On Tuesday, February 4th, Starlink users in the Falkland Islands woke up with an email from the company saying they were about to be cut off. “You are currently using Starlink in an unauthorized territory. Local telecommunication authorities have instructed Starlink to disable your services,” the email said, according to reporting from the website OpenFalklands. […]
Elon Musk Offers to Buy OpenAI for $97.4 Billion in Unsolicited Bid: Report
Elon Musk and a consortium of investors have made an unsolicited bid of $97.4 billion for a controlling interest in the non-profit that operates OpenAI, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. Musk and his attorney did not immediately respond to questions from Gizmodo on Monday but told the Wall Street Journal […]
Elon’s DOGE Attack on Financial Watchdog Coincides With X Pursuit of Digital Wallet
Elon Musk has sought to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which, as its name denotes, is dedicated to protecting consumers from scummy financial schemes. Bloomberg has pointed out the interesting timing of this effort, given that Musk’s platform, X (formerly Twitter), is currently pursuing a “digital wallet” feature that would ask users to […]
How Elon Musk’s DOGE Could End the U.S. Government as We Know It
Elon Musk’s role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is on the surface a dramatic effort to overhaul the inefficiencies of federal bureaucracy. But beneath the rhetoric of cost-cutting and regulatory streamlining lies a troubling scenario. Musk has been appointed what is called a “special government employee” in […]
Elon Musk Rehiring DOGE Staffer Who Resigned Over Racist Tweets
Elon Musk is rehiring the guy who resigned from DOGE yesterday. And we can’t say that we’re entirely surprised. Musk launched a poll on his social media platform X Friday to ask followers if he should rehire Marko Elez, a 25-year-old software engineer who had been working on the DOGE project that’s currently ransacking the […]
DOGE Staffer Previously Fired From Cybersecurity Company for Leaking Secrets
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk’s DOGE, was fired from his previous job at a cybersecurity company for leaking company secrets, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. Coristine was an intern at Arizona-based Path Network in 2022 when he was fired for allegedly sharing information about the company with a competing […]
DOGE Is Coming for Your Social Security, States Prepare to Sue
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency continues to tear through the federal government like a virus. DOGE has moved from one bureaucratic organ to the next, stopping at each juncture to fire people, seize data, and generally cause mayhem and distress. Now, as various legal challenges begin to pile up, Musk’s pro-corporate, anti-government organization is […]
DOGE Engineer Resigns After Being Linked to Extremely Racist Tweets: Report
Elon Musk’s DOGE, the fake government agency currently doing real damage to the safety and security of the United States, just lost one of its most crucial members. And it will come as no surprise that this distinguished member of Musk’s team left because he was allegedly writing racist garbage on the internet. Marko Elez, […]
Vote to Subpoena Elon Musk Over DOGE’s Government Takeover Narrowly Fails
Congress came very close on Wednesday to putting billionaire Elon Musk in the hot seat over his ongoing attempts to effectively take control of the U.S. government by infiltrating every federal agency. But the effort failed in a 19-20 decision. The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a vote to subpoena Musk, put […]
Netanyahu Gifts Trump Golden Pager to Commemorate Attack That Killed Children: ‘That Was a Great Operation’
During his recent visit to the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu gave President Donald Trump a rather bizarre gift: a pair of pagers. One of the pagers was reportedly gold, while the other was a normal one. The gift appears to have been a reference to the recent Israeli operation that used pagers […]