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Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service has announced it will comply with a Brazilian Supreme Court order to block access to Musk’s social media platform X in Brazil.

In a significant victory for Elon Musk’s social media platform X, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has partially blocked a California law that mandates social media companies to disclose their policies for addressing disinformation, harassment, hate speech, and extremism.

Groups such as the “Voter Participation Center” pretend to be politically neutral, because their non-profit status requires it, but a look at how they target their registration appeals using big tech tells a different story.

Progressive mandates have bogged down the Biden-Harris expansion of broadband so that not one American has been connected 1,024 days after lawmakers passed the so-called infrastructure bill.

Internet trolls backed by the Chinese Communist Party are reportedly posing as Americans on social media platforms including China’s TikTok and targeting U.S. voters ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

The world’s largest film piracy ring, Fmovies, has reportedly been shuttered after an international coalition, which included major Hollywood studios, worked with police in Hanoi, Vietnam, to shut it down.

Toyota is recalling more than 43,000 of its Sequoia hybrid SUVs due to worries about a part falling off and causing a wreck.

A supposed “glitch” in Chase bank’s ATMs that allowed customers to withdraw large sums of money after depositing fake checks has led to a flurry of TikTok users posting videos online bragging about their ill-gotten gains. However, experts warn that this is not a harmless trick, but rather a clear case of check fraud that could result in serious legal consequences.

Elon Musk has escalated his attacks against Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, calling for his arrest after the country’s high court upheld a ban on the X social media platform.

Car makers across the UK are rationing sales of petrol and hybrid vehicles to sidestep punitive net zero fines, one of the country’s biggest dealership chains has claimed.

Keith Ellison, attorney general for Minnesota – the state where Kamala Harris VP pick Tim Walz serves as governor – on Monday celebrated Brazil’s supreme court banning Elon Musk’s X from the country.

More than 90,000 Ford and Lincoln vehicles are being recalled because of engine valves that may “have a propensity to crack and break,” the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced.

Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, Starlink, has openly defied a Brazilian court order to block access to the social media platform X in the country, further escalating the ongoing dispute between the billionaire and Brazilian authorities.

NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore has reported strange, pulsing noises emanating from a speaker inside the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, which has been docked at the International Space Station for nearly three months after stranding Wilmore and fellow astronaut Suni Williams in space.

SAO PAULO (AP) — The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians on Saturday had difficulty and doubts over navigating other social media in its absence.

A former Clinton administration official wrote on Friday that Elon Musk is a person who is “out of control” and needs to be stopped.

Popular YouTuber and streamer Vitaly Zdorovetskiy, who in 2016 infamously streaked at the NBA Finals with “Trump sucks” written on his chest, announced, “I fully endorse Trump to be the next President of the United States” on Friday, and urged his followers to “Vote Trump.” Vitaly also commented that living in Los Angeles had “brainwashed” him into believing that former President Donald Trump was a “racist.”

Brazil has blocked Elon Musk’s X social media platform after the SpaceX and Tesla CEO refused to comply with the nation’s demands to blacklist certain accounts. Musk claimed on his platform that the country also froze the assets of Starlink, his satellite internet company.

Left-wing Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo has sided with Brazilian president Lula da Silva’s judiciary for blocking Elon Musk’s social media platform X, making it largely inaccessible on both the web and through its mobile app.

Apple is in discussions to invest in artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, joining a funding round that could value the company at over $100 billion.

A 29-year-old man living in Australia has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for orchestrating a horrific global sextortion scheme that targeted hundreds of victims across 20 countries, with most victims being children under the age of 16.

A U.S. District Judge has ruled that Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) can move forward with its lawsuit against the leftist censorship organization Media Matters, setting a trial date for April 7, 2025.

Elon Musk says it’s “probably wise” for him “to limit” his travels to areas where free speech is “constitutionally protected.” The X owner’s comments come after Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France in connection to a “lack of moderation” on his messaging app.

Tech giant Apple has laid off employees from its digital services group, primarily affecting those working on the Apple Books app and Apple News.

Italian prosecutors have put under investigation two more crew members of the Bayesian, the superyacht that sank off Sicily last week, killing seven people, their lawyer said on Friday.

An appeals court has revived a lawsuit against China’s TikTok, reversing a lower court’s ruling that Section 230 immunity shielded the app from liability after a child died participating in the dangerous viral “blackout challenge.”

Actor Julián Ortega, who recently appeared in the Netflix series “Elite,” collapsed and died suddenly at Spain’s Zahora Beach. He was 41.

Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Minister Alexandre de Moraes threatened on Wednesday to block access to X in Brazil.

Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) has filed a federal lawsuit against the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Education and its Secretary Miguel Cardona over a scholarship and career advancement program the organization says discriminates against Americans based of race.

Yelp, a long-time rival of Google, has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the search giant, accusing it of engaging in anticompetitive practices in the local search market.

The FAA has grounded SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket for the second time in less than two months following a failed booster landing attempt during the Starlink 8-6 mission.

Wednesday on FNC’s “Hannity,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, highlighted the timing of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s admission that the federal government leaned on Facebook to restrict the dissemination of the so-called Hunter Biden laptop story, which comes ahead of the November presidential election.

Boeing’s plagued Starliner spacecraft is facing an uncertain future as technical issues, delays, and budget overruns continue to mount, leading NASA and industry experts to question the viability of the project.

The Biden-Harris administration has adopted and expanded “Zuckerbucks” on a scale that renders Mark Zuckerberg’s involvement unnecessary.

Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ system is under increased scrutiny as incidents and expert opinions raise questions about its safety and readiness for widespread use even as Elon Musk touts his cars as the robotaxis of the future.

Anti-Israel protesters wasted no time getting back to creating chaos on Ivy League campuses and were caught vandalizing Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, on the first day classes resumed for the fall semester on Tuesday. The protesters shattered a glass