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Elon Musk had a 3rd baby with Neuralink govt Shivon Zilis earlier this yr, in keeping with studies.

The founding father of Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink and Zilis have already got twins collectively and the 2 had one other baby collectively earlier this yr, in keeping with Bloomberg, who first reported the information Friday.

Neuralink and Tesla didn’t instantly reply to USA TODAY’s request for remark.

Musk additionally confirmed the kid with Web page Six whereas denying it was a secret.

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“As for ‘secretly fathered,’ that can also be false,” he stated to Web page Six. “All our family and friends know. Failure to situation a press launch, which might be weird, doesn’t imply ‘secret.’”

What number of children does Elon Musk have now?

Musk has been involved with inhabitants decline and sees baby bearing as the answer, Walter Isaacson wrote within the biography “Elon Musk.”

Musk has fathered kids with a minimum of three totally different moms, together with Canadian singer Grimes.

The brand new baby with Zilis brings the identified complete of kids Musk has fathered to 12.

Together with the twins and new addition he shares with Zilis, Musk has three kids with Grimes and 6 kids along with his ex-wife, Canadian creator Justine Wilson. Musk and Wilson’s first-born baby handed away at 10-weeks previous.

Elon Musk had a 3rd little one with an government at Neuralink, his mind implant firm. Musk and Neuralink Corp. director of particular initiatives, Shivon Zilis, welcomed the child earlier this 12 months, Bloomberg Information reported.

Neuralink did not instantly reply to a request for remark. In an interview with the New York Put up, Musk confirmed the start of his third little one with Zilis, however didn’t disclose the kid’s identify or intercourse. 

Musk instructed the Put up that the start of his newest little one was not saved secret. “As for ‘secretly fathered,’ that can be false,” he instructed the publication. “All our family and friends know. Failure to situation a press launch, which might be weird, doesn’t imply ‘secret.'”

Musk and Zilis are already mother and father to twins born in 2021, shortly earlier than the start of Musk’s second little one with musician Grimes, a child lady named Exa Darkish Sideræl Musk. Musk, the world’s second richest particular person, with a fortune valued at $207 billion, is a proponent of boosting the worldwide start fee, claiming in a 2022 tweet {that a} falloff in births is “the largest hazard civilization faces by far” — and including that he’s “doing my finest to assist the underpopulation disaster.”

“Many international locations are already nicely under alternative fee, and the development is that the majority will likely be,” Musk instructed the Put up. “That is merely a reality, not a ‘debunked principle.'”

The world inhabitants has grown to about 8 billion at the moment from 1 billion in about 1900, and is projected to hit 9 billion individuals by 2045. Nevertheless, start charges in some developed international locations, starting from South Korea to the U.S., have declined in current many years — dipping under the alternative fee, or stage at which a inhabitants replaces itself from one technology to the subsequent, which is usually outlined as 2.1 kids per girl. 

Declining start charges in developed international locations was not too long ago flagged by the OECD as posing critical financial and social challenges, reminiscent of putting extra monetary pressure on authorities providers and pensions reminiscent of Social Safety. Adults are having fewer kids for quite a lot of causes, together with an absence of inexpensive housing for households and the difficulties in managing each a profession and household, the OECD mentioned. 

What number of children does Elon Musk have now?

Musk has fathered 12 children with three girls. 

The Tesla CEO has had six kids with Canadian creator Justine Wilson, who was married to Musk from 2000 to 2008. Their first little one died of Sudden Toddler Demise Syndrome, or SIDS, when he was 10 weeks previous, Wilson wrote in a Marie Claire article. 

The couple later had twins, Griffin and Vivian, in 2004, adopted by triplet in 2006, Kai, Saxon and Damian. 

Musk additionally has three kids with singer Grimes. Their first, named X Æ A-12, was born in March 2020; their second little one, named Exa Darkish Sideræl, was born in 2021. Their third little one, named Techno Mechanicus, was born in 2023.

Musk has had three kids with Zilis, together with twins Strider and Azure. Earlier this 12 months, he and Zilis welcomed their third little one, whose identify hasn’t been launched to the general public.

Who’s Shivon Zilis?

Zilis, a Yale graduate, joined Neuralink in 2017, in accordance to her LinkedIn web page. In Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk, she is described as Musk’s “mental companion on synthetic intelligence for the reason that founding of OpenAI.”

Zilis labored as an adviser to OpenAI from 2016 to 2019, based on LinkedIn, and served on the corporate’s board from 2020 to 2023. She’s additionally a fellow on the Artistic Destruction Lab, which she describes in her bio as a machine-learning incubator on the College of Toronto.

Vogue World: Paris was stuffed with thrilling surprises—Singers! Athletes! Gigi and Kendall on horseback!—however among the many most pleasant? An unannounced look from one Katy Perry, totally electrifying the Place Vendôme.

Throughout a portion of the present dedicated to the type and silhouettes of the Nineteen Eighties, fashions walked the Vogue World: Paris runway in Saint Laurent, Junya Watanabe, Comme des Garçons, Noir Kei Ninomiya, and a medley of different dynamic labels. They have been joined by an infinite fleet {of professional} judokas and karatekas for a tribute to the martial arts—oh, and by Nika Taiko, a Paris-based Japanese drum group, dressed for the event in Pleats Please Issey Miyake.

On the heart of all of that pleasure was Perry, a toddler of the ’80s herself, who stormed the cobblestone set in a splendidly kinetic—and daringly revealing—costume from Noir Kei Ninomiya’s fall 2019 assortment. (As we all know, she loves a theme.) As if we wanted any additional proof, this isn’t only a girl’s world however Katy’s world—and we’re all simply residing in it.

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Katy Perry hit the runway in a barely-there have a look at Vogue World: Paris Sunday.

The previous “American Idol” choose confirmed pores and skin in a black, strategically cut-out archival Noir Kei Ninomiya costume through the vogue present on the Place Vendôme in Paris.

Perry, 39, led a marching band within the geometric costume detailed with smooth pink and black tulle on the skirt, paired with lace-up black boot heels and her black hair slicked again.

The “Darkish Horse” singer was seen getting recommendations on her stroll from FKA Twigs and Cara Delevingne in an Instagram video posted on Sunday.

“Be sure that it appears such as you’re going someplace, however not in a pop star method,” FKA Twigs says to Perry.

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“I’ve solely ever been a pop star,” Perry returns, eliciting fun from the cameraman.

Final week, Perry introduced her new single, “Girl’s World,” set to debut July 11, and a brand new album to comply with 2020’s “Smile.”

The one will come practically two months after she signed off of “American Idol” as a choose after seven seasons. In February, Perry introduced on “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” that she would bow out on the finish of Season 22 to “go and see the world and perhaps convey new music.”

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Kendall Jenner, Sabrina Carpenter mannequin at Vogue World present

Different stars in attendance at Vogue World included Sabrina Carpenter, Unhealthy Bunny, Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid, Serena Williams, Ciara, Emma Chamberlain and extra. The occasion paired totally different sports activities like gymnastics, tennis, and fencing with a selected decade in French vogue, going again to the Nineteen Twenties.

Vogue World has beforehand been held in New York and London.

The style present included performances from Unhealthy Bunny and French singer-songwriter Aya Nakumura.

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Robert Eggers‘ first Nosferatu trailer exhibits the Witch and The Lighthouse filmmaker’s darkish and intense new tackle Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

The horror movie stars Invoice Skarsgard as Depend Orlok (aka Nosferatu/Dracula), together with Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Willem Dafoe.

The official description from Focus Options: “Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic story of obsession between a haunted younger lady and the terrifying vampire infatuated along with her, inflicting untold horror in its wake.”

Whereas the teaser trailer doesn’t but reveal Nosferatu’s face, Skarsgard, who beforehand performed Pennywise the Clown within the It movies, reportedly labored with an opera singer to decrease his voice for the function. “It was like conjuring pure evil,” he instructed Esquire. “It took some time for me to shake off the demon that had been conjured within me.”

Added Eggers to Empire: “I’ll say that Invoice has so reworked, I’m fearful that he may not get the credit score that he deserves as a result of he’s simply … he’s not there.”

Eggers additionally promised the movie would ship the scares. “There hasn’t been an old-school gothic film that’s really scary shortly. And I feel that almost all of audiences will discover this one to be the case.”

Nosferatu is taken into account a remake of the 1922 silent German expressionist traditional, with Eggers writing and directing. The helmer was initially set to group together with his The Witch star Anya Taylor-Pleasure on the movie. Manufacturing passed off within the Czech Republic final 12 months.

Nosferatu might be launched Dec. 25, Christmas Day.

U.S. auto sellers grappled with an ongoing cyber attack-led software program outage on Monday, with some reverting to guide paperwork as automotive trade expertise supplier CDK labored to revive methods utilized by greater than 15,000 retail areas.

The outage impacting CDK’s seller administration system, used to finish offers, observe retailer profitability and monitor worker compensation, has “plunged the auto retail trade into disarray”, JPMorgan analysts stated final week.

AutoNation, a number one auto retailer within the U.S., stated the outage was disruptive and had adversely impacted its enterprise, although its retailers stay open, persevering with to promote, service, and purchase autos.

Peer Lithia Motors stated on Monday it had skilled disruptions in its CDK-hosted system in North America, and that the incident was more likely to have a unfavorable influence on its enterprise operations until the methods are absolutely restored.

Jim Seavitt, proprietor of Village Ford dealership in Dearborn, Michigan, stated the outage has to date not dampened gross sales, however it has made the method of getting automobiles to prospects extra laborious.

The dealership bought almost 100 automobiles throughout a big sale it placed on final week, Seavitt stated, however as a result of CDK generates the paperwork wanted to formally move the automotive off to the shopper, these autos are in limbo.

Seavitt expects the autos to be transferred this week after his workforce developed different methods to finish the mandatory paperwork. CDK has informed him that providers will seemingly be down till mid-week.

“We don’t need to see this factor drag on,” Seavitt stated.

CDK, which reported the outage final week, stated on Monday it had begun the restoration course of, reiterating that it’ll take a number of days to finish.

AutoNation and peer Group 1 Automotive stated they have been utilizing different processes similar to guide paperwork to conduct their enterprise. Each stated they’d taken precautionary steps to guard their knowledge.

“The timing of the restoration of different impacted CDK purposes stays unclear at the moment,” Group 1 stated in an announcement.

Bloomberg Information reported on Friday {that a} group of hackers claiming duty for the assault on CDK’s software program methods had demanded thousands and thousands of {dollars} in ransom to place an finish to the hack.

Seavitt stated he hopes CDK pays the ransom so sellers can resume enterprise as normal.

Although auto retailers haven’t outlined any gross sales hit, analysts have flagged a attainable influence. “We notice some potential danger to late-June (U.S. auto gross sales) quantity from the reported CDK seller disruptions,” Citi analysts stated in a notice final week.

Auto retailer Sonic Automotive final week stated the CDK outage was more likely to have a unfavorable influence on its enterprise operations till the methods have been absolutely restored.

At the least six firms have alerted the Securities and Alternate Fee that the fallout from the ransomware assault on automotive business software program supplier CDK International has had a adverse or disruptive influence on their operations, in keeping with current filings with the company.

In filings made public Friday and Monday, six main automotive sellers — Lithia Motors, Group 1 Automotive, Penske Automotive Group, Sonic Automotive, Asbury Automotive Group and AutoNation — stated their operations had been affected by the assault on CDK. 

The results of the ransomware assault are being felt by U.S. automotive sellers lower than every week after CDK detected a cyberattack and introduced that “out of an abundance warning and concern” for its clients, it had “shut down most of [its] methods,” in accordance a press release supplied to CyberScoop from Lisa Finney, CDK’s senior supervisor of exterior communications.

BlackSuit, a longtime ransomware group, was chargeable for the assault on CDK International, the tech information web site Bleeping Laptop reported Saturday. On Friday, Bloomberg reported that the group concerned within the assault demanded “tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in ransom” from the corporate, which offers software program to “almost 15,000” auto vendor areas.

Allan Liska, a menace intelligence analyst at Recorded Future, instructed CyberScoop that BlackSuit was concerned, and referred to the group as a “mid-sized ransomware as a service providing” that nonetheless has “had various massive victims.”

Neither Finney nor Brookfield Enterprise Companions, CDK’s mother or father firm, responded to requests for touch upon the newest fallout and cost calls for Monday morning.

BlackSuit emerged as a definite ransomware entity in early April or Could of 2023, in keeping with SentinelOne, and may very well be a rebrand of the dormant Royal ransomware operation. A joint November 2023 advisory from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company reported that Royal focused greater than 350 identified victims worldwide between September 2022 and November 2023 and pushed for greater than $275 million in extortion calls for.

Royal is itself considered a rebrand of or related to the Conti ransomware operation, stated Brett Callow, menace analyst with Emsisoft. Conti, which shuttered its web site in 2022, was identified for main assaults world wide, and had hyperlinks to the TrickBot malware operation, which the U.S. authorities stated in September 2023 had “ties” to Russian intelligence companies.

“BlackSuit is believed to be related to the Royal operation, which was believed to be related to the Conti operation,” Callow stated, “which suggests CDK may effectively be coping with a set of very skilled cybercriminals who’re used to negotiating giant calls for.”

BlackSuit has but to say something about CDK International on the web site it makes use of to publish messages about alleged targets and the info of targets that didn’t pay. BlackSuit has claimed 76 victims since Could 2023, most of them from america, a consultant of the cybersecurity agency KELA instructed CyberScoop in an e mail Monday. In response to information collected by the cybersecurity agency Test Level, the group reported on its web site 18 victims in Could and 7 thus far in June.

BlackSuit not too long ago posted a big cache of information and inner information purportedly stolen from the Kansas Metropolis, Kan., Police Division.

This story was up to date June 24, 2024, with SEC filings from fifth and sixth auto sellers impacted by the assault on CDK.

RAPIDAN TOWNSHIP, Minn. — On Monday, officers in southern Minnesota introduced the Rapidan Dam had been breached and is in “imminent failure situation.”

Residents in low-lying areas of the Minnesota River Valley are suggested to carefully monitor the scenario and put together for the potential of evacuation.

The Nationwide Climate Service says the failure is anticipated to trigger the Minnesota River at Mankato to crest just under main flood state on Tuesday morning.

What’s the historical past of the Rapidan Dam?

The Rapidan Dam is positioned on the Blue Earth River in Rapidan Township — about 14 miles south of Mankato. 

When it opened in 1910, the dam doubled the ability capability of Mankato’s electrical system, in keeping with the Blue Earth County Historic Society.

The dam was constructed utilizing hole strengthened concrete.

The dam was owned and operated by Northern States Energy Firm till 1970 when it provided the dam and surrounding 750 acres to Blue Earth County “as an environmental hall of wildlife habitats, recreation areas and nature trails,” says the county’s historic society.

Nevertheless, in 1972, the historic society says the county board dominated the dam ought to both be rebuilt or torn down for the reason that dam would trigger “appreciable harm” to the encompassing areas ought to it collapse.

To handle security issues, engineers added extra concrete reinforcement to the Rapidan Dam within the Nineteen Eighties. The Nationwide Society of Skilled Engineers referred to as the renovations “one of many prime engineering feats of 1986.”

In 2002, emergency repairs have been made after discovering intensive undermining of the dam’s basis.

Blue Earth County says that over time, Rapidan Dam has skilled common flooding, with the second-highest flood on document occurring 5 years in the past, in 2019. That flooding prompted “important harm to the dam’s construction and value,” and it has not been in a position to produce vitality since then, in keeping with the county’s web site.

A research from 2021 recognized two possible options for the dam: restore it or take away it.

From 1999 via 2022, a report discovered that the dam really misplaced Blue Earth County over half one million {dollars}.

Officers for Blue Earth County shaped the Way forward for Rapidan Dam to “establish the neighborhood’s wants and issues and use their enter” to make one of the best choice concerning what to do with the dam.

A dam restore feasibility report commissioned by the county in 2021 estimated it will value not less than $15.1 million to restore the dam. Nevertheless, the county stories it will possible lose over $4 million on the dam over 40 years. Eradicating the dam was estimated to value at a minimal of $65.2 million.

In August 2022, Blue Earth County introduced the ultimate engagement abstract, which discovered nearly all of folks surveyed supported the dam being repaired.

In the end, since each choices had important prices, neither have been carried out.

In March 2023, Blue Earth County started the Federal Vitality Regulation Fee licensure exemption give up course of for the Rapidan Dam for the reason that dam is now not producing hydroelectricity.