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Americans Are Falling Behind on Their Car Payments (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/auto-loans-subprime-late-payments-1d8bb33c
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p134#a251010p134

Austria's privacy regulator finds that Microsoft violated EU law by illegally tracking students through its Microsoft 365 Education software (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/microsoft-violated-eu-law-austria

Microsoft violated EU law in handling of kids’ data, Austrian privacy regulator finds
Austria's data protection authority ruled that Microsoft illegally tracked students using its education software by failing to give them access to their data and using cookies without consent.

Co-Investigator AI: The Rise of Agentic AI for Smarter, Trustworthy AML Compliance Narratives
Prathamesh Vasudeo Naik, Naresh Kumar Dintakurthi, Zhanghao Hu, Yue Wang, Robby Qiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08380

Co-Investigator AI: The Rise of Agentic AI for Smarter, Trustworthy AML Compliance Narratives
Generating regulatorily compliant Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) remains a high-cost, low-scalability bottleneck in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) workflows. While large language models (LLMs) offer promising fluency, they suffer from factual hallucination, limited crime typology alignment, and poor explainability -- posing unacceptable risks in compliance-critical domains. This paper introduces Co-Investigator AI, an agentic framework optimized to produce Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) sign…

[Thread] Filings in the Fox News/Smartmatic case show internal criticism from Fox employees about coverage, including their condemnation of opinion hosts (Jeremy Barr/@jeremymbarr)
https://x.com/jeremymbarr/status/1975673724885213391

Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) on X
Some filings made public yesterday in the Fox News/Smartmatic case include some internal criticisms from Fox employees about coverage (I BELIEVE from an internal 2020 company survey) One said: "The content we produce has made the world, and especially our country, a worse

I have a new Kia Sportsge (non EV) in Latvia and the problem is this car is only used 3 months a year.
Rest of the time we have it started and idled etc every few weeks for a hour but it’s just not enough. Battery falling below 40% etc.
I don’t have a garage for it so trickle chargers is hard. Might need to fix the garage wife’s grandma but not sure it will be better. But maybe can then put a battery maintainer.
EV would be worse in this situation I bet. Hard problem.

This week, @… has chosen #Falling as #ThursdayFiveList’s theme.
1. Single Gun Theory, “Fall”—

In a September 5 filing in the US v. Google ad tech trial, Google said "the open web is already in rapid decline", contradicting Google's recent statements (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-open-web-is-in-r…

New Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline
Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that web publishing is not dying. Nick Fox, VP of Search at Google, said in May that the web is thriving. But in a court document filed by Google on late Fri

In case anyone’s wondering how today’s going, my wife’s feeling ill, so I threw on a stained, torn t-shirt for to fetch her favourite breakfast—cheese kransky—only to arrive at the supermarket a full hour before it opened. 🤦🏻‍♂️