A British man, a Florida man and a Florida teen hacked the Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls to scam people around globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin, authorities said Friday. Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was arrested Friday in Tampa, where the Hillsborough State Attorney’s Office will prosecute him as […]
Apple, Amazon, Microsoft Attended Chinese Communist Party’s AI Conference Alongside Chinese Military Proxies…
Corporates including Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple have participated in the Chinese Communist Party’s World Artificial Intelligence Conference every year since its 2018 inception, an event that bolsters collaboration between Chinese government and military-linked companies and their American technology and healthcare companies. The event, organized annually by seven branches of the Chinese government and featuring dozens […]
Massive Twitter Hack Hits Obama, Biden, Bloomberg, Musk, Kanye, Gates, More…
The Twitter accounts of some of the world’s most powerful people, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Michael Bloomberg were compromised earlier today, with hackers using their access to tweet out a Bitcoin scam. Bitcoin worth more than $100,000 have reportedly been transferred to the hackers. The compromised accounts included former President Barack Obama, current […]
Tesla Fired 300 Janitors and Bus Drivers While Musk’s Wealth Grew by $650 Million in April…
We’ve been documenting the ongoing fire drill that is Tesla throughout the course of this pandemic. Most recently, we reported that workers at the company’s Fremont factory could be heading back in to work before the county’s stay-at-home order expires. …what’s left of the company’s workers, that is. We also reported days ago that Tesla […]
Hackers Trick Tesla Cars into Speeding Up by 50 MPH with a Piece of Tape…
Researchers at McAfee reportedly used a 2-inch strip of tape on a 35-mph speed limit sign to trick two Tesla vehicles into misreading the signs as 85-mph and accelerating 50 mph to match the modified sign. The MIT Tech Review reports that two security researchers tricked two 2016 Tesla vehicles into accelerating 50 mph past […]
‘He’s full of shit’: How Elon Musk Fooled Investors, Bilked Taxpayers and Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity…
It was a Saturday night last March in Buffalo, and Dennis Scott was sitting at home. A stocky veteran with salt-and-pepper hair and a close-cropped beard, Scott had been laid off from Tesla’s factory in Buffalo two months earlier as part of a global reduction in the company’s workforce. Since then, he had taken to […]
SpaceX Launches First Satellites in Massive Starlink Project to Beam Internet Access from Space…
Third time’s a charm. After two delays last week, Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its heaviest payload yet Thursday night, launching dozens of satellites that are intended to eventually provide high-speed internet access from space. A reusable Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral carrying 60 Starlink satellites, weighing about 18.5 tons in total. […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Laying Off Hundreds Off Workers…
Elon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX is cutting 10 percent of its workforce in an effort to cut down on costs and waste, The Los Angeles Times reported. Musk – as SpaceX CEO – and company President Gwynne Shotwell broke the news to the estimated 6,400-employee workforce Friday at an all-hands meeting at the company’s […]
Musk Settles with the SEC: Will Resign as Tesla Chairman for 3 Years, Pay $20MM Fine, Stay as CEO…
Just one day after the SEC sued Elon Musk for securities fraud, in a move that shocked many who were skeptical the US regulator would do anything more than slap a few wrists – an action which it took only after it emerged that Musk had turned down a settlement offer from the SEC in […]