[caption id="attachment_74566" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Telesat[/caption] Conservative Member of Parliament Jamil Jivani pressed Canada's Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner on Wednesday, October 28, over why Telesat CEO Dan Goldberg, whom Jivani called a longtime friend of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, is not named on the prime minister's conflict of interest screen after Telesat...

[caption id="attachment_75002" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: NASA[/caption] Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk began his first spacewalk at 7:57 a.m. ET on Thursday, October 29, outside the International Space Station, weeks after riding a SpaceX Crew-13 Dragon to orbit. https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status/2115776389047779622 NASA astronaut Anil Menon joined him for U.S. spacewalk 100, a planned six-and-a-half-hour job to install...

[caption id="attachment_74714" align="alignnone" width="970"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to move ahead with new satellite-to-phone rules that would open 482 MHz more spectrum to the service, a change that could help SpaceX grow Starlink Mobile. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr called the proposal the agency's most comprehensive step yet to modernize its...

[caption id="attachment_74990" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Green NCAP[/caption] Green NCAP's life-cycle assessment of the Tesla Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive puts total greenhouse gas emissions at 95 g CO2-eq/km, the lowest life-cycle emissions figure the program has published so far and a new mark after Tesla's Model 3 topped its 2022 assessment index. Tesla Europe highlighted the...

[caption id="attachment_74797" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Starlink[/caption] Lithuania's Criminal Police Bureau says two Germany-based men are the suspects in the October 18 attempted arson of Starlink ground equipment in Vilnius, a follow-up to the wider European attack wave that already includes Turkey's raids on a gang tied to Poland's Starlink fire, and both are already held...

[caption id="attachment_74985" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla Korea[/caption] The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday, October 29, threw out a refund suit from 89 Tesla owners who bought the Full Self-Driving option between 2019 and 2022, ruling that Tesla Korea had not breached its contracts in a market still arguing over who actually gets FSD. According...

[caption id="attachment_74841" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla Europe/X[/caption] Italy's Deputy Prime Minister and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini said on Thursday, October 29, that he had a "very positive and constructive" conversation with Elon Musk, and that Italy supports a swift EU approval of Tesla Assisted Driving, the European name for FSD (Supervised) already cleared in markets...

[caption id="attachment_74782" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla's Robotaxi app is offering new riders a free first trip in Dallas and Houston, with the fare line reading "First ride on us" and a $0.00 total on a Houston booking inside the company's expanded Houston service map. Tracker Ethan McKanna, who runs the @rtaxitracker account, shared the...

[caption id="attachment_74973" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla/X[/caption] Tesla is showing owners how to switch on Trick or Treat mode, a Toybox setting that plays spooky sounds and lights when visitors walk up to the car. It builds on the Halloween features that arrived in the 2026.38.3 Halloween Update earlier this month, just in time for October...

[caption id="attachment_74849" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] The Houston Police Officers' Union is pointing people toward Tesla's expanded Houston Robotaxi map as a way to get home safely after a night out. In an X post at 4:52 PM PT on Tuesday, October 27, the union said there has never been an excuse to drink and...

[caption id="attachment_67659" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla named 36 new Supercharger voting winners on Wednesday, October 28, and opened another round so account holders can pick the next sites. Official word came from the Tesla Charging account on X in its usual two-post pattern: a short note that winners are on the Find Us map...

[caption id="attachment_63812" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Image: Ford[/caption] Ford's electric-vehicle unit, Model e, posted a $1.1 billion EBIT loss in the third quarter of 2026 on $1.2 billion of revenue, according to the company's October 28 earnings release, a sharp contrast with Tesla's US$28.05 billion quarter a week earlier. Model e revenue fell 31% from $1.8 billion...

[caption id="attachment_74809" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla's next-generation Roadster was photographed at SpaceX's Hawthorne facility in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 28, a day after the car's four-day public display at the Petersen Automotive Museum wrapped up. The photos were shared on X by @mpgenchau and show the silver Roadster outdoors beside SpaceX branding, with...

[caption id="attachment_74910" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceXSI / Matt Palmer[/caption] Grok Bot has opened a referral program that hands invited friends a 2-week free Premium trial, then rewards the person who shared the link with a free usage reset once that friend becomes a paid subscriber on The X Subscription. Official docs on docs.x.ai spell out...

[caption id="attachment_72899" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Neuralink[/caption] Neuralink says early speech restoration work is letting participants with ALS turn thoughts into text and voice at conversational rates, with one person hitting 75 words a minute in their first week, a big step beyond the thought-to-speech clips the company has shared before. In an October 28 post...