
Variety - 1 hour 46 min ago
Elon Musk-owned Twitter says that as of Saturday, April 1, it will begin removing “legacy” verified badges from individuals and organizations approved under the company’s previous criteria. Going forward, only paying customers will be granted the verified check-marks, which are now blue for individuals, gold for brands and companies, and gray for governmental organizations. Twitter […]...

New York Times - 2 hours 27 min ago
Elon Musk, Twitter's owner, said accounts on the platform would lose their blue check marks starting on Saturday unless users purchased a subscription to Twitter Blue.

Inside Evs - 2 hours 39 min ago
CEO Elon Musk talked previously about people getting the electric pickup truck wrapped, but now Tesla is hiring for "Cybertruck paint."...

Engadget - 3 hours 14 min ago
With the Tetris movie hitting Apple TV+ this week, we chat with the game's creator, Alexey Pajitnov, and Henk Rogers, the man who helped bring it out of the Soviet Union. We discuss just how realistic the film is (it definitely takes plenty of liberties), the impact of Tetris on gaming and where it could be headed in the future. Also, Cherlynn and Devindra dive into the recent letter from the Future of Life Institute, which was signed by Elon Musk and other tech leaders, and called for a pause...

Forbes - 4 hours 1 min ago
Musk's reported trip comes as tensions between the U.S. and China escalate.

Vox - 4 hours 45 min ago
Elon Musk outside court in San Francisco in January 2023. | Marlena Sloss/Bloomberg via Getty Images It's a broken version of the digital town square. When Elon Musk took over Twitter, he said he wanted to protect its place as a "digital town square," where ideas from all corners of the internet could flourish. But soon, if you want your voice to really be heard in the town square, you'll need to pay. Earlier this week, Musk tweeted that, starting April 15 , Twitter will only recommend...

The Onion - 5 hours 15 min ago
Elon Musk has pledged to remove all verification for accounts that refuse to pay $8 per month for Twitter Blue. The Onion asked verified Twitter users how they felt about losing their coveted blue checks, and this is what they said. Read more...

NY Post - 6 hours 45 min ago
Musk, who is also the platform's owner and chief executive, became the most followed account on Thursday evening when he reached approximately 133.05 million followers, passing former President Barack Obama, who has about 133.04 million followers.

Tech Times - 15 hours 16 min ago
Tesla unveils the Gigabier, a Cybertruck-inspired beer, as promised by Elon Musk.

Huffington Post - 17 hours 41 min ago
Principal Jan McGee said "grooming" was to blame.

CNN - 17 hours 57 min ago
News organizations have a message for Elon Musk: We are not going to pay you for checkmarks on Twitter.

Forbes - 18 hours 39 min ago
A school principal in Florida has resigned after sending a check for $100,000 to a scam artist posing as Elon Musk, according to a new report from NBC TV affiliate WESH. The school's business manager was able to stop the check before it cleared.

NY Post - 19 hours 30 min ago
"The key issue is not 'human-competitive' intelligence (as the open letter puts it); it's what happens after AI gets to smarter-than-human intelligence," Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote.

New York Times - 20 hours 14 min ago
Lina Khan, the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, declined to meet Elon Musk about the agency's inquiry into Twitter, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

Tech Meme - 20 hours 59 min ago
Chloe Xiang / VICE : Some signatories of the open letter to pause AI training walk back their positions, others turned out to be fake, and many experts disagree with its proposal — The letter has been signed by Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Andrew Yang, and leading AI researchers, but many experts and even signatories disagreed.

UPI - 22 hours 5 min ago
A solar panel project steered by Elon Musk's Tesla is well short of its goal of seeing 1,000 installations a week, analysis from consultant group Wood Mackenzie found.

UPI - 22 hours 5 min ago
A solar panel project steered by Elon Musk's Tesla is well short of its goal of seeing 1,000 installations a week, analysis from consultant group Wood Mackenzie found.

Slate - 22 hours 43 min ago
The Tesla CEO called for a pause in chatbot development. But he's pushing something much more dangerous.

Observer - 22 hours 55 min ago
Musk has surpassed former President Obama as the most followed person on Twitter, with more than 133 million followers as of March 30.

Tech Meme - 23 hours 20 min ago
Bloomberg : Pathmatics: the top 10 advertisers on Twitter spent just $7.6M on ads in the last two months, down from $71M from September to October 2022 — In the weeks after Elon Musk acquired Twitter Inc., hundreds of advertisers paused spending on the platform, wary of the changes …...

Uproxx - 23 hours 21 min ago
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Tech Meme - 23 hours 30 min ago
Karissa Bell / Engadget : T2, the invite-only Twitter alternative, will allow users who are about to lose their Twitter checkmark on April 1 to carry over the verification to its site — With Elon Musk set to pull verification from thousands of users who were verified under the company's previous leadership …...

Engadget - 23 hours 45 min ago
With Elon Musk set to pull verification from thousands of users who were verified under the company's previous leadership, one Twitter alternative is hoping to lure some of those "legacy" checkmarks to its platform. T2 , an invite-only service led by two former Twitter employees, says it will allow users to carry over their "legacy" Twitter verification to its site T2 is part of a growing crop of Twitter alternatives that have sprung up in the wake of Musk's takeover. The...