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Elon Musk says Tesla launched robotaxi rides in Austin with no human safety driver; Tesla's AI lead says Tesla is "starting with a few unsupervised vehicles" (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/tesl

Tesla launches robotaxi rides in Austin with no human safety driver | TechCrunch
Not all of Tesla's fleet in Austin will be fully driverless. Per Tesla's AI lead Ashok Elluswamy, the company will be "starting with a few unsupervised vehicles mixed in with the broader robotaxi fleet with safety monitors, and the ratio will increase over time."

🫥 Why are California's Indian truck drivers disappearing during the holiday rush?
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-01/why-are-californias-indian-truck-drivers-disappearing-during-holiday-rush…

Why are California's Indian truck drivers disappearing during the holiday rush?
Why are Punjabi Indian truck drivers disappearing during the holiday rush?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Derobert and The Half-Truths:
🎵 Peace on Earth
#DerobertandTheHalfTruths
https://derobertandthehalftruths.bandcamp.com/album/peace-on-earth
https://open.spotify.com/track/25eEpWBAL947uaPiI4676W

I'm having a right bugger of a time upgrading my desktop from Debian 12 to 13 (trixie). Of course it's down to NVIDIA.
It has a GTX 1080 Ti which worked mostly okay under Debian 12 and version 535.something of their drivers. I was a little disappointed to find I still had to hack udev rules to convince gdm to offer a Wayland session. Finally get into Wayland and find it spams me with kernel OOPS:

Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries,
the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior
that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects.
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.
The …

Border Patrol monitors US drivers and detains Americans for ‘suspicious’ travel
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious. The Associated Press has found that the predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched, and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going, …

Contribution of Thermal Tides to Venus Upper Cloud-Layer Superrotation: #Venus Identified: https://eos.org/research-spotlights/key-driver-of-extreme-winds-on-venus-identified - a new study suggests that a once-daily atmospheric tidal cycle may be a bigger driver of rapid Venusian winds than previously thought.

Border Patrol and other federal law enforcement agencies are conducting a massive surveillance network monitoring the actions of millions of Americans.
These agencies are not protecting Americans from threats. They are the threat.
https://apnews.co…

Samsung's Harman agrees to acquire ZF's radar and automotive computing driver-assistance business for €1.5B, as the European auto-supplier sector struggles (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-23…

Investigation: in 22 US states, Uber approves drivers with many types of convictions, such as violent felonies, that are over seven years old to keep costs low (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/business/uber-background-chec…

Uber Cleared Violent Felons to Drive. Passengers Accused Them of Rape.
The ride-hailing giant’s background check process was intended to speed drivers onto its network while keeping costs down, internal documents show.