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Submission + - How Bright Headlights Escaped Regulation — and Blinded Us All (autoblog.com)

schwit1 writes: Modern LED technology promised safer roads. Instead, it’s creating a blinding menace that regulators refuse to address.

- Headlight brightness has doubled in a decade, with widespread driver complaints and frustration.
- Regulatory loopholes allow manufacturers to increase brightness because of outdated federal standards.
- Regulations capping maximum brightness for LED headlights have still not been formulated.

Submission + - Utah allows AI to renew medical prescriptions (utah.gov) 1

sinij writes:

This agreement marks the first state-approved program in the country that allows an AI system to legally participate in medical decision-making for prescription renewals, an emerging model that could reshape access to care and ultimately improve care outcomes.

Hopefully opioids are excluded.

Submission + - VW Bring Back Physical Buttons (caranddriver.com)

sinij writes:

Volkswagen is making a drastic change to its interiors, or at least the interiors of its electric vehicles. The automaker recently unveiled a new cockpit generation with the refreshed ID. Polo that now comes with physical buttons.

Unfortunately, glued-on-dash tablet look is still there.

Submission + - Ubisoft Hacked by Four Different Groups (pcquest.com)

sinij writes:

Hackers breached Ubisoft's backend around 11 a.m. UTC on December 27, flooding countless accounts with billions of in-game Rainbow Six Siege credits, rare skins, and packs, while sending random fake ban messages. Ubisoft shut down all servers and the marketplace that afternoon to control the damage and also promised no punishments for players who spent the gifted credits and launching full transaction rollbacks with quality checks.


Comment Re:I don't want cas13 in my body (Score 1) 38

The probability of anyone dissolving or turning into a blob of jelly after spraying this up one's nose is not significant.

This is not the right metric to use. Cost vs. benefit analysis has to include damage caused by the treatment (i.e., wrong cells taking up RNA and consequently getting killed by the immune system) vs. damage caused by the infection.

Submission + - Supercritical CO2 Generators Now In Production 1

cusco writes: https://kdwalmsley.substack.co...

Chinese engineers deployed the world's first commercially viable sCO2 power generators, at a steel mill in Guizhou.

The Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (sCO2) generator converts waste heat into electricity. Compared to traditional steam and thermal systems, the sCO2 design is more than 85% more efficient, and produces 50% more electricity. . .

SCO2 is supercritical carbon dioxide. CO2 that’s maintained in a state above critical temperature and pressure, which is over 31 degrees Celsius and 1070 psi. Once there, CO2 acts both as a liquid and as a gas, and in industrial applications, that becomes very useful. As a gas, there is less resistance, and as a liquid, it provides greater thrust. And, turning CO2 into supercritical CO2 is more energy efficient than turning water into steam. . .
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Not everyone is as optimistic. Long article which assumes the Chinese will be sloppy with implementation for some reason.
https://cleantechnica.com/2026...

Experience with hydrogen suggests that expecting seals to remain effectively perfect over many years of continuous high pressure operation is absurdly optimistic, and there is little reason to assume supercritical CO systems will escape a similar long term reality. . .

Comment Re:Criticism valid and invalid (Score 1) 38

You are downplaying the risks. Not only immune system will react to these bacterial proteins, it will likely react to cell producing foreign proteins as infected and also kill them off. Last but not least, the immune system might also end up reacting to similar things and this is how you end up with a novel allergy.

Comment lipid nanoparticles? (Score -1, Troll) 38

We were told with COVID jabs that lipid nanoparticles was the delivery vehicle for mRNA payload. What would stop this new treatment from getting taken up by your own body's cells and consequently get killed off by the immune system? Personally, I would wait for long-term trial data to come in before I consider something like that. The last thing I need is getting scar tissue in my respiratory system.

Comment Re:I bought an F150 Hybrid in 2025. (Score 1) 149

3) Longer intervals between oil changes and maintenance.

I recommend being extra skeptical of this advertising point. First, engine oil should be changed with miles and time. Second, hybrid is hard on oil because of lack of continuous operation makes it harder to get oil to temperature and evaporate condensation.

Comment Re:pollution (Score 1) 124

Even if you accept that we have a 'free market'

In context of consumer electronics and batteries (because we are discussing rare earths) it is very reasonable assumption. Plenty of competition, minimal regulation, nobody coerced into buying anything - pretty much a book case of free markets.

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