NEW: Researchers have identified extensive spying campaigns abusing well-known weaknesses in the global cellphone infrastructure to track and locate targets.
Two (unnamed for now) surveillance vendors, whose customers are likely government agencies, were allegedly behind these spy campaigns.
More interesting to me in the 10-Q: for accounting purposes, Tesla appears to have, so far, determined only one of the operational milestones Musk has to achieve for his $1T pay package "probable of achievement"
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NEW: Tesla has spiked the $29B interim award it gave CEO Elon Musk last year, since the Delaware Supreme Court restored his 2018 pay package worth $56 billion.
The company had promised it wouldn't let Musk "double dip"
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who among us
Tesla’s latest outlook is truly remarkable: It doesn’t contain a single number
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At the end of today's TSLA earnings call, Colin Langan of Wells Fargo asked about the NHTSA probe into Tesla's cameras--which is based, in part, on this crash where a Tesla on FSD killed a pedestrian in Arizona
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And finally - a bit of dive into the capex forecast. $25B, an increase of $5B since jan - and about 3x higher than normal. Elon pointed to all the other tech companies that are also doing this. He doesn't mention amazon, but i will (AMZN capex will be $200B) techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/t...
Some of the basic numbers; that share price bump was short-lived btw. Guessing the capex spend and negative cash flow forecast may have been why .. or Sean's FSD story above. techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/t...
Another Tesla earnings in the books. A few stories from me and @seanokane.bsky.social ... highlights ...
Musk admits millions of Tesla owners will need hardware upgrades for FSD and proposes (wait for it) using micro-factories. Gonna place a bet that doesn't happen techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/e...
A screenshot of the article, the highlighted section reads: "He also said these replacements will be so burdensome that Tesla is looking at building “micro-factories” in “major metropolitan areas” so the company’s service centers don’t get overwhelmed."
personally i'm just happy that Musk is keeping Arrival's dream of "micro-factories" alive
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ELON MUSK: Welcome to the Roadster 2 reveal
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
MUSK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
MUSK: oh god yes
really good encapsulation of Tesla's relationship with its shareholders that you could own a bunch of Tesla shares and ask the question that gets voted to the front of the line for the earnings call only to have Senpai Elon shit all over you for not being big brained enough
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Musk keeps saying that he doesn't want to show off Optimus V3 because competitors will go frame-by-frame to copy it, which sort of shatters the narrative he and Tesla have spouted about custom building all of Optimus' components/subcomponents
can Tesla spend some capex on conferencing software that isn't quiet as hell
is it a delay if it was a lie to begin with
dead sea scroll
want to feel old? scientists just determined that this sea scroll is a partial remnant of one of Ryan Lizza's substack posts about Olivia Nuzzi
Q1 numbers were still well below the best quarters of the last few years, and only slightly up from last year's awful Q1.
Tesla appears to be playing some games to juice some of the figures (I expect @liamdenning.bsky.social will write about this)
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Sure seems like whatever negative impact Musk had on Tesla sales has been fully realized by this point.
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This is insane, tinpot authoritarian shit.
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i experienced a somewhat gentler version of this when i got belay tested when i brought indy to the rock gym for the first time lol
the real impact of AI will be understanding complex physics in the real world. First we saw AlphaFold predict protein structures, but that created a new bottleneck—measuring real molecules. A new startup, 10x Science, has announced a seed round to do just that:
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"And now I'd like to welcome to the Compliance Conference stage, Sam Bankman-Fried!"
A linkedin post celebrating Travis Kalanick speaking to HR and finance executives
the rehabilitation of Travis Kalanick seemed inevitable to me during the "anti-woke" stuff but him speaking in front of a room of HR executives is a bit on the nose
Scoop from last night on Redwood's second (and larger) round of layoffs in the last six months.
If you work in or around batteries/recycling I'd actually really love to talk to you. Signal: okane.01
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SCOOP: Redwood Materials cut 10% of staff (around 135 workers) in a restructuring to better chase booming demand for energy storage, particularly at AI data centers, TechCrunch has learned.
Founder/CEO JB Straubel wrote to staff that he is "more excited than ever"
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profoundly ready for this movie
