply to a post, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO suggested that some accounts of the dead like celebrities, will be spared from the purge. He also added in later tweet, that all removed "accounts will be archived."

Twitter recently updated its official policy on when it considers a user inactive: if they fail to log in "at least every 30 days." Musk said last December that the social media platform was preparing to delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts to free up dormant usernames. Some users have complained that inactive accounts have unusual and desirable handles that were snared in platform's early days.

Twitter usage appears to have risen following Musk's takeover: in the first weekend of November, the platform saw its most daily active users ever, according to data from Apptopia.

Musk, a prolific user himself, has made several changes, the recent most controversial of which is the overhauling the platform’s user verification system, taking away the legacy blue checkmarks. Now, verification is open to all users who wish to subscribe to Twitter Blue premium service for $8.

We started with using simple text passwords to keep all of our accounts and data secure as we navigate the wild world wide web. But scammers got better at hacking even complex passwords. To mitigate risks, tech companies added new layers like the use of two-factor authentication(2FA) and/or identifying street signs on a Captcha to prove your not a robot. Now Google is adding a new layer: the passkey system.

Passkey is a new way to sign in to apps and websites without relying on forgettable complex passwords or even the hassle of a 2FA. It lets users sign in the same way they unlock their devices -- with a fingerprint, a face scan or a screen lock PIN.

"Last year -- alongside FIDO Alliance, Apple and Microsoft -- we announced we would begin work to support passkeys on our platform as an easier and more secure alternative to passwords," Google writes on Wednesday, in a blog post announcing "we’ve begun rolling out support for passkeys across Google Accounts on all major platforms."

The search giant makes provisions for signing in with a new device (or doing so temporarily); using the passkey on your phone with a QR code scanning process and a Bluetooth proximity check. "On the new device, you’d just select the option to 'use a passkey from another device' and follow the prompts. This does not automatically transfer the passkey to the new device, it only uses your phone’s screen lock and proximity to approve a one-time sign-in. If the new device supports storing its own passkeys, we will ask separately if you want to create one there."

Apple was among the first to add support for the passkey system; and some other websites like PayPal, eBay and Kayak have since adopted it.

Anheuser-Busch has ratcheted up the campaign to repair Bud Light's image following backlash over the beer brand's partnership with controversial transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

The beer giant, which is owned by Belgium-based brewing conglomerate InBev, has reportedly hired a lobbying team of former right-leaning congressional staffers and activists, to help woo lawmakers who represent its mainly conservative customers.

Anheuser-Busch reportedly secured lobbying firm Origin Advocacy, LLC, to represent the company on "general policy regarding the alcohol-beverage industry." The lobbyists handling the account are Origin founder Sean McClean and Origin partner Emily Lynch. Both are veteran congressional Republican aides.

Apparently some conservative groups are not happy with Anheuser-Busch's approach.

American Accountability Foundation (AAF) president Tom Jones wrote in the letter sent to congressional aides, that McClean and Lynch are "making the rounds on the [Capitol] Hill trying to red-wash Bud Light's disastrous decision to partner with a man pretending to be a woman and tell you the company really does respect conservative values."

"They're even making the shamefully offensive equivalency argument that their transgender activist beer can is just like their beer can honoring WWII vets," Jones continued. "They're telling offices, ‘Anheuser-Busch sometimes creates commemorative cans. ... Honor Flight can [for] example.’ If partnering with a trans activist wasn't shameful enough equating Dylan Mulvaney to a World War II hero is really beyond the pale."

Since the controversy its collaboration with Mulvaney broke out, Anheuser-Busch has also released a widely-mocked video ad with patriotic themes, as it hopes to woo its mainly right-leaning customers opposed to the LGBTQ degeneracy. The company has also put on leave, the executives involved in the controversial collaboration with Mulvaney. Alissa Heinerscheid, the infamous woke vice president of marketing for Bud Light, and her boss, Daniel Blake, Budweiser's group vice president for marketing, have both taken leaves of absence according to the company.

However critics point out that the beer giant has not explicitly apologized to customers.

As CEO Elon Musk previously announced, Twitter has on Thursday, removed the so-called legacy blue checkmarks from the over 420,000 accounts who were previously described as 'notable' on the social media platform.

Accounts of people as notable as Pope Francis, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and celebrities like Drake were not spared in the checkmark purge.

Musk had slammed the legacy verification system under previous management as “bullshit,” “corrupt,” and a “lords & peasants system.”

The checkmark, along with other perks, is now globally available to Twitter Blue subscribers for $8 a month. The gold and gray checkmarks are available to organizations for $1000 a month.

Following the checkmarks purge on Thursday, Musk revealed he's for now personally paying for the subscriptions of author Stephen King, basketball player LeBron James and actor William Shatner. All three have been mocked online earlier this year, for whining about losing their legacy checkmarks, when the social media company first officially announced it'll be removing checkmarks.

Several celebrities did not lose their checkmarks, and appear to have subscribed to Twitter Blue before Thursday's purge.

Following pressure from woke online mob, Twitter imposed the so-called misgendering or deadnaming rule against referring to transgender individuals with their true pronouns. "We prohibit targeting others...," the rule reads. "This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals."

The social media platform reportedly removed the last sentence as of April 8.

The change was welcomed by free speech advocates who have been calling for an end to such outrageously woke and ridiculous rules on Big Tech platforms like Meta and TikTok which still have rules against so-called deadnaming.

Popular satire site The Babylon Bee hilariously declared, "Twitter is no longer enforcing the leftist anti-free speech and anti-reality policies that police speech critical of transgenderism," and conservative news outlet the Daily Caller tweeted, "It's now safe to call men, men."

On Monday, Twitter also updated its rules against 'hateful content,' a rule Elon Musk described as "freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach." The platform will severely throttle any content that is “potentially” in violation of its rules against so-called hateful conduct. Previously, such tweets were removed.

According to witnesses at a Dollar Tree in Everett, Washington, on April 12, a 29-year-old man reportedly stabbed an 11-year-old boy; and also tried to stab a 13-year-old. Snohomish County Officers responded at around 5 PM local time after receiving a a call.

When they arrived, police reportedly found the child wounded in the back of the store. He was transported to Providence Regional Medical Center Everett before being transferred to Harborview Medical Center’s trauma unit.

Apparently the suspect was angered after he was called an NPC, a term used in video games that means ‘non-playable character’ and refers to pre-scripted characters that aren’t in control of their own actions. In political/ideological-speak, a NPC or 'bot' typically refers to anyone that seems to believe and repeat conventional wisdom on of the day on any topic or issue, without question.

During the 29-year-old's appearance in court on Thursday, prosecutors said the child had called the assailant an “NPC.” The man allegedly chased the children into the Dollar Tree before stabbing the 11-year-old with a kitchen knife.

After calling off Monday's test flight, SpaceX is targeting "next available opportunity" for the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Starbase in Texas.

"A pressurant valve appears to be frozen, so unless it starts operating soon, no launch today," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted. "Learned a lot today, now offloading propellant, retrying in a few days."

Starship is a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit.