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Tesla Autopilot mode is learning

This is really impressive, but also a little scary. Drivers driving the Tesla Model S are “phoning home” training data as they drive:

A Model S owner by the username Khatsalano kept a count of how many times he had to “rescue” (meaning taking control after an alert) his Model S while using the Autopilot on his daily commute. He counted 6 “rescues” on his first day, by the fourth day of using the system on his 23.5 miles commute, he only had to take control over once. Musk said that Model S owners could add ~1 million miles of new data every day, which is helping the company create “high precision maps”.

(tags: autopilot tesla maps mapping training machine-learning eu privacy data-protection)

Canadian Judge Says Asking For A Copy Of A Legally-Obtained But Paywalled Article Is Circumvention | Techdirt

For requesting a copy of an article that was legally obtained by a colleague from a paywalled source, Pazsowski found himself hit with around US$10,000-worth of damages. This completely disproportionate punishment for what is at most a minor case of copyright infringement is a perfect demonstration of where the anti-circumvention madness leads.

(tags: circumvention tpm copyright paywalls techdirt law canada)

Valid MFA token does not work during first 1am hour before daylight savings ends and second 1am hour starts · Issue #1611 · aws/aws-cli

Add another one to the “yay for DST” pile. (also yay for AWS using PST/PDT as default internal timezone instead of UTC…)

(tags: utc timezones fail bugs aws aws-cli dst daylight-savings time)