The false promises of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (www.theverge.com)
Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars (www.npr.org)
Self-driving cars have flooded San Francisco's streets, and not everyone is happy. Street activists have been using a low-tech solution to incapacitate the vehicles.
Apple exec gets bribery charge for allegedly offering Calif. sheriff iPads for gun permits (www.sfgate.com)
Apple exec gets bribery charge for allegedly offering Calif. sheriff iPads for gun permits::An Apple security executive is charged with offering the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office 200 iPads in exchange for Tim Cook’s bodyguards’ gun permits.
Disney VFX Workers Are Moving to Unionize, Too (gizmodo.com)
Apptronik’s Apollo is the latest humanoid robot to beat Tesla to market | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
Apptronik unveiled a new workforce robot today.
Most of My Instagram Ads Are for Drugs, Stolen Credit Cards, Hacked Accounts, Counterfeit Money, and Weapons (www.404media.co)
US spy satellite agency isn’t so silent about new “Silent Barker” mission (arstechnica.com)
A mystery company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has purchased tens of thousands of acres of land for more than $800 million to build a new city near San Francisco (www.businessinsider.com)
A mystery company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has purchased tens of thousands of acres of land for more than $800 million to build a new city near San Francisco::A company called Flannery Associates has been buying up land in Solano County for up to $15,000 per acre, court documents show.
[Corp Blog] Google strengthens its Workplace suite protection, apps including Gmail, Calendar, Drive, or Google Docs Editors Suite (among other apps) (www.malwarebytes.com)
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This Radical New Metal from Outer Space Could Transform Everything—from Electric Vehicles to Nuclear Submarines (www.popularmechanics.com)
This Radical New Metal from Outer Space Could Transform Everything—from Electric Vehicles to Nuclear Submarines::Two high-profile labs are on the verge mass produce a metal only found in space—tetrantaenite. That could revolutionize how how we make everything—from phones to nuclear subs.
Requiring ink to scan a document—yet another insult from the printer industry (arstechnica.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/3vfmc...
SEC Charges LA-Based Media and Entertainment Co. Impact Theory for Unregistered Offering of NFTs. (www.sec.gov)
Elon Musk Booed At Valorant Tournament (kotaku.com)
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Poland's Railways Halted by a Simple Radio Hack (gizmodo.com)
And they do mean simple....
The End of AppleTalk - August 28th, 2009 (en.wikipedia.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.capebreton.social/post/392224...
Republicans Are Fooling Democrats on Kids’ Online Safety. (newrepublic.com)
Republicans Are Fooling Democrats on Kids’ Online Safety.::A bill before Congress would help the far right advance its ideological war—but Democrats apparently haven’t noticed or don’t care.
Google search is over (mastodon.social)
Via @rodhilton...
The first observation of neutrinos at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (phys.org)
The first observation of neutrinos at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider::Neutrinos are tiny and neutrally charged particles accounted for by the Standard Model of particle physics. While they are estimated to be some of the most abundant particles in the universe, observing them has so far proved to be highly challenging, as the...
The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online. (www.eff.org)
The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online.::Congress has resurrected the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bill that would increase surveillance and restrict access to information in the name of protecting children online. KOSA was introduced in 2022 but failed to gain traction, and today its authors,...
The Cheap Radio Hack That Disrupted Poland's Railway System (www.wired.com)
Scraped data of 2.6 million Duolingo users released on hacking forum (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
The scraped data of 2.6 million DuoLingo users was leaked on a hacking forum, allowing threat actors to conduct targeted phishing attacks using the exposed information.
AMD denies blocking Bethesda from adding DLSS to Starfield | Starfield DLSS mod locked behind a paywall (www.techspot.com)
AMD denies blocking Bethesda from adding DLSS to Starfield | Starfield DLSS mod locked behind a paywall::undefined
Pentagon Set to Allow Calculator Use on Military Entrance Exam as Recruiting Slumps (www.military.com)
Pentagon Set to Allow Calculator Use on Military Entrance Exam as Recruiting Slumps::The change would put the ASVAB on par with how test-taking has evolved in the past decade, with calculators being widely used in math classes and on college entrance exams such as the ACT and SAT.