6 h. ago SpaceX aborts Starship launch in setback to Elon Musk’s Mars ambitions

Lift off of biggest rocket ever built scrubbed with 40 seconds left on the countdown

Technology

41 h. ago ‘I’m selling the Nazi mobile’: Tesla owners offload cars after Musk’s fascist

Tesla once appeared the future of vehicles. Then Musk’s salutes and support at Trump’s inauguration left owners feeling ‘saddled with a symbol of hate’Don’t let a billionaire’s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting.When Elon Musk unveiled Tesla’s “truck of the future” in 2019, Filipos could barely contain his excitement. He quickly paid $100 to get on the waitlist. Filipos described himself as a “true Tesla fanboy”, and the Cybertruck would be the third vehicle he’d buy from the company.“When the Cybertruck came out, I watched the live event that night, and my wife was sitting there going, ‘No. No. No,’” said Filipos, who lives in a suburb of Philadelphia and whose last name is being withheld for fear of online retribution. Despite his wife’s disapproval, Filipos loved the bulky trapezoidal truck. “I was truly geeking out on it,” he said. Continue reading...

Politics

62 h. ago Email shows that Musk ally is moving to close office behind free tax filing program at IRS

Program is apparently being closed according to email from former Tesla engineer installed in GSAAn Elon Musk ally installed in the US government said in a late night email going into Saturday that the office behind a popular free online tax filing option would be shuttered – and its employees would be let go.The 18F office within the General Services Administration (GSA) created the IRS Direct File program that allows for free online tax filings. It has been a frequent target of Musk, and one of the billionaire businessman’s close associates who holds a key position in the GSA informed staffers that the agency would close 18F in an email to staffers that arrived around 1am on Saturday morning. Continue reading...

Politics

62 h. ago It might be a small consolation, but Elon Musk is getting poorer by the day | John Naughton

As his goons root through the innards of the US government, Tesla sales are plummeting, the cars are being defaced and owners are ashamedExtreme wealth has always played a role in democracies. Money has always talked, especially in the US. Years ago, Lawrence Lessig, the great legal scholar, calculated that most of the campaign funding for members of Congress and aspiring politicians came from one-twentieth of the richest 1% of Americans – about 150,000 people. This is about the same number as those who are named “Lester” and explains the title of his book: The USA Is Lesterland.But that particular corruption of American politics only involved billionaires like the Koch brothers playing organ-grinders to congressional monkeys. The obscene wealth generated by the tech industry has catapulted a new organ-grinder into the heart of the machine. He was able to pay his way in with a spare quarter of a billion dollars that he happened to have lying around. And now the wretched citizens of ...

Politics

3 d. ago Elon Musk's baby mama Shivon Zilis reveals DOGE head's 14th alleged child and his very unusual name

Elon Musk and Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis have welcomed their fourth child together, revealing his unique name via a social media post. This marks Musk's alleged 14th child.

Politics

3 d. ago The White Lotus actor Aimee Lou Wood, Marina Hyde on Daddy Musk, and are we over

With the mothers of Elon’s kids begging for his attention on social media, he makes much of ‘pronatalism’ – but is that just a fancy word for bad parenting? ‘I don’t know whether I’d describe it as fun,’ says Aimee Lou Wood on the intensity of making The White Lotus. And are ordinary life experiences, bodily imperfections and normal differences being unnecessarily pathologised? Neurologist and author Suzanne O’Sullivan argues just that Continue reading...

Events

3 d. ago How Katy Perry snubbed Elon Musk to join Jeff Bezos' space mission

After years of lobbying Musk to try and take her to Mars, Katy Perry has switched sides to explore space with Jeff Bezos

Events

3 d. ago How Katy Perry snubbed Elon Musk to join Jeff Bezos's space mission

After years of lobbying Musk to try and take her to Mars, Katy Perry has switched sides to explore space with Jeff Bezos

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3 d. ago ‘They’ve lost my trust’: consumers shun companies as bosses kowtow to Trump

As business leaders fall in line behind the president and his policies, Americans are using their wallet to hurt where it matters – bottom linesDon’t let a billionaire’s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting.In late January, Lauren Bedson did what many would likely find unthinkable: she cancelled her Amazon Prime membership. The catalyst was Donald Trump’s inauguration. Many more Americans are planning to make similar decisions this Friday.Bedson made her move after seeing photos of Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, sitting with other tech moguls and billionaires, including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai, just rows behind Trump at his inauguration. Continue reading...

Politics

4 d. ago Three billionaires: America’s oligarchy is now fully exposed | Robert Reich

As Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk alter US media, the connections between wealth and power are in plain sightOne of the unacknowledged advantages of the horrendous era we’ve entered is that it is revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power.Oligarchs are fully exposed and they are defiant. It’s like hitting the “reveal codes” key on older computers that let you see everything. Continue reading...

Politics

6 d. ago Elon Musk ‘doesn’t give a s**t’ that he’s making Trump’s job ‘1000 times harder,’ warns Mark Cuban

Tech billionaire and DOGE king Elon Musk is on track to make Donald Trump’s job dismantling the federal government “1,000 times harder” — and Musk couldn’t care less, Shark Tank entrepreneur Mark Cuban warned at a political conference

Events

6 d. ago Tesla sees $100bn wiped off its value as Europe snubs Musk over his foray into politics

Tesla sold just 9,945 vehicles in Europe last month according to figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association.

Politics

6 d. ago It’s Elon Musk’s ‘pronatalist’ bonanza – so many families, so little time | Marina Hyde

With the mothers of his kids begging for his attention on social media, he makes much of ‘pronatalism’. Is that just a fancy word for bad parenting?If only Elon Musk could impregnate humans at the same rate he’s giving them the ick. Alas, polls show the efficiency tsar’s US approval rating dwindling towards levels he has enjoyed for quite some time among the UK public. And as a country that lived through the Boris Johnson era, I think we have to warn the Americans that if a government figure can’t or won’t answer the basic question “how many kids do you have?”, then he’s probably going to turn out to be a disappointment. And it might even have been a warning sign. If the WhatsApp group of his exes is bigger than Mumsnet and 10 times as pissed off, then it’s just possible you could be dealing with a guy you’re going to end up feeling betrayed by.Is Musk that guy? Who among us can say, certainly considering the sheer number and ferocity of the lawyers Mister Free Speech employs? I do ...

Politics

6 d. ago Bitcoin slides below $90,000 amid crypto selloff; Tesla sales almost halve across Europe – business live

Bitcoin has tumbled below $90,000 to hit the lowest since mid-November, as rising volatility hits crypto marketFull story: Tesla sales almost halve in Europe as Musk faces criticism over Trump tiesSeveral UK charities are warning that this morning’s rise in the energy price cap (which covers England, Wales and Scotland) will hurt struggling householdssThe Centre for Ageing Better is concerned that millions of older people already struggling on low incomes will be put into even greater difficulty with increasing energy costs, having already lost their winter fuel payments last year.“It is so dispiriting to learn that bill payers must brace for another substantial increase to energy prices from April. For those living on the breadline, desperately struggling to meet the basic costs of everyday living, this will be heartbreaking news.There are millions of older people who no longer qualify for winter fuel payments who live on paltry incomes that do not even cover the basics of a dignif...

Economics

6 d. ago Look at Donald Trump and his gang of broligarchs – and tell me we don’t need a wealth tax | Brian Cox

I played a fictional billionaire on TV. It’s time world leaders got serious about taxing the real onesBrian Cox played Logan Roy in HBO’s Succession and is a supporter of Patriotic Millionaires InternationalYou could be forgiven for thinking the second coming of Donald Trump was fiction. Unfortunately, it’s not – the threat he and his “broligarchs” bring to people around the world is very, very real. Last month Trump, surrounded by his uber-rich friends, was inaugurated the 47th president, while his political supporters sat outside in the cold – the perfect metaphor for who really matters in this presidency.Among the clique were the three richest men in the world: Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and top dog Elon Musk, who personally poured $277m into Trump’s election campaign, increasing his own wealth by $170bn as a result.Brian Cox played Logan Roy in HBO’s Succession and is a supporter of Patriotic Millionaires International Continue reading...

Politics

9 d. ago Trump could ditch US’ $93 billion efforts to return to the moon to fuel Musk’s Mars dreams

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has called the moon a ‘distraction’ and signaled a shift toward Mars

Politics

1 week ago DOGE staffer with history of racist posts is now working at Social Security

Marko Elez recently had ‘read/write’ access to massive Treasury Department database

Events

1 week ago Elon Musk's spicy X messages with MAGA influencer Ashley St. Clair that were the clue to baby

It looked like a match made in MAGA heaven: DOGE mastermind Elon Musk, 53, and 26-year-old conservative influencer and seasoned Mar-a-Lago guest, Ashley St. Clair. 

Technology

1 week ago Salman Rushdie says ‘dishonest’ Elon Musk should be fired into space: ‘If he likes it so much, let him go’

‘If he likes it so much, then let him go,’ says author

Events

2 w. ago Salman Rushdie really wants Elon Musk ‘to be the first man on Mars’: ‘I’m not a fan’

‘If he likes it so much, then let him go,’ says author

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