Why is an obscure PhD on the politics of smell causing outrage online?
The people attacking Dr Ally Louks over her chosen subject are really attacking everything they have decided she stands for: woke academia, feminists, leftist-elite intellectuals
Elon Musk
Tesla’s board learns the cost of worshipping Musk
Judge says directors should not have agreed $100bn pay deal she has blocked, criticising the board’s lack of independence
Bearing thrifts: Elon Musk targets Washington waste with his ‘naughty and nice list’
Richest man in the world meets politicians on Capitol Hill to discuss his plans to trim some $2 trillion from federal government spending
Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar Tesla payout gutted by court
Tesla board set to appeal ruling Musk called 'corruption'
‘It’s cool’ isn’t a good reason for scientists to develop harmful technologies
Unthinkable: Regulating generative AI is important in its own right, but it’s also a dummy run for the existential threat of artificial general intelligence. This will go beyond mimicking human intelligence to conquering it
Forget Bluesky and pre-Musk Twitter. Friendship is the only true antidote to polarisation
It is less easy to hate someone with baffling ideas when you know and like them as a person
Social media taps into a dark human need to be mean to other people
As people – even Stephen King – flee the platform, discussion of where to move to feels underpinned by a sadness that the kind of virtual space they crave may no longer be possible
Look out ladies. Elon Musk has plans for your womb
The pronatalist movement has roots in creepy tradwife visions, but does that matter if it leads to financial supports for families?
Elon Musk is wasted in the US – but he might shock Europe into changing its ways
Europe’s bloated governments need the tech entrepreneur’s efficiency revolution much more than Washington does
Margrethe Vestager, the world’s pioneering tech cop, is making her exit
EU’s antitrust enforcer leaves Brussels proud of her tenure but conscious that it had been only ‘partly successful’
Dollar falls after Donald Trump names Scott Bessent to Treasury role
Global stocks rise as hedge fund manager picked for top economic position
Bluesky is being touted as ‘Twitter before Elon Musk’. Can the good vibes last?
Another week, another new social media app. Could this one be a keeper or will it degenerate like its once-enjoyable forerunners?
‘I could have gone to California. At this rate, I probably would have raised about half a billion dollars’
Xerotech’s Dr Barry Flannery on Musk, Trump and the challenges of building a high-tech manufacturing business in Ireland
Big Tech may not get everything it wants from Trump
Incoming US president will not be all the tech industry is hoping for once he is in power
Banker who has been critical of Ireland appointed as US commerce secretary
Howard Lutnick has said it is ‘nonsense that Ireland of all places runs a trade surplus at our expense’
Bluesky, the non-toxic alternative to X, has had a glow-up. But is the app here to stay?
Social media app that feels a lot like early Twitter has attracted millions of new users this month and, so far, is not annoying like Threads
Bluesky is starting to surge amid upheaval in the social media world
Network, which grew from an off-shoot of Jack Dorsey’s Twitter, experiencing ‘growing pains’ of popularity as membership passes 15m
Maureen Dowd: Donald Trump and Elon Musk is hardly a match made to last
Melania won’t be spending much time in the White House, but someone else seems eager to fill the role of the president-elect’s helpmeet
Musk publicly supports Lutnick for treasury secretary as Trump considers pick
Musk has been a near constant presence around the president-elect, including sitting in Trump on a call with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Musk’s $100m presidential gamble pays off big for Tesla
Tesla’s rocketing share price indicates investors expect incoming president to return the favour
Sport Twitter, now X, deplorable, compelling and mindless ... but still, it’s hard to say goodbye
‘It can feel like this is the space where we all put our most toxic part, where the collective black dog lurks’
Fossil fuels are ‘gifts from god’ and other delusions to emerge from Cop29
Planet Business: Mattel’s red face, Donald Trump’s wild appointments and the concept of a Minister for Loneliness
Trump’s treatment of Zelenskiy as a spoiled child does not bode well for Ukraine
Elon Musk’s participation in Donald Trump’s post-election telephone call to Volodymyr Zelenskiy from Mar-a-Lago was chilling, because two years ago Musk tweeted a 'peace plan' for Ukraine that espoused Vladimir Putin’s demands
On his return to Web Summit, the often outspoken chief executive Paddy Cosgrave is now an epitome of caution
This tech conference is profitable and expanding, but its 70,000-visitor Lisbon conference remains the jewel in its crown
‘Toxic’ X just not worth it anymore, the Guardian concludes
X marks the exit door for the news title, which has announced it will no longer post on Elon Musk’s platform
How Trump’s election sent Bitcoin soaring again
Technological solutions to the problem of too much government is something that appeals to appeals to both Bitcoin advocates and Trump supporters. Both want to use AI and blockchain to leave messy problems like death, taxes and climate change behind
The concept of the alpha male human is cultural, not biological
Elon Musk should know that human social structures are more fluid than even the most complex of animal hierarchies
The Guardian leaves X, calling it a ‘toxic media platform’
News outlet cites 'often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform' and says US election 'underlined' its decision
Donald Trump and Joe Biden promise smooth transition of power in White House meeting
Republicans elect John Thune to lead Senate while Trump gives government efficiency role to Elon Musk and picks Fox News commentator Pete Hegseth as secretary of defence
Why switching your mortgage rate can save you a lot of money (especially if you are green)
Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock
Trump’s election win can’t keep Truth Social shares aloft
What next for the president-elect’s social network of choice?
Receivers appointed to entity co-owned by Paddy McKillen jnr that controls Bray retail complex
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