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Musk is giving up his phone number and wants to be called through X - for just $8 a month

Billionaire plans to "get rid of his phone number" in the next few months — instead he will rely solely on calls and messages on X. "In a few months, I will discontinue my phone number and only use X for texts and audio/video calls," Musk wrote. It ...

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Taylor Swift silences student who tracked her plane's data - previously sued by Ilon Musk

Jack Sweeney, who sparked the anger of celebrities and billionaires by creating accounts tracking their private flights, may face a legal challenge again. According to The Washington Post, in December Taylor Swift's attorneys sent a student a letter ...

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Musk is funding Gina Carano's (Kara Dune in "Mandalorian") lawsuit regarding her "unlawful" firing from Disney

An ex-MMA star and actress, who played the role of Cara Dune in "The Mandalorian", was fired in 2021 due to controversial statements on social media and transphobic jokes. Carano also somehow compared the political situation in the U.S. and criticis...

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Investigation into fake Biden's calls led to compromised telecom and a "do-it-all-for-money" company

In January, voters in New Hampshire received a call pretending to be from President Biden, telling them not to vote in the primaries. An investigation revealed that this was done by Life Corporation, a Texas company previously caught spreading misinf...

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No VR porn: Apple made a 'fatal' mistake in the development of the Vision Pro

Disappointed customers complain on Reddit that the Apple headset, despite many other entertainment options, does not allow watching porn in virtual reality. You can still view porn sites in the standard "flat" form, but this is definitely not what so...

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Joe Biden's dipfake showing him "touching" his granddaughter's breasts will be left on Facebook

The Meta Oversight Board decided that the video can stay on Facebook, but demands the company to update its "inconsistent" policy. In the original video, footage from October 2022 was shown, where the US president accompanies his granddaughter to he...

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Cloudflare was hacked in November using tokens stolen in the Okta attack

Cloudflare reported today that its internal Atlassian server was hacked by a suspected "state-sponsored attacker", who gained access to Confluence wiki, Jira bug database, and Bitbucket source code management system. The attacker first gained access...

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Cruise didn't hide the video of the robotaxi hitting the pedestrian - it just "had bad internet"

In October of last year, the robotaxi Cruise hit a woman who had already been hit by another car and dragged her for another 6 meters - however, the investigation by regulators was complicated by the fact that the company could not provide a 45-secon...

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Joe Biden's fake voice called New Hampshire Democrats - demanding they skip the primary election

The office of the Attorney General of New Hampshire is investigating calls in which unknown persons used an artificially generated version of the voice of the US President to convince Democrats to avoid voting in the presidential primaries on January...

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HP is promoting a James Bond-style hack to protect its third-party ink blocking practice

The company releases micro-updates that block the use of third-party cartridges on its printers, which usually cost significantly less than the originals. "We have seen that viruses can be embedded in cartridges. Because of the cartridge, a virus can...

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2024. Musk 'defeated' bots and scammers on Twitter/X - by mistakenly blurring images on the platform

During the weekend, X mistakenly blurred and added a "sensitive content" label to random images - even harmless pictures of nature, books, cars, or animals. What I posted and what @X is showing people. So weird… how in the world is this graphic con...

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Beeper users claim Apple is blocking the use of iMessage on their Macs

The saga of Apple vs Beeper seems to be far from over, even though the iMessage app on Android Beeper Mini has been removed from the Play Store. Now Apple users who were using Beeper report that they have been banned from using iMessage on their Mac ...

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Musk complained about a small stake in Tesla - he previously spent some of the shares to buy Twitter

Billionaire says he would be uncomfortable developing an auto manufacturer as a leader in AI ​​and robotics without having at least 25% of the votes in the company (almost twice his current stake). Elon Musk complains about his small stake in Tesla ...

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DeepSeek - the Chinese equivalent of ChatGPT - removes questions about the events of Tiananmen Square and any queries about Winnie the Pooh

Another popular chatbot in China, Ernie, does not like requests about the coronavirus. On the eve of the first anniversary of ChatGPT, the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek AI presented its own chatbot. The DeepSeek model was trained on a dataset of 2 tri...

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LG washing machine was sending 3.66 GB of data every day. For this, it was disconnected from Wi-Fi

The owner of the LG washing machine under the nickname Johnie asked Twitter why his "smart" home device is loading an average of 3.66 GB of data per day. Concerned about the internet dependency of the washing machine, Johnie forced the device to rebo...

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