
The Next Web - 1 hour 56 min ago
Japan has decided it does not want to depend on Elon Musk to keep its phones connected from space. The government is set to provide up to 150 billion, roughly $926 million, in subsidies to a consortium led by Rakuten Group to build a homegrown low-Earth-orbit satellite communications network. A project Tokyo frames explicitly as […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Guardian - 3 hours 15 min ago
Does anyone seriously think this kind of amplification is harmless? Elon Musk has long described himself as a " centrist ". He likes to pretend that he hasn't changed his views; it's the Democrats who have lurched to the left. He's merely a free speech advocate; a self-styled " moderate " resisting the excesses of the " woke mind virus ". But when you pay attention to his actual digital footprint the tweets, the retweets, the algorithmic amplification a very different...

The Guardian - 5 hours 34 min ago
Citizen Vigilante, which follows a businessman taking bloody revenge on immigrant criminals, was posted by the tech trillionaire in the wake of damning reviews A German film starring Armie Hammer that was allegedly denied a certificate by the German ratings board for "inciting violence against immigrants" has secured worldwide distribution and an explosion in its viewing figures after a bizarre intervention by Elon Musk. Citizen Vigilante, a thriller starring Hammer, and written and directed...

The Independent - 6 hours 7 min ago
The film has faced fierce criticism over its extreme violence and anti-immigrant messaging...

The Independent - 7 hours 17 min ago
The poll of 2,022 voters showed Republicans and President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again base were skeptical of foreign aid before getting more details...

Newser - 8 hours 30 min ago
SpaceX could soon be helping to bankroll one of President Trump's signature policy ideas. Semafor reports that the Trump administration has held talks with Elon Musk's company about contributing SpaceX stock to the new "Trump Accounts," government-backed savings accounts for children set to launch on July 4. Any deal would...

Variety - 10 hours 31 min ago
Quiver Distribution has taken worldwide rights, excluding U.K., German-speaking territories, South Korea and Taiwan, to Armie Hammer's controversial comeback movie "Citizen Vigilante." The distributor, which is led by co-presidents Jeff Sackman and Berry Meyerowitz, already holds North American rights and released the action thriller there on June 19. The deal comes after a dramatic intervention […]...

The Independent - 15 hours 15 min ago
Thousands of people became millionaires after the company's historic June stock offering...

Twitchy - 16 hours 45 min ago
Nicholas Kristof names children who died due to Elon Musk's cuts to USAID aid programs.

Vox - 20 hours 15 min ago
Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025. | Allison Robbert/AFP via Getty Images Historically, being ultra-wealthy meant that there was an obligation to share a chunk of it with the world. Gilded Age industrialists like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie made lasting cultural and philanthropic contributions, many of which still bear their names. But increasingly, our modern billionaires don't seem inclined to follow suit. To show just how little they've given...

NY Post - 22 hours 5 min ago
Rocket Lab is buying Iridium Communications in an $8 billion cash-and-stock deal equipping the rocket maker with a global satellite network and wireless spectrum that could help it compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX. The deal is the latest in a flurry of aerospace tie-ups involving satellite operators in the past year: Globalstar agreed in...

Attack of the Fanboy - 23 hours 45 min ago
She also celebrated a SpaceX milestone recently.