A University of Houston faculty member and graduate student has been suspended after being confronted on campus by a child predator fighting group. UH confirmed the suspension Thursday afternoon after Eyewitness News inquired about a Kick livestream showing him confessing to buying child porn and messaging minors in a conversation with Alex Rosen of the group Poaching Predators. Eyewitness News isn't naming the faculty member since he hasn't been criminally charged. read more
The auto industry has a new solution to Americans' fear that electric vehicles will run out of juice: a gasoline engine. read more
In an affront to creeps everywhere, Meta has started remotely bricking the smart glasses of wearers who try to secretly record other people. Earlier this month, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company said it would crack down on customers who modified the spectacles to disable or cover up their lights that indicate when they're recording, amid incredible public backlash against how the glasses are being used to film people without their consent " girls and women especially " and harass them. read more
Yemen's Houthis targeted Aramco facilities in the Saudi Arabian cities of Abha, Najran and Jizan, as well as an airbase in Khamis Mushait, with ballistic missiles and drones. The Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia came after they accused Riyadh of an attack on a prison that killed 17 people, according to the Houthi Ministry of Health. The revived war between the Houthi rebels and pro-government forces in southwest Yemen has forced nearly 20,000 people to flee their homes, the International Organization for Migration says. read more
In January, the New York Police Department's counterterrorism unit sent out a memo warning police officers about a new potential "security and counterintelligence" threat: Ray-Ban Meta glasses. read more
You could even say the Saudis are having a real come to jesus moment on having more and more workarounds to build.