A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk's X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social media platform. U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled on Thursday that X, formerly Twitter, failed to plausibly allege that Bright Data Ltd violated its user agreement by allowing the scraping and evading X's own anti-scraping technology. Alsup said using scraping...
by WorldTribune Staff, May 19, 2024 Contract With Our Readers In May 2021, Dr. Anthony Fauci was pressed on by Sen. Rand Paul on whether the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had funded dangerous gain-of-function research at the Chinese lab where Covid is believed to have originated. Fauci responded: “The NIH has not ever and […]
Elon Musk Says Starship Megarocket Launch In Weeks SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket, the world's largest and most powerful rocket, will probably have its fourth flight "in about two weeks," Elon Musk wrote on X. The objective is for Starship "to get through max reentry heating," Musk said, adding, "Worth noting that no one has ever succeeded in creating a fully reusable heat shield. Shuttle required >6 months of rework." Starship Flight 4 in about 2 weeks. Primary goal is getting...
SAN FRANCISCO >> A federal court ordered on Tuesday that Elon Musk must testify again in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter.
NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Indian American academic, Vivek Wadhwa on May 13 warned Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk against picking China as they would “rob him blind” and instead asked him to consider moving manufacturing to India. Wadhwa’s post comes after Musk, who was […]
While politicians argue over who to blame for a decline in Australia’s broadband uptake, customers are seeking more affordable ways to get onlineFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastTens of thousands of Australians are abandoning the national broadband network for 5G mobile and other ways of accessing the internet with experts saying three main factors are driving people away: price, speed and Elon...
Nintendo has apparently had enough of X’s (Twitter’s) API fees. The Mario maker said on Wednesday that starting on June 10, direct integration from the Switch’s image album to Elon Musk’s Nazi-curious platform will no longer work. With Nintendo’s departure, all three major console makers have pulled the plug on native screen-sharing to X. X’s official gaming account posted a bizarre, downright Orwellian response that ignores its central role in the Mario maker’s exit. “Our partnership with...
Clinical psychologist and podcast host Jordan B. Peterson and X owner Elon Musk were flabbergasted by Canada’s latest infringement on civil liberties, anti-hate speech bill C-63. On May 7, Musk and Peterson responded to Canada's proposed “hate” speech bill. The bill, called. “Online Harms Bill C-63,” would implement fines of up to $50,000 on individuals who post “content that foments hatred” or “that, given the context in which it is communicated, is likely to foment detestation or...
Clinical psychologist and podcast host Jordan B. Peterson and X owner Elon Musk were flabbergasted by Canada’s latest infringement on civil liberties, anti-hate speech bill C-63. On May 7, Musk and Peterson responded to Canada's proposed “hate” speech bill. The bill, called. “Online Harms Bill C-63,” would implement fines of up to $50,000 on individuals who post “content that foments hatred” or “that, given the context in which it is communicated, is likely to foment detestation or...
He took a speed test of the Starlink internet service with several health workers in Indonesia’s remote regions.
Rightwing media personalities on X transmuted a screed against NPR’s CEO into a fight over encryption via the Transitive Property of Bad PeopleFor nearly two weeks, an esoteric debate has raged on X, formerly Twitter: could users concerned about privacy and security trust the messaging app Signal, or was the Telegram platform a better alternative? X’s chatbot, Grok AI, described the trending moment as “Telegram v Signal: a crypto clash”.Signal is an app for sending end-to-end-encrypted messages...
Users might still be calling it “Twitter,” but the company officially known as X has taken yet another step toward eradicating the T-word from its platform.