CEO Steve Bandrowczak thinks the office printer is where the workplace revolution begins.
Ferrari’s new Purosangue SUV (base price: $398,350) doesn’t have a traditional infotainment display — there’s a screen in front of the passenger that can run CarPlay and Android Auto, but things like climate controls and seat adjustments are located on a motorized knob with a display. Sure!
You’ll almost certainly hear a lot about NYT v Sullivan in the coming election cycle — the landmark 1964 case setting the boundaries for defamation cases by public figures has already come up in our coverage a few times this year, and the “actual malice” standard it lays out is at the heart of the big Fox News election denial case. Vox has a good explainer on how Ron DeSantis is attacking it head-on — and weakening press freedom along the way:
Without Sullivan, government officials could potentially use defamation suits to impose financially devastating liability on their political enemies — which is what an Alabama official tried to do in Sullivan itself. And a wealthy individual who disagrees with a newspaper’s coverage could potentially fund lawsuits targeting any false statement made by that newspaper, no matter how minor, until the sheer cost of defending against these suits bankrupts the paper.
Good Politico piece on how cops are filing ever-expanding legal requests for Ring footage and getting it — even for footage from inside people’s homes that aren’t under investigation:
The warrant included all five of his outdoor cameras, and also added a sixth camera that was inside his house, as well as any videos from cameras associated with his account, which would include the cameras in his store. It would include footage recorded from cameras he had in his living room and bedroom, as well as the 13 cameras he had installed at his store associated with his account.
Larkin, now incensed that police were requesting footage from inside his home for an investigation that didn’t even involve him, wanted to fight the warrant. He estimated that a lawyer would have been too expensive, and he only had about seven days to challenge it before Ring would comply. He still doesn’t understand how a judge could have signed off on a warrant asking for footage from a camera inside his home, when the investigation was on his neighbor.
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Reddit announces a scrolling video view for your timeline.
“But how will it make money?” they ask about an objectively useful technology, two years after pouring cash into crypto, a technology that appeared to create money but did nothing useful.
One investor said that, because of the huge amount of capital and computing resources required, recent leaps in generative AI were comparable to landing on the moon: a massively impressive technical achievement, only replicable by those with nation-state level wealth. “Companies are extremely overvalued and the only justifiable investment thesis is to get in incredibly early,” said another veteran investor. “Otherwise you’re only buying in because of FOMO.”
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Charlotte Klein at Vanity Fair talked to me and several others about whether the political media is ready for the flood of deepfakes that are sure to come in this election cycle. In 2020 they were pretty hard to make, but now anyone can get Biden to talk about boom-bap type shit from the ‘90s for just a couple bucks. It’s going to get wacky.
Here’s Tesla’s head of design Franz von Holzhausen with a Cybertruck prototype that’s clearly been out in the rain. You can see that Tesla is just going with “a lot of the windshield will be dirty” instead of the complicated extend-o-wiper ideas that have been floating around. I can’t get enough of this.