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    There’s no sudden acceleration problem with Tesla, feds say

    There's no standard yet, as far as I'm aware. Some, like Tesla, engage the brake lights after a specific g threshold for braking. Others, like some Ioniqs apparently only light up if your foot is entirely off the accelerator even in OPD mode (per Tech Connections).
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    Major SteamOS update adds support for Steam Machine, even more third-party hardware

    Proton has made it all the way to 10. I'm also interested in if any of these SteamOS fixes may have downstream implications for Proton users. Anything that can improve stability is always appreciated!
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    There’s no sudden acceleration problem with Tesla, feds say

    The only shift that doesn't need the brake pedal down is shifting between Drive and Reverse, while the car is travelling at under 8km/h. Anything else requires the brake pedal be held down, and also still requires you to be under 8km/h. As for "started": I've always considered an EV "started"...
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    US spy satellites built by SpaceX send signals in the “wrong direction”

    The first sentence of the fourth paragraph makes it clear that these signals are being received in another country.
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    4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene

    The objectionable part is to falsely equivocate accessibility with presence, and then without demonstrating a logical link forward, declare them responsible for not following UK law based on that. A more appropriately analogous situation would be a take-out restaurant in city A, and a patron...
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    4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene

    Yes, and 4chan is following the laws of the United States, which is the country it operates in. It does not operate in the UK.
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    4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene

    4chan, despite how distasteful they are, is in the right with not complying. The US (or Canada, or anywhere else) is not the UK, and it's not reasonable to expect entities that have no UK presence to abide by UK rules, same as with any other equally-substitutable country.
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    ChatGPT made up a product feature out of thin air, so this company created it

    And per the description, this was the ChatGPT hallucination, and not anything of SoundSlice's creation. So "garbage out" seems to be the running theme in the first place
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    Dear readers: Let us know what you’d like to see more of on Ars

    The current coverage is pretty good, and I do enjoy the majority of the articles (and the rest are for people who are not me, so keep on keepin' on with them). I definitely would want to see more articles on PC tech and gaming, especially indie stuff, and the technical deep dives / guides...
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    New Switch 2 specs show large performance dip in undocked mode

    Very strange that the CPU seems to up-clock when undocked. Kind of surprised they wouldn't route the extra headroom to GPU.
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    Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June

    This is the kind of thing Better Discord is for.
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    Bird flu continues spread as Trump’s pandemic experts are MIA

    I feel like this administration is actively trying to invoke a Freak Gasoline Fight moment with themselves now.
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    Valve releases full Team Fortress 2 game code to encourage new, free versions

    Even for non-commercial projects, the moment there is any distribution licensing still comes into play. And since open-source collaboration (or even just viewing) necessitates distribution of source code, you'll get bit real quick by the lawyers.
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    DOGE’s .gov site lampooned as coders quickly realize it can be edited by anyone

    Those are just the names cloudflare gives their dns servers. Mine are Tom and Isla, for example. Not under President-Defect Musk's control
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    No warrant or crimes—but Oregon woman’s nudes were shared after illegal phone search

    Immunity from government prosecution, and no more.
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    UK demands Apple break encryption to allow gov’t spying worldwide, reports say

    I think it's a great idea. We should start by enrolling all high-profile UK government and industry officials to help test the system, then move on to widespread adoption once they have confirmed that the system works optimally and securely
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    Thanks to NASA, you probably won’t have to worry about this asteroid killing you

    We've been asking to vote for Giant Asteroid since 2016, we might actually be answered!
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    Ars 9.0.1 redesign is now live, with density tweaks and visited link colors

    I'd like to echo that. On a 4K screen, for me the article content (not header/title) and comments seem to only occupy ~25%-ish of the horizontal space. I'm also seeing the double-upload issue when I pasted into the text box. Negative feedback aside, I like the site update. It feels pretty...
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    14 dead as Hezbollah walkie-talkies explode in second, deadlier attack

    Because, regardless of their affiliation, they are victims of the attack. Victim does not mean 'innocent', it means they were a recipient of the violence.
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    Tactical Breach Wizards weaves engaging tactics with lively dialogue

    Played the betas. Excellent game, absolutely can recommend as a day-one buy, The dialogue had me laughing essentially all the way through, and the game throws just enough new gameplay at you through the story that by the time a mechanic just barely starts to smell, you're done with it and on...