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    Tires that talk to your town about the state of roads are on the way

    That is an interesting choice of onomatopoeia to illustrate your complaint about Italian speeding enforcement. Very interesting indeed.
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    The Means siblings, darlings of MAHA, both out of the Trump admin—for now

    "Trust me, I know what I'm talking about, except that I know nothing about this topic."
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    Suing a popular YouTuber who shimmed a $130 lock—what could possibly go wrong?

    It sounds like McNally did nothing wrong and that Proven is an astonishingly terrible excuse of a company with a piece of shit for an owner. Yet, I came out of this story kind of hating both sides and the world we live in.
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    Google reportedly searching for 15 Pixel “Superfans” to test unreleased phones

    This strikes me as just as silly as that Air Bud open casting call. If they didn't have it figured out before, I'm not sure how this is going to help them.
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    Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement

    I don't disagree with your second sentence, but your first sentence paints in extremely broad, quite fanciful strokes. If European society is so fundamentally different from the US, why did Brexit happen? Why are rightwing parties in Germany and elsewhere ascendant? Why are rightwing rallies...
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    YouTube pays $24.5M to settle Trump lawsuit over January 2021 suspension

    I get where you're coming from, but real life is messy. If you want a change to happen, you personally have to make it happen. That means stepping out onto a limb and taking the action you want others to take. That is the only way to create a meaningful, lasting movement. The remaining sane...
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    YouTube will restore channels banned for COVID and election misinformation

    No hardware gimmick is worth being forced to use Google software.
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    Tesla’s robotaxi test: Three crashes in only 7,000 miles

    Please stop with your quoting madness. You literally repeated the exact same line. No one else on Ars seems to have this problem but you. What the fuck.
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    After child’s trauma, chatbot maker allegedly forced mom to arbitration for $100 payout

    Without fail, any time there's a story about a parent being upset about something that happened to their kid, the "parental responsibility" trolls slither out of the cracks to proclaim that anything that ever happens to a child must, by definition, be the parents' fault and no one else's. Kid...
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    Lego iMac G3 concept is unlikely to go anywhere, but it is very cute

    Lego would have no problem making this using regular pieces and a billion stickers.
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    Lego iMac G3 concept is unlikely to go anywhere, but it is very cute

    Fuuuuck. I shouldn't be surprised, but that's still a huge bummer. Trump just hates fun. And poor Canada has been contaminated by our stench.
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    ChatGPT helped teen plan suicide after safeguards failed, OpenAI admits

    My friend, you make some good points, but please, for the love of god, work on your quoting formatting. Please stop repeating lines from quoted posts to show emphasis. Either only quote the relevant part of the post or bold it. It is quite annoying to parse through a bunch of redundant, chopped...
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    Senator to Supreme Court justice: Federal court hacks threaten US security

    I'm sure John Roberts will get right on that. Exposing sensitive information to Russians is a feature, not a bug, for this administration. (I'm including Supreme Court Justices in "this administration" because they have become nothing more than politicians with lifetime terms.)
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    An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues

    In the U.S., pre-employment drug screens have been exceedingly common for a long, long time. For regular folks, anyway. If you work in a field or position with enough prestige, of course they're not going to test you. It's all about leverage. Once a potential employee attains a sufficient amount...
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    For $15, anyone can dig up diamonds in this Arkansas state park

    Looks kinda fun. Too bad it's in Arkansas.
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    Elon Musk’s “thermonuclear” Media Matters lawsuit may be fizzling out

    I think this country and the world would be a hell of a lot better off if we had more judges named Sparkle and a lot fewer so-called judges named "Clarence" or "Brett" or "John." Sparkle on.
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    The case for commuting by motorcycle

    With all due respect to the motorcyclists posting in this thread, I do not believe that y'all are a representative sample of typical motorcyclists. I don't believe that my experience commuting is a representative sample, either, but some robust patterns have nonetheless emerged from that...
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    Researchers use calendar events to hack Gemini, control smart home gadgets

    Oh, you're not even kidding. Wow. The North American brain worm is doing quite well for itself these days.
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    Grok generates fake Taylor Swift nudes without being asked

    So motherfucking sick of the "cat's out of the bag" argument. The way these people view "technology" is akin to a religious deity. This view is certainly as mindlessly teleological as religion. Technology is not some supernatural entity. Technology comprises physical artifacts produced by human...