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Musk’s SpaceX town in Texas proposes a new map and zoning

Musk’s SpaceX town in Texas proposes a new map and zoning

The neighborhood once known as Boca Chica Village is seen near the SpaceX facilities where they build rockets in Brownsville, Texas, on May 3, 2025. Gabriel Cardenas | AFP | Getty Images Starbase, Texas, has notified some residents that they might “lose the right to continue using” their property as they do today, according to … Read more

Trump urged to make Elon Musk certify DOGE data restricted

Trump urged to make Elon Musk certify DOGE data restricted

Elon Musk listens as reporters ask U.S. President Donald Trump and South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa questions during a press availability in the Oval Office at the White House on May 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Sen. Jeanne Shaheen urged President Donald Trump on Wednesday to require billionaire Elon Musk … Read more

Judge calls on Apple to resolve Fortnite app submission after ruling

Judge calls on Apple to resolve Fortnite app submission after ruling

This illustration picture shows a person waiting for an update of Epic Games’ Fortnite on their smartphone in Los Angeles on August 14, 2020. Chris Delmas | AFP | Getty Images Apple must work out its latest issues with Epic Games, or head back to court to prove it has a legal basis for delaying … Read more

Tesla limits investors’ ability to sue over breach of fiduciary duties

Tesla limits investors’ ability to sue over breach of fiduciary duties

Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at an opening ceremony for Tesla China-made Model Y program in Shanghai on Jan. 7. Aly Song | Reuters In a regulatory filing out Friday, Elon Musk-led automaker Tesla announced a change to its corporate bylaws that will limit shareholders ability to sue the company if investors believe the company’s … Read more

Tesla adds longtime Chipotle executive Jack Hartung to board

Tesla adds longtime Chipotle executive Jack Hartung to board

Jack Hartung. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Tesla has appointed longtime Chipotle executive Jack Hartung to its board of directors, effective June 1. As part of the board, Hartung will join Tesla’s audit committee, the electric vehicle company disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. The addition comes as Tesla … Read more

SpaceX gets FAA permission for fivefold increase in launches in Texas

SpaceX gets FAA permission for fivefold increase in launches in Texas

The Super Heavy booster returns to its launch pad after the SpaceX Starship continued to space after it was launched on its eighth test at the company’s Boca Chica launch pad in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., March 6, 2025.  Joe Skipper | Reuters SpaceX has been granted permission by the Federal Aviation Administration to launch and … Read more

SpaceX employees were elected to run new company town Starbase, Texas

SpaceX employees were elected to run new company town Starbase, Texas

The SpaceX Starship sits on a launch pad at Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on October 12, 2024, ahead of the Starship Flight 5 test. The test will involve the return of Starship’s Super Heavy Booster to the launch site. Sergio Flores | Afp | Getty Images Over the weekend, Elon Musk got his new … Read more

NASA $6 billion budget cut, acting administrator sees ‘tough choices’

NASA  billion budget cut, acting administrator sees ‘tough choices’

The Trump administration has floated a plan to trim about $6 billion from the budget of NASA, while allocating $1 billion of remaining funds to Mars-focused initiatives, aligning with an ambition long held by Elon Musk and his rocket maker SpaceX. A copy of the discretionary budget posted to the NASA website on Friday said … Read more

SpaceX loses bid to control beach access near Texas launch facility

SpaceX loses bid to control beach access near Texas launch facility

SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship booster returns to the launch pad during a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. Eric Gay | AP As SpaceX awaits the results of a critical election that would turn the location of its Starbase launch site into an incorporated Texas city, lawmakers have declined … Read more

Atlassian, Snowflake and Workday all bet on identity startup Veza

Atlassian, Snowflake and Workday all bet on identity startup Veza

From left, Veza founders Rob Whitcher, Tarun Thakur and Maohua Lu. Veza Tech giants like Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia have captured headlines in recent years for their massive investments in artificial intelligence startups like OpenAI and Anthropic. But when it comes to corporate investing by tech companies, cloud software vendors are getting aggressive as … Read more