Elon Musk expounds on big rocket plans. It's The Daily Crunch.

THE DAILY CRUNCH MONDAY, OCTOBER 16 2017 By Darrell Etherington Elon Musk gets loquacious about large rockets, Wi-Fi is broken for everyone, Tesla takes its performance reviews very seriously. All that and more in The Daily Crunch for October 16, 2017. 1. [Elon talks big f*cking rockets and more]( Elon Musk has been talking about rockets on Reddit. The SpaceX founder was on the internet 'front page' talking about satellites for Mars, interplanetary internet and reducing Raptor thrust. Musk is getting ready for stuff like tankers for hauling goods in space, and also testing their on-Earth space flight service. 2. [Major Wi-Fi vulnerability inspires panic]( Infosec reporters and experts in my Twitter timeline were losing their minds about this WPA2 client vulnerability, because it potentially affects all devices using Wi-Fi. It's a big concern more for connecting to public Wi-Fi networks for now, though, for most people. Watch for updates. Sponsored By: Microsoft [Join OpenHack NYC Nov 7-9 OpenHack NYC brings together groups of diverse developers to team up for three days of hands-on hacking to learn how to take Linux and Windows based workloads to the cloud. This event is free and open to all developers; seats are filling up fast.]( [Learn More…]( 3. [Tesla fires 'hundreds' following annual performance reviews]( Tesla has fired a significant number of employees following the completion of its annual performance review process, according to a new report. Between 400 and 700 – and the company says that this is a normal part of its review process. I guess we just don't usually hear about it resulting in mass firings like this. 4. [Amazon drops Weinstein-involved David O. Russell project]( Amazon had a couple of projects in the works from The Weinstein Company when news broke about founder Harvey Weinstein. Now, it's dropped one of them entirely – a David O. Russell project including Robot De Niro and Julianne Moore. Even star power isn't immune from the fallout of this ongoing scandal. 5. [Mobile phone co's seem to be selling your number and location]( Why get paid just once per user, when you can get paid a bunch of times? That's what phone companies seem to think. Yay! 6. [We Heart It suffers breach impacting millions]( It's sad that when a password breach only affects "millions" and doesn't include your social security info it's not considered all that big of a deal anymore. Welcome to 2017. 7. [Apple gets $440 million final fine in VirnetX patent case]( That's like what, one day of iPhone X pre-order revenue? [Get more stories at techcrunch.com ]( Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: - [Automation Architect at Tricentis GmbH (Jersey City, NJ, United States)]( - [Automation Architect at Tricentis GmbH (Austin, TX, United States)]( - [NET Software Developer at Tricentis GmbH (Jersey City, NJ, United States)]( - [NET Software Developer at Tricentis GmbH (Austin, TX, United States)]( - [Automation Specialist at Tricentis GmbH (Jersey City, NJ, United States)]( [SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD]( [Post your tech jobs]( and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month [Facebook](  [Twitter](  [Youtube](  [Instagram](  [Flipboard]( [View this email online in your browser]( If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences [click here](. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2017 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   [Privacy Policy](   [Terms of Service](