Twitter

X shuts down European Commission ad account after €120M fine announcement

Brussels accused of using Ad Composer quirk to post link disguised as a video

Personal Tech08 Dec 2025 | 90

EU metes out first-ever Digital Services Act fine, dings X for blue check deception

TikTok, by contrast, satisfied DSA concerns over its ad repository transparency

Legal05 Dec 2025 | 105

X's location tags remind users of the internet's oldest rule: Trust nothing

Accuracy errors or inadvertent unmasking of rage-bait trolls? Probably somewhere in between

Software24 Nov 2025 | 25

UK prosecutors seize £4.11M in crypto from Twitter mega-hack culprit

Civil recovery order targets PlugwalkJoe's illicit gains while he serves US sentence

Cyber-crime17 Nov 2025 | 5

Why Elon Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout

Opinion Trillionaire fantasies, investor dreams, reality nightmares

Personal Tech14 Nov 2025 | 107

X says passkey reset isn't about a security issue – it's to finally kill off twitter.com

Social media site dispatches crucial clarification days after curious announcement

Personal Tech27 Oct 2025 | 19

X to combat bot problem by showing more info about users

Meet [user] from [location]

Applications15 Oct 2025 | 17

UK minister suggests government could ditch 'dangerous' Elon Musk's X

Ed Miliband takes aim at social media overlord for promoting violence and disinformation

Public Sector29 Sep 2025 | 67

xAI fires legal rocket at Apple and OpenAI claiming they're locking out Grok

Lawsuit 'consistent with Mr Musk’s ongoing pattern of harassment' says Altman's crew

AI + ML25 Aug 2025 | 32

Amnesty slams Elon Musk's X for 'central role' in fueling 2024 UK riots

Human rights org calls for greater accountability and stronger enforcement of Online Safety Act

Personal Tech07 Aug 2025 | 85

X tells the French police 'non' to its request for algorithmic data

Claims it's all a witch hunt by local lawmakers

Legal21 Jul 2025 | 13

Someone hijacked Elmo's X account to post antisemitic rants

Anyone investigated Grok? Just sayin'…

Cyber-crime14 Jul 2025 | 22

xAI's Grok lurches into right-wing insanity, offers tips on assaulting man

Opinion MechaHitler? Garbage In, Garbage Out

AI + ML14 Jul 2025 | 98

X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it

Musk's 'Bitcoin-style encryption' claim has experts scratching their heads

Security03 Jun 2025 | 89

Whodunit? 'Unauthorized' change to Grok made it blather on about 'White genocide'

Agitprop? Protest? An attempt to suck up to the boss?

AI + ML16 May 2025 | 123

CISA mutes own website, shifts routine cyber alerts to Musk’s X, RSS, email

Updated Cripes, we were only joking when we called Elon's social network the new state media

Security12 May 2025 | 67

X marks the drop for European users

Xitter sheds EU users. Musk's Grok suggests 'misinformation, hate speech, and a perceived decline in content moderation' to blame

Personal Tech01 May 2025 | 47

Elon Musk's X revenues in the UK crashed in 2023, down 66%

Latest profit and loss accounts carry scars of ad spending exodus, but things improving. Maybe not everywhere though

Personal Tech28 Apr 2025 | 93

Ireland opens probe into Musk’s X over Grok’s AI data slurp

Watchdog wants to know whether EU posts were used without consent under GDPR

AI + ML14 Apr 2025 | 34

Musk's xAI swallows Musk's X in ego-friendly, all-stock deal

Comment Social media platform magically worth a billion more than what he bought it for

AI + ML31 Mar 2025 | 142

No peace for Gandi this past weekend, after storage SNAFU breaks email and more

Oh, and Musk blames ‘Ukraine area’ for X downtime

Storage11 Mar 2025 | 21

Meta, X sign up to Euro Commish code of conduct on hate speech

Under Digital Services Act, monitors will be allowed to report abusive language and platforms should respond in 1 day

Personal Tech21 Jan 2025 | 113

EU demands a peek under the hood of X's recommendation algorithms

Commission insists the timing has nothing to do with Musk meddling in German politics ahead of election

Personal Tech17 Jan 2025 | 93

SEC sues Elon Musk for allegedly screwing investors out of $150M before Twitter takeover

Plus: SpaceX rocket re-entries spark airline delays

Bootnotes15 Jan 2025 | 50

HPE may have bagged $1B order from Elon Musk's X for AI servers

That's Cray cray

HPC14 Jan 2025 | 28

Musk's lawyer asks SEC to quit pestering the shy and retiring billionaire

Won't someone think of Elon? Ah, who are we kidding - none of this will matter in a month

Personal Tech13 Dec 2024 | 79

Elon Musk tops US political donor list with $270M+ for Team Trump

Plus, xAI scores another $6B to fuel Tesla tycoon's war on OpenAI

Public Sector07 Dec 2024 | 126

Brits are scrolling away from X and aren't that interested in AI

Ofcom's Online Nation report drills into the UK's internet habits for 2024

Personal Tech29 Nov 2024 | 180

xAI picked Ethernet over InfiniBand for its H100 Colossus training cluster

Work already underway to expand system to 200,000 Nvidia Hopper chips

Systems29 Oct 2024 | 4

Bluesky capitalizes on X woes with funding and user growth

The decentralized social network hints at sustainability with talk of subscriptions

Personal Tech28 Oct 2024 | 29

X to allow third parties to train their AI models with social media users' data

Another raft of reasons to ponder your social media presence

Personal Tech18 Oct 2024 | 46

Elon Musk's X isn't important enough to feel the full force of EU regulation

DMA gatekeeper status denied, meaning X can carry on without extra compliance chores

Public Sector17 Oct 2024 | 75

Elon Musk's X mashed by Australian court for evading child protection reporting

Argument that it didn't inherit Twitter's legal obligations did not hit the spot

Legal04 Oct 2024 | 74

It's true, social media moderators do go after conservatives

Because they're most likely to share crappy misinformation online

Personal Tech03 Oct 2024 | 247

Elon's latest X-periment: Blocked users can still stalk your public tweets

'High time this happened' says Musk

Personal Tech24 Sep 2024 | 35

Age discrimination layoff case against X granted class-action status

Judge clears path for 149 ex-Twitters over 50 to sue collectively

Legal05 Sep 2024 | 24

Musk's X, Media Matters headed to trial

The platform 'has provided sufficient allegations to survive dismissal,' judge says

Legal30 Aug 2024 | 114

Elon Musk reins in Grok AI bot to stop election misinformation

Because who needs yet another lawsuit?

AI + ML28 Aug 2024 | 35

Judge acquits web dev accused of spreading fake news that led to UK riots

With a warning: Words have power

Legal27 Aug 2024 | 38

Elon Musk's X Corp faces $61M lawsuit over unpaid tech tabs

Taiwanese IT infrastructure provider claims platform ghosted it

On-Prem20 Aug 2024 | 39

Twitter must pay over half a million to unfairly dismissed Irish exec

Remember the 'go hardcore or go home' email? Turns out: not super compatible with Irish employment law

Personal Tech15 Aug 2024 | 149

Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS

Once-great platform tanks another major political livestream, bigly

Off-Prem13 Aug 2024 | 278

Twitter's former chairman sues X over unpaid options

Seeks $23 million in damages over Musk's alleged reluctance to pay his bills

Personal Tech12 Aug 2024 | 31

Under-fire Elon Musk urged to get a grip on X and reality – or resign

Exclusive Chamber of Progress pens open letter pressing billionaire to behave better amid UK riots

Personal Tech07 Aug 2024 | 369

Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off

Updated CEO claims 'illegal boycott' was attack on Musk's version of free speech

Personal Tech06 Aug 2024 | 198

Here we go again. And again. Musk threatens to pull Twitter, SpaceX out of California

Comment Over here, look at me, Donald, I'm over here, don't you want to tweet again? Woke! Trans! Antifa! Immigration!

Science17 Jul 2024 | 121

EU officials say X’s paid-for blue check deceives users and breaks law

Preliminary findings also claim platform not compliant with DSA requirements for transparency, research access

Personal Tech12 Jul 2024 | 75

FBI, cyber-cops zap ~1K Russian AI disinfo Twitter bots

RT News snarks back after it's accused of building social nyet-work for Kremlin

Cyber-crime09 Jul 2024 | 11

Twitter grew an incredible '1.6%' since Musk's $44B takeover. Amazing. Wow

No doubt thanks to Vladi5555, KremLinda1776, RealAmericanPat22, etc etc

Personal Tech09 Jul 2024 | 50

X boss Elon Musk tries to make nice with world at ad biz conference

Where we're at in 2024: Billionaire says he didn't mean to tell everyone to 'go f%$k themselves'

Offbeat20 Jun 2024 | 46

X marks the spot where Twitter's severance math doesn't add up

Surely an everything app includes a working currency converter?

Off-Prem13 Jun 2024 | 33

Adios, accountability: X to hide 'likes' for everyone this week

Hello, blackmail: Posters can still see who liked their stuff even if it's a secret from the rest of the digital town square

Applications12 Jun 2024 | 44

Chucking Trump etc off Twitter after Jan 6 provides key data for misinfo experiment

This study is bad, so so bad. The worst study ever. Did you know Hillary Clinton created ISIS?

Personal Tech06 Jun 2024 | 101

Elon Musk confirms 12K H100s ordered for Tesla were instead prioritized for xAI

Comment Tycoon's private firms got Nvidia GPUs first because automaker couldn’t use them yet

AI + ML05 Jun 2024 | 21

Australia drops legal action that aimed to have X take down stabbing vid

Musky network celebrates free speech win ... after not opposing takedown of similar fare

Public Sector05 Jun 2024 | 41

Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app

Commissioner Thierry Breton likens click-to-earn version to cigarettes

Software18 Apr 2024 | 53