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Amazon bleeding billions of dollars from Alexa speakers: report

Amazon’s Echo smart speaker, which features the virtual personal assistant Alexa, has reportedly cost the company billions of dollars in losses despite strong sales and popularity around the world. CEO Andy Jassy, ​​who took over the helm of the Settle-based e-commerce giant in 2021 following the departure of billionaire founder Jeff Bezos, is looking to […]

Biden admin whistleblowers claim ‘billions of taxpayer dollars’ used by contractor to traffic children on border

The Biden administration’s Office of Refugee Resettlement failed to vet sponsors responsible for caring for unaccompanied children apprehended across the border, a whistleblower told senators on Tuesday, describing multiple cases of apparent human trafficking involving minors and their sponsors. “What I discovered was horrifying: children were being trafficked at the expense of billions of taxpayer […]

Scammers get away with billions from elderly Americans every year

The cheaters are winning. Sophisticated foreign criminals steal tens of billions of dollars from Americans every year, and this crime wave is predicted to get worse as the U.S. population ages and technology like AI makes it easier than ever to commit and get away with fraud. An “exponential” increase in Internet and telephone scams […]

Meta charged with violating Europe’s landmark tech competition law, faces billions in fines

Meta was accused on Monday of violating Europe’s sweeping technology competition law by forcing a restrictive “pay or consent” model on customers for advertising on Instagram and Facebook, intensifying a long-running dispute over user privacy. Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s company drew the ire of regulators last year when it launched a subscription service that gave users […]

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Biden Admin Official Hit With Ethics Complaint After Allegedly Funneling Billions To His Current Org

A government watchdog filed an ethics complaint Thursday against a former Biden administration official who sits on the board of an organization that received billions in taxpayer cash. Protect the Public’s Trust asked the U.S. Office of Government Ethics and the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) inspector general’s office to investigate long-time Democratic insider David Hayes […]