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Leftist rocker Neil Young says he will “soon” remove his music from Amazon and is calling for a boycott because, he says, the online retail giant supports Donald Trump’s government. The aged and rabidly anti-Trump 1960s rocker told fans to boycott Whole Foods, Facebook, and Amazon and say he is pulling his products from Amazon. “FORGET AMAZON AND WHOLE FOODS. FORGET FACEBOOK,” Young’s spittle-specked message reads on his website. “BUY LOCAL. BUY DIRECT. BEZOS SUPPORTS THIS GOVERNMENT. IT DOES NOT SUPPORT YOU OR ME.” “Go to the local store,” his message continues. “Don’t go back to the big corporations who…
Hours after Wall Street crash wiped out over $1.5 trillion from the market, the global cryptocurrency market went into freefall late Friday. The drop followed US President Donald Trump’s announcement to impose a 100% tariff on all imports from China. Trump’s tweet, posted hours earlier, sparked fears of a new trade war between the countries, which had previously disrupted the market as well. The move led to one of the largest market crashes in crypto history, wiping out billions in leveraged positions and forcing traders to rush to limit their losses. Global Crypto market plunges: $19 billion wiped out According…
Hours after Wall Street crash wiped out over $1.5 trillion from the market, the global cryptocurrency market went into freefall late Friday. The drop followed US President Donald Trump’s announcement to impose a 100% tariff on all imports from China. Trump’s tweet, posted hours earlier, sparked fears of a new trade war between the countries, which had previously disrupted the market as well. The move led to one of the largest market crashes in crypto history, wiping out billions in leveraged positions and forcing traders to rush to limit their losses. Global Crypto market plunges: $19 billion wiped out According…
The controversial preservation order requiring OpenAI to indefinitely keep records of its ChatGPT data has been terminated. Federal judge Ona T. Wang filed a new order on October 9 that frees OpenAI of an obligation to “preserve and segregate all output log data that would otherwise be deleted on a going forward basis.”The case kicked off in late 2023, with the New York Times suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, alleging that the AI giant trained its models with the news outlet’s intellectual property without proper compensation. In May of this year, OpenAI was ordered to retain all of its chat…
Bitcoin began October on a strong bullish note, gaining by over 12% to establish a new all-time-high price around $126,100. However, the recent days have presented a troubling amount of selling pressure, especially in the last few hours due to tariff threats from the United States’ President Donald Trump. Amidst this highly volatile environment, on-chain data has also surfaced, highlighting market whales’ confidence in the market. Related Reading Bitcoin Whales Are Holding Their Ground In a QuickTake post on the CryptoQuant platform, a market analyst with the username PelinayPA revealed that there is very little exchange activity among the Bitcoin…
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) is demanding that OpenAI must immediately ban the use of copyrighted material to program its new video-generating tool, Sora 2. Once Sora 2 was released last week, many users quickly used films and TV shows as base material to test Sora 2’s abilities and videos quickly flooded the Internet using those copyrighted materials. MPA, though, insists that such use is clearly a violation of copyright laws and that OpenAI is obligated to prevent its customers from reusing TV and films in their personal AI productions, The Wrap reported. “Since Sora 2’s release, videos that infringe…
After remaking every Game Boy model imaginable, Anbernic is ready to take on the next frontier of classic gaming handhelds: the Nintendo DS. In its usual drip-feed fashion, the handheld maker released a teaser video revealing the Anbernic RG DS. The company didn’t offer many details for its Nintendo DS clone, but announced that it would cost less than $100.That price tag isn’t surprising for anyone who’s been following Anbernic’s recipe of recreating iconic handhelds at an affordable price point. However, it’s still an attractive price point that’s even cheaper than the Nintendo DS’ original MSRP of $149.99. Beyond price,…
A popular Korean TikTok influencer has been murdered, and the alleged killer is one of her most dedicated supporters, a man in his 50’s who had donated more than $70,000 to the social media starlet. The Chosun Daily reports that tragedy struck the Korean streaming community when the body of Yoon Ji-ah, a beloved TikTok star with over 300,000 followers, was discovered on a remote mountainside in September. The 20-something influencer had been strangled to death, her body left bruised and battered. Investigators quickly zeroed in on a suspect — a man in his 50s known only as “Choi” who…
One of the most affordable EVs in America, the Chevrolet Bolt, has made its long-awaited comeback. After discontinuing the Bolt in 2023, the American automaker has refreshed the popular EV with a 2027 model that has some key upgrades. Chevy said the new Bolt will be available at dealerships in the first quarter of 2026, starting with a comfort trim that goes for at least $29,990. The updated Bolt will get even cheaper in the coming months when Chevy releases an LT base model that starts at $28,995.That price tag offers an upgraded EV with an estimated range of 255…
Semilore Faleti is a cryptocurrency writer specialized in the field of journalism and content creation. While he started out writing on several subjects, Semilore soon found a knack for cracking down on the complexities and intricacies in the intriguing world of blockchains and cryptocurrency. Semilore is drawn to the efficiency of digital assets in terms of storing, and transferring value. He is a staunch advocate for the adoption of cryptocurrency as he believes it can improve the digitalization and transparency of the existing financial systems. In two years of active crypto writing, Semilore has covered multiple aspects of the digital…