Meta wants to spend more even after it lost $80 billion on the Metaverse and over 20 million users

Despite strong first-quarter results, Meta’s stock price plunged nearly 9% on Thursday, in part due to a 20 million drop in users and a surge in artificial intelligence spending, even as the company continues to pour billions into its Metaverse and virtual reality unit Reality Labs. The company reported first-quarter results Wednesday afternoon, with net…

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Female inmate sues Washington state after alleged attack by male-born prisoner in women’s facility

A female inmate in Washington state is suing corrections officials after she says she was brutally attacked by a male inmate housed in a women’s prison under the state’s gender identity housing policy. Faith Buch-Smith, who is incarcerated at the Women’s Correctional Center in Washington, claims in a federal lawsuit that she was “violently assaulted”…

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Black conservative unleashes on Obama for ‘constantly whining’ after SCOTUS voting rights decision

By Tarohon Wayne Shannon, Oklahoma’s first African-American House speaker, pushed back on President Barack Obama’s pessimistic outlook for minority voters in the wake of Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling that reshapes the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act. Obama argued that the court “abandoned” the principle of equal participation, while Shannon argued that the ruling further excluded…

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