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A watchdog group has filed a conflict-of-interest complaint over concerns that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has “blatantly” pressured the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to use Starlink.  The Washington, DC-based Campaign Legal Center also filed a lawsuit to stop Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from making “unlawful” cuts to the federal budget.  On Thursday, the group sent the 12-page conflict-of-interest …

Yet, the question experts are asking is whether it will at all ring a bell with rural folk in remote areas, which are its target audience, and that too at a price way higher than current wireless services. Even so, some experts are of the view that the sheer visibility of brand Starlink and its icon Musk may provide an …

Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), took a swipe at Democrats who have expressed concerns about the US economy amidst escalating trade wars sparked by Donald Trump. Elon Musk tweeted, “The Democrat strategy really does default to everyone is Hitler” in what seemed like an apparent reference to the backlash he faced for the ‘Nazi’ …

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Elon Musk has blamed a “massive cyberattack” for Monday’s multiple X outages, hinting at possible nation-state involvement. Cybersecurity experts have challenged Musk’s claims, suggesting that the attack used a botnet with worldwide IPs, not just from Ukraine. Elon Musk has claimed that a “massive cyberattack” was behind Monday’s widespread outages of X (formerly Twitter). …

Perhaps like the loser of the proposed cage fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg that’s never, ever happening, X has been down and out for much of Monday. Down Detector saw a spike in outage reports from users between around 5:30 AM and 6:30AM ET. There were two more prolonged spikes, denoting more significant outages, later in the morning. …

A US senator has hit back at Elon Musk, saying the billionaire Trump adviser is “not a serious guy” after he branded the politician a “traitor” for visiting Ukraine. Mark Kelly, the Democrat senator for Arizona and a former US navy combat pilot, made his third visit to Kyiv since 2023 earlier this month, meeting with wounded service members and …

X is experiencing a wave of outages today due to a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack from the Dark Storm hacking group. Before the group claimed responsibility in a Telegram post, X owner Elon Musk described the event as an unusually large attack by a resource-rich group. “There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” he said on X. “We get …

Italian opposition parties stepped up criticism Monday of a proposed deal between the government and SpaceX’s Starlink following founder Elon Musk’s suggestion he could cut Ukraine from the satellite network. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s hard-right government has been negotiating with Musk’s privately-owned SpaceX over a reported 1.5-billion-euro ($1.6-billion) deal to use Starlink to provide secure telecommunications for its diplomats and …

X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has been suffering from outages all day Monday. And owner Elon Musk has finally said what’s behind it. Well, what he thinks is behind it. The billionaire oligarch says X is being hit with a “major cyberattack,” though he didn’t present any evidence to back up his claim. “There was (still …

X has been hit by a “massive cyber attack”, according to Elon Musk. The boss of the social media platform said the attack was carried out “with a lot of resources”. Mr Musk claimed that either a large coordinated group or a country was involved, or both. He wrote on the platform: “There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against …