2 d. ago Tesla hit with second lawsuit over deadly California Cybertruck crash

Parents of another victim of 2024 crash say ‘catastrophic’ design flaw to blame for deaths of three peopleTesla is being sued by the parents of a another victim killed in a Cybertruck crash in the quiet town of Piedmont, California. This is the second suit filed against the car maker this week alleging a design flaw in its vehicle is to blame for the deaths of the passengers involved in the accident, according to court filings.The parents of Jack Nelson allege that the company that helped Elon Musk become the world’s richest man knew about the flaw for years and could have moved faster to fix the problem but did not, leaving the passengers trapped amid flames and smoke that eventually killed them. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago ‘Cancel Netflix’: Elon Musk leads rightwing backlash over trans character in canceled series

Resurfaced clip from Dead End: Paranormal Park led Musk to encourage his followers to cancel their subscriptionsElon Musk, the multibillionaire and self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist”, has in recent days trained his attention on getting people to cancel their Netflix subscriptions in protest of what he claims is the company’s “woke bias” and inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters.Musk, the richest person in the world with a net worth of approximately $500bn, has repeatedly encouraged his 227 million followers on X, the platform he controls, to cancel their Netflix subscriptions. In the past three days alone, he has posted or reposted calls to cancel Netflix for its content at least 26 times. Continue reading...

Technology

4 d. ago ‘Cancel Netflix’: Elon Musk leads rightwing backlash over trans character in kids’ show

Resurfaced clip from Dead End: Paranormal Park led Musk to encourage his followers to cancel their subscriptionsElon Musk, the multibillionaire and self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist”, has in recent days trained his attention on getting people to cancel their Netflix subscriptions in protest of what he claims is the company’s “woke bias” and inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters.Musk, the richest person in the world with a net worth of approximately $500bn, has repeatedly encouraged his 227 million followers on X, the platform he controls, to cancel their Netflix subscriptions. In the past three days alone, he has posted or reposted calls to cancel Netflix for its content at least 26 times. Continue reading...

Technology

4 d. ago OpenAI now worth $500 billion, possibly making it the world's most valuable startup

OpenAI could now be the world’s most valuable startup, ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX and TikTok parent company ByteDance, after a secondary stock sale designed to retain employees at the ChatGPT maker

Economics

4 d. ago Elon Musk vs Netflix: Why is he urging people to cancel their subscriptions?

Elon Musk has called for a boycott of Netflix, citing issues of content, sparking a wider cultural debate.

Technology

4 d. ago Elon Musk leads calls to ‘Cancel Netflix’ after accusing streaming service of promoting ‘trans ideology’

The tech CEO’s comments were shared with his 227 million followers, with Netflix’s shares dropping by 2.2 percent after he called for the boycott

Technology

4 d. ago Who is the conspiracy theorist blamed by her sons for her daughter’s death?

Cambridge graduate Paloma Shemirani died after refusing cancer treatment and following her conspiracy theorist mother’s ‘alternative’ treatment plan.

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4 d. ago Elon Musk becomes first in the world to see fortune hit half a trillion dollars

Billionaire Elon Musk's net worth has reached $500.1 billion (£370.9 billion) following a surge in the valuation of Tesla and his wider portfolio

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4 d. ago Elon Musk 'fired X worker for telling him people were not engaging with his tweets because he wasn't popular'

Elon Musk fired an X engineer for telling him social media users weren't engaging with his tweets simply because he wasn't popular, a new book has claimed. 

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4 d. ago Elon Musk is halfway to becoming the first TRILLIONAIRE after his net value reaches $500bn

The tech magnate's net worth hit $500.1 billion Wednesday before dipping back to $499.1 billion, Forbes magazine's 'Real-Time Billionaires' tracker reported.

Politics

4 d. ago Larry Ellison: the US billionaire who could buy TikTok – and is almost as rich as Musk

The billionaire American is about to become a major investor in buying TikTok

Economics

4 d. ago Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet?

The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silenceSo you really want to know how Prime Minister Farage would pan out? Well, speculate no longer. An excellent test case is unfolding right now, in a country that just so happens to be run by one of Nigel’s heroes. Javier Milei is “amazing”, said the CEO of the private company he calls Reform. “Cutting and slashing doing all the things he’s done that’s leadership.”You may know some of this story, about how a political outsider took power in Argentina. You’ve seen photos of El Loco, the self-styled madman, in a black leather jacket, with sideburns like hedges and wielding a giant red chainsaw – all the better to slash the public sector with. Taking over Latin America’s second-largest country made Milei the poster boy of the international hard right. Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.” Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.” Donald Trump: “My...

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4 d. ago Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty

The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silenceSo you really want to know how Prime Minister Farage would pan out? Well, speculate no longer. An excellent test case is unfolding right now, in a country that just so happens to be run by one of Nigel’s heroes. Javier Milei is “amazing”, said the CEO of the private company he calls Reform. “Cutting and slashing doing all the things he’s done that’s leadership.”You may know some of this story, about how a political outsider took power in Argentina. You’ve seen photos of El Loco, the self-styled madman, in a black leather jacket, with sideburns like hedges and wielding a giant red chainsaw – all the better to slash the public sector with. Taking over Latin America’s second-largest country made Milei the poster boy of the international hard right. Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.” Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.” Donald Trump: “My...

Politics

5 d. ago Elon Musk calls for Netflix users to cancel subscriptions over woke cartoon features trans gay boy and bisexual autistic girl

Elon Musk has called for people to cancel their Netflix subscriptions after he found out there is a cartoon on the platform that features a gay, transgender teen and bisexual autistic girl.

Technology

5 d. ago Elon Musk fired X engineer who told billionaire his posts weren’t generating engagement, book claims

‘You’re fired. You’re fired’, billionaire told principle engineer, according to new book on Musk’s purchase of the site formerly known as Twitter

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5 d. ago Elon Musk cancels Netflix subscription after TV series creator is accused of calling Charlie Kirk a nazi

Hamish Steele's work in the animated show Dead End: Paranormal Park was already under scrutiny for including transgender themes in the children's show.

Culture

5 d. ago Ed Miliband tells Elon Musk: Get the hell out of our politics and our country

The energy secretary claimed Elon Musk and Nigel Farage are part of a ‘global network who together want to destroy the ties that bind our communities and our way of life’

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6 d. ago Sperm racing is all the rage among the tech bros. Why am I not surprised? | Arwa Mahdawi

It started as a gag, but Eric Zhu’s sperm races are doing good work in putting male fertility under the microscope – literallyRemember when Elon Musk challenged Vladimir Putin to physical combat and Mark Zuckerberg to a cage fight? Neither of those brawls took place for various reasons. Not least, I suspect, because Musk is just self-aware enough to know that he would not emerge with his dignity, or his spine, intact. However, if the richest man in the world is still casting around for a way to publicly demonstrate his virility, I think I’ve hit on the perfect way: sperm racing.This isn’t some below-the-belt insult. Sperm racing is an emerging “thing” among tech types now. A teenage entrepreneur called Eric Zhu came up with the idea, and went viral with his first sperm race in April. That initial race was rudimentary: college students gave sperm samples to be analysed and the results were turned into an animated race that visualised the fastest offerings. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Elon Musk hit by exodus of senior staff over burnout and politics

Churn at Tesla and xAI comes amid disillusionment with billionaire’s activism, strategic pivots and mass lay-offs

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6 d. ago YouTube agrees to pay $24.5M to settle Trump lawsuit filed after his January 6 insurrection suspension

The deal makes YouTube the final Big Tech company to bend the knee — following Elon Musk’s X and Facebook’s parent company Meta

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