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The Dark Storm hacktivist group claims to be behind DDoS attacks causing multiple X worldwide outages on Monday, leading the company to enable DDoS protections from Cloudflare. While X owner Elon Musk did not specifically state that DDoS attacks were behind the outages, he did confirm that it was caused by a "massive cyberattack." "There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X," Musk posted on X. "We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordi

US President Donald Trump has offered a hint about the possible future ownership of TikTok’s American business, whilst speaking aboard Air Force One.  Trump on 9 March was quoted by Reuters as saying that his administration was in touch with four different groups about the sale of Chinese-owned TikTok, and that all options were good.  It comes after US President Joe Biden in April 2024 had signed a bill that gave Chinese owner ByteDance up to a year to divest TikTok or face a nationwide ban acro

Meta will remove third-party fact-checkers from its Facebook and Instagram social media platforms as it wants to embrace free speech. They intend to replace fact checkers with the accuracy of messages being monitored by user-generated community notes. Meta's current fact-checking program, introduced in 2016, refers to posts that appear false or misleading to independent organizations to assess their credibility.

In a recent video, Meta’s Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said third-party moderator

X has had its own AI chatbot, Grok, for a while, but it would be fair to say it's not mentioned in the same way that OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google Gemini are.  That's not for the want of trying, though, and with a huge user base of X users providing data for the model, a new version was always expected.

Now, the obviously-named Grok-2 has entered beta.  In a new blog post, X says it represents "a significant step forward from our previous model Grok-1.5, featuring frontier capabilities in chat, cod

SpaceX is inviting some customers to buy a new Starlink Mini receiver for its satellite broadband service offered as a portable option, with an introductory price tag of $599 in the US.

Customer emails sent by the space company this week invited select customers to buy its latest antenna, described as a "compact, portable kit that can easily fit in a backpack, designed to  provide high-speed, low-latency internet on the go."

Stream 4K movies while out camping out, anyone?  Cool, huh?  The compan

Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus, is still in the lab, but it may be ready to sell by the end of next year, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on 22 April 2024. Musk told investors on a conference call that he guessed the robot would be able to perform tasks in the factory by the end of this year. Musk has said that robot sales could become a larger part of the Tesla business than other segments, including car manufacturing.

Several companies have been betting on humanoid robots to meet potential lab

A Tesla software engineer suffered severe injuries when he was attacked by a malfunctioning robot on the floor of the electric car maker’s factory in Austin, Texas.  Witnesses said that the robot, which was designed to move aluminum car parts, pinned the engineer and sank its metal claws into his back and arm, leaving a trail of blood along the floor.  The engineer was programming software that controls robots to cut car parts from freshly cast aluminum pieces.

While two of the robots were disab

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has received its first contract from the US Space Force to provide customized satellite communications for the military under the company’s new Starshield program, extending the provocative billionaire’s role as a defense contractor.

See:  https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/starlink-to-the-rescue-1

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is competing with 15 companies, including Viasat Inc., for $900 million in work orders through 2028 under the Space Force’s new “Proliferated

Musk’s TruthGPT - Formerly named Twitter, now X Corp owner Elon Musk is warning on the dangers of artificial intelligence to humanity and claiming that a popular Chatbot has a liberal bias that he plans to counter with his own AI creation.  Musk stated in a recent interview that he plans to create an alternative to the popular AI Chatbot ChatGPT that he is calling “TruthGPT,” which will be a “maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe.”

Remember in May 2022, whe

Elon Musk announced yesterday that his company SpaceX’s satellite broadband service, Starlink, has been activated in Ukraine, after the Internet was disrupted in the country due to Russia’s invasion.  “Starlink service is now active in Ukraine.  More terminals en route,” Musk wrote on Twitter in response to Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.

“[Elon Musk], while you try to colonize Mars—Russia try to occupy Ukraine! While your rockets successfully land from space—Russian rockets atta