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 (HTM) A Man Charged His EV at a Dealership - and Was Billed $418
       The EV blog Electrek reports:A Clinton Township, Michigan man was charged $418 for a single EV charging session at Elder Hyundai's Macomb Township store after finding the charger listed as publicly av ...
       
 (HTM) 'She Lost Her Sight. Her Billionaire Father Bet On a Daring New Treatment.'
       "Billionaire Bill Ackman's life was upended this February when his 26-year-old daughter collapsed in her Brooklyn apartment, suffering a brain hemorrhage that would render her unable to move, speak or ...
       
 (HTM) 'The Jobs Apocalypse Is Postponed.  An AI Jobs Boom Is Here'
       A new article about AI in The Economist argues that "Initial effects of the technology on employment look positive."Perhaps AI will eventually make many humans unemployable — but there is no sig ...
       
 (HTM) Bitcoin-based Liquid Network Says $320 Million Withdrawn in Hack
       Reuters reports:Liquid Network, a Bitcoin-based payments and settlement network, said on Sunday that about $320 million was withdrawn from its federation wallet in a hack."Purported white-hat hackers" ...
       
 (HTM) Roku's 24/7 AI Slop Channel Is Even Worse Than Expected
       A new streaming TV channel shows films made with genAI, reports Engadget. "Fairground AI Creator TV" is free — and supported with ads — describing its material as "AI Cinema":"AI-generated ...
       
 (HTM) US Military Disables Ad Trackers On Devices To Protect Troops
       Slashdot reader DeanonymizedCoward writes: Reuters reports that the US Military is disabling ad tracking on devices, to prevent adversaries from buying publicly-available tracking data to assist in ta ...
       
 (HTM) Where a Massive Solar Storm Could Take Down the US Power Grid for Millions
       A new study published Friday in AGU Advances "depicts the most advanced picture yet of how a rare but massive solar storm could affect some US industries and electric systems more than others," report ...
       
 (HTM) TiVo Will Start Charging Fees For Its Automatic Commercial Break-Skipping Feature 'SkipMode'
       TiVo is notifying customers about changes to "one of its longest-standing and most popular DVR features," reports the blog Cord Cutter News:Starting November 2, 2026, the current version of SkipMode t ...
       
 (HTM) Flock Offered Webinar Teaching Cops How to Surveil 'No Kings' Protesters
       Thursday 404 Media reported that Flock taught America's cops "how they could surveil the No Kings protests" against President Trump (as well as "small parades") in a webinar last year that described " ...
       
 (HTM) UN Votes To Encourage Map Projections More Accurately Reflecting the True Size of Continents
       The United Nations has an announcement. "The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to encourage governments, schools and tech companies worldwide to stop using maps that make Africa look far sm ...
       
 (HTM) Private German Rocket Makes History, Reaches Orbit From European Soil
       "No rocket had ever reached orbit from Western European soil — until today," reports Space.com. DW.com reports that a Spectrum space rocket from German company Isar Aerospace launched today from ...
       
 (HTM) 2026 Hugo Award Winners Include Ursula Le Guin-Authored Graphic Novel
       This year's Hugo Award winners were announced last weekend at Worldcon — the world's longest-running science fiction/fantasy convention. The Orange County Register reports there were fans "clad  ...
       
 (HTM) To Promote Grand Theft Auto 6, Mayor Might Transform Miami into 'Vice City'
       Rockstar Games and the mayor of Miami-Dade county are discussing a joint marketing campaign transforming parts of the county to look like areas from Grand Theft Auto 6, reports the blog Rock Paper Sho ...
       
 (HTM) How US Campaigns Are Already Using AI to Try to Sway Voters
       39 U.S. congressional candidates "reported paying for an OpenAI subscription this election cycle," writes the Washington Post, citing campaign finance disclosures. This means the campaigns "are using  ...
       
 (HTM) FSF is Now on Bluesky - But Won't Advocate Signing Up Due to Nonfree JavaScript
       The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is now on Bluesky, they announced this week. But "We can't advocate that you sign up for a Bluesky account like we do with Mastodon or PeerTube since signing up for  ...