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Marko Elez, a 25-year-old engineer, is the first of Elon Musk’s DOGE crew to lose their job.Elez resigned from his post at Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE, on Thursday after the Wall Street Journal uncovered that Elez had published racist statements on an anonymous account that once bore his name. However, on Friday, Musk confirmed he could bring Elez back to DOGE.”He will be brought back,” Musk posted to his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, while quoting Vice President JD Vance’s post supporting Elez’s rehiring. “To err is human, to forgive divine.” Tweet may have been…
GitHub Copilot, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot for the coding platform, is getting several new features. Announced on Thursday, the company is adding a new agent mode to the chatbot that can automatically iterate on code generated by it and analyse errors. Alongside, the Microsoft-owned platform also made Copilot Edits generally available, which was first announced at the GitHub Universe in October 2024. The company also took the curtains off Project Padawan, the platform’s first software engineer (SWE) AI agent.GitHub Is Introducing New Features to CopilotJust a week after GitHub added the DeepSeek-R1 AI model to its platform, the company…
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsElon Musk has been condemned for sharing lies about the global response to the Sweden school massacre. Rickard Andersson, a 35-year-old recluse, has been named in Swedish media as the suspected gunman who killed 10 people at Risbergska School in Örebro, before turning the gun on himself. But as well-wishers paid their respects to the victims of the massacre online, X owner and member of the Trump administration…
The Trump Administration announced today that it would be pausing the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program (NEVI) in an effort to realign federal spending with the priorities of the new White House. It is the latest move that President Donald Trump has made to essentially put tax dollars that are used toward the EV transition on hold. The NEVI program was put into effect by the Biden Administration and received many points of criticism as the $5 billion project yielded very few new charging stations and ports despite the massive price tag. Biden administration announces $5B budget to develop EV…
Tesla has landed a huge break for the Cybertruck as the company announced that the all-electric pickup truck now qualifies for the IRA EV Tax Credit, enabling more affordability and accessibility for consumers. However, it is uncertain whether the tax credit will be sticking around as the Trump Administration has leaned toward axing the discount. The company has been anticipating the tax credit to take effect for the Cybertruck for some time. In its Q4 2024 Earnings Shareholder Deck, Tesla said it was still expecting the Cybertruck to qualify, but it did not confirm that it was going to be…
WASHINGTON — Two Republican senators are throwing their weight behind President Donald Trump’s ambitious plan for a next-generation missile defense shield that would leverage space-based technology to counter evolving threats.Sens. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) introduced the “Iron Dome Act” on Feb. 6, proposing $19.5 billion in funding for fiscal year 2026 to implement Trump’s recent executive order dubbed “Iron Dome for America.” The legislation includes $960 million for space-based technologies.The move comes just days after Trump’s Jan. 28 executive order, which directed the Pentagon to develop a comprehensive missile defense system heavily reliant on space sensors for…
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Billionaire Elon Musk has slammed the US market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over probes into Neuralink – a neurotechnology firm owned by the world’s richest man – and the purchase of Twitter shares. His lawyer Alex Spiro has flagged over “six years of harassment” by the Commission and its staff and demanded to know from the chief of the SEC, Gary Clenser, who had directed these actions – him or the White House.”These tactics and misguided scheme will not intimidate us. We reserve all rights,” said a letter sent via Musk’s lawyer to Clenser, who has already…
Tesla is nearing completion of a special Cybertruck Easter Egg at its Gigafactory in Texas, and while crews appear to be just shy of finishing the structure in time for the new year, the project is looking much more like a Cybertruck. Earlier this month, drone pilot and Giga Texas observer Joe Tegtmeyer spotted a Cybertruck-shaped exit taking form at The Boring Company’s so-called “Cybertunnel,” after initially breaking ground on the tunnel back in March. Now, Tesla has added what looks like metal paneling around the outside of the exit to match the Cybertruck’s unique stainless steel exterior, and ultimately…
Semilore Faleti is a cryptocurrency writer specialized in the field of journalism and content creation. While he started out writing on several subjects, Semilore soon found a knack for cracking down on the complexities and intricacies in the intriguing world of blockchains and cryptocurrency. Semilore is drawn to the efficiency of digital assets in terms of storing, and transferring value. He is a staunch advocate for the adoption of cryptocurrency as he believes it can improve the digitalization and transparency of the existing financial systems. In two years of active crypto writing, Semilore has covered multiple aspects of the digital…