All posts tagged: limits

Rivian limits point-to-point driving to invite-only testers under NDA

Rivian limits point-to-point driving to invite-only testers under NDA

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Rivian’s point-to-point driving feature will first reach owners through an invitation-only “Autonomy Early Access Program,” and the owners it picks will have to sign a non-disclosure agreement to get in. The program, laid out on a new Rivian support page, covers US R1 Gen 2 and R2 owners who pay for Autonomy+. Rivian says point-to-point launches to that group in late 2026 and won’t expand broadly until 2027. Who gets in Paying isn’t enough. Any Autonomy+ subscriber can raise their hand through an Autonomy Early Access tile in their Rivian account, but Rivian says invitations go to owners with an active paid subscription (trials don’t count), heavy use of its Autonomy features, and a clean recent safety record. It’ll also balance picks by region and vehicle model, starting in select states. Gen 1 R1 owners are out. So are Canadians. Rivian rechecks eligibility every 30 days and says membership is revocable at its discretion. Cancel Autonomy+, sell the vehicle, or fail one of those checks, and you lose access. What testers sign up for This …

The Limits of Natural Law

The Limits of Natural Law

Published by Sam Flores

Anyone who has graduated from an American high school knows these words from studying the Declaration of Independence in civics class:  We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.  Many people could recite that passage without remembering the document from which it originates. Nearly anyone can tell you that they are entitled to “plead the Fifth.” Nobody will let you forget that they possess freedom of speech, even if we sometimes guiltily wish others did not. The language of rights permeates American culture and shapes our understanding of citizenship and democratic government. Yet, while few Americans would argue that we have too many rights—or even question whether rights are ends in themselves—the constitutional amendment I find most intriguing is not among those Americans invoke most often. It is the Ninth. The Ninth Amendment states:  The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny …

Big Tech and the Limits of the Caveat

Big Tech and the Limits of the Caveat

Published by Jenni Sidey

I knew who Frances Haugen was the moment she blew the whistle on Facebook (now Meta) by leaking tens of thousands of pages of internal documents to a Wall Street Journal reporter. I’m a former movie executive turned developmental psychologist who studies media and teens. The documents she released revealed that Instagram’s own researchers knew that teenage girls felt the platform was harming their body image. That research was highly relevant to my field, so like a well-trained scientist, I went straight to the underlying materials, which had been presented to Facebook executives in the form of a slide deck. After reading it, I felt convinced that the conclusions being drawn went far beyond what the data could establish. Importantly, I had no illusions that Facebook prioritized young people’s well-being in their product design. Yet I also was certain I understood the situation: Haugen thought she was doing the right thing based on a faulty understanding of the research. I was frustrated that the press used her revelation to create a fear-based narrative about Big …

Claude Opus 5.5 Expands Session Limits but Retains Weekly Caps

Claude Opus 5.5 Expands Session Limits but Retains Weekly Caps

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Anthropic’s recent updates to its AI models have introduced significant changes, including expanded session limits for Opus 5.5. These adjustments reflect a broader trend of enhancing user experience while balancing constraints like weekly caps, which remain unchanged. Solo Swift Crafter explores how these updates, alongside similar changes from OpenAI, aim to provide more flexibility and […] The post Claude Opus 5.5 Expands Session Limits but Retains Weekly Caps appeared first on Geeky Gadgets. Source link

Commentary: Sri Lanka exposes the limits of Asia’s anti-scam campaign

Commentary: Sri Lanka exposes the limits of Asia’s anti-scam campaign

Published by Sam Flores

WHY SRI LANKA Sri Lanka offers several advantages for these mobile scam networks. Accessible tourist and “digital nomad” visas, affordable hotels and offices, reliable telecommunications infrastructure and established informal remittance channels make it easier to establish temporary operations. The country’s location between South and Southeast Asia, together with its expanding connectivity and Chinese commercial and tourism presence, allows illicit actors to blend into ordinary cross-border economic activity. These factors make relocation easier for criminal networks. They do not create cybercrime, but they do reduce the costs of relocating criminal operations after crackdowns elsewhere. Sri Lanka’s challenge lies in the fragmented enforcement of existing legislation. Tourist visa monitoring, financial supervision, telecommunications regulation and cybercrime investigations remain institutionally separated. Removing foreign frontline operators may disrupt individual scam centres without dismantling their larger financial networks. Rapid deportation also risks overlooking trafficked victims forced into criminal activities. Some frontline operators may have been recruited through deception or coercion and forced to participate in online scams. Authorities should distinguish potential trafficking victims from organisers and other organised criminal actors before …

The Limits of Communication Skills

The Limits of Communication Skills

Published by Jenni Sidey

As a psychotherapist for four decades, I’ve participated in my fair share of communication skills trainings—and I’ve learned a great deal from them. But I’ve noticed something vital that is often missing. Many couples have entered my office wanting to improve their communication. I find that admirable. Communication—both verbal and non-verbal—is a bridge between two worlds, and the messages we send, whether intentional or not, can either connect us or distance us from each other. Communication experts often emphasize the importance of using “I” statements. This means the emphasis is on what I am experiencing inside, versus the all-too-common “you” statements, which keep the focus on what the other person is doing wrong or how they can improve to meet our needs. “You” statements often elicit defensiveness. For some odd reason (humor intended), people don’t like being told what we think is wrong with them. Such comments may elicit responses, whether verbalized or not, of: Don’t criticize or judge me. Don’t try to fix or change me. Don’t scold me. Don’t tell me what to …

The Limits of Kusama’s Infinity

The Limits of Kusama’s Infinity

Published by Daniella Wilson

Years before the polka-dotted pumpkins, before the Instagrammable Infinity Mirror Rooms, Yayoi Kusama made art that was charged with oppositional energy. Her performances, in which she painted dots onto the naked bodies of her collaborators, were an expression of ’60s counterculture. They were protests against the Vietnam War, rebukes to the art market. Her Accumulations—soft sculptures of furniture or common household items covered in stuffed, handsewn penis shapes—were hilarious critiques of phallocentrism and early examples of feminist art. Kusama was, in other words, part of the artistic avant-garde. Her death, at 97, is a cold reminder that the avant-garde no longer exists. You could point to Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, or Keith Haring, but in many ways, no one epitomizes the collapse of the avant-garde more vividly than Kusama. I’m mostly a fan of her work. It’s very hard not to like her Infinity Mirror Room installations and playful gourds, and not to smile when you see Kusama’s endearing face framed by her signature brightly colored bobbed wig. But at a certain point, …

Colt by Jessica Peterson: Love, Limits, and Longing

Colt by Jessica Peterson: Love, Limits, and Longing

Published by Jenni Sidey

Lainey Brown will let this man do almost anything to her. Handcuffs in the tack room, an audience of horses, a hayloft floor, the front porch after his six-year-old has gone to bed. What she will not do is kiss him on the mouth, and she holds that line for most of Colt by Jessica Peterson without ever quite explaining herself. When she finally does explain, it lands harder than any confession in the book. The kiss, she tells him, is the thing she always misses most once it is over, and she is not willing to miss him like that. That is a genuinely clever piece of engineering. A romance this explicit has no tension left in the bedroom by chapter twelve, so Peterson moves the tension somewhere the sex cannot reach and makes the reader wait roughly three hundred pages for a first kiss. It works. The Two Firstborns at the Centre of Colt by Jessica Peterson The setup is standard issue and executed cleanly. Lainey is twenty-four, freshly minted from business school …

Jacaranda by Gaël Faye review – the limits of forgiveness after Rwanda

Jacaranda by Gaël Faye review – the limits of forgiveness after Rwanda

Published by Sam Flores

How to forgive the unforgivable? How to live in the aftermath of atrocity? Following 2016’s Small Country, French-Rwandan rapper and writer Gaël Faye takes on huge questions in his second novel, Jacaranda, which explores the seismic events of the Rwanda genocide and the aftershocks that continue to ripple through the generations. Structurally bold, the story opens in summer 1994 with Milan, Faye’s then 12-year-old protagonist, enjoying an extended break from school. Milan’s father is white French and the family’s life in Versailles is the embodiment of first world ease – their holiday that year, as usual, spent sailing at the Île de Ré. Milan’s mother, though, is Rwandan. Venancia arrived in the 1970s, establishing a life for herself, a successful clothing boutique, a family. However, she cannot share the French ease, much less her thoughts on the disturbing reports from Rwanda now making the evening news. Indeed, taciturn Venancia has never shared the reasons she left for Europe, and Milan only learns he has extended Rwandan family when his “cousin” Claude arrives at the end of …

Almost in Love, and AI’s Limits of “Close Enough”

Almost in Love, and AI’s Limits of “Close Enough”

Published by Jenni Sidey

Think about it. A photograph of a fire will warn you not to touch the stove. But it won’t burn your hand. For that job, close enough is not just adequate, it’s the whole point. Nobody wants the real fire for a warning label. Yet, most of what we ask AI to describe lives in that same category. It’s a simple summary or the directions to a new restaurant. Close enough gets you there, and there was never a reason to demand more. But it’s my contention that this phrase has begun represent something it really shouldn’t. AI can generate a description of a banana split so vivid you can almost taste it. The ice cream against the hot fudge covered with whipped cream waits for us as digits that are transformed into dollops. Each sensory detail arranged in the right order, learned from ten thousand other descriptions of ten thousand other banana splits. It reads close enough to convince you it knows. The key word here is almost, not taste—because AI doesn’t know. It …