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Tesla claims California false-advertising law violates First Amendment::Tesla fights DMV complaint that Autopilot is falsely advertised as autonomous.

GM Says It’s Ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for Your Safety::undefined

OpenAI has signed a multi-year licensing deal with Axel Springer, the media giant behind Politico and Business Insider. This isn’t just any deal, it’s a game-changer for both industries.

Congress Pulls Bill That Would Massively Expand Surveillance After ‘Dramatic Showdown’::The House was set to vote on two competing bills reauthorizing a powerful mass surveillance tool, but faced backlash from rights groups.

Hey guys, forgive me if I’m posting in the wrong place, but I have a talent for understanding audio very well. I just finished implementing a sequencer and a synthesizer in C, just for fun. Now that I’m done, I feel pretty good about this project, and I feel like there’s no reason not to keep going, but I don’t know what...

Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight::A jury has decided for Epic Games in the Epic v. Google trial, giving the Fortnite and Unreal Engine maker a historic win in its fight to change how app stores work.

The Telecom Industry Is Very Mad Because The FCC MIGHT Examine High Broadband Prices::We’ve long noted how the FCC (regardless of party) largely ignores how muted competition and monopolization drives up prices for consumers. The agency often talks a good (if ambiguous) game about “bridging the digital divide,” but they...

While they were happy with what the fairphone 4 brought to the table, they seem to like what was changed for the fairphone 5....

‘Eyes Everywhere’: Congress Is About to Vote to Expand Mass Surveillance of Americans, Experts Warn::Privacy experts worry that a proposed reform bill would greatly widen how the government can surveil Americans’ digital communications.

E3 Is dead for good after more than two decades of running::The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has announced the end of E3 for good.

A firm providing AI drive-thru tech to fast food chains actually relies on human workers to take orders 70% of the time::Presto Automations recently admitted that most of the orders taken by its AI drive-thru chatbot are actually assisted by off-site human workers.

I’ve just found this Optimus Gen 2 demo, and I thought it’s quite interesting....

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More than 15% of teens say they’re on YouTube or TikTok ‘almost constantly’::A new Pew Research Center study finds that more than 15% of teens say they’re on YouTube or TikTok “almost constantly.”