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X Experienced A Significant Outage Globally On Saturday Morning

X is back up for most users after what appeared to be a significant outage that spiked early this morning around 9AM ET. The Verge reported. Global internet monitor NetBlocks posted this morning that X “has been experiencing international outages for some users for a second time in a week,” adding that the issue isn’t “related to country-level internet disruptions

Elon Musk’s X Hit By Waves Of Outages Is “A Massive Cyberattack”

Elon Musk’s X was hit by waves of outages earlier Monday, which the billionaire claims was due to a cyberattack with IP addresses originating in Ukraine, CNN reported. “We’re not sure what exactly has happened,” Musk said during a Fox Business interview Monday afternoon. “But there was a massive cyberattack to try to bring down the X system, with IP

Elon Musk Publicize The Names Of Government Employees He Wants To Cut

When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on the line, CNN reported. Last week, in the midst of the flurry of his daily missives, Musk reposted two X posts that revealed the names and titles of people

Elon Musk’s X Gains A New Image Generator, Aurora

X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, has added a new image generator to its Grok assistant. However, after going live for a few hours on Saturday, the product seemed to disappear for some users, TechCrunch reported.

Inside Elon Musk’s Quest To Beat Open AI At It’s Own Game

Elon Musk spent the past year building his artificial intelligence startup xAI at breakneck speed. Now he has to turn it into a real business, The Wall Street Journal reported. Musk started xAI last summer in an effort to play catch-up with OpenAI, the ChatGPT developer he co-founded and left in 2018 after a power struggle. He poached talent from

X’s First Transparent Report Since Elon Musk’s Takeover

Today, X released the company’s first transparency report since Elon Musk bought the company, formerly Twitter, in 2022, WIRED reported. Before Musk’s takeover, Twitter would release transparency reports every six months. These largely cover the same grounds the new X report, giving specific numbers for takedowns, government requests for information, and content removals, as well as data about which content

Brazil Court Asks X For Documents

The Brazilian Supreme Court on Saturday asked Elon Musk-owned social platform X to present documents validating its new legal representation in the country, as the firm’s lawyers now say it will comply with court demands to be allowed to resume operations in Brazil, Reuters reported. X was shut down in Brazil in late August after it did not comply with