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WIRED Awake October 1: Elon Musk steps down as Tesla chair in SEC fraud settlement

Your WIRED  daily briefing. Today, Musk doesn't have to admit to fraud but will lose some of his power at Tesla, hackers obtained up to 90 million Facebook users' account details, the US government wants to loosen climate protection regs because it thinks we're all doomed and more. 1. Elon Musk steps down as Tesla chair in SEC fraud settlement Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reached a settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that will allow him to neither admit nor deny fraud charges, but which will have him step down as the company's chairman while retaining his position as CEO ( WIRED ). The agreed measures, prompted by Musk's "false and misleading" Twitter statements about taking the company private, will also see Musk and Telsa pay $20 million each in compensation to investors harmed by the resulting upheaval in the firm's stock market price and the appointment of two new independent Tesla board members to counter Musk'...

COMPUTING & GAMES from The Verge - Gaming Posts for 09/29/2018

Excerpts: Minecraft is getting a dungeon-crawling spinoff next year The Minecraft universe is set to expand once again. Today at Minecon, developer Mojang revealed a ...

Five must-read WIRED stories you missed this week

these are the biggest wired stories from the past week This new LEGO for adults is unlike anything you've ever seen before LEGO Forma is an experimental new line from the toy company aimed squarely at big kids ...

COMPUTING & GAMES from The Verge - Gaming Posts for 09/28/2018

Excerpts: Oculus' Quest is the first true VR game console Oculus VR had one big hardware surprise to reveal at its annual Connect developer conference on Wednesday...

Computing Reviews from The Verge - Laptop Reviews Posts for 09/27/2018

Excerpts: HP Chromebook x2 review: semi-pro The first detachable Chrome OS device Continue reading… Read on » ...