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Elon’s smiling: The Tesla Cybertruck is now the bestselling electric truck in America, dethroning Ford’s F-150 Lightning. There were 3,907 Cybertrucks registered in May, compared to 2,353 F-150s. Chopping fingers aside, it looks like folks don’t mind paying that $100,000 price tag after all.
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My inbox is flooded with folks asking about an email they got from the Social Security Administration. I mentioned it earlier this week, and, nope, it’s not a scam — it’s legit. But this change is big enough that we need to spend more time talking about it.
At this point, I don’t even want to risk it. There are just too many scary stories — and I once stayed in a place loaded with cameras! Luckily, I was savvy enough to spot them.
TikTok double-take: YouTube Shorts has copied yet another TikTok feature: AI voice-overs. Now, when you write video captions, you’ll see an option to add a voice. And if TikTok gets banned in the U.S. because of its ties to Communist China? YouTube’s ready to capitalize.
A Kentucky man after opening a promo email from Powerball. On a whim, the guy decided to buy a Powerball ticket and paid an extra dollar for the 3x Power Play multiplier. “It was my first time,” he said, adding, “I wasn’t even sure how it worked.” It definitely worked — that dollar tripled his winnings.
To Tesla’s one-year resale penalty. After a divorce, Utah retiree Blaine Raddon couldn’t fit his Cybertruck at his new bachelor pad. So, he made a stink on social and, lo and behold, got an email from Tesla saying they had reversed their resale penalty. Blaine sold his Cybertruck and made a $2,000 profit.
While being paralyzed from the neck down. John Morrow is the founder of Smart Blogger. He types with a microphone and speech dictation software and uses a special mouse operated entirely with his lips. His post on X is absolutely worth a read.
In texting when drivers were offered $50. Well, that’s one way to make people safer on the road. A seven-week trial offered payouts, and it really worked to get folks off their phones. PSA: Parents, bribe your kids to not text and drive.
A YouTuber got his Apple Watch back thanks to Find My. He lost it swimming and diving in the British Virgin Islands in 2022. A diver found the watch, powered it up and saw his contact info. The best part? It still works!
A Jeep plowed through an intersection in Nevada, hitting a Tesla. The Tesla immediately sped away from the scene. Its driver managed to get the EV under control, but they soon realized the Jeep had driven away, too. No word yet on whether the Tesla’s Autopilot or Full Self-Drive mode was enabled during the crash. Check out the video!
