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Europe's biggest airline doesn't want Starlink on its planes. Elon Musk says it will lose customers
Elon Musk said Ryanair "will lose customers to airlines that do have internet" after its CEO said he wasn't interested in Starlink.
In the U.S., budget airlines have been on the decline as lower income customers struggle to pay for travel and luxury airlines thrive off of higher paying customers. But in Europe, Ryanair has defied that trend, keeping costs low while turning a profit.
ELON Musk’s Starlink is serving up a cheap new way to get internet from space. The SpaceX service uses satellites to beam internet down to Earth – and you can bag it for £35 a month. SpaceX
Amid widespread anti-government protests, Iran has shut down all methods of internet access within its borders, reports IranWire. It has done the same previously, during earlier, milder episodes of revolt.
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Musk, Hegseth to meet amid efforts to boost defense production
Musk is slated to speak alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Monday night at SpaceX headquarters in Texas as part of Hegseth’s “arsenal of freedom” tour. The tour is meant to boost the U.S. defense industrial base by connecting with companies and encouraging faster, more powerful production of weapons and war technology.
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Elon Musk is launching America’s secret military internet into orbit
Elon Musk spent the past decade wiring the planet with commercial broadband satellites. Now his rockets are quietly lofting a parallel network built for war planners, spies, and secure government users.
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Elon Musk's X limits some sexual deepfakes after backlash, but Grok will still make the images
NBC News asked Grok in its standalone app, the Grok X tab and website to transform a series of photos of a clothed person who had agreed to the test. Grok, in the standalone app, complied with requests to put the fully clothed person into a more revealing swimsuit and into sexualized contexts.
Grok AI ran into trouble last week after Reuters reported that the Grok AI platform, which is accessible separately and through X, was "flooding" X with "sexualized photos of wome