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Cloudflare, Amazon, Meta: The biggest tech outages of recent years - explainer

This was the second major internet disruption of 2025, following the October malfunction of Amazon's cloud services unit, AWS.

A logo of CLOUDFLARE sits outside the company's house on the opening day of the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2025.
Person holding mobile phone with logo of American ICT company Cloudflare (illustrative)

Cloudflare outage cuts access to X, ChatGPT and other web platforms for thousands

A Tesla service center in Los Angeles, California, US, November 6, 2025.

Elon Musk expected to attend Trump dinner with Saudi crown prince, Punchbowl reports

A Tesla service center in Los Angeles, California, US, November 6, 2025.

Tesla requires suppliers to avoid China-made parts for US cars, WSJ reports


Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket deploys Mars satellites, sticks booster landing

A live Blue Origin webcast showed the rocket ascending from its launch tower through clear afternoon skies in a thunder of flames and billowing clouds of vapor.

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket launches on NASA's EscaPADE mission, which is carrying two satellites to orbit Mars, from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, November 13, 2025.

US hires 50,000 federal workers under Trump, boosting immigration roles

The majority of the new employees are working at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

 An Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent prepares to arrest alleged undocumented immigrants in Salem, Mass., June 19, 2018.

WATCH: Elon Musk's Tesla begins production of its first humanoid robot

Tesla has begun producing parts for its humanoid robot, Optimus, marking a key step in the humanoid robotics race. Full industrial production is planned for 2026.

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'Jews run society, women need to shut up': MAGA supporters clash over Nick Fuentes's extremism

Fuentes’s online rehabilitation began when Musk reinstated his account on X/Twitter in May.

NICK FUENTES told Tucker Carlson (right) that ‘organized Jewry’ represents the ‘big challenge’ to American unity, and he invoked ‘blood-and-soil’ to describe Zionism, the terminology that underpinned Nazi Germany, says the writer.

New York seeks dismissal of lawsuit by Elon Musk's X/Twitter over hate speech law

Musk's company argued that New York's law unconstitutionally exposed it to lawsuits and big fines unless it disclosed "highly sensitive and controversial speech" that the state found objectionable.

Elon Musk.

In the home stretch: Tesla approaches completion of its humanoid robot production

A large order of linear actuators from China indicates that Elon Musk’s Optimus humanoid robot V3 is nearly complete, with preparations for mass production starting soon.

Approaching the production line. Optimus.

WhatsApp, YouTube, and Facebook: What are the most popular apps used in Israel in 2025?

In 2025, the Index also measured the public's use of artificial intelligence services, particularly large language models (AI chatbots), which have become widely accessible.

 Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram apps are seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021

In final interview, Jane Goodall said she wanted to send Netanyahu on a one-way trip to space

Others aboard her imaginary spaceship were Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping.

Jane Goodall speaks during the annual Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Forum in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 24, 2025.

Elon Musk becomes first person to hit $500 billion net worth, Forbes list shows

The milestone comes just under a year after Musk's net worth crossed $400 billion and underscores his lead as the world's richest person.

 Elon Musk speaks during a press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured), at the White House in Washington, D.C., US, May 30, 2025.

FBI cuts ties with Jewish Anti-Defamation League, director Kash Patel announces

Patel's announcement followed criticism of the ADL by right-wing voices, including billionaire Elon Musk, over its inclusion of Kirk's Turning Point USA in a "Glossary of Extremism and Hate."

FBI Director Kash Patel attends the signing of an executive order by US President Donald Trump, at the White House in Washington, DC, US, September 25, 2025.

X is among most effective tools for spreading antisemitism in history, research finds

The research identified 679,584 antisemitic posts between February 1, 2024 and January 31, 2025, which combined were viewed 193 million times.

  'X' logo is seen on the top of the headquarters of the messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, California, U.S., July 30, 2023.