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Who is Jack Dorsey? The billionaire tech founder and Bluesky boss who ran Twitter before Elon Musk | Science & Tech News
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As Elon Musk drags Twitter and its users through more and more turbulence, its founder Jack Dorsey has made a supportive observation from the sidelines. He posted that “Running Twitter is hard” and “it’s easy to critique the decisions from afar”. The 46-year-old billionaire left the platform he co-founded in 2006 to launch what he…
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Elon Musk jokes about Twitter’s new reading limits after users vent fury | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk has joked about Twitter’s temporary daily reading limits after users vented their fury over the site’s new limitations. “Oh the irony of hitting view limits due to complaining about view limits,” the billionaire tweeted. Earlier Musk had said Twitter applied the limits to address “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation. He…
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Twitter applies temporary reading limits for all users, Elon Musk announces | Science & Tech News
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Twitter has applied temporary daily reading limits to address “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation, Elon Musk has said. In a tweet, the billionaire gave details for both verified, unverified and new unverified accounts – followed by another post about two hours later, saying the caps would be “increasing soon”. Verified Twitter users…
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Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk ‘dead serious’ about cage fight, says UFC boss | Science & Tech News
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Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are “absolutely dead serious” about fighting each other in a cage match, the boss of UFC has said. The tech billionaires used their respective social media platforms, Instagram and Twitter, this week to talk up their battle-readiness – and both have apparently since spoken to mixed martial arts supremo Dana…
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Mark Zuckerberg agrees to Elon Musk’s cage fight challenge | Science & Tech News
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Billionaire technology rivals Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have agreed to fight each other in a cage match. Twitter owner Musk, 51, said on his social media platform he was “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg, 39. The Facebook founder and Meta chief executive and chairman then captioned a post “send me location” to…
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Twitter loses second trust and safety chief since Elon Musk takeover | Science & Tech News
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Twitter’s head of trust and safety has resigned from the social media company, according to a report. Ella Irwin told Reuters news agency she had resigned, not long after Fortune reported her internal Slack account appeared to have been deactivated. Ms Irwin oversaw content moderation – a controversial subject for a company that has been…
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Elon Musk’s brain chip company Neuralink says it has won FDA approval for human trials | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk’s brain chip firm Neuralink has said it has been given the go-ahead to start carrying out studies on humans. Neuralink said in a tweet on Thursday it had won the approval of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “to launch our first-in-human clinical study!” It represents “an important first step that will…
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Elon Musk says artificial intelligence isn’t ‘necessary for anything’ | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk has hit out at artificial intelligence (AI), saying it is not “necessary for anything we’re doing”. The Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX owner claimed super-intelligence was “a double-edged sword”. “If you have a genie that can grant you anything, that presents a danger,” according to the billionaire, who said AI could be used to…
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Elon Musk tells Emmanuel Macron he had to to ‘sleep in the car’ before their meeting – hours after he was seen partying | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk has been heard telling French President Emmanuel Macron that he had to “sleep in the car” before their meeting in Paris – hours after the billionaire was seen partying in Mexico and Los Angeles. The Tesla chief executive met Mr Macron at the Elysee Palace on Monday as part of the French president’s…
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Elon Musk names Linda Yaccarino as new Twitter chief executive | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk has announced his new Twitter chief executive – NBCUniversal executive Linda Yaccarino. The billionaire said he was “excited” to announce the hiring of Ms Yaccarino – who he said would focus “primarily on business operations” at Twitter. Musk, who completed a $44bn (£35bn) takeover of the social media site in October, also announced…