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Musk Turned Off Starlink In Crimea Before Ukraine Attack On Russia: Report

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Musk Turned Off Starlink In Crimea Before Ukraine Attack On Russia: Report News sites like the Washington Post and CNN reported last week on excerpts from a new Elon Musk biography that alleged Musk intentionally disabled Starlink satellites over the Crimean coast to scuttle a Ukrainian submarine drone attack on a fleet of Russian ships. Now, just a day before Walter Issaacson’s biography is… Read more…

Jalopnik 174 2023-09-30

Musk Deactivated Starlink To Scuttle Ukrainian Attack On Russia

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Musk Deactivated Starlink To Scuttle Ukrainian Attack On Russia Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, an upcoming biography about one of the most controversial figures of our time, has taken over the headlines ahead of its official release on Tuesday, and CNN has gained access to an exclusive excerpt: Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off Starlink’s satellite communications… Read more…

Jalopnik 197 2023-09-24

Elon Musk Doesn’t Understand CEO Pay

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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…

Jalopnik 122 2023-09-18

Elon Musk Plans to Remove Option to Block People on Twitter

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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…

Mac Rumors 176 2023-08-19

Musk Doesn’t Want To Talk About Cybertruck Dates

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Musk Doesn’t Want To Talk About Cybertruck Dates Tesla is betting a lot on the Cybertruck bringing fresh interest in the brand, which hasn’t released a new vehicle since 2017. However, as yet another self-imposed deadline for the Cybertruck’s start of serious production and customer deliveries draws nearer, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is not exactly forthcoming with… Read more…

Jalopnik 166 2023-08-10

Can Elon Musk really use that X logo for Twitter?

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Can Elon Musk really use that X logo for Twitter? Illustration: The VergeNow that Elon Musk has officially replaced Twitter’s logo with an X, many of us are wondering: can he actually use it? The drastic rebranding doesn’t come as much of a surprise to Musk-watchers. Musk has long touted his idea of X as an “everything” app that offers audio, video, messaging, and support for digital payments. …

The Verge 221 2023-07-27

Elon Musk Still Thinks Self-Driving Can Save Tesla

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Elon Musk Still Thinks Self-Driving Can Save Tesla Elon Musk is still pretty sure he can sacrifice Tesla’s margins now for better ones at some nebulous later date when full self-driving is – in theory – fully integrated into the automaker’s vehicles. Reuters reports that the plan could end up doing two things: intensifying the electric-vehicle price war and irking… Read more…

Jalopnik 210 2023-07-21

Twitter alternatives for the Musk-averse

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Twitter alternatives for the Musk-averse Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeTwitter users (and ex-users) are still watching to see what the next chapter will be in the soap opera called “What Elon Musk will do with Twitter next.” (While this was being written, the latest drama was the institution of paywalls and the blocking of unregistered users. And that’s only the latest.) If y…

The Verge 236 2023-07-07

Musk’s Twitter is getting worse

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Musk’s Twitter is getting worse Twitter’s quality has suffered at the hands of Musk’s leadership. | Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesLinks aren’t working on Twitter due to an “internal change” that had “some unintended consequences.” If you were accustomed to a time when Twitter — while far from perfect — was a place where you could dependably digest a wide range of bre…

Voc Recode 132 2023-07-04