Touchscreens have become the fashionable face of modern hi-fi, yet most sit metres away where nobody can comfortably read or use them. Smartphones solve part of the problem but remain personal devices. A better answer is a shared, dedicated remote: tactile controls for everyday functions, a screen for browsing, and access anyone in the room can use.
Category: Technology
Phishing Has Discovered Swiss German, and It Is Glorious
Phishing has discovered Swiss German, with predictably glorious results. Armed with AI, scammers are now localising their emails into synthetic dialect, apparently unaware that Swiss German is spoken everywhere but written very selectively. The result is less sophisticated social engineering than a cultural misunderstanding with a malicious link attached.
Dear Google, Make It Turn Before You Make It Glow
Google’s next Pixel may arrive with more artificial intelligence, more clever tricks and perhaps even Pixel Glow. Wonderful. Meanwhile, the phone still struggles with the primitive task of rotating its screen when turned. After years of Pixels, stuck apps, failed auto-rotation and dubious water resistance, the basics remain embarrassingly unfinished.
How Premium Manufacturers can Survive the Age of Disposable Software
Modern cars are no longer merely machines. They are software platforms with wheels, batteries, cameras, processors and update cycles. That changes the economics of premium ownership. If a car’s digital core becomes obsolete long before its body, engine or chassis, permanence becomes theatre. The premium car of the future must therefore be designed not only to endure, but to be upgraded.
Booking.com has a Security Problem. Its Support Process is Part of it.
A phishing message used real Booking.com reservation context to push a fake credit card verification page. Reporting it should have been simple. Instead, the official support path led through booking bureaucracy, hidden contact options and finally an email asking for the reservation PIN. After a breach involving customer data, Booking.com appears less like a platform prepared for cyber abuse and more like one still searching for the right department.
The FIA has found the cure for F1. The disease continues until 2030.
Formula 1 appears to have found the cure for its over-electrified mistake, but the treatment is scheduled for 2030 or 2031. Until then, fans are asked to endure several more seasons of clipping, energy management and artificial yo-yo racing. The planned V8 return is good news, but also an indictment: the sport already knows the current formula is wrong. It just refuses to stop running it.
Tesla FSD Supervised and the Dinosaur thinking around it
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Supervised is still dismissed as “just driver assistance” by many critics. But that misses the point entirely. While others debate labels, Tesla is solving the far harder problem: real-world driving across complex environments, powered by a software-first approach that improves at relentless speed. This is not about Level 3 badges or sensor checklists. It is about who is building the smarter, scalable, and ultimately more relevant model for the future of mobility.
Fair Play: Tesla Delivered!
After all the noise, shifting expectations and familiar Tesla theatre, there is now something real on the table: approval. RDW has granted provisional validity for Tesla’s FSD in the Netherlands, and that deserves recognition. My original skepticism was reasonable at the time, but facts matter more than ego. So yes, fair play to Tesla. This time, the hype was followed by paperwork, and that makes all the difference.
Tesla’s FSD Deadline Farce
Tesla’s April 10 FSD saga was never just about one missed date. It was about a company once again feeding the public a timeline it did not truly control, while the responsible Dutch authority communicated in far more cautious terms. That is the real problem: not delay itself, but the sloppy, hype-driven habit of turning expectations into apparent facts and leaving everyone else to deal with the confusion.
The Tesla FSD Paradox
Tesla may be close to a genuine breakthrough in supervised autonomous driving in Europe, and that deserves real recognition. Its vision-based system looks astonishingly capable in complex traffic. But that progress also makes Tesla’s everyday stupidity even funnier. When a car can seemingly understand cyclists, pedestrians and chaos, yet still fails at a blatantly obvious route, admiration quickly turns into disbelief.
alexreusch 