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Matt Taibbi Picks Substack Over Twitter

Journalist objects to new restrictions on links and tweets

(Newser) - A journalist once chosen by Elon Musk to help write the " Twitter Files " project has broken with the platform and its owner. Matt Taibbi said the issue is Twitter's new restrictions on links and tweets about Substack, Forbes reports. The rules were enacted after the announcement of...

Musk Replaces Twitter Bird With Doge Dog (for Now)

Nobody seems to know why, or whether the move is a joke or permanent

(Newser) - A little more Twitter weirdness: Elon Musk has replaced its famous blue bird with an image of the dogecoin dog on the Twitter website . Is it a joke? Is it permanent? Nobody is quite sure, and as the Verge notes, press queries to Twitter now get an automatic reply of...

Twitter Strips a Prominent First of Its Blue Checkmark

Tweets Musk after 'NYT' refuses to pay for Twitter Blue: 'Oh ok, we’ll take it off then.'

(Newser) - Twitter said it was going to start removing the blue "verified" checkmarks on accounts that aren't paying for Twitter Blue—and on Sunday, it did so, at least for one account. The New York Times' Twitter account has been stripped of the blue badge that used to denote...

Principal Quits After Being Scammed by Fake Elon Musk

She wrote $100K check after months of communicating with fraudster

(Newser) - The principal of a charter STEM school in Florida resigned this week after saying she had been taken in by a scammer pretending to be Elon Musk. "I am a very smart lady. Well-educated. I fell for a scam," Dr. Jan McGee told a board meeting, per WESH...

Merriam-Webster Sees Elon Musk's Twitter Blue, Taunts With Red

Dictionary cheekily discontinues its M-W Red within hours

(Newser) - Merriam-Webster likes to get cheeky every once in a while, and Elon Musk and his Twitter Blue are the latest target. As Insider reports, the dictionary powerhouse used Musk's own forum to mock Twitter Blue, in a tweet that's currently clocking north of 4 million: "People who...

Grimes Says Daughter's Name Is Now 'Y'—or '?'

It's about 'curiosity, the eternal question'

(Newser) - The baby sister of X Æ A-XII now apparently has a new name. Grimes says she has renamed Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, her second child with Elon Musk, Page Six reports. "She's Y now, or 'Why?' or just '?' (But the government won't recognize...

Some of Twitter's Source Code Apparently Leaked Months Ago

But execs were just notified and had it taken down

(Newser) - In what the New York Times calls "a rare and major exposure of intellectual property," Twitter claims in a legal filing that portions of its source code were leaked online. Executives at the social media company believe a former employee who left sometime last year is responsible for...

Twitter: Get Ready to Lose Blue Checkmarks on April 1

Company says it's going to start removing them from 'legacy' verified accounts

(Newser) - Changes at Twitter—including the poop emoji auto-response for press inquiries—can be hard to distinguish from practical jokes, but the company is apparently serious about revoking blue checkmarks for some users on April Fool's Day. "On April 1st, we will begin winding down our legacy verified program...

Elon Musk Has a Blanket Response to All Press Inquiries

And it is the poop emoji

(Newser) - In today's edition of What's Happening at Twitter, Deadline reports that all email inquiries from the media sent to the social network's official press email are receiving an automated reply that includes simply ... a poop emoji. CEO Elon Musk has long had an adversarial relationship with the...

Anthony Fauci Hits Back at Elon Musk
Anthony Fauci
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Mar 13, 2023 12:37 AM CDT

Anthony Fauci Responds to Elon Musk

Says calls to prosecute him are 'insanity'

(Newser) - Elon Musk called for prosecuting Anthony Fauci back in December, and Fauci on Saturday addressed that idea, calling it "insanity." "There's no response to that craziness, Jim," Fauci told Jim Acosta on CNN, per Fox News and Newsweek . "Prosecute me for what? What are...

Elon Musk Is Apparently Building His Own Town
Elon Musk
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'Texas Utopia'
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Mar 10, 2023 12:30 PM CST

Elon Musk Aims to Build 'Texas Utopia'

'Wall Street Journal' has the scoop on emerging 'town' on farmland near Austin

(Newser) - Elon Musk's next big move: Building a company town, apparently. The Wall Street Journal reports that Musk or related entities have bought up to 6,000 acres of farmland outside the Texas capital of Austin. The goal has a Musk-like sound to it:
  • "In meetings with landowners and
...

Musk Does Rare 180, Apologizes for 'Surreal' Twitter Feud

He had called well-liked Twitter employee 'the worst,' among other things

(Newser) - Elon Musk found himself apologizing to a (possibly now former) Twitter employee after a bizarre exchange between the two on the social network went viral. It started when Haraldur "Halli" Thorleifsson mentioned Musk in a tweet, asking him to weigh in on Thorleifsson's employment status. "9 days...

Twitter Learns One Engineer Isn't Enough for a Major Project

Engineer's 'bad configuration change' broke the system, Platformer reports

(Newser) - Twitter CEO Elon Musk was "furious" Monday as the platform experienced its "sixth high-profile service outage " of the year, per Platformer . In an "embarrassing technology failure," photos wouldn't load and links led to an error message reading "your current API plan does not...

Twitter Has Major Glitch as Musk Complains, Too

For about an hour on Monday, the platform was down for many

(Newser) - The phrase "Twitter API" was trending on Twitter Monday—ironically because so many people couldn't tweet. The platform went down, or at least slowed down, for many people in what CNN calls one of the biggest outages since Elon Musk took over. Those who were unable to log...

Elon Musk Weighs In as Dilbert Fallout Continues

Twitter CEO says it's the media that is racist; meanwhile, distributor ditches Scott Adams

(Newser) - Dilbert creator Scott Adams has picked up a high-profile defender after his comments about race in America : none other than Elon Musk. In replying to tweets about the flap, Musk wrote that it was the media, not Adams, who was being racist, reports Reuters . "For a *very* long time,...

Musk Partially Reverses Exit From California

Tesla's engineering headquarters will be in Palo Alto, not Texas

(Newser) - After moving his residence to Texas and threatening to pull all of Tesla out of California, Elon Musk has had a change of heart. With California Gov. Gavin Newsom at his side, Musk announced Wednesday that the automaker's global engineering headquarters will be in Palo Alto. The headquarters will...

Tesla Reluctantly Recalls 363K 'Full Self-Driving' Cars

Musk argues government agency's assessment on Twitter

(Newser) - US safety regulators have pressured Tesla into recalling nearly 363,000 vehicles with its "Full Self-Driving" system because it misbehaves around intersections and doesn't always follow speed limits. The recall, part of a larger investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration into Tesla's automated driving systems,...

Musk Artificially Boosts His Own Tweets—to Uproar

Twitter CEO seems to acknowledge users are now force-fed his content

(Newser) - Elon Musk's tweets are now stationed at the top of many Twitter users' feeds—and that's no accident, according to Platformer , which reports the Twitter CEO threatened to fire his team of engineers unless they built a system that would better promote his tweets to all users. "...

Musk Is Worried About Himself. So Is His Mom
Musk Is Worried
About Himself.
So Is His Mom
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Feb 11, 2023 6:00 AM CST

Musk Is Worried About Himself. So Is His Mom

'Severe back pain,' lack of sleep appear to be taking a toll

(Newser) - Elon Musk scored a court victory last week over some business tweets, but the trial brought to light a different concern—that he's a 51-year-old guy working insane hours while running Twitter, SpaceX, and Tesla. The Wall Street Journal digs in, noting that at one point during the San...

SpaceX Blocks Ukraine's Military Use of Starlink

Company says technology was intended for communication, not offensive applications

(Newser) - SpaceX leaders have conceded that they've been blocking Ukrainian forces from employing Starlink technology for military uses. "It was never intended to be weaponized," SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said at a conference Thursday, CNN reports. Frustrated Ukrainian officials answered along the lines of "but that's...

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