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Advertisers are leaving as Musk tries to calm concerns over antisemitism
A report by US-based advocacy group Media Matters found major firms advertising alongside antisemitic posts on Twitter. The group claimed that Twitter CEO Elon Musk has opened the door to hate by reversing bans on anti-Muslim bigot, white nationalists and antisemites. Musk had earlier threatened to file a meritless lawsuit against Media Matters over its…
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One year later, Mr. Musk publishes his first public statement about it
Twitter’s US advertising revenue was “still down 60%” in September in comparison to the year-ago period, CEO Elon Musk said. According to reports, Visa had spent just $10 on Twitter in the weeks preceding James Yaccarino’s comments, down from $77,500 in the weeks before Musk bought the company. It’s also reported that Twitter’s revenue has…
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Musk’s X is going to charge users in the Philippines and New Zealand $1
Twitter-owner Elon Musk’s social media platform X has announced that it will charge new users in the Philippines and New Zealand an annual fee of $1 to use the platform. The move is aimed at “combating vast armies of bots” and aims to discourage the creation of new fake accounts, Musk said. He added it…
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X is being accused of playing host to Israel-Hamas misinformation
The EU has written to Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Shou Zi Chew over the “deep fakes and manipulated content” that circulated on their platforms during the Israeli-Hamas conflict. The EU said it was made aware of reports of deep fakes and manipulated content which circulated on your platforms and “a few still appear online”.…
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The EU accuses X of being host to Israel-Hamas misinformation
European Union’s lawmaker Thierry Breton has written to X CEO Elon Musk and Meta asking them to clarify their compliance with the European Parliament’s new online privacy rules, The New York Times said. Breton has asked Musk to give more details publicly by Monday, the report added. Breton had earlier said that non-compliance with the…
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Video clips and old videos are flooding the internet about Israel
Elon Musk-owned X has suspended several accounts, including Jerusalem Post, for spreading false information ahead of it being suspended by the company. The accounts had blue checkmark on their posts to attract users to pay $8 monthly for a premium subscription to the newspaper. The accounts have been banned for sharing false information about the…
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There were gruesome deaths of Neuralink monkeys
An experiment conducted by Elon Musk’s Neuralink showed a monkey had to be euthanized after a piece of the brain implant broke off during the surgery, Wired reported. During the trial, a robot will surgically place the implant inside a part of the brain that controls movement intention. The implant is designed to record and…
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The first human trial of Neuralink’s brain-computer interface is currently recruiting subjects
Elon Musk-owned startup Neuralink has said it will be conducting its first-ever in-human trial for its brain-computer interface (BCI) implant. The implant is a part of the brain that records neural activity using 1,024 electrodes distributed across 64 threads, each thinner than a human hair. It will be implanted into a part of the brain…
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Tech leaders are in the Senate to discuss the regulation of artificial intelligence
AI Insight Forum held by the US Senate’s Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was attended by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, X’s Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Nvidia President Jensen Huang. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Artificial Intelligence before the forum. Schumer said the government needs a federal…
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It was said that hands-free autopilot mode could lead to driver inattention
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Tesla almost ran a red light during a demonstration of Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta software. Musk was also livestreaming the demo while in the driver’s seat, violating Tesla’s rules for its advanced driver-assist technology. The roughly 45-minute video was meant to demonstrate the prowess of FSD v12 of Tesla’s advanced driver-assist…
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The demo of the FSD v12 includes a near miss at a red light
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday posted a video of himself driving Tesla’s self-driving car through a road in California. Musk said that he was able to stop the system from running a red light as he turned the camera on himself near the 30-minute mark. “There are practical reasons why the department…
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The Justice Department is accusing the company of not hiring asylees and refugees
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has sued SpaceX over allegations that it discriminated against asylees and refugees in hiring. From at least September 2018-May 2022, the DOJ claimed that SpaceX discouraged refugees and asylees from applying to the company “by wrongly stating… SpaceX can only hire US citizens and lawful permanent residents.” SpaceX, founded…
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X is the spot for Trump’s social media return
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has announced that he will be returning to the microblogging platform Twitter. In a statement, Trump said, “In the past, I resisted the urge to join Twitter…I look forward to continuing with Twitter in my role as US President.” Trump had left Twitter in August 2017 and was later…
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Thousands of scientists are cutting back on their social media use
Scientists and scientists are worried about the disappearance of social media in the last six months, a coastal engineer in Amsterdam Nature obtained the e-mail addresses of thousands of scientists who were identified as having tweeted about papers on which they were a corresponding author. Many of those who stopped or reduced their activity on…
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Musk continues to get creepsier
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that he won’t fight Elon Musk in a martial arts match and will instead take part in a “humanitarian fight” for charity. “I think we all agree Elon isn’t serious and it’s time to move on,” he added. Earlier, Musk had threatened to come to Zuckerberg’s house after the…
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This is the period of horror on the internet
Twitter’s South Korean-American account (@X) has been shut after CEO Elon Musk renamed the microblogging site to ‘X’. Users are being directed to a page on the Twitter app that reads, “No longer active.” “Elon had been kind of tweeting about X previously,” a user said, adding, “This is the first time I have lost…
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GM’s electric vehicles will be able to access the charging network ofTesla
The US Department of Energy (DOE) said that the North American Charging Standard (NACS) has been approved for widespread adoption by automakers, including Ford, Tesla and General Motors. The NACS will support over 53,000 Level 2 stations across North America. Elon Musk, in a letter to DOE’s Acting Assistant Secretary for Electric Vehicle Technology, called…
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Bluesky made a point of denying that he had said that on the social network itch
Elon Musk-backed social media network Bluesky is facing a backlash after a meme showing a character trying to discourage its users from lifting their shirts went viral. The meme shows the character trying to discourage Bluesky users from lifting their shirts. “It’s sad to see a meme like that,” a user tweeted. The meme has…
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The Chevy Bolt EV and EUV production will end at the end of the year
Elon Musk’s Tesla has announced that it will be shutting down all of its electric vehicles (EVs) later this year. The company announced the closure in January and said that it’ll be ending all models that were sold in the US by 2023. The Tesla Model 3 is currently the world’s most expensive all-electric car…
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The first Orbital Test Flight had a malfunction
Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Wednesday successfully launched its Starship rocket in its first-ever test flight. The rocket and vehicle were to splashdown off the coast of Texas on the day after launch and 90 minutes later off the coast of Hawaii. “Starship gave us a rather spectacular end to what was a truly incredible test,”…
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The mammoth rocket ‘Starship’ is ready to launch
Elon Musk-led SpaceX on Wednesday successfully launched its Starship rocket, which is expected to be launched in 2020 with its first mission to the moon and back. The rocket has 33 engines and six Raptor engines. It will carry a satellite to the Moon and back, which will be connected to the internet via NASA’s…
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It is the most powerful rocket ever built, and will be the first flight of it
Elon Musk-led SpaceX is planning to test its Starship rocket’s reusable design with an uncrewed test flight in Texas in the second half of 2021. The test flight will take place in response to a request from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for uncrewed flight test. NASA is involved in the flight but isn’t…
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The mammoth rocket ‘Starship’ will be launched by the company
Elon Musk-led SpaceX is preparing to test a stainless-steel rocket called ‘Starship’ that will carry its internet satellites to space. Starship could be used to launch large numbers of the company’s internet-providing satellites. NASA has contracted SpaceX to use Starship for the space agency’s Artemis III Moon landing later this decade, but Starship’s contract with…
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NPR quit the social networking site after they were labeled as’state-affiliated media’
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has said, “I know the BBC was not thrilled about being labelled’state-affiliated media’.” He added that “publicly funded” phrase would applied to NPR as well. This comes after NPR suspended use of Twitter after it clashed with Musk over a new label applied to its accounts. NPR said it’s protecting its…
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Since taking over, Musk says he’s cut 80% of staff
During an interview with BBC, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said it was “not fun at all” to fire people. He added that not everyone had been told in person: “It’s not possible to talk with that many people face to face.” He further said that the company needs to take drastic action to avoid going…