The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has given Elon Musk six more weeks to respond to its civil lawsuit accusing the world's richest person of waiting too long in 2022 to reveal his large stake in Twitter,

According to the website Downdetector, Elon Musk 's X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, experienced worldwide outages on Friday afternoon. At 4:19 p.m. ET, Downdetector, an online platform that tracks and reports real-time outages and service disruptions for websites, apps and online services, reported more than 35,000 X outages.

Federal workers from six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments as both new and familiar DOGE faces have appeared in meetings and at new offices.