Emmet Lyons

1 week ago | cbsnews.com | Emmet Lyons

The messaging platform WhatsApp said Tuesday the company is "concerned" that the application will not be available to people in Iran after state television in the country urged users to delete the app. Iranian officials had warned people to stop using WhatsApp, Telegram and other "location-based applications," accusing them of being Israel's "main methods to identify and target individuals," according to a report from the country's state-run broadcaster IRIB earlier Tuesday.

3 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Emmet Lyons |Alain Sherter

Meta has removed a number of ads promoting "nudify" apps — AI tools used to create sexually explicit deepfakes using images of real people — after a CBS News investigation found hundreds of such advertisements on its platforms. "We have strict rules against non-consensual intimate imagery; we removed these ads, deleted the Pages responsible for running them and permanently blocked the URLs associated with these apps," a Meta spokesperson told CBS News in an emailed statement.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Emmet Lyons

14 hours agoInvestors sold off shares in Tesla on Thursday, as tensions erupted between boss Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump. Shares in the electric car company dropped 14%, wiping out roughly $150bn in market value in one of the worst days in months. The losses were an indication of what might be at …

4 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Emmet Lyons

MAGA influencers and far-right leaders gathered in Poland and Hungary this week as the Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, held two international events — a show of strength in the increasing trans-Atlantic alliance between the Trump White House and Europe's populist conservative movement.

4 weeks ago | aol.com | Holly Williams |Emmet Lyons |Steve Berriman

Townsville Field Training Area, Queensland, Australia — The U.S. is expanding its military presence in northern Australia as it looks to project power and provide a deterrence against the increasing threat of China in the Asia-Pacific. China's President Xi Jinping is thought to have ordered his armed forces to be ready to invade the island of Taiwan by 2027, if necessary, raising fears of a conflict that could draw in American forces.