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Jury Clears Elon Musk in Tesla Securities Trial Over Tweet
by Eric Burkett
February 3, 2023

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SAN FRANCISCO (Courthouse News) — After three weeks of testimony in the Tesla securities trial, jurors on Friday found Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Tesla itself not liable on all claims of fraud and attempts to deceive investors in their efforts to take the electric vehicle company private.

Musk faced trial in the lawsuit filed by Tesla shareholders who said they were misled by an Aug. 7, 2018, tweet in which he said he secured financing for a Tesla buyout. That buyout never came to fruition, however, and stockholders cried foul.

“Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured,” the South African-born multibillionaire tweeted at the time. Tesla stock jumped in value and then sank when it when it became clear nothing of the sort was going to happen. The tweet also cost Musk $40 million when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fined him following an investigation.

The nine jurors heard more than two hours of closing arguments before beginning deliberations, a process that lasted only a couple of hours.

While a victory for the defense, the day started a little less optimistically. Friday’s session began with a tongue-lashing from U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, excoriating the defense for submitting evidence outside his established time limits and and continued with technical problems as the court’s tech guy moved about the room trying to fix the issue. Nearly 45 minutes after the scheduled start time of 8:30 a.m., closing arguments finally got under way.
Read more here: https://www.courthousenews.com/jury-cl ... er-tweet/

This is a win for Musk on two fronts:
  • The obvious result that he will not have to fork out money to those who sued him
  • His control of Twitter means that he is now the more or less sole gatekeeper of these types of shenanigans that others may want to carry out.
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Whistleblower Drops 100 Gigabytes Of Tesla Secrets To German News Site: Report

The files contain over 1,000 accident reports involving phantom braking or unintended acceleration--mostly in the U.S. and Germany.

By Erin Marquis
Published Yesterday

A German news outlet sifted through over 23,000 of Tesla’s internal files and found a disturbing trend of brushing off customers complaining about dangerous Autopilot glitches while covering the company’s ass.

The publication Handelsblatt got its hands on the data through an unnamed informant. Handelsblatt confirmed the data’s authenticity with Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology, which found no evidence of doctoring or fabrication in the files. Tesla attempted to stop the publication from using this data in its reporting and even threatened legal action against Handelsblatt. The publication, however, decided this was one of the extraordinary circumstances when reporting on such a data breach would be legal under European Union law.

It posted “My autopilot almost killed me”: Tesla files cast doubt on Elon Musk’s promises on Thursday. The story is both in German and behind a paywall, but the English translation is of excellent quality.

https://jalopnik.com/whistleblower-drop ... 1850476542
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wjfox wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 6:10 am
The files contain over 1,000 accident reports involving phantom braking or unintended acceleration--mostly in the U.S. and Germany.
For the total number of vehicles in service. 1000 incidents look like a drop in the ocean...
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink approved to recruit humans for brain-implant trial
Company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device after getting green light from independent review board
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Elon Musk’s brain-implant startup, Neuralink, said it has received approval from an independent review board to begin recruiting patients for its first human trial. The company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device in a six-year study.

Neuralink is one of several companies developing a brain-computer interface (BCI) that can collect and analyze brain signals. But its billionaire executive’s bombastic promotion of the company, including promises to develop an all-encompassing brain computer to help humans keep up with artificial intelligence, has attracted skepticism and raised ethical concerns among neuroscientists and other experts.

Last year, the Food and Drug Administration denied the company’s request to fast-track human trials, but in May approved Neuralink for an investigational device exemption (IDE) that allows a device to be used for clinical studies. The agency has not disclosed how its initial concerns were resolved.

Neuralink says it is looking for patients with quadriplegia due to vertical spinal cord injury or ALS. Participants will have a BCI surgically implanted using a proprietary robot in a region of the brain that controls movement, with the goal of enabling them to control a computer cursor or a keyboard using just their thoughts. The study will evaluate the safety and functionality of the technology, according to a statement.
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A few months after getting FDA approval for human trials, Neuralink is looking for its first test subjects. The six-year initial trial, which the Elon Musk-owned company is calling “the PRIME Study,” is intended to test Neuralink tech designed to help those with paralysis control devices. The company is looking for people with quadriplegia due to vertical spinal cord injury or ALS who are over the age of 22 and have a “consistent and reliable caregiver” to be part of the study.

The PRIME Study (which apparently stands for Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface, even though that acronym makes no sense) is set to research three things at once. The first is the N1 implant, Neuralink’s brain-computer device. The second is the R1 robot, the surgical robot that actually implants the device. The third is the N1 User App, the software that connects to the N1 and translates brain signals into computer actions. Neuralink says it’s planning to test both the safety and efficacy of all three parts of the system.

To be clear: this is not the all-encompassing brain computer Musk has been talking about for years. Musk has spent years talking about the potential for telepathy and using Neuralink to help humans keep up with AI, and the system Neuralink plans to test is nothing close to that ambition.

Researchers have long been testing implants that let people with paralysis control computers and other devices, too. Two recently published studies, for instance, showed brain-to-computer interfaces could help patients with ALS communicate by typing on a computer.

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- Regardless of what one thinks of Musk personally, I really hope this goes well. This is the closest thing to a "cyberdeck" and a real possible step towards human cybernetic implants as a whole. Hoping AI itself will also improve upon these early test cases of the technology, as 6 years in conjunction with progress made during the so called "PRIME" study could yield interesting results.
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Cyber Rebel dude already said out there that he would have one yet you would not know he had it. And with the whole staging things he is not going to have it. So one big fat lie and its obvious why.

The people who would get some sort of support from things like this not neuralink are the actually disabled. What a terrible situation for them to be in though they get the gift of walking again yet no privacy of minds and they can be zombies basically. Yuck.
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I'm not a fan of Elon Musk anymore:
∙ Hyperloop is never going to make any sense, it just a crazy people idea, better to just improve railways and trains
∙ Starship Earth-to-Earth transportation doesn't make much sense either, better to just improve airplanes
∙ Mars colonization doesn't make sense this soon, perhaps in the 25th century, we are just going to have outposts with a dozen people
∙ people won't be all using Tesla autonomous taxis in 20 years, it just is not going to happen, but EVs are going to be much more popular
∙ brain implants are going to be popular exclusively among people with severe disabilities and illneses
∙ Twitter has been made a worse place since Elon took the company
∙ he doesn't treat most of his employees very well
∙ everything he said is seriously behind schedule
∙ cryptocurrencies aren't going to help most people
∙ I have yet to see a single Tesla Solar Roof in person, not on the web
∙ he didn't even found Tesla, that's a myth
∙ you can't buy Tesla products for Dogecoins, Ethereum or Bitcoins
∙ Teslas are still rather expensive and only Level 3 autonomy at best in the right conditions, software and hardware
∙ I don't get some of his unnecessary tweets
∙ he doesn't talk about the most important change to make : radically increasing healthspans and improving human health overall
Global economy doubles in product every 15-20 years. Computer performance at a constant price doubles nowadays every 4 years on average. Livestock-as-food will globally stop being a thing by ~2050 (precision fermentation and more). Human stupidity, pride and depravity are the biggest problems of our world.
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