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Effective altruism, a charitable movement that has become highly influential in Silicon Valley, suffered a huge blow to its reputation in 2022 — when its most famous proponent, Sam Bankman-Fried, was exposed for fraud and his FTX crypto exchange collapsed.But while it moved out o ...  Show more

Effective altruism, a charitable movement that has become highly influential in Silicon Valley, suffered a huge blow to its reputation in 2022 — when its most famous proponent, Sam Bankman-Fried, was exposed for fraud and his FTX crypto exchange collapsed.But while it moved out o ...  Show more

The tech world had one of its biggest scandals ever this week when Jensen Huang, the CEO of the world’s most valuable chipmaker Nvidia, apologized for having an extra-marital affair with a woman believed by the U.S. to be a Chinese spy.This story is about so much more than an all ...  Show more

On Monday afternoon, Republican congressman Thomas Massie took to the house floor to introduce eight articles of impeachment against the U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of a series of abuses of power and violations of the law related to the American war in Iran, ...  Show more

Last week, more than 100 people rioted outside a compound near Kyiv that was being used by Ukraine’s National Guard, alleging the military was abusing new recruits inside. Videos of the incident have gone viral, with unverified allegations of a “neo-Nazi torture chamber” spreadin ...  Show more