Backed by federal judges and the FEC, Google continues to block GOP emails

Backed by federal judges and the FEC, Google continues to block GOP emails

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, August 14, 2025 Real World News Google is continuing its practice of flagging fundraising emails for Republicans as “dangerous” spam while leaving solicitations for Democrats untouched, a GOP consulting firm said. If true, is this legal for a massive company that is also a federal contractor? Google LLC has been hit […]

‘Chat Control’: EU member states want to scan all private messages

‘Chat Control’: EU member states want to scan all private messages

by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2025 Real World News A majority of European Union (EU) member states are pushing a proposal dubbed “Chat Control.” Thus far, 19 out of the 27 EU member states support a proposal which would mandate that messaging platforms, including WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram, must scan every message, photo, and video […]

Microsoft boom: ‘Cloud and AI is the driving force of business transformation’

Microsoft boom: ‘Cloud and AI is the driving force of business transformation’

by WorldTribune Staff, August 3, 2025 Real World News With huge growth in its cloud-computing services and increasing demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings, Microsoft has become the second $4 trillion company. Just weeks after Nvidia became the first $4 trillion company, Microsoft crossed the milestone on Thursday morning. “Throughout its five-decade history, Microsoft […]

Wyoming AI data center will use more electricity than all of state’s residents combined

Wyoming AI data center will use more electricity than all of state’s residents combined

by WorldTribune Staff, July 30, 2025 Real World News The city of Cheyenne will be the site of an AI data center that will consume more than five times the electricity of all Wyoming households combined. Cheyenne Mayor Patrick Collins announced plans for the AI data center on Monday, saying it is a joint venture […]

CEO Tim Cook, Tsinghua University and Apple’s ‘symbiotic’ bond with China

CEO Tim Cook, Tsinghua University and Apple’s ‘symbiotic’ bond with China

FPI / November 1, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Tech behemoth Apple is known for altering its policies to avoid running afoul of censors in communist China. What are the implications? Apple has censored products and apps in Hong Kong and Taiwan that were opposed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Some of Apple’s iCloud data is parked […]

Time to freak out over AI’s growing power?

Time to freak out over AI’s growing power?

by WorldTribune Staff, October 6, 2023 On March 22 of this year, an open letter signed by more than 33,000 individuals, including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, called for a six-month moratorium on the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) experiments. “We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 […]

Remember the Wild West days of the Internet? Big Tech pushed convenience, ended freedom

Remember the Wild West days of the Internet? Big Tech pushed convenience, ended freedom

by WorldTribune Staff, April 14, 2023 Freedom and freewheeling search and retrieval of information was fundamental to the Internet revolution in the 1990s which featured the rise of DrudgeReport.com and the birth of WorldTribune.com. But as the millions of netizens of the 1990s exploded to billions by the 2010s, Big Tech titans run and staffed […]

Princeton senior’s app is fighting back against ChatGPT

Princeton senior’s app is fighting back against ChatGPT

by WorldTribune Staff, February 15, 2023 Edward Tian, a 22-year-old senior at Princeton University, has been working feverishly on a new app to combat what he and many others see as the abuse and misuse of ChatGPT. By its own description, ChatGPT is “an AI-powered chatbot developed by OpenAI, based on the GPT (Generative Pretrained […]

DOJ sues Google, seeks to break up digital advertising monopoly

DOJ sues Google, seeks to break up digital advertising monopoly

by WorldTribune Staff, January 24, 2023 The Department of Justice on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging that it abuses monopoly power in the ad-tech industry. The DOJ “is seeking the breakup of Google’s business brokering digital advertising across much of the Internet,” the Wall Street Journal reported on the suit filed in federal […]

Apple shut down communication tool in China days before protests

Apple shut down communication tool in China days before protests

by WorldTribune Staff, November 30, 2022 Apple has helped communist China suppress public dissent multiple times. Usually, it is Apple complying with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) requests to remove apps used by protesters for information and communication. Apple also has assisted the CCP in preventing users from remaining private by banning VPNs in the region. […]