Elon Musk’s SpaceX gets a company town in Texas
Elon Musk's SpaceX gets a company town in Texas Elon Musk’s SpaceX gets a company town in Texas Residents near Boca Chica Beach in Texas have voted to become a city called Starbase. | Photo by GABRIEL CARDENAS/AFP via Getty Images<br> South Texas voters mostly employed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX have approved a measure to […]
Trump’s 2026 NASA budget would slash ISS crew and allocate more money for Elon
Trump's 2026 NASA budget would slash ISS crew and allocate more money for Elon Trump’s 2026 NASA budget would slash ISS crew and allocate more money for Elon The Trump administration has released a proposal to cut about a quarter of NASA’s 2026 budget, slashing both International Space Station crew sizes and the amount of […]
Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive Firefox could be put out of business should a court implement all the Justice Department’s proposals to restrict Google’s search monopoly, an executive for the browser owner Mozilla testified Friday. “It’s very frightening,” Mozilla CFO Eric Muhlheim said. The DOJ wants to bar Google from […]
Trump’s tariff plan is a potential death blow to your cheap online shopping
Trump's tariff plan is a potential death blow to your cheap online shopping Trump’s tariff plan is a potential death blow to your cheap online shopping With President Donald Trump’s new tariff plan, your online shopping packages coming directly from China are about to get much more expensive. In February, the Trump administration moved to […]
Elizabeth Warren asks Jeff Bezos if he got any favors for his ‘subservience’ to Trump
Elizabeth Warren asks Jeff Bezos if he got any favors for his 'subservience' to Trump Elizabeth Warren asks Jeff Bezos if he got any favors for his ‘subservience’ to Trump Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wants to know whether Amazon founder Jeff Bezos received any “promises or favors” from President Donald Trump in exchange for his […]
FTC v. Meta live: updates from the battle for Instagram and WhatsApp
FTC v. Meta live: updates from the battle for Instagram and WhatsApp Meta antitrust trial The long-awaited antitrust trial between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission kicked off on April 14th. Over about two months, DC District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg is hearing arguments about whether then-Facebook illegally monopolized the market for “personal social […]
France accuses Russia of a decade’s worth of high-profile cyberattacks
France accuses Russia of a decade's worth of high-profile cyberattacks France accuses Russia of a decade’s worth of high-profile cyberattacks France’s President Emmanuel Macron attends a meeting with representatives of the sectors affected by US tariffs, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on April 3, 2025. | Image: MOHAMMED BADRA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images In an […]
MAGA’s next wave of influencers saved TikTok
MAGA's next wave of influencers saved TikTok MAGA’s next wave of influencers saved TikTok The death knell for American TikTok should have been on March 13th, 2024, when Congress voted on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis to force its parent company to sell the app or face an outright ban. Rarely do you ever see Republicans […]
The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump’s tariffs
The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump's tariffs The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump’s tariffs Kickstarter is launching a new “Tariff Manager” tool that will allow creators to apply a surcharge to projects after their campaign has ended, as spotted earlier by […]
America is living in tariff limbo
America is living in tariff limbo For millions of people, any one of the many unprecedented actions in the first 100 days of the second Trump presidency was enough to show that the US is barreling toward – or has already arrived at – billionaire-helmed fascism. Sure, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has […]