Nitpicker’s travel journal: Bank meddled with EV charging payments causing us a Halloween nightmare
2025-11-09 15:17:00
Only a few weeks ago, nitpicker celebrated the first year with an electric van. Despite a few beginner hiccups, we had far more positive than negative experiences during our EV road trips during this time. All and all, everything was … Read >
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2025-11-09 08:29:02
The reality is, everybody - not just activists and politicians - is subject to #surveillance, whether it's from smart-city technologies, Ring doorbell cameras, or connected cars. Users will always choose simplicity over #security, and the same can be said for data #privacy.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/08/mozilla_fellow_al_shafei/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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2025-11-07 08:18:08
What a surprise that #Meta does business with scammers instead of respecting users:
Documents showed that internally, Meta was hesitant to abruptly remove accounts, even those considered some of the “scammiest scammers,” out of concern that a drop in revenue could diminish resources needed for artificial intelligence growth. #scam
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/bombshell-report-exposes-how-meta-relied-on-scam-ad-profits-to-fund-ai/
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2025-11-04 20:52:26
To gauge the current state of the #AI #browsers available today, I gave four of them a test: Perplexity Comet, Opera Neon, ChatGPT Atlas, and Dai (from the makers of the Arc browser). It's early days for all of these programs.
https://lifehacker.com/tech/i-compared-the-biggest-ai-browsers?utm_medium=RSS&test_uuid=02DN02BmbRCcASIX6xMQtY9&test_variant=B
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2025-11-03 08:30:25
#Google executive told they are developing #AI assistant that scans data from all Google apps to learn everything about a user:
That means in the future, AI Mode will pull details from your emails, documents, and other Google apps to give truly customized responses.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-says-search-ai-mode-will-know-everything-about-you/
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2025-10-31 08:05:31
#EU will implement digital Euro as a CBDC, pilot by 2027 and public use in 2029:
"...central money issued by central banks has to have its digital form, because we're moving into a different era where not everybody will want necessarily to have banknotes.”
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/31/digital_euro_approved/
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2025-10-28 17:58:50
#Clearview AI has continued to collect face images despite the #EU fines - here is the possible result:
Noyb is targeting the US company and its executives, arguing that if successful, individuals who authorized the data collection could face criminal penalties, including imprisonment.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/28/noyb_criminal_charges_clearview/
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2025-10-27 15:26:37
Who is the OpenAI #browser for, exactly? Who is its customer? And the answer I have come to there is that Atlas is for OpenAI. The real customer, the true end user of Atlas, is not the person browsing websites, it is the company collecting data about what and how that person is browsing.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/27/1126673/openai-new-atlas-browser/
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2025-10-24 08:36:54
Electric vehicles are going to get chargers in lampposts in #Europe, Peugeot's first self-driving #van in 2016, and more #EV news for travelers:
https://klaava.com/electric-vehicle-news-summary-for-travelers-self-driving-van-lamppost-chargers-strong-ev-sales-numbers-in-2025/
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2025-10-22 08:53:29
Nice try, but there are large regions in the world that see it as a race:
“To safely advance toward #AI superintelligence, we must scientifically determine how to design AI systems that are fundamentally incapable of harming people, whether through misalignment or malicious use,” he added. “We also need to make sure the public has a much stronger say in decisions that will shape our collective future.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/steve-wozniak-steve-bannon-letter-ai-superintelligence
Electric vehicle news summary for travelers: self-driving van, lamppost chargers, strong EV sales numbers in 2025
2025-10-21 16:16:00
European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association has tallied up car sales numbers for the year 2025 so far (January – August). The growth trend for electric vehicles continues. The sales of fully … Read >
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2025-10-18 08:33:23
Remote control for turning pages in a #book you are reading:
Kobo says the Remote control page turner is compatible with all #Kobo ereaders that have Bluetooth, which includes all the current models and several of the older ones. #ereader
https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2025/10/14/kobo-remote-page-turner-getting-released/
