Online influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, who both face rape and human‑trafficking charges in Romania and the United Kingdom, were reported to have entered Hong Kong over the weekend, sparking heated discussion online. Andrew posted a photo of himself and Tristan on a luxury boat in Victoria Harbour on X on Sunday, while other…
Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has raised concerns over the potential misuse of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok, developed by Elon Musk’s company, warning that using its image-generation function to create indecent or malicious content could amount to criminal offences. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) issued a statement on Thursday…
With the rise of social media and generative AI, how much of what we see online is true? In this new series, SCMP Fact-Check, the Post investigates claims circulating online and debunks viral misinformation impacting the daily lives of Hongkongers. “A firefighter holding a cat he saved from the Hong Kong fire,” reads the superimposed…
We’re seeing reports across social media that users of Elon Musk’s X are getting stuck in endless loops and, in some cases, getting locked out of their X account, following a mandatory two-factor security change that seems to have gone wrong. On October 24, X said in a post that it was asking users who…
The European Commission claimed on Saturday that it has reached an agreement with China’s commerce ministry to restart the flow of semiconductors that had been disrupted by a crisis surrounding the company Nexperia. EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic said on social media that, effective immediately, exports of the company’s chips to the bloc for non-military…
Topline Threads, Meta’s text-based social media platform that launched in 2023 as a challenger to the Elon Musk-owned X, for the first time beat X in global daily active mobile users for the month of October, according to data shared with Forbes by market intelligence company Similarweb. Threads surpassed X in the number of daily…
Tesla vehicles operating in the Boring Company’s Vegas Loop are about to get a big change, CEO Elon Musk said. In Las Vegas, the Boring Company operates the Vegas Loop, an underground tunnel system that uses Teslas to drop people off at various hotspots on the strip. It’s been active for a few years now…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday explicitly said that microblogging platform X was underpaying its content creators and praised Google-owned YouTube for its monetization scheme. Replying to an exchange between X executive Nikita Bier, Musk unequivocally wrote, “No, the issue is that we are underpaying and not allocating payment accurately enough. YouTube does a much…
Tesla’s advertising strategy has taken a drastic turn as the company’s upcoming Shareholder Meeting will feature perhaps the most crucial vote in its history: the approval of CEO Elon Musk’s new pay package. For years, the issue of Tesla’s advertising and marketing strategy has been a major point of conversation for investors in fans. It…
Good morning. Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit kicks off today in Washington, D.C. and there are quite a few notable tech folk on the agenda. Among them: Best Buy’s Corie Barry, Palantir’s Shannon Clark, Microsoft’s Amy Coleman, Logitech’s Hanneke Faber, IBM’s Radha Iyengar Plumb, Workday’s Emma Chalwin, ServiceNow’s Gina Mastantuono, Airbnb’s Ellie Mertz, DoorDash’s Tia…