REPORT: Chinese drivers are using small plastic heads to fool Tesla self-driving restrictions

Called it.

https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways

Massively more code churn; massively more incidents and outages; massively more bugs.

"ai"-produced code is low quality and prolix, and causes problems. Adding features is worthless when it comes with this cost.

THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT! - Live Stream of Trump's name being taken off the Kennedy Center building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm880quUg

OpenAI faces fresh lawsuit after ChatGPT allegedly encouraged Canadian woman's suicide

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/openai-faces-fresh-lawsuit-after-chatgpt-allegedly-encouraged-canadian-womans-suicide-14021577.html

I've been looking into complaints I've heard about the Google Messages RCS app. RCS of course is the fancy encrypted media-rich blah blah blah alternative to standard RCS text messages. It took years for interoperability between iOS and Android for RCS. But SMS isn't going away anytime in the foreseeable future. RCS needs a data connection to do anything, while SMS will work on virtually every cell network on the planet without a data connection being required. But still there's the big push for RCS, because marketers really, really want to send you masses of enormous media content that way. Oh goodie! In fact, Samsung announced their own SMS app will go away next month and pushes you to Android Messages instead. You won't be surprised to learn that Google's Android Messages app is full of fancy features but currently lacks crucial basic functionality that (for example) Samsung's Messages app has. For example, Android Messages can't tell you WHICH line (which SIM) of a dual-SIM phone any given text message came in on. This is critical information for many users -- the whole point of having dual SIMs is to be able to compartment two lines. That's just a single example -- the app is seriously brain dead in multiple ways when dealing with dual SIM devices. RCS will refuse to work at all if it isn't set to be THE text messages handler on an Android phone. Basically, Android doesn't want more than one app in control of text messaging at a time. The upshot of all this is that many users are foregoing RCS entirely, just not using it, and instead installing apps like Textra which provides highly customizable and advanced handling of conventional SMS and MMS messages, and yeah, users report it even tells ya' which SIM a text message came in on. It's so Google to skip crucial foundational features and concentrate on the fancy stuff instead. That's Google through and through.

#google #sms #mms #rcs #android #textra

American Diabetes Assoc reverses, offers apology to Trump-critical scientists ejected from conference after earlier doubling down

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/diabetes-org-apologizes-for-ejecting-scientists-over-criticism-of-trump/

The topic of my usual weekly national network radio tech segment this coming Monday will be the international implications of a new German court ruling that just found #Google responsible for misinformation in their #AI Overviews -- the court rejected Google's usual excuses. I've been waiting for this kind of ruling ever since AI Overviews launched. It might be the start of getting Big Tech on a short leash to protect society from AI abuses by making the firms fully responsible for the damages done by their AI content.

BREAKING: Asked about terrible new inflation numbers, senile Trump says: "I love the inflation."

Apple refuses to correct charge error they admit exists claiming
they can't override their AI, then kicks off user's card when he
disputes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEBIyjippF4

BREAKING: Reports: Trump is now bombing civilian water supply facilities in Iran

COURT GETS IT EXACTLY RIGHT! - German court rules #Google responsible for #AI Overviews misinformation -- rejects Google excuses

https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/

BREAKING: So much winning! - U.S. inflation exceeds 4% for first time in 3 years

Senile Fascist Trump flogs the USPS to destroy mail-in voting with faulty voter lists -- next best thing to stopping the vote in blue states

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/politics/postal-service-deliver-mail-in-ballots

Judge kills entire case when both lawyers submit AI Slop filings

https://gizmodo.com/judge-cancels-whole-case-after-lawyers-admit-they-didnt-read-ai-generated-filings-2000769668

Reuters and Time adopt bot-blocking whitelists to rein in AI crawlers

https://digiday.com/media/reuters-and-time-adopt-bot-blocking-whitelists-to-rein-in-ai-crawlers/

"Heaven's IT Guy" (there's a whole series): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hw5-R9f2js

BOOM! -- Diabetes society officials resign after removal of Trump protesters from conference

https://www.science.org/content/article/diabetes-society-officials-resign-after-removal-trump-protestors-conference

WARNING: Apple MacOS 27 is reportedly loaded with massive, non-disableable Google Gemini AI SLOP

Presumably Apple is paying Google a fortune for access to their
misinformation SLOP machine Gemini AI, and Apple wants to make sure you can't opt-out. That's how the billionaire Big Tech CEOs operate. They stuff this garbage DOWN YOUR THROAT like they own you. DISGUSTING.

Reports so far -- subject to change as I learn more -- are that unlike in previous versions of macOS there is no simple way to disable "Apple Stupidity" -- oops, I meant "Apple Intelligence" which is wedded at the hip to Siri. Also, reports are that the AI crap alone is taking 10s of gigabytes of space and comes right back when deleted. If you don't have a big storage Mac, this is going to hurt. Does Apple care? OF COURSE NOT. Like Google, it's all about keeping their billionaire CEOs living the lifestyle to which they've become accustomed and we could never dream of.

You might let Apple know how you feel about this, for whatever good it does.

If I learn more that changes any of this, I'll let you know.

L

#google #apple #gemini #ai

Senile Trump's FCC wants to destroy mobile phone privacy, morph U.S. into fascist nightmare model

https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/

This is the script of my national network radio report yesterday on users abandoning Google services due to concerns about their AI policies. It also includes discussion of related AI issues. As always, there may have been minor wording variations from this script as I presented this report live on air.

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Yeah, this is quite interesting and though it would be unwise to read too much into it at this point this seems to be yet another aspect of pushback against AI as firms like Google increasingly attempt to force users to use their Large Language Model generative AI systems whether those users want to or not. As Google has pushed more AI Overview results into searches and now has confusingly modified their main search page to try funnel users into their Gemini AI conversations -- where misinformation is rampant -- there are reports that significant numbers of Google users are moving to other platforms. These can be search engines that either don't have AI aspects or at least make it straightforward for users to avoid their search results being poisoned by AI hallucinations and other AI Slop.

One of the claims you'll frequently hear from LLM generative AI boosters and their various political supporters of those massive, grotesque, AI data centers is that if you stand in their way you will block progress toward new cancer cures and other medical breakthroughs and the like. But that's a smokescreen. The vast amount of this data center capacity is aimed not at machine learning types of AI useful for medical, weather, and other so-called Big Data analysis. Rather, the many hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on these data centers and related efforts to force their systems down users' throats are almost entirely about Large Language Model generative AI SLOP.

We're talking slop applications like creating sexualized and other deep fakes, automated phishing scams, misinformation-filled search query answers that starve source sites of views, agentic AI -- which I recommend you never use -- that can destroy your data and empty your wallet while the AI firms take no responsibility, AI chatbots that have reportedly urged users toward murder and suicide, cheating machines for kids in school, vibe coding systems that generate garbage code and create an excuse for mass tech layoffs -- and so on.

That's the reality of Big Tech LLM AI, and is what these horrific data centers tearing apart rural and other communities are mostly all about. Despite many politicians in both parties seemingly willing to cheerfully agree to whatever the Big Tech CEOs who control these AI firms want to do, the pushback from many communities and users -- in rural, urban, and suburban areas, is significant and rapidly growing.

It is important though to realize that we are really only at the beginning of these battles. For example, despite the impressive percentage increases in users we've seen at some Google competitors lately, in absolute terms these are still relatively low numbers and Google not only controls the vast majority of searches but is likely to continue doing so for the foreseeable future. Switching search and in particular affiliated services to another company -- like browsers, email, and more, can be a tough lift even for many tech-savvy users. So simply suggesting that users switch services probably isn't the best approach -- changes need to be required for services like Google's and those from the other giant AI firms, changes that will better serve society, not just those firms' bottom lines.

AI data centers can be environmental disasters for otherwise beautiful, unspoiled rural areas. The percentage of students found to be cheating using AI has reportedly gone through the roof and professors are giving out more F grades as a result. AI misinformation is contaminating fact-based knowledge causing ever more confusion and damage. Google just announced privacy policy changes seemingly designed to use even more of your personal data for training Google AI without your giving them any specific new permission to do so.

The EU will reportedly be requiring Google to give users and sites ways to opt-out of some AI aspects, but it's unclear if the U.S. will ever get the same controls, or how effective they'd actually be and what the consequences of using them would be.

It's all frankly an enormous mess in ways that we've never before seen in the history of technology, beginning with those first stone knives of our ancient ancestors long ago. The Big Tech CEOs seem to feel that they own us, and again there seem to be politicians in both parties who are more than happy to endorse that view. The ultimate responsibility is of course our own. We can elect politicians who could -- if they so choose -- pass the kinds of laws and regulations that are already desperately needed to reign in AI abuses, and are becoming more crucial and necessary every day. If we fail to elect politicians who will actually do this, then that's on us, and those billionaire CEOs will indeed be gleefully chuckling at our expense, watching as WE all get the proverbial AI shaft.

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L

#google #ai #llm