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    After a great Q3, Tesla sees double-digit declines all over Europe

    The auto industry is using QNX.
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    We let OpenAI’s “Agent Mode” surf the web for us—here’s what happened

    Feels like you have used Atlas as a UI to write automation code, and it failed most of the time. Specifically you even provide entry-points and instructions about steps it should take. What I am missing from the challenges are analysis and reasoning, skills an actual personal assistent would...
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    Chinese EV buyers are cooling on Tesla and BYD

    Exactly who is still holding onto Tesla stock? Can we use their change in inertia as early-warning system for the economy? Also, until Tesla produces a single (pre-production I’d give them) robot they’re a car manufacturer and should be valued as such.
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    Chris Roberts hopes Squadron 42 will be “almost as big” as GTA VI next year

    It’ll come, in just a few thousand days.
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    Developer gets 4 years for activating network “kill switch” to avenge his firing

    Don’t think tech—start building relationships with their customers, clients, suppliers, regulator, whoever else to land a job at their outfit, pitching the idea you’d be henceforth on their side when it comes contract negotiations.
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    Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike

    As it currently is, the US is investing in a few highly capable and very expensive items. For example, AWACS planes that turn out to be juicy targets. Yet here is an example of what is rumoured to be a relatively cheap radar drone (China’s WZ-9 “sensor truck”), to be used in larger numbers, to...
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    Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike

    Commercial drones by DJI, meant for agriculture, can carry about 100kg
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    Doc Searls’ MyTerms aims to offer user-first privacy contracts for the web

    While the local implementations to what the GDPR the guideline is concern themselves with your right to your data (i.e. transferability by the option to download it in a standard-ish format) and what your data is used for, you likely have the Cookie Directive in mind here. Which is another...
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    Mastodon becomes nonprofit to make sure it’s never ruined by billionaire CEO

    So did I: I clicked a cheap VM and have started a GotoSocial Mastodon instance within less than an hour, to follow friends and for a community of a dozen people. That time includes writing a systemd unit file, letsencrypt-enabled: true, and a coffee break – but excludes surveying my options...
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    As it buries Windows 10, Microsoft declares 2025 “year of the Windows 11 PC refresh”

    Fedora SilverBlue is a Linux distribution that upgrades itself like your Android mobile does, or Mac OS in that regard. Entire base system in one go. No tripping over small deviations from what the vendor has as reference. — I've installed it for family members, years ago indeed, and have...
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    Fitness app Strava is tightening third-party access to user data

    Upload to the app that used to pull from Strava directly? Or, what's the techical reason there's a limited set of targets in the first place? Whether that option exist should be pointed out in all reviews. Edit: Oy, Garmin Connect doesn’t allow for it. Yet any such concentrator, like Strava...
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    EV subsidies out, new import tariffs in—how Trump’s win affects autos

    Do you expect an Elon Musk on Mars or wherever else having the headroom to execute on his other plans? Take the win, keep him occupied.
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    EV subsidies out, new import tariffs in—how Trump’s win affects autos

    All the success he needs to Elon, for achieving his vision to walk on Mars!
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    Mercedes-Benz opens its own recycling facility for EV batteries

    Nice, but where’s the latest car generation we expected 2023? Is hardware and software development still lost between US, Germany, and India?
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    Tesla Full Self Driving requires human intervention every 13 miles

    I firmly believe, actual FSD will come in the next few thousand days!
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    Starlink imposes $100 “congestion charge” on new users in parts of US

    Service quality decreases for existing customers in congested sectors? Or do they have something in place that guarantees a minimum bandwidth, latency, variance…? How scalable is Starlink’s tech – can they launch more satellites that share load (different frequencies?) to service the same...
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    Nvidia is ditching dedicated G-Sync modules to push back against FreeSync’s ubiquity

    Was it perhaps because those G-Sync modules have needed extra cooling and pro-sumers are reluctant to tolerate noise in expensive screens?
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    Ars asks: What was the last CD or DVD you burned?

    CDs with proofs to the city, maybe bi-weekly and just this week. DVDs with photos for family members, MKVs with edited recordings of bicycle rides with friends – quarterly maybe. The discs fit in an envelope, postage is way cheaper than for small parcels. Unlike USB sticks or memory cards they...
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    CrowdStrike claps back at Delta, says airline rejected offers for help

    I’m not in CrowdStrike’s corner, nor in Delta’s. That said, how’s the argument that the more competent a party is painted to be, or represents itself, the more trust you can reasonably extend to them. CS customers didn’t need to expect CS to break their systems the way they did. CS was...
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    CrowdStrike claps back at Delta, says airline rejected offers for help

    That’s the behaviour of salaried staff with proper work density, or consultants. Goals and priorities shift for hands on hourly contracts. Roughly like that.