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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., once again urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Tesla, CEO Elon Musk and the company's board of directors over what she called, "possible misappropriation of Tesla resources and conflicts of interest arising from Mr. Musk's dual role at Tesla and X— renamed from Twitter."Warren, who sits on both the Senate's banking and the armed services committees, had sent a similar request to the SEC last July, and a letter to Tesla's board chair Robyn Denholm expressing…

The swing shift is about to start at a plant that is about to close. Late winter sunlight casts long shadows from workers crossing the parking lot, where stray cats skulk among the cars.Only two weeks left, and the routine is unchanged: clocking in at 5 p.m., heading to the locker room, trading street clothes for work wear. If anyone feels sadness or loss, no one shows it. They have a newspaper to put out.“We’re trying to do this with a little class and dignity,” said shift supervisor Kal Hamalainen.Sixteen months ago,…

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking carmakers and wireless service providers to give more information on car applications that have reportedly been used by domestic abusers to track victims. The FCC sent letters to nine different car companies and three voice service providers to ask for more details on the connected car tools and how they may be misused by domestic abusers. The agency cited a New York Times report from last month that detailed how abusers were using internet-connected apps in…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) pressed Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, on Thursday for information about its moderation of Palestinian content amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.  Dozens of human rights and civil society organizations have raised concerns about Meta’s “reported suppression, filtering, and mistranslation of Palestine-related content over the past two months,” Warren noted in a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “Amidst the horrific Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, a…

The US-based Semiconductor Industry Association trade group on Monday called on the Biden administration to "refrain from further restrictions" on chip sales to China as chief executives from the biggest U.S. semiconductor firms planned to visit Washington this week to press their views on China policy.The statement came as the Biden administration considers updating a sweeping set of rules imposed in October to hobble China's chip industry and a new executive order restricting some outbound investment. Reuters reported…

Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, Elon Musk attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre on June 16, 2023 in Paris, France. Chesnot | Getty ImagesTesla must send extensive new records to the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration as part of an Autopilot safety probe — or else face steep fines.If Tesla fails to supply the federal agency with information about its advanced driver assistance systems, which…

How did your journey into screenwriting begin?I had been writing school plays and plays in the colony where I lived and participating in fancy dress competitions since I was a kid. I was also making posters of Amitabh Bacchhan, Sanjay Dutt and Pooja Bhatt, who was a big star towards the end of my school days. While I was still in college, I wrote a couple of radio plays. Then, I wrote a couple of episodes of the show Khatta Meetha with Shafi Inamdar and Farida Jalal. I even acted in an episode. I was studying English…

State Attorney General Letitia James speaks during Martin Luther King Jr. Day at National Action Network House of Justice Headquarters.Lev Radin | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesNew York Attorney General Letitia James wants to hear from Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corporation about the company's reported use of facial recognition technology at its venues.MSG Entertainment has reportedly used the technology to identify and deny entry to multiple lawyers affiliated with law firms involved in ongoing litigation relating…

Shanghai's main road lies empty during the evening rush hour on Thurs. Dec. 22, 2022, amid a wave of Covid infections.Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesBEIJING — It's been about two weeks since mainland China abruptly ended most Covid controls, but the country still has a long way to go to return to a pre-pandemic normal.In major cities Shanghai and Shenzhen, Friday morning rush hour traffic was extremely light, according to Baidu data.Subway ridership in major cities as of Thursday remained well below…

WASHINGTON—U.S. officials are jetting around the globe in a quiet diplomatic push to get Russia’s major trading partners to enforce sanctions and trade controls, as exports to the country pick up after diving in the weeks following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.   But so-called sanctions leakage—in which weak enforcement enables banned finance and trade to flow—is undermining the campaign, aiding Russia’s economy and potentially prolonging the war, according to senior Western officials. “We want to avoid…