Weird News Compilation

[Swamp Thing]

I think he means interacting with the AC, sound system etc and not the actual driving.

 

[Tom.G]

Similiar problem, using mental processing power versus so-called 'muscle memory' and tactile feedback to find the knob or pushbutton.

But the tactile feedback is a necessary ingredient. Unfortunately that is missing on the touch-screen interfaces.

 

[jack action]

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/30/r...s-in-car-buttons-are-an-anomaly/?guccounter=1
Rivian’s chief software officer says in-car buttons are ‘an anomaly’

This is a weird approach.

If you focus your efforts on using AI for the "simpler task" of a fully self-driving car where you enter the car destination and have nothing else to do until arrival, you have all the time and attention in the world to push buttons. If you are hungry, it is easy to find your new destination - whether looking on your phone or doing a poll with all the passengers - and ask the AI to modify its destination. With the trend right now, modifying your car destination would probably even be with an app on your phone - with buttons or speech-to-text.

If you are still driving, having a "discussion" with AI about its suggestions for nearby restaurants will necessarily take a lot of your attention that you are not putting on the road.

 

[nsaspook]

I think he means interacting with the AC, sound system etc and not the actual driving.

And the car completely freaks out from voice control.

 

[nsaspook]

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/05/schneider_electric_cybersecurity_incident/
Schneider Electric ransomware crew demands $125k paid in baguettes

Schneider Electric confirmed that it is investigating a breach as a ransomware group Hellcat claims to have stolen more than 40 GB of compressed data — and demanded the French multinational energy management company pay $125,000 in baguettes or else see its sensitive customer and operational information leaked.

And yes, you read that right: payment in baguettes. As in bread.

Like, lay some bread on me man.

 

[Arjan82]

California men use bear costume to pull off bizarre insurance fraud plot​

https://krcrtv.com/news/local/fake-...n-attempt-bizarre-stunt-for-insurance-payouts

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KRCR) — Four Los Angeles men have been charged with fraud after claiming a bear caused damage to their luxury vehicles, but they were actually using a bear costume to fake the attacks for insurance payouts.

 

[nsaspook]

 

[nsaspook]

California men use bear costume to pull off bizarre insurance fraud plot​

https://krcrtv.com/news/local/fake-...n-attempt-bizarre-stunt-for-insurance-payouts

Got suspicious when the bear checked its iPhone.

 

[collinsmark]

While this news story does involve the satirical, online news magazine, "The Onion," the actual news story itself is not satire.

Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction with Sandy Hook families’ backing​

The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax.​

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The purchase turns over Jones’ company, which for decades has peddled in conspiracy and misinformation, to a humor website that plans to relaunch the Infowars platform in January as a parody. Within hours of the sale’s announcement Thursday, Infowars’ website was down and Jones was broadcasting from what he said was a new studio location.​

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Source (Associated Press): https://apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-6496f198d141c991087dcd937b3588e9

 

[nsaspook]

While this news story does involve the satirical, online news magazine, "The Onion," the actual news story itself is not satire.

Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction with Sandy Hook families’ backing​

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The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax.​

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The purchase turns over Jones’ company, which for decades has peddled in conspiracy and misinformation, to a humor website that plans to relaunch the Infowars platform in January as a parody. Within hours of the sale’s announcement Thursday, Infowars’ website was down and Jones was broadcasting from what he said was a new studio location.​

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Source (Associated Press): https://apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-6496f198d141c991087dcd937b3588e9

https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’​

What’s next for InfoWars remains a live issue. The excess funds initially allocated for the purchase will be reinvested into our philanthropic efforts that include business school scholarships for promising cult leaders, a charity that donates elections to at-risk third world dictators, and a new pro bono program pairing orphans with stable factory jobs at no cost to the factories.
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No price would be too high for such a cornucopia of malleable assets and minds. And yet, in a stroke of good fortune, a formidable special interest group has outwitted the hapless owner of InfoWars (a forgettable man with an already-forgotten name) and forced him to sell it at a steep bargain: less than one trillion dollars.

 

[Arjan82]

Got suspicious when the bear checked its iPhone.

I think they just compared damage and found it to be 'rather mild' for a bear:

With pictures.
https://www.wfsb.com/2024/07/26/black-bear-cub-destroy-car-connecticut-after-getting-trapped-inside/

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[berkeman]

First it was Snakes on a Plane, now this!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hamsters-loose-tap-airlines-plane-portugal/

A Portuguese airline was forced to ground one of its passenger planes last week after discovering that 132 hamsters had escaped from cages in the cargo hold and roamed free throughout the aircraft, according to an aviation news website in the country.

A TAP airlines Airbus A321neo that flew from Lisbon to the Azores island of Ponta Delgada on Nov. 13 was taken out of service after its arrival and for four days as ground crew members scoured the plane for the rodents, according to the Aviação TV news website.

Reports by multiple Portuguese news outlets cited anonymous sources as saying baggage handlers had first noticed damaged cages after the plane landed, and then saw the hamsters running amok in the cargo hold.

 

[Borg]

I hate flying economy.