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Months after reporting on men who approach women in public while wearing Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses or other similar devices, then post their covert recordings to get paid, the BBC has this update highlighted by Gizmodo. “Alice” was in a video viewed over 40,000 times on social media, and when she contacted the operator, they said they would remove it as a “paid service,” bringing back an old strategy with a new, and worse, wearable twist.

Everything is gambling, but not everything in gambling is going great, as CNBC reports that on Wednesday, FanDuel CEO Amy Howe was “ousted from that post after five years at the company.” FanDuel’s stock is down 60 percent over the last year, and DraftKings shares are down 30 percent.

The $150 Cyma Forma RND is feature-rich, but shockingly minimal. It has eight synthesis engines, four sequencer tracks, five filters, MIDI in and out, four-track audio over USB-C, and reverb. Yet, it has only one button. Every time you push it, everything is randomized with 4,294,967,296 possible combinations.

“There are no ongoing settlement discussions,” according to an attorney for the states that kept litigating their winning antitrust case against Live Nation-Ticketmaster after the Justice Department settled. Those states remain focused on the upcoming remedies phase, and they’ll layout their initial demands in a couple weeks.

They also discussed Dario Amodei becoming CEO of OpenAI. “I thought it was an option worth considering among our set of difficult options,” Toner says.

The EV company, which just had a relatively good quarter, is apparently working on some interesting new projects. In an interview with Reuters, CEO RJ Scaringe said the company has “other variants” of the R2 that it hasn’t shown publicly, including a pickup truck version and a sportier R2X model. Rivian is also considering building its own lidar, perhaps in partnership with a Chinese company. The company is planning on adding lidar to the R2 later this year as part of a big shift into autonomous vehicles.