Austin, we have a problem! Tesla descends into battery hell (www.saltwire.com)
Elon Musk says prototypes are easy, production is hell. And when it comes to the long-awaited Cybertruck, Tesla's hell is its pioneering 4680 battery....
Are BLUFFS attacks still a vulnerability to the average Bluetooth user? (www.bluetooth.com)
I recalled reading about this at the beginning of this month, I haven’t seen any updates on a fix or anything. Figured I’d ponder it with you folks over here....
Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr! 🎉 Like YouTube, ... (njump.me)
This could be promising!
Quest Pro Now Has Tongue Tracking Too (www.uploadvr.com)
Quest Pro Now Has Tongue Tracking Too::Quest Pro’s face tracking now includes your tongue, though developers will need to implement it.
Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges (www.cnbc.com)
Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges::Nikola founder Trevor Milton was found guilty in October 2022 on two counts of wire fraud and one count of securities fraud.
Apple halts US sales of Watch before Christmas after losing patent case (on.ft.com)
Apple halts US sales of Watch before Christmas after losing patent case::undefined
Lawmakers Seek Probe on Apple (AAPL) Over Shuttering iMessage-for-Android Apps - Bloomberg (www.bloomberg.com)
Southwest Airlines Flight Attendants Forced to Rerun Contract Vote After Crew Discovered Ballot System Was Vulnerable to Fraud (unsecured database web front-end) (www.paddleyourownkanoo.com)
US Congress pushes warrantless wiretapping decision off until April next year (www.theverge.com)
US Congress pushes warrantless wiretapping decision off until April next year::The US House passed the National Defence Authorization Act, which included a provision to extend Section 702, which allows warrantless wiretapping by the US.
Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off “alarm bells,” tech group says (arstechnica.com)
Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off “alarm bells,” tech group says::Section 702 debate rages after another FISA Court opinion is unclassified.
Hackers behind recent ChatGPT outage say they'll target the AI bot until it stops 'dehumanizing' Palestinians (www.businessinsider.com)
Hackers behind recent ChatGPT outage say they’ll target the AI bot until it stops ‘dehumanizing’ Palestinians::The hacker group Anonymous Sudan has claimed responsibility for some of the recent ChatGPT outages and say they’ll target any American company.
The Simplest Walking Robot -- only one actuator and two rigid bodies, and cute, too! (youtu.be)
Amazon Wrapped 2023 | Everything Toxic Amazon Did This Year (tilvids.com)
A lot can happen in a year when you’re the worlds largest bookshop. Here’s everything toxic Jeff Bezos and Amazon did in 2023.
Chinese AI companies allow you to resurrect the dead; visit with absent children; and reconnect to your ex. (techxplore.com)
Microsoft Excel spreadsheets have their own world championship (www.lemonde.fr)
Finals were 3 days ago, you can watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/UDGdPE_C9u8
Technical Writing: Deprecating Content (jamesg.blog)
Cop28: China ‘would like to see agreement to substitute renewables for fossil fuels’ (www.theguardian.com)
Cop28: China ‘would like to see agreement to substitute renewables for fossil fuels’::But country’s climate envoy, Xie Zhenhua, would not say whether it would support phase-out wording in climate deal
Attacks abuse Microsoft DHCP to spoof DNS records and steal secrets (www.theregister.com)
COP28: Five reasons for optimism on climate (www.bbc.com)
The fight to clean up the toxic legacy of semiconductors (www.theverge.com)
How do I permanently change the name of a Bluetooth device across all devices?
Ex-Tesla employee casts doubt on car safety (www.bbc.com)
Ex-Tesla employee casts doubt on car safety::A whistleblower believes the self-driving vehicle technology is not safe enough for public roads.
Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4 (www.theverge.com)
Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4::Gemini is a new large language model that will work across Google products, including search, ads, and Bard. Google says it matches and even bests OpenAI’s GPT-4 model.
Cable lobby to FCC: Please don’t look too closely at the prices we charge (arstechnica.com)
Cable lobby to FCC: Please don’t look too closely at the prices we charge::ISPs are scared about the FCC’s plan to measure broadband affordability.
Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model (blog.google)
Google’s official blogpost showcasing Gemini. It seems like it’s officially available to try via Bard, but I’m not sure how to enable that? There isn’t anything on the Bard website that suggests it’s now using Gemini.
