Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Maybe this is just because I watched Pirates of Silicon Valley too many times as a kid. This was before Apple was “cool” and Steve Jobs was “iconic”, before I worked for Apple during the very first iPhone launch, and back when I just loved disassembling my LC, writing programs in HyperCard and using […]

Tesla is making its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) system a lot more forgiving. Repeat offenders who receive five “strikes” and are booted off the AI driving system for seven days will now only spend 3.5 days in “FSD jail.” This change occurs five weeks before the release of Version 14 software, which Elon Musk […]

The push for a tightly controlled payment and identity system took a quiet but alarming step forward with a little-noticed deal between credit card giant Visa and an obscure tech firm called TECH5. Their seven-year agreement aims to fast-track digital identity and payment systems under the deceptively tame “Digital Public Infrastructure” (DPI), Biometric Update reports. […]

“This will not be a partisan CR,” Johnson said at a press conference Tuesday. “It will be a clean, short-term continuing resolution. End of story.” Now begins the game of trying to get enough votes to pass it. House Republicans, as usual, must worry not just about Democrats but about the fiscal hardliners within their […]

Via Remix News, Spanish police have arrested 19 illegal immigrants on suspicion of abusing, torturing and killing 50 of their fellow passengers on a boat as they crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Canary Islands. Remix News reported on the brutal torture and murders earlier this month, but now, it appears the police have […]