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X boss Elon Musk called on Disney to “immediately” fire CEO Bob Iger on Thursday for allowing Mouse House ads to run on rival social media platforms that allegedly allowed child predators to target underage users.

Musk’s escalated his feud with Iger — whom he told to “go f-ck yourself” last week after Disney pulled its advertising from X following a disputed report that its ads were running next to antisemitic content on the site formerly known as Twitter.

“Bob Eiger thinks its cool to advertise next to child exploitation material. Real stand up guy,” Musk posted, as he misspelled the longtime media mogul’s name.

Musk’s outburst referred to an explosive lawsuit filed this week by New Mexico’s attorney general that accused Mark Zuckerberg-owned Facebook and Instagram of failing to moderate abusive content that included propositioning kids to star in porn movies.

“Walt Disney is turning in his grave over what Bob has done to his company,” Musk tweeted.

“Crazy that Disney has to be sued to stop this terrible behavior,” he added in replying to a tweet from Colin Rugg, co-owner of website Trending Politics, that asked whether Iger would pull Disney’s advertising from Facebook and Instagram parent Meta.

Disney did not respond to requests for comment.

Musk’s tirade comes after Disney and other advertisers like NBCUniversal parent Comcast and Warner Bros. Discovery pulled ads from X following a report by liberal watchdog Media Matters that promos from from major brands appeared next to anti-Semitic material.

Musk immediately followed through with a pledge to file a “thermonuclear” lawsuit against Media Matters.

Musk also faced a torrent of criticism when he agreed with a user who falsely claimed Jewish people were stoking hatred against white people, saying the user who referenced the Great Replacement conspiracy theory was speaking the actual truth.

Although Musk has tried to clarify his remarks and apologized, he appeared defiant during a New York Times DealBook Summit interview on Nov. 29.

The Tesla CEO bristled at the notion that he was antisemitic and said that advertisers who left X, should not advertise on the site and should not think they could blackmail him.

Go fk yourself, he said.

Asking if that was clear, he added Hey Bob, an apparent reference to Iger, who spoke earlier at the event.

If somebodys going to try to blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go f-k yourself. Go. F-k. Yourself. Is that clear? Hey, Bob, if youre in the audience, thats how I feel. 

People who did not like him should consider the products his company make based on their quality, Musk said, pointing to electric cars from Tesla and SpaceX rockets.

I will certainly not pander, he said.

Iger hasn’t responded to Musk’s outburst.

Aside from calling for Iger’s head on Thursday, Musk also posted an Iger meme, depicting a black-and-white photo of comedic actors Lauren and Hardy cracking up.

“Drops more bombs than a B-52,” Musk wrote over a picture of the actors, which included the caption “‘Bob Iger’ That’s the joke.”

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Musk also slammed the Disney — which is facing a proxy battle for board seats from activist investors — in a Dec. 5 interview with the automotive engineer Sandy Munro on his show “Munro Live.”

Munro asked him what founder Walt Disney would think of the company in its current state. 

“I think Walt Disney’s turning in his grave faster than a drill bit,” Musk replied.

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James Craig: Dentist in Colorado poisoned wife’s protein shakes with cyanide, murder trial hears

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James Craig: Dentist in Colorado poisoned wife's protein shakes with cyanide, murder trial hears

The trial of a dentist accused of murdering his wife by poisoning her protein shakes has begun in the US state of Colorado.

James Craig denies using cyanide and tetrahydrozoline, an ingredient in over-the-counter eye drops, to kill Angela Craig in a suburb of Denver.

During the trial’s opening statements on Tuesday, prosecutors claimed the 47-year-old was having an affair with another dentist, had financial difficulties and may have been motivated by the payout from his wife’s life insurance.

Angela and James Craig with their six children. Pic: NBC
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Angela and James Craig with their six children. Pic: NBC

Assistant District Attorney Ryan Brackley told the jury at Arapahoe District Court that the 43-year-old victim – who had six children with her husband – had been suffering worsening symptoms including dizziness, vomiting and fainting.

She died in March 2023 during her third trip to the hospital that month.

Mr Brackley accused Craig of poisoning her protein shakes – then giving his wife a final dose of poison while she was in hospital, and said: “He went in that [hospital] room to murder her, to deliberately and intentionally end her life with a fatal dose of cyanide … She spends the next three days dying.”

Craig, who shook his head at times during the prosecution’s opening statement, has pleaded not guilty to several charges, including first-degree murder, solicitation to commit murder and solicitation to commit perjury.

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Prosecutors said Craig had tried to make it appear his wife of 23 years had killed herself. His internet history showed he had searched for “how to make a murder look like a heart attack” and “is arsenic detectable in an autopsy”.

In an argument, captured on home surveillance video, his wife also accused him of suggesting to hospital staff that she was suicidal.

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Ryan Brackley, a lawyer for the prosecution, delivers his opening arguments during the murder trial for James Craig, accused of killing his wife, at the Arapahoe District Court, Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in Centennial, Colo. (Stephen Swofford via Denver Gazette, Pool)
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Ryan Brackley claimed James Craig administered poison to his wife while she was in hospital. Pic: Denver Gazette/ AP

After Craig’s arrest in 2023, prosecutors alleged that he had offered a fellow prison inmate $20,000 (£14,993) to kill the case’s lead investigator and offered someone else $20,000 to find people to falsely testify that Angela Craig planned to die by suicide.

Craig’s attorney, Ashley Whitham, told the jury to consider the credibility of those witnesses, calling some “jailhouse snitches”.

Ms Whitham argued that the evidence didn’t show that he poisoned her, instead seeming to suggest she may have taken her own life.

Ashley Whitham, a lawyer for the defence, delivers her opening arguments at the murder trial for James Craig, accused of killing his wife
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Ashley Whitham, defending Craig, argued that the evidence didn’t show that he poisoned his wife. Pic: Denver Gazette/AP

She described Angela Craig as “broken”, partly by Craig’s infidelity and her desire to stay married, since they were part of The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints.

Hospital staff had said Craig had been caring and “doting” while Angela Craig was in the hospital, said Whitham.

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The defence argued prosecutors had overdramatised Craig’s financial problems and dismissed the prosecution’s suggestion that Craig was motivated to kill because of an affair he was having with a fellow dentist from Texas.

“That’s simply not the case,” Whitham said, adding that Craig had many affairs over the years that his wife knew about. “He was candid with Angela that he had been cheating.”

The trial continues.

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Michigan town puts pre-emptive curbs on crypto ATMs

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Michigan town puts pre-emptive curbs on crypto ATMs

The town of Grosse Pointe Farms has no crypto ATMs, but has regulated them anyway, requiring registration, warnings and limits on kiosks.

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Chip giant ASML says it can’t confirm that it will grow in 2026

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Chip giant ASML says it can't confirm that it will grow in 2026

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ASML reported second-quarter earnings that beat estimates with the its key net bookings figure ahead of consensus.

However, the chip equipment giant missed analyst expectations for revenue guidance in the current quarter and warned of the possibility of no growth ahead.

Here’s how ASML did versus LSEG consensus estimates for the second quarter:

  • Net sales: 7.7 billion euros ($8.95 billion) versus 7.52 billion euros expected
  • Net profit: 2.29 billion euros vs 2.04 billion euros expected

In its own previous forecast issued in April, ASML had said it expected second-quarter net sales of between 7.2 billion euros and 7.7 billion euros. In a pre-recorded interview posted on ASML’s website, the company’s Chief Financial Officer Roger Dassen said the beat was due to revenue from upgrading currently deployed machines as well as tariffs having a “less negative” impact than anticipated.

Analysts anticipated net bookings — a key indicator of order demand — would come in at 4.19 billion euros over the April-June stretch. ASML reported net bookings of 5.5 billion euros.

ASML is one of the most important semiconductor supply chain companies in the world. It makes extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machines, which are required to manufacture the most advanced chips in the world, such as those designed by Apple and Nvidia.

Companies like Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. are customers of ASML.

2026 warning

Like many companies in the semiconductor industry, ASML has been grappling with uncertainty created by U.S. tariff policy.

The company forecast third-quarter revenue of between 7.4 billion euros and 7.9 billion euros, which was shy of market expectations of 8.3 billion euros.

ASML said it expects full-year 2025 net sales to grow 15%, narrowing its guidance from a previously announced forecasts of between 30 billion euros to 35 billion euros.

However, the Dutch tech giant was less certain about the outlook for 2026.

“Looking at 2026, we see that our AI customers’ fundamentals remain strong,” ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet said in a statement.

“At the same time, we continue to see increasing uncertainty driven by macro-economic and geopolitical developments. Therefore, while we still prepare for growth in 2026, we cannot confirm it at this stage.”

The Veldhoven, Netherlands-headquartered company has released its next generation EUV tools known as High NA, which stands for high numerical aperture. These machines, which are larger than a double-decker bus and can cost more than $400 million each, are key to ASML’s future growth plans.

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