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UAW escalates strike against lone holdout GM after landing tentative pacts with Stellantis and Ford (apnews.com)

The United Auto Workers union has widened its strike against General Motors, the lone holdout among the three Detroit automakers, after reaching a tentative contract agreement with Jeep maker Stellantis....

Ford Delays $12 Billion in EV Investments Due To UAW Strike Impact and Slow Consumer Demand (driveteslacanada.ca)

Ford Delays $12 Billion in EV Investments Due To UAW Strike Impact and Slow Consumer Demand::The 41-day United Auto Workers strike took a toll on Ford, leading to a $1.3 billion hit to its Q3 earnings, and forcing the automaker to reevaluate its electric vehicle (EV) strategy. One significant development […]

Google Fiber is getting outrageously fast 20Gbps service (arstechnica.com)

Google Fiber is getting outrageously fast 20Gbps service::For now this is early access, but “most” customers will get upgraded eventually.

Czech village priest sorry for smashing pumpkins (www.bbc.com)

New Pentagon report claims China now has over 500 operational nuclear warheads (www.npr.org)

The latest assessment from the defense department said China had increased its arsenal of operational nuclear warheads from the estimated 400 in 2021 to more than 500 as of May this year.

Elon Musk’s X removes the New York Times’ verification badge (www.washingtonpost.com)

X tests charging new users $1 to tweet, retweet (www.cnbc.com)

X tests charging new users $1 to tweet, retweet::The Elon Musk-owned company said it was an effort to combat bot activity and “manipulation,” with the rollout beginning in the Philippines and New Zealand.

NVIDIA looking to hook up Reflex support in Proton (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Average American Debt: Household Debt Statistics, Average household debt hits $101,915 (www.businessinsider.com)

There’s a morning-after pill to prevent sexually transmitted infections (www.vox.com)

PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching (www.phoronix.com)

What’s behind a surge of deaths at one Ohio jail? (www.theguardian.com)

Montgomery county jail’s population is only 600 people – and all seven deaths happened within days of entering the facility, during pre-trial detention

World EV Sales Now Equal 18% Of World Auto Sales (cleantechnica.com)

Clandestine ovens reveal paramilitary horrors in Colombia (english.elpais.com)

14 year old kills at least 3 in mass shooting in downtown Bangkok (www.theguardian.com)

Helo, tech support? (www.businessinsider.com)

After first refusing, OneWheel recalls all of its self-balancing electric skateboards (electrek.co)

Florida Is Using Digital ID Facial Recognition On Hurricane Relief Applicants (reclaimthenet.org)

Welcome to the future. This’ll become more and more commonplace, it’s one of the reason why police t.v. shows are useful.

AI language models can exceed PNG and FLAC in lossless compression, says study (arstechnica.com)

While LLMs have been used for… a lot, it seems like this use might be one where it’s not only reliable but it appears to outperform existing methods of image compression. Being able to cram more data into less space tends to lead to interesting developments, so I will be keeping my eye on this....