KOTA and Dakota News Now reporter Austin Goss was arrested and charged with making “threatening, harassing or misleading” contacts. He appeared in court Thursday.
According to court documents, an individual identified as D.L. told authorities he received a call from a number that appeared to be Iowa Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R) personal cell phone.
In January, Noem said that her phone had been hacked and was being used to make prank calls. She also urged U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and multiple congressional committees to investigate leaks of information relating to her family.
The investigation into Goss found that he had multiple personal and professional communications with the governor and that “it would stand to reason that Austin may have come in possession of Governor Noem’s personal phone number during one of these contacts.”
Rep. Joseph Morelle (D-N.Y.) has unveiled a bill to make the sharing of deepfake pornography without consent illegal, a response to the accelerated advancement of artificial intelligence and digitally manipulated content. Morelle’s office said in a release Friday that technological progress has allowed for rapid growth of deepfakes, with a 2019 report finding 96 percent of deepfake videos online were pornographic and exclusively …
LAND O’ LAKES, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida woman received a settlement check after contacting WFLA in Tampa’s Consumer Investigator Shannon Behnken with her story: her car was hit by an Amazon delivery driver and declared totaled. Sara Dooley’s troubles started in February when the Amazon driver hit the gas to leave her Land O’Lakes driveway, was going the wrong way and slammed into her car. Even though …
(KTLA) – The Daytime Emmy award-winning series “Red Table Talk,” hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith, daughter Willow Smith and mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris, has been canceled, according to Variety. Meta is shutting down its Facebook Watch original programs, and “Red Table Talk” was the last remaining show to be canceled. …
News we’ve flagged from the intersection of tech and other topics:
DeSantis campaign plagued by conspiracies
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is facing attacks linked to online conspiracy theories from far-right circles as he explores a presidential campaign bid, The New York Times reported.
Apple CEO urges being ‘thoughtful’ with AI
Apple CEO Tim Cook said it is important to be “thoughtful” with artificial intelligence (AI) tools, as rival companies race ahead, Mashable reported.
In Other News
Branch out with other reads on The Hill:
Listen both ways: Blind walkers winning safer road crossings
CHICAGO (AP) — After a retinal disease left him legally blind, architect John Gleichman was struck by a taxicab while walking home near Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo — at the same intersection where a 4-year-old girl was killed by a hit-and-run driver years earlier. Although Maya Hirsch’s …
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The former chief security officer for Uber was sentenced to probation Thursday for trying to cover up a 2016 data breach in which hackers accessed tens of millions of customer records from the ride-hailing service. Joseph Sullivan was sentenced to a three-year term of probation …
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson texted anchor Bret Baier in November 2020, voicing concerns that former President Trump would “blame” the network … Read more
The Florida legislature approved a bill Thursday allowing a tourism board appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to oversee Disney World and cancel any … Read more
