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    China's BYD Could Apply Pressure to European EV Industry With Inexpensive Seagull Hatchback

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  • Do they really apply subsidies to exported cars though? 20k is about the same price as comparable Japanese mini EVs like Nissan Sakura. If the exported seagull were subsidized, surely it should be even cheaper than that?

  • Teslas Can Still Be Stolen With a Cheap Radio Hack—Despite New Keyless Tech

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  • People usually use flipper zero (banned in Canada) to play with these kind of stuff. Not sure if this exploit can be implemented in flipper zero though.

  • Teslas Can Still Be Stolen With a Cheap Radio Hack—Despite New Keyless Tech

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  • Used Tesla battery is actually in demand though. Is the exploit is accessible enough, eventually thieves would target it to sell the battery in the used market for electric car conversion kits, solar power storage kits, etc.

  • Released: NVIDIA 555.42.02 Linux Beta Brings Wayland Explicit Sync, GSP Firmware

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  • Ah sorry, I got it backward. Nvidia is dragging their asses on implementing "implicit" sync, so Wayland devs and nvidia ended up with a compromise and implemented the explicit sync protocol. IMO it's just another example of Nvidia doing whatever they please and forcing everyone to do it their way or highway.

  • Released: NVIDIA 555.42.02 Linux Beta Brings Wayland Explicit Sync, GSP Firmware

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  • Unlike AMD and Intel, they don't get along with the open source community well and generally do whatever they please, which is why they earned the ire of many linux developers. For example, they're really dragging their asses with implementing explicit sync.

  • What did you bring to the table?

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  • Here, take one

  • Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto

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  • Scams are not much affected by cryptocurrency existence, but ransomware existence specifically relies on crypto for scaling reason. They infect millions of computers, the ransoms are being handled automatically because it's way too much to be handled manually with gift cards.

  • Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto

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  • The internet has far more beneficial uses than malicious uses. We currently can't say the same with cryptocurrency due to its diminishing utility.

    E-commerce platforms were never the target anyway

    What's the use of money if not for paying stuff? In the early days, a lot more shops (online and offline) accept crypto payments. These days it's mostly vpn companies that accept them.

  • Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto

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  • Let's not forget that crypto also enable wide deployment of ransomwares (which was not possible due to the lack of untraceable online payment at scale), while less and less ecommerce platform allow crypto payment. If this trend continues, eventually no one would use crypto except for speculation and paying off ransom.

  • Iranian President Raisi missing after helicopter goes down

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  • The CIA played a long game for this one. First, they engineered the global warming, which led to cooler temperature than usual in that region, which led to fogs and low hanging clouds, which caused the crash of the helicopter carrying the president.

  • The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster.

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  • "I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded

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  • Supposedly they found a new method (Q*) that significantly improved their models, enough to make some key people revolt to force the company to not monetize it out of ethical concern. Those people have been pushed out ofc.

  • Gunmen kill 3 Western tourists, translator in central Afghanistan

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  • There are certain kinds of people that love this kind of tourism. I mean, tourists visit North Korea every year. It might be the thrill of visiting forbidden countries that attracts them.

  • Bell bottoms [Berry's World, 1969]

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  • The poor girl got elephantiasis.

  • Gunmen kill 3 Western tourists, translator in central Afghanistan

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  • It's a famous historical site:

    Bamiyan, one of the poorest regions in impoverished Afghanistan, is a popular destination for foreign tourists because it contains Buddhist monastic ensembles and sanctuaries, according to the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

    The scenic city was also the spot where the Taliban destroyed two large Buddha statues in March 2001 during their previous rule in Afghanistan. The group said the statues were blasphemous under Islam.

  • History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says

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  • Heck, Japanese manufacturers even sell $15K EVs in Japan (e.g. Nissan Sakura) but they don't seem to be interested in selling them elsewhere.

  • Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand

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  • They're probably marketing this as requiring zero infrastructure changes to attract buyers and investors. Just put the pod lifter at the end of the track and it's done.

  • Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch

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  • The problem is, these new phones often have new speed charging protocols that only work best with their own charger, basically forcing you to pay more to get the charger if you want to utilize speed charging unless you already have a new-ish charger from that manufacturer.

  • Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch

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  • IIRC Samsung doesn't allow OEM unlock on snapdragon devices sold in US.