🛰️ Musk's Ukraine Move, Threads Expansion, X Ditches 'Tweet'
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Elon Musk Acknowledges Withholding Satellite Service to Thwart Ukrainian Attack. The Starlink satellite internet service, which is operated by Mr. Musk's rocket company SpaceX, has been a digital lifeline for soldiers and civilians in Ukraine. Elon Musk has acknowledged that he denied satellite internet service in order to prevent a Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian naval fleet last year, prompting an angry response from a Ukrainian official. By Victoria Kim via The New York Times
Usually a company running a system for private communications cannot select how that system is used, but Elon Musk used his control of Starlink to block a planned Ukrainian attack in occupied Crimea. - Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth)
Threads expands search to 'most' English and Spanish-speaking countries, including U.S.. A week after Instagram Threads announced it had begun testing a search feature in Australia and New Zealand, the feature is today expanding to “most” English and Spanish-speaking countries, according to a post on Threads by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The expansion will impact countries where people post in English and Spanish, including Argentina, India, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States. By Sarah Perez via TechCrunch
Threads expands search to 'most' English and Spanish-speaking countries - TechCrunch (8@TechCrunch)
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X's new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts. X really wants you to forget about Twitter — and that includes in its terms of service. Users are starting to see pop-ups about new terms that go into effect on September 29th, and one adjustment is two instances of “retweet” (the only use of “tweet” in the current terms) to “repost,” essentially putting the final stamp in the death of the word tweet. By Jay Peters via The Verge
X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts - Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)
ChatGPT traffic slips again for third month in a row. OpenAI's ChatGPT, the wildly popular artificial intelligence chatbot launched in November, saw monthly website visits decline for the third month in a row in August, though there are signs the decline is coming to an end, according to analytics firm Similarweb. By Anna Tong via Reuters
“.. visits to the #ChatGPT website decreased by 3.2% .. in August, following approximately 10% drops from each of the previous two months.” - Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla)
California Shows an Electric-Car Uprising Headed for the US. EV sales in the Golden State jumped 70% last quarter, a prelude of what's to come across the country. If you want to know how quickly electric vehicles might spread across the US, just look at California. In the past five years, EVs have gone from 2% of new-car sales in the state to 22%. By Tom Randall via Bloomberg
California was arguably the first *major* auto market to reach 5% fully electric vehicles. Today I added it to the Electric Vehicle tipping points project, which tracks adoption curves in 23 countries 2/ - Tom Randall (@tsrandall)
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