‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing

the Guardian

‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing

Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents – from ...

"2,400 customer complaints about unintended acceleration and more than 1,500 braking issues – 139 involving emergency braking without cause, and 383 phantom braking events triggered by false collision warnings. More than 1,000 crashes are documented."

James "Hepcat" Heppell from @npub1kn4y...3asa asks why Google doesn't put the user's chosen default browser into the "hot seat". Research shows that this increases retention and reduces Gatekeeper dominance. Apple does, and Google Chrome benefits from this on iOS. Can Google commit to doing the same on Android?

Today is the 2nd DMA Compliance workshop with your good chums at Alphabet. I know how to enjoy myself.

"Before the App Store, the web was a wild west experience. Users never really knew what they were downloading". Yup, no school shooter apps, sanctioned Russian bank apps or ripped-off games get past the in-depth App Store review process.

El Son and I just finished watching the latest Adam Curtis docupolemic "Shifty". It's bombastic, bullshitty and brilliant. The 21st century Guy Debord we didn't know we needed.

I'm so rock n roll, I'm lying on my bed in Amsterdam drinking a cup of tea on a Friday night.

I'm in the 30 min Brexit queue of shame to show the black passport of sadness

Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline

TechCrunch

Anthropic's new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline | TechCrunch

Anthropic says its Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail software engineers when they try to take it offline.

Oh, fuck off, TechBros, and take your Frankenstein monster made of grave-robbed body parts of other people's intellectual work with you. kthxbai

At the weekend, a group of trans women protested topless at the Scottish Parliament about the recent Supreme Court ruling that the Equality Act defines women as "biological women". The police couldn't arrest them, because to arrest them for showing their breasts would be to define them as women (it's not illegal for men to be topless). And, of course, the right-wing press that reported on it censored their breasts, thereby making their point for them.

Are developers falling out of love with Apple? My most recent musing

Bruce Lawson

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