Tesla’s 2025 profits down 61% as Musk’s politics continue to hurt it

av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 30, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads

Elon Musk got a trillion dollars from Tesla shareholders last year. The implicit deal: focus on the company. He hasn’t. Instead, he’s been posting about ”White people” being a ”rapidly dying minority,” promoting fraud allegations about Minnesota child care facilities, and signaling he’ll stay involved in the 2026 midterms, reports The Washington Post.

Tesla’s Q4 profits fell 61% from a year ago. Full-year 2025 profits dropped 46%, revenue fell 3%, and the company is no longer the world’s top-selling EV brand. Musk announced Tesla will discontinue the Model S sedan and Model X SUV — the vehicles that built the company’s reputation — to make room for its Optimus humanoid robot.

”That is slightly sad, but it is time to bring the S/X program to an end and shift,” Musk said.

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US Sentences Chinese National for Role in $36.9 Million Crypto Scam

av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 30, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads

A Chinese national has been sentenced for his role in a massive $36.9 million cryptocurrency scam operated from Cambodia. The stolen funds were reportedly laundered through US shell companies and offshore accounts. Learn how the gang operated and the sentencing details.

A massive international fraud that stripped 174 Americans of their life savings has finally reached its conclusion in court. Jingliang Su, a Chinese national, was sentenced to 46 months in prison on Tuesday, 27 January 2026. Alongside his jail time, he was ordered to pay back a whopping $26,867,242 to the people he conned.

Källa: US Sentences Chinese National for Role in $36.9 Million Crypto Scam

Some blind fans to experience Super Bowl with tactile device that tracks ball

av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 29, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads

Some blind and low-vision fans will have unprecedented access to the Super Bowlthanks to a tactile device that tracks the ball, vibrates on key plays and provides real-time audio.

The NFL teamed up with OneCourt and Ticketmaster to pilot the game-enhancing experience 15 times during the regular-season during games hosted by the Seattle Seahawks, Jacksonville Jaguars, San Francisco 49ers, Atlanta Falcons and Minnesota Vikings.

About 10 blind and low-vision fans will have an opportunity to use the same technology at the Super Bowl in Santa Clara, California, where Seattle will play the New England Patriots on Feb. 8. With hands on the device, they will feel the location of the ball and hear what’s happening throughout the game.

Källa: Some blind fans to experience Super Bowl with tactile device that tracks ball

FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn

av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 29, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads

When the FBI executed a warrant on Wednesday to seize records from the 2020 presidential vote in Fulton County, Georgia, it marked both an extraordinary event in the history of American elections and a significant escalation in President Donald Trump’s breaking of democratic norms, several legal experts said.

Trump has long claimed, without evidence, that the 2020 election was stolen from him and blamed Georgia, in particular, for his loss to Joe Biden. After the election, he famously made a call pressuring the secretary of state to “find” him enough votes to win. About a week ago, in a speech at the World Economic Forum, Trump once again called the 2020 election “rigged” and promised, “People will soon be prosecuted for what they did.”

Källa: FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn

Spotify and the three main major record labels sue Anna’s Archive for $13trillion

av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 29, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads

Spotify and the three main major record labels – Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment – have sued Anna’s Archive for $13trillion. They allege that the platform scraped 86million music files.

Anna’s Archive was formerly known as the Pirate Library Mirror, and confirmed last month that it was going to create “the world’s first ‘preservation archive’ for music”.

It said that it was going to be available through BitTorrent, and Billboard claimed that the group had scraped “256 million rows of track metadata and 86million audio files, to be distributed on P2P networks”.

Källa: Spotify and the three main major record labels sue Anna’s Archive for $13trillion for ”brazen theft of millions of files containing nearly all of the world’s commercial sound recordings”

Millions creating deepfake nudes on Telegram as AI tools drive global wave of digital abuse

av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 29, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads

Millions of people around the world are creating and sharing deepfake nudes on the secure messaging app Telegram, a Guardian analysis has shown, as the spread of advanced AI tools industrialises the online abuse of women.

The Guardian has identified at least 150 Telegram channels – large encrypted group chats popular for their secure communication – that appear to have users in many countries, from the UK to Brazil, China to Nigeria, Russia to India. Some of them offer “nudified” photos or videos for a fee: users can upload a photo of any woman, and AI will produce a video of that woman performing sexual acts. Many more offer a feed of images – of celebrities, social media influencers and ordinary women – made nude or made to perform sexual acts by AI. Followers are also using the channels to share tips on available deepfake tools.

Källa: Millions creating deepfake nudes on Telegram as AI tools drive global wave of digital abuse