Richard Lawler

The Cybertruck debuted in 2019 and was originally scheduled to launch in 2021. But after some delays, it looks on track with Elon’s schedule for limited production this summer, a delivery event in Q3, and mass production in 2024.

Two out of the big three Hollywood labor unions are on strike, citing streaming and AI as major issues, and actors are starting to picket offices for companies like Warner Bros., Netflix, and Amazon. This screengrab from CNBC captures the initial reaction of Wall Street.

Similar to the Windows 11 emoji update that’s now in testing, Microsoft originally promised this update to the Paint app a couple of years ago. After rolling it out to more limited test groups in June, Microsoft just announced that dark mode for Paint in Windows 11 is now rolling out to Windows Insiders in the beta channel.

Ford advanced driver assist technologies exec Sammy Omari said the new BlueCruise 1.3 software focuses on extending the time drivers operate in hands-free mode without disengaging compared to the 1.2 update.

We’ve been following the story of NASA’s next-gen James Webb Space Telescope for years, but now it’s been in operation for an entire year.

“The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit,” mastodon.social is unreachable at the moment, but not because of DNS problems (for once) or Instagram Threads.

Jack Sweeney made his @ElonMusksJet account one of the first 70 million or so on Threads and spoke to Insider about it yesterday. Last fall Musk claimed he was providing “basically assassination coordinates” and banned his Twitter account until it added a 24-hour delay.

When NBA 2K24 arrives this fall, it will allow PS5 and Xbox Series console gamers to play against each other, a first for the series (unfortunately, other systems, like earlier generation consoles and the Switch, are still stuck within their silos).

This morning @Google posted its first message to Threads, and a quick look at its Instagram profile reveals the account is customer number 67,461,606. Mark Zuckerberg might chime in again once Threads passes 100 million registered accounts, which shouldn’t take long at the current pace — about 24 hours ago, the number was 30 million.

After just one day of operation, Instagram’s new social app is already halfway to 100 million accounts. Alex Heath just noted 48 million in this post and a Command Line update sent out today, but the Threads number keeps climbing. (Check the Instagram account of anyone who’s registered, and it will tell you if they were 1st, 50 millionth, or somewhere in between.)