Tesla has officially announced its 2025 Holiday Update, and this year, the automaker is not using the usually bigger update for any groundbreaking stuff, but there are a few interesting new smaller features. You will find the release notes in this article. It’s that time of year again. Every December, Tesla bundles a bunch of… Continue reading Tesla announces 2025 holiday update with a few cool features
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Clean Technica: Tesla Allows Texting While Using FSD In Certain Situations … But Not Taking On Liability004281
Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Last month during Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting, Elon Musk noted that Tesla would soon allow texting while using FSD (“Full Self Driving”). That was potentially going to be a huge step forward. Was Tesla about to let human drivers completely stop supervising the car in… Continue reading Clean Technica: Tesla Allows Texting While Using FSD In Certain Situations … But Not Taking On Liability004281
Clean Technica: Tesla Sales Drop 19% in UK, while BYD Sales More Than Triple004280
Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Tesla sales have dropped in some markets this year, dropped even more in other markets, and risen in a few. At times, the UK has been one of Tesla’s bright spots. However, the trend lately has been downward again, and the company had a very… Continue reading Clean Technica: Tesla Sales Drop 19% in UK, while BYD Sales More Than Triple004280
Anti-AI Activist on the Run as Police Warn That He’s Armed and Dangerous
Getty / Futurism An anti-AI activist in California has been missing for about two weeks, according to The Atlantic, and now his friends are scared for his safety while San Francisco police fear he could target OpenAI employees. The activist in question, a 27 year old named Sam Kirchner, helped start the Stop AI group… Continue reading Anti-AI Activist on the Run as Police Warn That He’s Armed and Dangerous
Police Admit AI Surveillance Panopticon Still Has Issues With “Some Demographic Groups”
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images On Thursday, officials in the UK pledged to roll out a country-wide facial recognition system to help police track down criminals. The country’s ministers have launched a 10-week consultation to analyze the regulatory and privacy framework of their AI-powered surveillance panopticon — but one way or… Continue reading Police Admit AI Surveillance Panopticon Still Has Issues With “Some Demographic Groups”
Someone Used AI to Make a Fake Avi Loeb on YouTube
Generative AI has made it easier than ever before to impersonate somebody else, from scammers using cloned voices of targets for phishing scams to deepfakes of deceased celebrities circulating on OpenAI’s Sora app. Even Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who has gotten considerable media attention this year for his eyebrow-raising theory that mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS… Continue reading Someone Used AI to Make a Fake Avi Loeb on YouTube
Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man’s Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
Over a decade ago, Google showed off a pair of smart spectacles called Google Glass, sparking a major ethical debate over wearables being used to covertly film people without their permission. At the time, the outrage was enshrined by the derogatory neologism “glasshole,” meaning a Google Glass wearer who was accused of having little regard… Continue reading Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man’s Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
WIRED Roundup: DOGE Isn’t Dead, Facebook Dating Is Real, and Amazon’s AI Ambitions
Leah Feiger: So it’s a really good question actually, and it’s one that I’ve thought about for quite some time. I think if it’s not annoying, I want to read this quote from Scott Kupor, the director of OPM and the former managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, to be clear, just to remind everyone where… Continue reading WIRED Roundup: DOGE Isn’t Dead, Facebook Dating Is Real, and Amazon’s AI Ambitions
Waymo to issue software recall over how robotaxis behave around school buses
Waymo plans to voluntarily issue a software recall with federal safety regulators related to how its robotaxis operate around school buses, the Alphabet-owned company told TechCrunch. The voluntary software recall will be filed early next week, according to the company. Waymo said as soon as the issue was identified it updated its software on November… Continue reading Waymo to issue software recall over how robotaxis behave around school buses
New ‘KnoWay’ robotaxis cause chaos in upcoming Grand Theft Auto Online DLC
The latest expansion to Grand Theft Auto Online includes robotaxis from a fictional-yet-familiar company dubbed “KnoWay,” whose sole purpose appears to be wreaking havoc. A trailer released Friday shows KnoWay vans adorned with lidar sensors swerving through city streets, wrecking other cars, and crashing through a billboard for the made up company. While that’s all… Continue reading New ‘KnoWay’ robotaxis cause chaos in upcoming Grand Theft Auto Online DLC