Elon Musk and SpaceX set to hit rocket milestone with Starlink satellite launch Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing to launch 23 Starlink satellites atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida Tuesday in what will be an important milestone for ... 04/23/2024 - 3:25 am | View Link
Elon Musk says he 'would know' if there are aliens out there with all the Starlink satellites he has orbiting Earth SpaceX owner Elon Musk doesn't think aliens exist. "I have seen no evidence for aliens and, with ~6000 satellites orbiting Earth, I think I would know," Musk wrote on X on Monday. The billionaire ... 04/21/2024 - 10:50 pm | View Link
When Will Elon Musk’s Driverless Car Claims Have Credibility? Elon Musk is at it again, promising new developments with Tesla’sTSLA-1.92%decrease; red down pointing triangle robotaxi. For almost a decade, the chief executive has been telling customers ... 04/12/2024 - 11:30 pm | View Link
Musk's Boring Company screwed up a Las Vegas dig, causing a public transit system to shut down temporarily: report "We put the public at risk for anybody who was on that monorail at that time," a former employee said. 04/12/2024 - 1:53 pm | View Link
Workers at Elon Musk’s Boring Co. accidentally dug too close to a supporting column of the Las Vegas monorail last year, forcing officials to briefly halt service The structural safety of Las Vegas' elevated monorail was cited in violation notices last year, after Boring Company workers accidentally exposed the base of two pillars while digging a tunnel to the ... 04/12/2024 - 7:00 am | View Link
(NEW YORK) — Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable.
Just ask a hardy band of mostly amateur Wall Street investors who have collectively made tens of millions of dollars over the past month by betting that the stock price of his social media business — Truth Social — will keep dropping despite massive buying by Trump loyalists and wild swings that often mirror the candidate’s latest polls, court trials and outbursts on Truth Social itself.
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Several of these investors interviewed by The Associated Press say their bearish gambles using “put” options and other trading tools are driven less by their personal feelings about the former president (most don’t like him) than their faith in the woeful underlying financials of a company that made less money last year than the average Wendy’s hamburger franchise.
“This company makes no money.
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A federal appeals court today reversed a ruling that prevented New York from enforcing a law requiring Internet service providers to sell $15 broadband plans to low-income consumers. The ruling is a loss for six trade groups that represent ISPs, although it isn't clear right now whether the law will be enforced.
New York's Affordable Broadband Act (ABA) was blocked in June 2021 by a US District Court judge who ruled that the state law is rate regulation and preempted by federal law.
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Google says it has patched a nasty loophole in the Android TV account security system, which would grant attackers with physical access to your device access to your entire Google account just by sideloading some apps. As 404 Media reports, the issue was originally brought to Google's attention by US Sen.
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Hackers are assailing websites using a prominent WordPress plugin with millions of attempts to exploit a high-severity vulnerability that allows complete takeover, researchers said.
The vulnerability resides in WordPress Automatic, a plugin with more than 38,000 paying customers. Websites running the WordPress content management system use it to incorporate content from other sites.
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On Thursday, the US Department of Energy released its preliminary estimate for the nation's carbon emissions in the previous year. Any drop in emissions puts us on a path that would avoid some of the catastrophic warming scenarios that were still on the table at the turn of the century.
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Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly more than 3 billion Discord messages and details on more than 600 million users, has seemingly been shut down.
404 Media, which broke the story of Spy Pet's offerings, reports that Spy Pet seems mostly shut down.