SAO PAULO — The Brazilian supreme court has ordered that X be suspended in the country after the social media platform failed to meet a deadline to appoint a legal representative in the country. Late on Friday afternoon, Justice Alexandre de Moraes – who has been engaged in a dispute with X’s owner, Elon Musk, […]
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Massive DDoS attack hits live stream with Donald Trump on X, says Elon Musk
WASHINGTON — Elon Musk has announced that a massive DDoS attack hit his livestream with former US President Donald Trump, forcing X owner to scale down the live audience. The interview was delayed as the glitch kept the users out of the livestream. “Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners […]
WhatsApp exports your user data every night: Elon Musk
NEW DELHI — Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Saturday slammed Meta-owned WhatsApp for allegedly exporting users’ data every night. An X user posted that WhatsApp exports user data nightly, which is “analysed and used for targeted advertising, making users the product, not the customer”. Musk replied that “WhatsApp exports your user data every […]
X platform now has 600 million monthly active users: Elon Musk
NEW DELHI — Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday said that his X social media platform has reached 600 million monthly active users (MAUs). Musk, who acquired the platform in 2022 for $44 billion, is making it an “everything app” where people can post movies and TV shows and also make digital payments. “X has […]
Neuralink implants brain chip in first human: Elon Musk
SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk, Neuralink’s billionaire founder, said the first human received an implant from the brain-chip startup on Sunday and is recovering well, in a post on Twitter/X on Monday. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had given the company clearance last year to conduct its first trial to test its implant […]
X faces major outrage globally
NEW DELHI — On Thursday, X (formerly Twitter) run by Elon Musk faced a major outage globally, including in India, with users complaining that they were not able to see any comments, view any profiles, tweets, and others. According to the outage monitor website DownDetector, over 64 per cent of people reported problems while using […]