Shares of Tesla closed at a 2025 high on Monday after the company confirmed it is testing driverless vehicles in Austin without a human safety operator (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/15/tesla-tests-driverless-cars-in-austin…
“‘Sending armed soldiers to suppress peaceful protests is what kings and dictators do — and Greg Abbott just proved he’s one of them,’ Texas House Minority Leader Gene Wu said in a statement.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/greg-abbott-…
Versprechen gehalten? Tesla lässt Robotaxis wohl ohne Begleitperson fahren
Elon Musk hatte erklärt, dass Robotaxis noch 2025 in Austin vollkommen autonom und ohne Begleitperson fahren würden. Jetzt scheint es zumindest Tests zu geben.
RE: https://confessional.social/@austin/115720019242423359
As someone who reads nihilism, existentialism, and atheism: God is dead. We killed Him.
It's time for #12Clouds at Cloud Austin. @… kicking things off prior to something like 15 (!) lightning talks tonight. Including one by me.
Overheard:
"Mavericks' (Kyrie & AD) are hurt, dude. It wasn't Nico's fault they're losing."
"Oh yeah? Lakers (LeBron & Austin) are hurt too... but they're winning. Wanna guess why?"
#burn #omg
Austin-based webAI, which is building AI models that run locally on devices, raised "high double-digit" millions in a Series A at a $2.5B pre-money valuation (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/13/webai-sovereign-cloud-unicorn
Any Austin has become my favourite YouTuber over the last couple of months. He’s at this great intersection of sillyness (video games) and seriousness (science and rigour) and combines them in an erneast attempt. I think that rocks!
https://youtube.com/@any_austin
This is not good. The energy that is required to heat the volume of one of the world's largest lakes by an extra 3°C is enormous. Excellent comments by colleagues Jay Austin and Maggie Xenopoulos on the anomalous heating of Lake Superior. Coinciding with the anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, this will likely also extend the shipping season, adding late season risks.
I’m finally learning first hand about cold weather EV charging. I’ve had my Model 3 since Sept 2018. I live in Austin where it’s usually mild temps and the car is garage kept. I’m on a real road road trip and had to park outside last night at the hotel. It’s 35 degrees so charging from 60% to 90% SoC will take 45 minutes! 😳 That’s certainly putting a dent in travel time.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalMixtape
Joby Talbot, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Christopher Austin:
🎵 Transit of Venus
#JobyTalbot #RoyalLiverpoolPhilharmonicOrchestra #ChristopherAustin
I want an old shitbox, like an Austin Metro or something
Austin St Trick-or-Streets!
(put on by @… )
#NeighborsForASaferAustinSt #NYC
"Austin Peay State University will pay one of its professors $500,000 after initially firing him for a social media post made in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death. Darren Michael, an associate professor of acting and directing at APSU, was fired by the institution last year after comments on Kirk’s death. In September, APSU moved Michael to suspension before fully bringing him back into the classroom last month."
https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/clarksville/apsu-settles-with-professor-fired-over-charlie-kirk-post/
She was allowed a phone call to her parents, who contacted a lawyer.
The next day, a federal judge issued an emergency order barring her removal from the US for at least 72 hours until her case could be reviewed.
But the next morning, she was shackled at her wrists, ankles and waist and deported to her native Honduras,
a country which she left at the age of seven and of which she has virtually no memory.
President Trump’s Attack on Somalis Comes Close to Advocacy of Ethnic Cleansing | Austin Sarat | Verdict | Legal Analysis and Commentary from Justia
https://verdict.justia.com/2025/12/05/president-trumps-attack-on-somalis-comes-close-to-advocacy-of-ethnic-cleansing
"The system now maintains 38-nanosecond median RMS offset from the GPS PPS reference, with frequency drift that’s barely detectable in the noise."
"World’s Most Stable Raspberry Pi? 81% Better NTP with Thermal Management" – Austin Pivarnik
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Tesla's robotaxi service in Austin significantly trails Waymo, deploying an estimated 30 cars with safety drivers, vs. Waymo's 200 cars without human monitors (Jack Ewing/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/business/tesla-robotaxis-austin-…
why is Bella Ciao playing at the LAFC vs Austin FC match. what is happening
#fedifc #mls
According to #ForestHills #Indivisible, ICE raided my local fruit stand yesterday. This is the first I'm hearing about it, I don't have any details other than what's in the email. #FuckICE
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.PF. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.PF/new
[1/1]:
- LLMs for Analog Circuit Design Continuum (ACDC)
Yasaman Esfandiari, Jocelyn Rego, Austin Meyer, Jonathan Gallagher, Mia Levy
I am so sick of how badly companies maintain their software.
Take Roku. Their devices are rapidly becoming less reliable than a 1960 Austin Healey - meaning that you always have to have al alternate 'cause something is always broken.
Today it was the Roku Media Player. It no longer can play .mp4 files that it used to be able to play. It can do the sound, but not the video. It used to do 'em both, with decent synchronization.
But now, nope. Has Roku become yet a…
Botched Execution in Alabama Reveals Nitrogen Hypoxia’s True Colors, and It Is Not a Pretty Picture | Austin Sarat | Verdict | Legal Analysis and Commentary from Justia
https://verdict.justia.com/2025/11/03/botched-execution-in-alabama-reveals-nitrogen-hypoxias-true-colors-and-it-is-not-a-pretty-picture
🚨Job Alert!🚨 The Jackson School of #Geosciences (JSG) at The University of Texas at Austin seeks to hire two full-time Professors of Practice: Vertebrate #Paleontology Laboratory (VPL) / Nonvertebrate Paleontology (NPL) Laboratory
I've just published my latest #podcast episode, where we focus on the importance of leader awareness of intercultural differences at work. I'm joined by an experienced workplace psychologist - Dr. Austin Tay.
👉🏻 You can find Ep 197 of 'My Pocket Psych' wherever you get your podcasts.
Thanks for listening!
I’m on board the Northwood Express bus 🚌 to North Campus to hear Todd Austin talk in the security reading group about his latest ideas.
Damn, after all this time the Austin Power's Dr Evil version is closer to the front of my mind.
#TOTP #JustTheTwoOfUs
How a crew of crypto-focused hackers moved from SIM swap attacks to coordinated, violent home invasions and kidnappings, targeting small-time crypto investors (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)
Waymo already operates in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Austin, and Phoenix.
But maps published by California’s Department of Motor Vehicles showed that the company can now test and deploy its autonomous vehicles across a much larger area in both the Bay Area and Southern California.
In the Bay Area, Waymo’s approved areas of operation now include most of the East Bay and North Bay (including Napa/Wine Country), as well as Sacramento.
In Southern Cal…
Uber partners with Avride to launch robotaxi rides in Dallas, marking Uber's fourth US city to offer autonomous ride options after Phoenix, Austin, and Atlanta (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Microsoft's AI tools still lag behind OpenAI's, as Microsoft struggles to create a cohesive AI experience and add new features by integrating OpenAI models (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)
Six of nine universities that were asked to sign an agreement in exchange for funding advantages have rejected the offer ahead of Today’s deadline for response
Within a day of the call,
University of Virginia and Dartmouth College rejected the compact,
joining ranks with MIT,
Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania and the
University of Southern California.
The University of Texas at Austin was invited to sign on and the chair of the University o…
Austin-based Roller, a provider of venue management software, raised $50M led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to over $100M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/10/22/ve…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Joby Talbot, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Christopher Austin:
🎵 Transit of Venus
#JobyTalbot #RoyalLiverpoolPhilharmonicOrchestra #ChristopherAustin
Paradromics says it received FDA approval for a human trial of its Connexus brain implant, aimed at restoring speech to those with severe motor impairments (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/paradromics-gets-fda-approval-to-trial-…
NFL playoff picture takes shape; Michigan introduces Kyle Whittingham; Maxx Crosby's Raiders future in doubt?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-playoff-pic…