February 5th, 2020

Following Twitter, Google and YouTube have become the latest companies to send a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI, the startup behind a controversial facial recognition program that more than 600 police departments across North American use.

EXCLUSIVE: The founder of a facial recognition company described as both “groundbreaking” and “a nightmare” is speaking out.

Wednesday on @CBSThisMorning, Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That talks to @errolbarnett about the controversial software in his first TV interview. pic.twitter.com/jBrJ2ZzP1u

— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) February 4, 2020

You'll want to update WhatsApp's desktop client if you use it to chat on your computer. PerimeterX researcher Gal Weizman has revealed that Facebook patched a security vulnerability in WhatsApp's Mac and Windows versions that let attackers insert JavaScript into messages and remotely access files.

So while we know a good deal about how this laser works, what it’s for—and what types of targets it will attack—remains a mystery. And that's likely on purpose. “We cannot comment on specific R&D efforts due to classification level,” Tim Pietrack of the Navy Office of Information told Popular Mechanics...

"This nation is our canvas and this country is our masterpiece." - @realDonaldTrump

#SOTU pic.twitter.com/MKwaTTRw30

— Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) February 5, 2020

Included among several different images from the past four years in Bloomberg’s ad targeting Trump was an image of the Pulse club logo. On June 12, 2016, more than seven months before Trump took office, Omar Mateen, a domestic terrorist, opened fire in the club and murdered 49 people. An estimated 53 others were left wounded as a result of Mateen’s actions. Prior to the shooting, Mateen had been investigated for connections to terrorism by the FBI in both 2013 and 2014.

BREAKING: I'm filing an ethics complaint against @SpeakerPelosi for destroying @realDonaldTrump's State of the Union speech.

Her conduct was beneath the dignity of the House, and a potential violation of law (18 USC 2071).

Nobody is above the law. She must be held accountable. pic.twitter.com/dXPPWQNtI8

— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) February 6, 2020

In a statement on Wednesday afternoon, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley and Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson said they "requested Hunter Biden’s official travel records from the U.S. Secret Service as a part of their ongoing probe into potential conflicts of interest."

After Epstein's death last August in a Manhattan jail cell, $15.5 million was transferred to the bank from his estate in December. $2.6 million was then transferred back to the estate, leaving $12.9 million in the mysterious bank. Two weeks later, all but $499,759 had vanished...

She's set to arrive back on Earth on Feb. 6, after almost a full year of working at the International Space Station. In December, Koch set the record for longest spaceflight by a woman, after completing her 289th day on the ISS. She stayed on the spacecraft for 328 days, just short of Scott Kelly's 340-day record.

The bad news is that Twitter has disclosed a failure to protect users' phone numbers, again. The good news is that Twitter users can take steps to protect themselves.

It also includes a detector that spots deepfakes of the type created using StyleGAN, an algorithm that can generate realistic imaginary faces. These detection techniques feed into a master model that tells users how likely it is that an image has been manipulated...

The figures do not include YouTube’s non-advertising revenue, like subscriptions for YouTube TV, which are included in Google’s other revenue segment.

“America is thriving, America is flourishing, and yes, America is winning again like never before.”
President Donald J. Trump

The only party defection was on the abuse of power charge from Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah... Romney voted not guilty on the obstruction charge. By a final vote of 52-48 against conviction on the abuse of power charge and 53-47 on the obstruction charge, the Senate fell far short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict and remove the president. Swing-vote Republican senators -- including Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee -- voted to acquit.

Research Cofer Black. #recallromney #WWG1GWA pic.twitter.com/x4SmE17PUA

— Centipede Nation (@CentipedeNati0n) February 5, 2020