12 h. ago Zohran Mamdani feuds with Elon Musk and MAGA over his decision to appoint woman with no firefighting experience as FDNY chief

Lillian Bonsignore will take the reins as the new Commissioner from January 1 to become the first openly gay fire chief and only the second woman in the agency's history.

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17 h. ago Elon Musk warns of impact of record silver prices before China limits exports

Metal ‘needed in many industrial processes’, says Tesla boss as supply fears grow over price surge and new rulesA surge in the price of silver to record highs this month has prompted a warning from Elon Musk that manufacturers could suffer the consequences.Silver has risen sharply during December, part of a precious metals rally that also pushed gold and platinum to record levels on Boxing Day. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Elon Musk warns manufacturers could suffer consequences of surge in price of silver

Silver rose sharply in December, part of a precious metals rally that also pushed gold and platinum to record levelsA surge in the price of silver to record highs this month has prompted a warning from Elon Musk that manufacturers could suffer the consequences.Silver has risen sharply during December, part of a precious metals rally that also pushed gold and platinum to record levels on Boxing Day. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago MPs should ‘question consciences’ on using X, says campaigner sanctioned by US

Imran Ahmed said the influence of big tech firms, including Mr Musk’s platform, was behind the bid to remove him from the US.

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63 h. ago British campaigner says tech firms behind bid to deport him from US

Senior State Department figures accused Imran Ahmed of seeking to ‘censor’ social media platforms such as Elon Musk’s X.

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66 h. ago AI boom adds more than half a trillion dollars to wealth of US tech barons in 2025

Elon Musk’s net worth increased by nearly 50% to $645bn with founders of Google and Amazon also seeing huge wealth gainsA stock market boom in artificial intelligence companies has added more than half a trillion dollars to the wealth of America’s tech barons in the past year, data shows.The top 10 US founders and bosses of some of the world’s largest technology companies saw their finances swell to nearly $2.5tn, up from $1.9tn, in the year to Christmas Eve, according to figures from Bloomberg. Continue reading...

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67 h. ago Love Actually's Sam star floors with famous wife 22 years on from iconic film

Thomas Brodie-Sangster, who played the lovesick youngster Sam in the 2003 Christmas classic, is now 35 and married to actress Talulah Riley, who was previously wed to billionaire Elon Musk twice

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3 d. ago AI boom adds $500bn to net worth of US tech billionaires in 2025

Elon Musk stays on top as Nvidia’s Jensen Huang powers up the rankings on an AI-fuelled surge in fortunes

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4 d. ago DOGE promised to cut government spending. It went up under Trump, new report shows

Elon Musk initially promised that DOGE would slash $2 trillion in ‘waste, fraud and abuse,’ a goal that was later reduced to $1 trillion

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4 d. ago US military adds Elon Musk’s controversial Grok bot to its ‘AI arsenal’

The ‘anti-woke’ artificial intelligence chatbot called for a new Holocaust earlier this year

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5 d. ago Elon Musk, AI and the antichrist: the biggest tech stories of 2025

A look back at the biggest tech stories of the year, from the rise and fall of Musk’s Doge to lucrative investments into AIHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, wishing you a happy and healthy end of the year. I myself have a cold.Today, we are looking back at the biggest stories in tech of 2025 – Elon Musk’s political rise, burst, and fall; artificial intelligence’s subsumption of the global economy, all other technology, and even the Earth’s topography; Australia’s remarkable social media ban; the tech industry’s new Trumpian politics; and, as a treat, a glimpse of the apocalypse offered by one of Silicon Valley’s savviest and strangest billionaires.How an obscure US government office has become a target of Elon MuskHow Elon Musk’s billionaire Doge lieutenant took over the US’s biggest MDMA company | Technology | The GuardianThe chaos Elon Musk and Doge are leaving behind in WashingtonEggings, swastikas and dog poop: Tesla bears brunt of people’s ire ag...

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6 d. ago Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites could be targeted by new Russian weapon, Nato warns

Western intelligence believes Russia is developing a new ‘zone-effect’ weapon to specifically hit Musk’s satellites

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6 d. ago ‘A stream of negativity and abuse’: why are Labour MPs still sticking with X?

Despite concerns, politicians continue to use Elon Musk’s platform in search of a ‘civilised debate’ with constituents

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6 d. ago Childhood photo of global icon dressed as Santa surfaces days before Christmas... Who is it?

A childhood photo taken during the holidays decades ago has resurfaced, showing one of the most influential figures in the world during a much different time.

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6 d. ago Childhood photo of tech mogul dressed as Santa surfaces days before Christmas... Who is it?

A childhood photo taken during the holidays decades ago has resurfaced, showing one of the most influential figures in the world during a much different time.

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6 d. ago Packed passenger plane makes emergency landing after SpaceX rocket explodes mid

Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket exploded without warning over the Caribbean during a test flight, hurling debris into busy airspace and forcing packed airlinersto take evasive action

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6 d. ago Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites could be targeted by new Russian weapon, Nato suspects

Western intelligence believes Russia is developing a new ‘zone-effect’ weapon to specifically hit Musk’s satellites

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6 d. ago SWR train trials Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet to fix New Forest blackspot

A service from London Waterloo to Weymouth used satellite connection on 20 December

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7 d. ago Elon Musk closes in on astonishing landmark as world's richest man keeps getting richer

The world's richest man Elon Musk now has his sights on becoming the first-ever trillionaire after his Tesla stock was reinstated by a court in Delaware

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7 d. ago Elon Musk SpaceX: Incredible pictures show rocket explosion that nearly downed airliners

SpaceX was found by the FAA to not have alerted its officials following the large explosion in the Caribbean, forcing several planes to make last-minute diversions

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