Elon Musk
Twitterati slam Musk for allowing 2-factor authentication only for Blue users
After March 20, non-Blue accounts with text or SMS-based 2FA still enabled "will have it disabled." Currently, the platform offers three methods of 2FA - text message, authentication app and security key. Musk tweeted on Sunday: "Use of free authentication apps for 2FA will remain free and are much more secure than SMS".
China's BYD to take on Tesla in luxury EV market
Operating in more than 40 nations, BYD plans to sell nearly two million EVs this year, including in Japan and countries in Southeast Asia and Europe, according to a Nikkei Asia report. "Our dream will come true as a result of research and development efforts over 20 years. We will change the global industrial structure for luxury cars," Wang Chuanfu, founder and chairman of BYD, was quoted as saying.
San Francisco gets emptier and emptier, Musk finds it 'tragic'
File hosting service Dropbox's chief financial officer Tim Regan said that they were relatively quick to market with subleasing plans. However, "the market has deteriorated, with many companies reducing their real estate footprint", said Regan. San Francisco has been among the slowest US markets to rebound from the pandemic as tech companies did not open their offices and promoted remote work amid mass layoffs.
Twitter to soon let users adjust algorithm: Musk
Musk tweeted: "If many people who you follow or like also follow me, it is highly probable that the algorithm will recommend my tweets. It's not super sophisticated." In coming months, we will offer the ability to adjust the algorithm to closer match what is most compelling to you."Several users expressed their thoughts on Musk's post. When one user commented.
OpenAI now a maximum-profit company controlled by Microsoft: Elon Musk
The AI chatbot ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI which is now a Microsoft company, has become a rage and the tech giant is infusing $10 billion into it to make it more useful for across industries. Musk said that OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it "Open" AI), a non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google.
Sorry for showing you so many irrelevant & annoying ads on Twitter: Musk
"Sorry for showing you so many irrelevant & annoying ads on Twitter," Musk tweeted."We're taking the (obvious) corrective action of tying ads to keywords & topics in tweets, like Google does with search. This will improve contextual relevance dramatically," he added. Last month, Musk announced that a higher-priced subscription to the microblogging platform.
Musk shuts 2 Twitter India offices: Report
Twitter closed its offices in the country's capital New Delhi and financial hub Mumbai, and continued to operate an office in the southern tech hub of Bengaluru, reports Bloomberg, citing sources. In November last year, Musk fired more than 90 per cent of its staff in India, around 200-plus. Globally, Twitter has laid off more than 50 per cent of its staff.
Tesla sacks over 30 workers after they planned to form a union
The Workers' United union alleged that Tesla fired over 30 employees from its Buffalo, New York plant and at least one of the workers was part of the 25-employee organising committee, while several others had taken part in labour discussions, reports The Verge.
Tesla to open 7,500 charging stations in US to other EVs by 2024
"Tesla, for the first time, will open a portion of its US Supercharger and Destination Charger network to non-Tesla EVs, making at least 7,500 chargers available for all EVs by the end of 2024. The open chargers will be distributed across the US," according to an official announcement.
'Trouble' fixed, Twitter back after brief outage on iOS
The company tweeted from its @TwitterSupport account: "Pardon the interruption! iOS users may have experienced some trouble using Twitter earlier. Things should be back to normal now."User reports peaked at more than 8,700 on the online outage monitor website Downdetector. According to the outage monitor website, over 85 per cent of people had reported problems.
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