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Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash (www.theregister.com)

Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: ‘Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage’

'Vortex Cannon vs Drone' - Mark Rober shows off tech from a "defense technology company that specializes in advanced autonomous systems". That seems bad

I’ve enjoyed Mark Rober’s videos for a while now. They are fun, touch on accessible topics, and have decent production value. But this recent video isn’t sitting right with me...

Twelve years after the death of Steve Jobs, the cracks are starting to appear at Apple (www.notebookcheck.net)

In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From (futurism.com)

One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion (arstechnica.com)

More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user (www.theverge.com)

More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user::Security experts believe some of the LastPass password vaults stolen during a security breach last year have now been cracked open following a string of cryptocurrency heists

SpaceX's Starlink May Be Keeping the Ozone From Healing, Research Finds (futurism.com)

Abstract from the paper in the article:...

Apple is finally allowing Firefox to use its own engine on the iPhone (but only in the EU) (www.theverge.com)

bash.org is gone

It was a collection of silly quotes from IRC channels everywhere, many of which dated back to the 90s. It was rarely ever updated in the 2010s, but now, the URL no longer resolves....

Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen (appleinsider.com)

Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it (www.macworld.com)

Apple has a memory problem and we’re all paying for it::Apple still sells expensive “Pro” computers with just 8GB of RAM and charges a fortune for more.

Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts (arstechnica.com)

Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won’t work on another device....

Are We Ready For This Site's Endless Feed of AI-Generated Porn? (futurism.com)

A very NSFW website called Pornpen.ai is churning out an endless stream of graphic, AI-generated porn. We have mixed feelings.

Meta Reportedly Unhappy With How Much Money Its VR Division Burns (gizmodo.com)

Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway. (boingboing.net)

4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm (imgur.com)

Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.

IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - some of my fellow 'murcans are eligible (sh.itjust.works)

For your simple[r] tax needs: directfile.irs.gov...

Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January (9to5google.com)

Raspberry Pi launches its IPO (www.raspberrypi.com)

It was nice knowing Raspberry Pi while they lasted. Going to suck losing something that has changed the homegrown embedded system hobby forever.

Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days, says “this attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean” (www.neowin.net)

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