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How can you prove that a modified LLM was based on a Chinese model?
Except instead of being banned they'll be charged under the CFAA.
How is a curved window better on a tractor?
I don't want enterprises to thrive. I want me to thrive.
Not all citizens have the right to freedom: "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted"

https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-...

From the article:

> it achieves 258 Wh/mi — roughly matching the efficiency of an actual Model 3.

Re:Online age verification is the hill to die on on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @03:00PM (#47952801)
Adults could also use this to filter out unwanted content without needing to rely on outdated filter lists.
Some planes can land automatically without the pilot's input: https://avbrief.com/autoland-saves-king-air-everyone-reporte...

Takeoff is probably easier to automate than an emergency landing.

> And so did the jury who awarded them $600k

What jury? The payment happened before the trial: "five days before a trial was scheduled to begin in the case, Dallas County officials agreed to pay $600,000 to settle the case".

Re:A lot of population numbers are fake on Thursday January 29, 2026 @04:20PM (#46816765)
> assuming our counts are even close to correct.

That's a bold assumption. States get more representatives if they inflate the population count: https://www.census.gov/topics/public-sector/congressional-ap...

Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data on Sunday January 25, 2026 @04:52PM (#46758737)
Has this ever been tested in court?
Re:SoundCloud just banned VPN access on Monday December 15, 2025 @10:02PM (#46284251)
They have a lot of user-created music that doesnt exist anywhere else. Maybe they're trying to sell that dataset to AI companies for training their models. If they allow non-residential IPs, those potential customers could just scrape their site instead.
Re:An Update on the Farphone's Battery on Saturday November 29, 2025 @08:21PM (#46092600)
I've had success using a large capacitor instead of the battery. To keep it charged I connected its positive leg to the 5v USB pin through a diode.
"you will need a Wi-Fi card supporting active monitor mode with frame injection" https://github.com/seemoo-lab/owl
Looks like some cars got stuck in a storm a few weeks ago, so they don't seem to be proactively suspending operation during bad weather: https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/waymo-temporarily-susp...
Re:Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @01:09PM (#45505813)
They could claim copyright infringement if you distribute their SDK in your firmware without their permission.
Can a single senator issue a subpoena, or does it require a vote?
Re:'Robber bees' invade apiarist's shop in attempted honey heist on Thursday September 11, 2025 @07:13PM (#45217061)
My bees would swarm if they filled up the hive and had no space to put more honey or brood.
Maybe the judge was wrong. Let's see if this ruling gets appealed.
This is likely because the DMSP satellites are outdated: "In 2015, Congress voted to terminate the DMSP program and to scrap the DMSP 5D-3/F20 satellite, ordering the Air Force to move on to a next-generation system." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Meteorological_Satelli...

The GOES-R satellites seem to have equal or better resolution: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atot/4/4/1520-042... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOES-16

DMSP resolves to 600m, while GOES-R resolves to 500m (don't confuse it with the older GOES satellites mentioned in the article).

Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures on Saturday June 21, 2025 @12:10AM (#44334425)
This seems to be a very big problem for YouTube:

  “In 2023, we blocked or removed over 5.5 billion ads, slightly up from the prior year, and suspended 12.7 million advertiser accounts, nearly double from the previous year,” the platform told us at the time.
I wonder what proportion of those 5.5 billion inappropriate ads were removed only after people watched and reported them.
They would cook food in lead pots, which made it poisonous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate#Sweetener
How easy would it be for them to ship a backdoor on iOS? With Apple's DRM it should be difficult to decrypt the IPA and compare it to the source code.
Re:Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @08:07PM (#44186954)
Provided they release crash data for all manufacturers and don't single out just one manufacturer.
Re:When will tech workers start creating Unions? on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @05:03PM (#44174714)
How can a union prevent offshoring?
Or $0.80 if you make a big order of 100k.
Is there an official statement of this on a government website?
How can we know this group chat was really comprised of government officials and not some bored teenagers? Signal allows you to set your profile name to anything you like.

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