A New Crypto Scam Shows Perils of Elon Musk’s Twitter

Elon Musk Refused to Let Ukraine Use Starlink for Drone Attack on Russian Fleet News that Mr. Musk did not allow the use of his Starlink satellite network highlights concerns in Kyiv and Washington about his outsize influence in the war.

Elon Musk Acknowledges Withholding Starlink Service to Thwart Ukrainian Attack The Starlink satellite internet service, which is operated by Mr. Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, has been a digital lifeline for soldiers and civilians in Ukraine.

Elon Musk’s involvement in the war in Ukraine is confounding, even to him The man who’s ruled by Twitter. | Illustration by Laura Normand / The VergeApparently, the US Department of Defense had a $145 million check “ready to hand to me, literally,” SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell told Walter Isaacson, according to CNN. “Then Elon succumbed to the bullshit on Twitter.” Elon Musk had been supplying internet connectivit…

Elon Musk’s threat to sue an antisemitism watchdog extends social media skirmish (RNS) — Over the last several days, the owner of X, formerly Twitter, has posted at least 25 times about the Anti-Defamation League. The post Elon Musk’s threat to sue an antisemitism watchdog extends social media skirmish appeared first on Religion News Service.

Keep Track Of Elon Musk’s Broken Promises And Bad Predictions With This Handy Website Ah Elon Musk. We’ve been calling bullshit on quite a few of his grandiose claims for some time now, but not to the granular degree of the website Elon Musk Today. Read more…

Elon Musk Doesn’t Understand CEO Pay Elon Musk loves nothing more than hopping on the social network he’s working to destroy and posting weird, uninformed nonsense — the vaguer the better, lest he let slip too much and reveal that the emperor is in fact not only naked, but dumb as rocks. It’s a delicate tightrope performance, one that Musk is deeply bad… Read more…

Elon Musk paid for our attention, but the price to keep it is getting higher Say what? | Illustration: Laura Normand / The VergeI see Elon Musk has pivoted from pretending he’s going to physically fight Mark Zuckerberg to pretending he is going to sue the Anti-Defamation League. Okay. There are people who still take Musk seriously, and I wish them well on their journey. This blog is for the rest of us. Obviously, there’s…

What Is Burning Man, and Why Have Paris Hilton and Elon Musk Shown Up? The annual festival started as an impromptu bonfire, but now attracts tens of thousands of revelers a year. How did it get here?

Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Launch Satellites for Apple’s Emergency SOS Feature on iPhones Apple satellite partner Globalstar is paying Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch new satellites that will be used to update the communication network for the Emergency SOS via Satellite iPhone feature, reports Nola. Globalstar will pay SpaceX $64 million according to the details of the arrangement, which were disclosed in an SEC filing. Payments will …

Tesla reportedly facing DOJ, SEC probes over plans to build Elon Musk a large glass house Tesla is reportedly facing two new federal probes over possible misuse of company resources by or for the personal benefit of CEO Elon Musk.

Elon Musk’s X Has Licenses in Multiple U.S. States to Process Payments, Including Crypto Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly Twitter, has obtained money or currency transmitter licenses in seven U.S. states.

Police won’t fine Elon Musk for illegally livestreaming while driving Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty ImagesWhen Elon Musk livestreamed a drive through Palo Alto, California on Friday afternoon, he was holding his phone — which is plainly and clearly illegal under California law. But the Palo Alto Police Department won’t be issuing a fine, it tells The Verge, because police didn’t witness the crime themselves. …

Elon Musk’s FSD v12 demo includes a near miss at a red light and doxxing Mark Zuckerberg Illustration by Laura Normand / The VergeElon Musk’s Tesla almost ran a red light while livestreaming a demo of Tesla’s 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. Oh, and he kind of doxxes Mark Zuckerberg, too. The rou…

Elon Musk Confirms Removal Of Context For Links In X Posts via @sejournal, @kristileilani Elon Musk plans a major shift in how links are displayed in X posts by removing headlines and descriptions. How will this affect content marketers? The post Elon Musk Confirms Removal Of Context For Links In X Posts appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Elon Musk says (yet again) that X will stop letting you block users Image: The VergeElon Musk says X’s — formerly Twitter’s — block feature is on the chopping block, repeating his long-standing gripe against the basic social networking feature. “Block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs,” Musk said in an X reply on Friday. He followed up with another post: “It makes no sense.” Musk has made his…

Elon Musk Plans to Remove Option to Block People on Twitter Twitter or “X” owner Elon Musk today said that the option to block people on Twitter is going to be “deleted as a feature” in the future, as it “makes no sense.” Musk made the comment in response to a tweet asking whether there was a reason to block someone instead of muting someone on the social network. Mute and block are two fundamentally di…

Elon Musk is killing ‘Environmental Twitter’ Climate activists of Extinction Rebellion wearing masks of company CEOs including X’s Elon Musk take part in a demonstration in Berlin, Germany, on April 13th, 2023 | Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP via Getty ImagesAlmost half of “Environmental Twitter” has vanished from the platform now called X, new research shows. A wave of “environmentally or…

Elon Musk keeps getting creepier Elon Musk. | Illustration by Lille Allen / The VergeThis is Platformer, a newsletter on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy from Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer. Sign up here. I. Today let’s talk — for the last time, I hope — about the derailed martial arts bout between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, and the latter’s reckless threats…

The Elon Musk versus Mark Zuckerberg beef has reached a new level of absurdity Image: The VergeNow that the proposed cage match between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk isn’t going to happen, Musk is saying he will show up unannounced at Zuckerberg’s home to fight. “For the Tesla FSD test drive in Palo Alto tonight, I will ask the car to drive to @finkd’s house,” Musk posted today on X, or the service formerly called Twitter…