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.

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?