Technology

A woman holds up a sign while taking part in a demonstration about the use of robots by the San Francisco Police Department outside of City Hall in San Francisco on Monday.

National

San Francisco supervisors bar police robots from using deadly force for now

7:04pm December 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

San Francisco had been considering a policy to allow police robots to use deadly force in certain extreme cases. The Board of Supervisors sent the issue back to a committee for further discussion.

A congressional report found financial technology companies, or fintechs, largely fueled PPP loan fraud. Bluevine, a fintech noted in the report, told NPR it adapted to threats of fraud better than other companies mentioned.

A congressional report says financial technology companies fueled rampant PPP fraud

11:53am December 06, 2022

Fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program, which gave potentially forgivable loans to small businesses during the pandemic, was largely due to financial technology companies, according to a new report.

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A Dec. 07, 2019, aerial view of the coastline of Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu.

World News

The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has been knocked offline for more than a month

10:11am December 06, 2022

by Jenna McLaughlin

The prime minister says about 70 percent of services have been restored, but officials have not commented on a cause or whether ransom was paid. Nor did they respond to NPR's requests for comment.

In rural Alaska, federal money aims to transform internet access

8:05am December 06, 2022

by Nina Kravinsky

In some remote parts of the state, Internet is almost twice as expensive and nearly 200 times slower than in cities. New projects headed to predominantly Alaska Native communities aim to fix that.

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The former Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter on working for CEO Elon Musk

4:22pm December 02, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Yoel Roth, former Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter, about his experience working for CEO Elon Musk.

National

FTX collapse offers lessons about the cyber risks of cryptocurrency investing

6:57am December 02, 2022

The scandal involving the "King of Crypto" and the crash of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX continues to unfold. Former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is under investigation for financial crimes.

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The unfortunate Jacob Lee, The Callisto Protocol protagonist beset by the game's countless horrors.

Arts

'The Callisto Protocol' Review: Guts, Death, and Robots

12:00am December 02, 2022

Despite retreading familiar game mechanics in the survival horror genre, The Callisto Protocol offers a meaningful update to what made Dead Space such a revered classic.

Arts

Ye won't buy Parler, the right-wing social network, after all

5:54pm December 01, 2022

by Mary Yang

Conservative social media platform Parler said it has mutually agreed with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, to call off the deal.

National

ICE inadvertently discloses personal data online of 6,252 immigrants

5:02am December 01, 2022

NPR's A Martinez talks to Hamed Aleaziz of the Los Angeles Times about the information of more than 6,000 people in ICE custody that was mistakenly revealed to the public.

An attendee makes a video as FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried speaks during the New York Times DealBook Summit in the Appel Room at the Jazz At Lincoln Center on November 30, 2022 in New York City.

National

Sam Bankman-Fried strikes apologetic pose as he describes being shocked by FTX's fall

7:42pm November 30, 2022

During an hour-long interview at the New York Times Dealbook Summit Bankman-Fried frequently portrayed himself as in the dark about the condition of the multi-billion dollar exchange he founded