The SpaceX IPO is great for Elon Musk and terrible for you
The SpaceX IPO is great for Elon Musk and terrible for you Number go up? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images I haven’t seen anything as stupid as the WeWork IPO document in a very long time – that is, until Elon Musk filed to take SpaceX public. WeWork was a joke. […]
X is fighting Andrew Tate’s attempt to unmask his critics
X is fighting Andrew Tate's attempt to unmask his critics X is fighting for its users’ right to anonymity against the far-right influencers and accused human traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are seeking to unmask their online critics. The Tate brothers filed suit against the owners of more than a dozen social media accounts […]
X agrees to crack down on illegal hate and terror content in the UK
X agrees to crack down on illegal hate and terror content in the UK British online safety regulator Ofcom says it has accepted new commitments from X that aim to better protect UK users from seeing illegal hate and terror content on the platform. Under the agreement announced today, X says it will withhold access […]
X is going to let Grok curate your timeline
X is going to let Grok curate your timeline X is putting its AI chatbot, Grok, in charge of your timeline. In an announcement on Wednesday, X product head Nikita Bier says Premium subscribers on iOS can get early access to a feature that allows users to pin specific topics to their home tab, which […]
X makes it 1,900 percent more expensive to post links
X makes it 1,900 percent more expensive to post links Posting links to X through custom social media software just got a lot more expensive. On Monday, X significantly increased how much it costs to post a URL via the X API, which is what third-party tools use to hook into the platform. It now […]
The EFF is quitting X
The EFF is quitting X The digital privacy non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation will no longer be posting on X as of Thursday, largely due to a sharp decline in views on the platform over the past several years. In a blog post announcing the departure, EFF’s social media and video manager Kenyatta Thomas explained that […]
Insider trading or random guy? It doesn’t matter to Polymarket
Insider trading or random guy? It doesn't matter to Polymarket In mid-March, conspiracy theories swirled claiming Benjamin Netanyahu had been replaced by an AI clone. Though there was no actual proof that the Israeli Prime Minister had been injured or killed, on X this spurred a flurry of posts promoting prediction markets where people bet […]
X tries to limit creator revenue for foreign influencers but Musk intervenes
X tries to limit creator revenue for foreign influencers but Musk intervenes X wants to make money on previously used handles. | Image: The Verge X’s Head of Product, Nikita Bier, announced a change to the platform’s creator payouts on Tuesday, but according to Elon Musk, the change isn’t going live just yet. Bier shared […]
Jury finds Elon Musk’s ‘stupid tweets’ caused Twitter investors’ losses
Jury finds Elon Musk's 'stupid tweets' caused Twitter investors' losses A California jury determined that Elon Musk misled Twitter investors before making a $44 billion deal to buy the company in 2022, reports CNBC. The New York Times reports that Musk had testified this month that he didn’t believe his posts would spook markets, but […]
Teens sue Elon Musk’s xAI over Grok’s AI-generated CSAM
Teens sue Elon Musk's xAI over Grok's AI-generated CSAM Three Tennessee teens are suing Elon Musk’s xAI over claims that the company’s Grok AI chatbot generated sexualized images and videos of themselves as minors, as reported earlier by The Washington Post. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed on Monday, accuses Musk and other xAI leaders […]