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    Elon Musk loses big in court; X boycott perfectly legal

    A reduced revenue stream leading to the demise of X would actually benefit everyone. In the meantime, I'm glad I can legally keep boycotting this platform.
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    There can (still) be only one: Highlander is 40

    In the top picture, Lambert has an intriguing gaze for a reason: he's absolutely short-sighted without glasses. In a Paris street, he once bumped into the secretary at my office. Her friend was all excited while she was summoning him.
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    Google Maps gets its biggest navigation redesign in a decade, plus more AI

    How about not displaying the route in almost the same blue used for rivers and other water bodies?
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    Exploring the science of “tundra tongue”

    I was about 6 when I had this idea of licking a frozen water drop underneath a metal step in the backyard stairs to the balcony. My tongue got stuck, thus making it hard to shout for help. My mother eventually heard me and came pouring lukewarm water from a kettle.
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    These new winter tires have studs that retract as it warms up

    Self-retracting studs on my winter bicycle tires? Yes, I'd like that! Less rolling resistance on dry pavement when snow and ice have thawed or been plowed. But tomorrow, following a freezing rain storm, I'll want my studs at maximum protrusion.
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    RFK Jr. ally Casey Means faces Senate for Surgeon General confirmation hearing

    But the candidate already said they shouldn't be trusted.
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    Santa Monica deploys AI-powered parking cameras to protect bike lanes

    Ticketing cars parked in bike lanes? No AI and fancy hardware needed for that. Just swear me in, give me a pile of blank tickets and I'll do it for free as I ride!
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    DOGE did not find $2T in fraud, but that doesn’t matter, Musk allies say

    Making America Go Awry And DOGE is pretty good at it.
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    The Ars Technica guide to “dumb” TVs

    Are there still DVRs that can operate without any Internet connection or subscription and that record programs on a local hard drive or SSD? My old Pioneer DVR would be great if its built-in tuner supported digital TV. I can indeed use a converter, but the DVR cannot change the channel on the...
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    Microsoft slashes AI sales growth targets as customers resist unproven agents

    AI agents? Like those dumb chat machines you have to write to, hoping your case will get through, and a human operator will handle your problem, but that you end up ditching after nonsensical answers, followed by a more thorough search for an email address to reach a company? This is not...
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    OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide

    A company that trains its AIs by abusing copyrighted material can sure tell a TOS violation when it sees one!
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    US gives local police a face-scanning app similar to one used by ICE agents

    This whole face scanning will soon be replaced by a compulsory pet-style chip everyone has to carry under the skin. Verdict is faster: no chip=arrest+deportation. A bad or counterfeit chip earns you additional torture. Expect Tesla, Oracle and Amazon to provide hardware, database and cloud hosting.
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    YouTube denies AI was involved with odd removals of tech tutorials

    You get a similar AI mishandling just reporting a typo in a street name in Google Maps. So much that there exist websites dedicated to flooding Maps with update requests so that a greater number will raise their score to make it through the first line of denial.
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    Feds probe Tesla about its “Mad Max” mode

    Coming soon: Whitelining mode. Or it may ship as an upgrade to Mad Max mode.
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    US demand grows for Chinese cars despite privacy and security fears

    While riding my bicycle in the city, I would fear crossing the path of motorists browsing TikTok on their dash screen...
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    Woman hospitalized with pain and vomiting—a diet soda cured her

    His boss already takes it on a daily basis to prevent developing a bigmacbezoar.
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    “China keeps the algorithm”: Critics attack Trump’s TikTok deal

    Not sure about filters, but for the rest, this is what I get accessing Facebook through Firefox with the FB Purity plugin. I only see the posts from a few groups I subscribed to (and no personal pages).
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    The Pentagon’s Department of War rebrand extends to space

    Next to come: RFK Jr heads the Department of Sicknesses.