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Porsches Strand Owners, Chainsaws Idle Down Under, MTG’s New Label/Same Slogan, and Musk’s €120M Brussels Brawl
Porsche's Anti-Theft Feature Steals The Show, And Owners' Mobility
Porsche's Vehicle Tracking System had a satellite-sized tantrum across Russia, interpreted the silence as a mass theft spree, and obligingly immobilized cars back to 2013 across trims and powertrains. Owners got engines that died seconds after ignition, Russia's largest dealer group confirmed a total communications blackout, and a luxury brand accidentally pioneered the self-owning car. Nothing says security like a remote kill switch with a panic disorder.
Australia Scraps Forestry Exemption, Leaves Chainsaws On Standby
Parliament removed the long-standing EPBC carve-out for native forestry, so logging now falls under national environmental standards. The catch, those standards are not finalized, enforcement is fuzzy, and the environment minister is telling industry that day-to-day approvals stay with the states, otherwise known as business as usual. The spin is that mechanical thinning becomes active management and offsets are a magic eraser. The science says thinning can degrade forests and you cannot swap centuries-old hollows for seedlings unless endangered species are fine waiting a few hundred years. Real reform will need species-specific rules, monitoring, funding, and updated recovery plans. Without that, it is a glossy label on the same old chainsaws. Conservation scientists float the blunt alternative, end native forest logging, better for biodiversity, fire risk, and taxpayers currently subsidizing an unviable industry. For now, the devil is in the details, and the details are missing.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Rebrands, The Slogan Stays The Same
Pressed on 60 Minutes about whether she is MAGA, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene replied, I am America First. On the difference, she offered the political version of a new bumper sticker, same nationalism, fresh font.
Musk vs Brussels, A €120 Million Fine And A Call To Abolish The EU
After the European Commission fined X about €120 million under the Digital Services Act, alleging the platform exposed users to scams through its blue tick program, hid who paid for ads, and refused data access for researchers, Elon Musk responded by urging the EU's abolition, calling it a woke Stasi and sharing Fourth Reich imagery. He warned of a Streisand effect and said the Commission's ad account would be throttled for allegedly juicing its reach. Brussels says X flouted rules that cover 19 very large platforms, Musk says the law is a vague menace to free expression, and some Washington heavyweights rushed to denounce the fine as anti American tech. Nothing says power to the people like a billionaire threatening to pull the plug on a government's ad buys while decrying censorship.
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