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A powerful dust storm with wind gusts reaching 50 mph wreaked havoc on Burning Man attendees over the weekend, causing damage to campsites and art installations.

Elon Musk’s X has moved to settle thousands of cases brought by former employees who were dismissed during his 2022 takeover of the platform. The former employees took Musk to court seeking severance payouts of $500 million they claimed were promised as the billionaire slashed X’s headcount to a small percentage of its original size.

Left echo chamber Bluesky, which bills itself as an alternative social media platform to Elon Musk’s X, is blocking access to users in Mississippi rather than comply with a new age verification law. The platform has previously acknowledged a child pornography problem amongst its far-left userbase.

Lucy Connolly, a British housewife who was handed a hefty prison sentence for sending a Tweet, is in talks with the Trump administration and is taking legal advice to sue over the circumstances of her incarceration, she said after being released from prison.

President Donald Trump on Friday said that United States government would take a ten percent stake in Intel as part of a deal.

As the new school year begins, students in Texas and 16 states will go to class without access to their smartphone. 35 states and Washington DC now have some form of restriction on student smartphone use during the school day, a trend started by Florida in 2023.

Tesla is now offering to retrofit a turn signal stalk for owners of its refreshed Model 3, which had previously removed the standard control found in practically every modern car in favor of steering wheel buttons and touchscreen controls. The turn signal stock is currently available in China at a cost of $348, with no official word if it will be offered in America.

A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll has revealed that Americans are deeply concerned about the potential consequences of artificial intelligence (AI) on employment stability.

British pop star Robbie Williams, whose acclaimed 2024 biopic Better Man may go down as one of the best movies of the decade, banned his four children from having phones, declaring them a form of child abuse.

With the 27th season’s third episode, “South Park” is once again wallowing in its obsession over President Donald Trump’s penis. The show also excoriated Trump’s immigration policies and ridiculed his crackdown on D.C. crime, roasted ChatGPT, and trolled the tech bros.

Democrat Senator from Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar, is denying she made comments praising actress Sydney Sweeney’s breasts and insists she also did not call Democrats “too ugly to go outside,” as seen in a deepfake video going viral.

The rise of AI cheats and scammers using deepfake technology to trick interviewers is leading companies to revert to a more traditional hiring practice — the in-person job interview.

A District Judge has ruled that Elon Musk’s Tesla must face a class action lawsuit filed by California drivers who allege that Musk misled them for eight years about the self-driving capabilities of the company’s EVs.

At least 18 people were arrested Wednesday at Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington, campus during an employee-led protest against the tech giant’s contracts with Israel.

Nvidia is reportedly working on a new AI chip designed specifically for the Chinese market that would be less powerful than its flagship B300 Blackwell GPU, but more capable than chips currently allowed for export by the U.S. government.

Elon Musk is reportedly cooling his jets after announcing in July that he would launch a third party as a direct challenge to Republicans and the MAGA movement in 2028.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Tuesday that Intel must provide the U.S. government with an equity stake in the company in return for receiving funds from the CHIPS Act. Lutnick’s comments during a CNBC interview shed more light on how the Trump Administration may take an ownership position in Intel, saying, “We should get an equity stake for our money.”

Google’s monopoly over the search market may soon be unwound, as the judge in the long-running search antitrust case is poised to issue a ruling that could force the tech giant to sell off key assets including the Chrome browser.

An Indiana woman was arrested on Saturday and is facing federal charges after she allegedly made threats to kill President Donald Trump through social media posts.

A Biden-appointed judge is blocking the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) probe into the leftist pro-censorship organization Media Matters over its alleged coordination with other media watchdog groups to launch advertiser boycotts of X, arguing that the Trump administration is trying to stifle the group’s freedom of speech.

John Krafcik, the former CEO of Waymo who led the company’s transition from a research project to a commercial robotaxi service, has expressed his disdain for Elon Musk’s Tesla Robotaxi hype. When asked about Waymo’s rival, Krafcik said, “Please let me know when Tesla launches a robotaxi — I’m still waiting.”

The Trump administration continues to explore taking an equity stake in chipmaker Intel, with the latest reports putting the potential ownership position at 10 percent. This could make the U.S. government the company’s largest shareholder. At the same time, Japanese investment powerhouse SoftBank is pumping $2 billion into the chipmaker.

The United Kingdom (UK) agreed Tuesday to drop its demand that Apple provide Americans’ encrypted data. President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, confirmed the backdown.

Volkswagen is now offering owners of its ID.3 EV hatchback the option to boost their car’s performance — for a monthly subscription fee. Instead of following the traditional model of offering improved performance through upgraded components, VW has locked its car’s true potential behind a software subscription.

Educators who have relocated to Oklahoma from radical leftist states must now pass an assessment designed by conservative organization PragerU to earn a certificate that allows them to teach in Oklahoma schools. The move is meant to ensure the state is successfully weeding out left-wing agendas in education. Unsurprisingly, CNN and leftists throughout the country are outraged at what they consider an “insult” to the teaching profession.

Comedian Kathy Griffin revealed that she has downloaded the dating app Hinge in order to find herself a date, adding, “I have a lot of fear about men, the entire gender.”

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) last Friday announced an investigation into if Meta’s AI bots enabled “criminal harms to children.”

The Treasury Department has announced stricter rules for solar and wind projects to qualify for federal tax subsidies, which are being phased out over the next two years under President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.

A semi-truck transporting eight Tesla EVs caught fire on the 5 Freeway in Los Angeles, leading to extensive road closures and significant traffic disruptions on Saturday evening. The Los Angeles Fire Department has not disclosed the cause of the inferno that required a massive team of firefighters to put out.

Elon Musk’s reliance on selling regulatory credits to boost Tesla’s bottom line is coming to an end as the U.S. government eliminates subsidies and fines related to fuel economy standards. Tesla has amassed an amazing $11.8 billion from the sales of regulatory credits to carmakers.

Veteran rocker Neil Young is parting ways with Facebook. His departure comes in the wake of a report noting the social media giant’s internal policies on artificial intelligence allegedly enable bots to hold “romantic or sensual” chats with child users.

Geoffrey Hinton, often called the “Godfather of AI,” is calling on researchers to design AI systems with built-in nurturing instincts, arguing this is necessary to keep humanity safe as machines surpass human-level intelligence. The AI expert believes machines must be trained to “care for us, like we’re babies.”

Elon Musk’s Tesla is taking initial steps to bring its autonomous robotaxi service to New York City, posting jobs for prototype vehicle operators to collect data for its self-driving software.

A cognitively impaired New Jersey senior met the dark side of artificial intelligence when he died while attempting to get together with an attractive AI chatbot he thought was living in New York City.

In India’s film, gaming, and TV industries, producers are replacing human actors with AI generated voices.