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Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop project racks up serious safety violations — Workers describe routine chemical burns, permanent scarring to limbs, and violations that call into question claims of innovative... (www.bloomberg.com)

Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop project racks up serious safety violations — Workers describe routine chemical burns, permanent scarring to limbs, and violations that call into question claims of innovative…::The Boring Company’s tiny Las Vegas Loop is all that’s come of Musk’s promises to build superfast mass-transit...

Maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbor's music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers (www.tomshardware.com)

Maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbor’s music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers::Roni Bandini is using a Raspberry Pi to power his AI-driven assault against his neighbor’s regular 9am reggaeton music.

AI Just Cleared A Big Hurdle On The Road To Nuclear Fusion Energy (www.iflscience.com)

AI Just Cleared A Big Hurdle On The Road To Nuclear Fusion Energy::We’ve had Nazi AIs, art thief AIs, and gobbledegook AIs. Welcome to the other end of the bell curve.

No, electric vehicle sales aren’t dropping. Here’s what’s really going on (www.cnn.com)

No, electric vehicle sales aren’t dropping. Here’s what’s really going on::Tesla has been slashing prices. Ford just cut the price of its Mustang Mach-E, too, plus it cut back production of its electric pickup. And General Motors is thinking about bringing back plug-in hybrids, arguably a step back from EVs.

PlayStation Is Laying Off 900 Workers, Shutting Down London Studio Entirely (www.thegamer.com)

PlayStation Is Laying Off 900 Workers, Shutting Down London Studio Entirely::PlayStation is shutting down its London studio, while also laying off staff at Naughty Dog, Insomniac, and more.

The Download: tiny TikTok-style soap operas, and how algorithms change us. (www.technologyreview.com)

ChinaTalk - India's Chip War (podcasts.google.com)

Lenovo’s concept laptop is real, transparent, and ready to impress (www.theverge.com)

Lenovo’s concept laptop is real, transparent, and ready to impress::Lenovo’s ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop is a 17.3-inch notebook with a transparent screen and a built-in tablet for you to doodle on.

‘Disinformation on steroids’: is the US prepared for AI’s influence on the election? (www.theguardian.com)

‘Disinformation on steroids’: is the US prepared for AI’s influence on the election?::Robocalls of President Biden confused voters earlier this month – but measures to curb the technology could be too little too late

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes (gizmodo.com)

Hackers Leak 2.5M Private Plane Owners’ Data Linked to LA Intl. Airport Breach (www.hackread.com)

AI ‘dream girls’ are coming for porn stars’ jobs (www.washingtonpost.com)

AI ‘dream girls’ are coming for porn stars’ jobs::undefined

Police shut more than 14,000 accounts on Mega, Tutanota and Protonmail (therecord.media)

Funimation’s solution for wiping out digital libraries could be good, if it works (www.theverge.com)

A refund should be the only option.

EE Switches Off Final 3G Mobile Network Site in the UK - ISPreview UK (www.ispreview.co.uk)

How to Scale a Startup Successfully

Scaling a startup successfully hinges on strategic focus and operational agility. Begin by honing in on your core strengths and ensuring your product meets a genuine, scalable market need. Technology plays a pivotal role in this growth phase; leveraging adaptable and scalable tech solutions, much like the approach advocated by...

A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology (www.businessinsider.com)

A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology::A photo shared on Reddit showed one of the vending machines with an error code suggesting it used facial recognition tech.

Gemini is about to slide into your DMs (www.theverge.com)

Google’s AI chatbot is coming to Messages. Meanwhile, Android Auto gets some AI smarts and Google Docs will let you add handwritten comments.

Guardio Uncovers Large-Scale "SubdoMailing" Campaign Abusing Well-known Brands (MSN, VMware, McAfee, etc.) (labs.guard.io)

Researchers at Guardio Labs discovered a vast campaign hijacking thousands of subdomains belonging to well-known brands (MSN, VMware, McAfee, The Economist, Cornell University, CBS, Marvel, eBay, etc.)....

Revealed: car industry was warned keyless vehicles vulnerable to theft a decade ago (www.theguardian.com)

Experts alerted motor trade to security risks of ‘smart key’ systems which have now fuelled highest level of car thefts for a decade.

Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code — they should leave it up to AI. (www.tomshardware.com)

Jensen Huang says kids shouldn’t learn to code — they should leave it up to AI.::At the recent World Government Summit in Dubai, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a counterintuitive break with tech leader wisdom by saying that programming is no longer a vital skill due to the AI revolution.

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