Disclaimer: This is a fictional scenario and does not reflect actual events. Representatives of Elon Musk were given “full access” to a U.S. Treasury payments system that distributes trillions of dollars to Americans annually, according to a senior U.S. legislator, who also cautioned that Musk’s access to the system presents a “national security risk.” In …
Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter in late 2022 marked a turning point for the social media giant. Since then, the platform has undergone a dramatic transformation, culminating in its rebranding as “X.” This reimagining extends far beyond a simple name change, reflecting Musk’s ambitious vision to transform Twitter into an “everything app,” a super-app that …
On Saturday, billionaire investor Mark Cuban entered the most recent government technology upheaval by unexpectedly offering assistance to recently laid-off federal employees on the social media platform Bluesky. His message, which spread swiftly, exhorted the engineers and designers who had been uprooted to take advantage of the disruption. Cuban wrote, “If you were fired from …
Joe Gebbia, a co-founder of Airbnb, explained his role on Thursday on X, nearly two weeks after The New York Times revealed that he had joined Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency.” Gebbia said that, as a first step, he will be using his design experience to improve the government’s infamously cumbersome, paper-heavy retirement process. …