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Getting Root Access on a Telsa

A growing number of manufacturers are locking perfectly good hardware behind arbitrary software restrictions. While this ought to be a bigger controversy, people seem to keep paying for things like printers with ink subscriptions, cameras with features disabled in firmware, or routers with speed restrictions, ensuring that this practice continues. Perhaps the most blatant is

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Tesla recalls virtually every car it ever sold in China, or more than 1.6M, due to potential issues with Autopilot, after a similar recall in the US in December (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Tesla recalls virtually every car it ever sold in China, or more than 1.6M, due to potential issues with Autopilot, after a similar recall in the US in December  —  – Carmaker will deploy over-the-air software upgrade to cars  — Move mirrors recall of 2 million vehicles in the US last month

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Logan Paul says he is “personally committing” $2.3M+ to offer refunds for CryptoZoo, the allegedly fraudulent Pokémon-inspired NFT game that he launched in 2021 (Morgan Sung/TechCrunch)

Morgan Sung / TechCrunch: Logan Paul says he is “personally committing” $2.3M+ to offer refunds for CryptoZoo, the allegedly fraudulent Pokémon-inspired NFT game that he launched in 2021  —  Logan Paul is offering refunds for CryptoZoo, the failed and allegedly fraudulent Pokémon-inspired NFT game that he launched in 2021.

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Aqueous Battery Solves Lithium’s Problems

The demand for grid storage ramps up as more renewable energy sources comes online, but existing technology might not be up to the challenge. Lithium is the most popular option for battery storage right now, not just due to the physical properties of the batteries, but also because we’re manufacturing them at a massive scale

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