Weekend Tech Roundup January 06, 2024
Google Just Disabled Cookies for 30 Million Chrome Users. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Them. But me love cookies!Photo: VIAVAL TOURS / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) Mr. Tweet Fumbles…
Elon Musk’s X Is Worth 71% Less Than He Bought It For, Says Fidelity
Photo: Antonio Masiello (Getty Images) A mutual fund that helped Elon Musk buy X now says the platform is worth 71.5% less than the $44 billion it was purchased for…
Twitter Was 2023’s Best Movie Theater
Whatever else you can say about X, previously known as Twitter, it’s never really boring. The 17-year-old social media site that we’ve stuck around with always has something going on;…
Iconic SpaceX Booster Falls and Breaks in the Ocean
A Falcon 9 first-stage booster broke apart after completing its 19th mission, tipping over on the floating droneship in the Atlantic Ocean due to high winds. Astronomers Could Soon Get…
Users Flock to Threads as X Suffers Largest Outage Since Musk Takeover
Photo: Chesnot (Getty Images) Over 90,000 users on X experienced an outage on Thursday morning, marking the platform’s most severe outage since Elon Musk’s takeover in October of 2022, according…
X (formerly Twitter) returns after global outage
X, formerly known as Twitter, went down for about 90 minutes for users around the world early on Thursday ET. Anyone opening the social media app across all platforms was…
NASA’s Moon-Bound Astronauts Prepare for Emergency Ahead of 2024 Launch
Four astronauts are getting ready to travel to the Moon and back for NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, and the space agency is making sure that the crew is well-prepared in…
The Cage Fight With Musk Never Happened, but Zuck Won 2023
This summer, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk blew the internet’s mind by claiming they would fight each other in a “cage match”-style brawl. The rival tech execs were feuding over…
Elon Musk Gets the John Oliver Treatment
Screenshot: LastWeekTonight It’s been a long year. The Titan submersible getting crushed? That was only six months ago even though it feels like it had to have been at least…
Elon Musk’s X Under Investigation for Spreading ‘Illegal Content’ on Israel and Hamas in EU
The European Union opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X on Monday examining the platform’s role in spreading ‘illegal content’ around the Israel and Hamas war. X has come…