Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X encountered a significant hurdle this week when the social network's attempt to automatically replace "twitter.com" links with "x.com" backfired. Security expert Brian Krebs called the system "a gift to phishers," allowing hackers to make links to malicious sites look safe.
Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was ‘death by bureaucracy’Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Musk’s favorite philosophers. The Future of Humanity Institute, dedicated to the long-termism movement and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism, closed this week after 19 years of operation. Musk had donated £1m to the FIH in 2015 through a sister organization to...
When Elon Musk bought Twitter, he found millions of documents that showed collusion between the White House and Twitter employees to censor Americans. These became known as the Twitter files. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was one American specifically targeted in those documents. “The government put pressure on a corporation to silence you. That is, by most legal standards, that would be a violation of the First Amendment,” Dave Rubin says. Rather than ignoring them, Musk then invited...
X's new Grok-1.5V can now understand user-uploaded visual information.
The update is projected to reduce the time it takes for notes to become visible by approximately 30 minutes.
The Tesla billionaire uses posts on his social media platform to attack Anthony Albanese and the eSafety commissionerFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastElon Musk has hit back at the Australian internet watchdog’s attempts to force his social media platform X into blocking users from seeing violent footage relating to the Sydney church stabbing.On Monday evening the Australian federal court ordered Elon...
The US has offered support for reforms to United Nations institutions, including the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), US State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel said in a press briefing on Wednesday.
Delaware court in nullified compensation deal based on carmaker’s market value in January, calling it ‘unfathomable sum’Tesla on Wednesday asked its shareholders to once again approve CEO Elon Musk‘s record-breaking $56bn pay that was set in 2018. A Delaware judge rejected the pay package in January, calling it excessive and saying the company’s board failed to justify it.The compensation includes no salary or cash bonus, but sets rewards based on Tesla’s market value rising to as much as $650bn...
Making users pay is only way to stop bots taking over platform
A big part of what has led to social media platform Twitter/X’s current popularity is the lack of fees for signing up. The “public square” role the platform has often claimed only works if the public can actually access it. But that’s been significantly changed since Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of the platform for $44
The proposals come amid a difficult stretch for Tesla, whose shares have fallen 37% so far in 2024.
Want to join X (formerly Twitter) or create a new account? Well, it’s going to cost you. Elon Musk revealed Monday that new users on the site will have to begin paying a “small fee” annually in hopes of limiting bots on the site. Unfortunately, a small fee for new user write access is the […]