Roundup: What’s going on in Romania?

Read to the end for the revival of Elon Musk’s war on California high-speed rail

Roundup: The return of self-driving hype

Read to the end for a graph of Elon Musk’s real-time mental decline

Advertisers are returning to Twitter/X to keep Elon Musk happy

Brands know Musk has influence with Donald Trump and want to make sure he doesn’t use it against them

Roundup: Has Bluesky’s moment arrived?

Read to the end for another Cybertruck fail

What we get wrong about the supposed threat of Chinese EVs

Recent comments by Ford CEO Jim Farley give a more honest picture of why Chinese EV makers are leading

Roundup: Some fiction after a grim week

Read to the end for a fascinating video a certain orange guy’s social media use

Shame on the Elon enablers

Media and politicians created a monster and lost control of him

How Amazon threatens Canada’s post office

Amazon’s low-wage, non-union model is a threat to key public institutions and their unionized workers

Roundup: Targeting platforms’ addictive design

Read to the end for a fun jab at Mark Zuckerberg’s Halloween costume

Geoffrey Hinton’s misguided views on AI

He may have made important contributions to artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean he knows where it’s going

Roundup: Elon Musk’s Russian connection

Read to the end for another AI CEO making ridiculous energy demands

Gates-washing the future

A new Netflix series continues the effort to launder Bill Gates’ reputation