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'...