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  1. faffod

    After hack, some ignition interlock users couldn’t start their own cars

    We are one step away from TeslaFSD AutoPilot fulfilling the prophecy of Airplane View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOSfFQW2FLo&t=187s
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    Pops, whines, and roars: xAI accused of torturing neighbors of noisy power plant

    Yeah, your parent post even mentioned natural gas... thanks for politely repeating yourself and giving me a chance at reading comprehension.
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    Pops, whines, and roars: xAI accused of torturing neighbors of noisy power plant

    Though it might be possible to generate hydrogen without too much pollution, the reality is that its production is considered a significant source of pollution . That's not taking into account the energy loss converting hydrogen back to electricity with at best is 60%. And I'm not even going to...
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    Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

    I'll jump on the bandwagon thanking the Ars team for being upfront about making a mistake and owning it. Perfection is impossible, but one measure that I consider paramount for journalistic quality is the number of corrections posted. Sometimes they're small adjustments sometimes they are...
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    Trump FTC denies being “speech police” but says Apple News is too liberal

    Europe and Canada seem to have decided that appeasement just isn't going to work. Hopefully corporations will start to wake up as well. I'm not a lawyer, but I have to imagine that if the FTC tries to block or otherwise harass Apple their defense would be exhibit A: this letter, and have th...
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    Trump FTC denies being “speech police” but says Apple News is too liberal

    That used to really bug me, but over time I've come to appreciate that I see the headlines that are been fed to the unwashed masses consumers of alternate facts so that I have an idea of what they are being fed. And since it's greyed out I don't accidentally click on it and trigger ad revenue to...
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    Trump FTC denies being “speech police” but says Apple News is too liberal

    No. I already block Fox, CNN, and several other sites that are just noise. But this is far bigger than Apple providing visibility to certain sites; this is the federal government threatening (mafia "nice place you have here, it would be a shame..." style threats) everyone* to push their lies and...
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    Randomly quoting Ray Bradbury did not save lawyer from losing case over AI errors

    I came to quote that byline and say: there’s a line of lawyers saying “hold my beer”… but knew I had to read the comments and catch everyone who had beaten me to the punch ;)
  9. faffod

    China bans all retractable car door handles, starting next year

    Not only do side view mirrors have significantly more drag, car manufacturers have long been placing the "draggy" door handles inside the vortex coming off the mirror, so they have no measurable increase on overall drag.
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    Trump FCC tries to get more Republicans on late-night and daytime talk shows

    So you're saying that the market shouldn't decide? Regulations are the way to go?
  11. faffod

    Exclusive: Volvo tells us why having Gemini in your next car is a good thing

    I did. Three times even. It was back in '21 and I was in bedridden with a covid fever for the entire month month of February. edit to explain the sarcasm: only in a fever dream is this use for a car AI going to happen
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    Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline

    I suspect that those billions might "benefit" the loss sheet... So has Vegas started an official "which bubble will bust first: AI or Tesla stock"?
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    How OpenAI is using GPT-5 Codex to improve the AI tool itself

    But the commentariat is second to none. I saw the article headline and thought "Ohhhh... interesting! Let's read the comments" Sometimes the comments make me think that the article is also worth reading. The comments are always worth the visit. Thank you, and everyone else.
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    Trump’s order blocking wind development thrown out by court

    Is that a subtle dig at the administration's love for q-anon conspiracies or a typo? [dang nijas...]
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    Despite accessing user data, Kohler still says its smart toilet cameras use E2EE

    I am somewhat surprised that Zoom's use of the term E2EE to describe encrypting from and to the server wasn't included as an example. Especially since it ended up costing Zoom $85M...
  16. faffod

    ChatGPT hyped up violent stalker who believed he was “God’s assassin,” DOJ says

    Sorry, this is the Ars forum, where the conversation is intelligent and highly worth reading. If you want your prompt to get an answer, may I suggest ChatGPT? /s just in case
  17. faffod

    The missile meant to strike fear in Russia’s enemies fails once again

    Nah, we'll rick roll them for hte lols
  18. faffod

    The missile meant to strike fear in Russia’s enemies fails once again

    Russia has long been testing their nukes underground, so not too much should be leaking out. Also anything over 1Kt seems to be detectable (and today's sensors maybe better?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_nuclear_weapons_testing#International_treaties
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    An electric car that’s faster than F1 around Monaco? That’s the idea.

    No, but there is less since some of it was pushed up. And less produces less downforce.