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• 1. This Cop Scanned A Woman's License Plate 179 Times And Somehow That Was Allowed

  A Milwaukee police officer resigned after an investigation revealed he used automated license plate reader technology to scan a woman's vehicle 179 times over two months while he was dating her. The case became public after the woman checked a transparency website called Have I Been Flocked.}

  r/technology · reddit-subreddit · 23,262 score · 813 comments

• 2. How to kick SpaceX out of your retirement savings account — “Right now, just a handful of A.I.-related stocks represent almost half the value of the total stock market index. If A.I. stocks collapse, so will the worth of your index fund”: economist

  A top weekly thread from r/technology, drawing 20,994 score and 1,197 comments.

  r/technology · reddit-subreddit · 20,994 score · 1,197 comments

• 3. Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month

  A top weekly thread from r/technology, drawing 11,848 score and 2,327 comments.

  r/technology · reddit-subreddit · 11,848 score · 2,327 comments

• 4. California ‘billionaire tax’ makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls

  A California ballot measure proposing a one-time 5% tax on residents worth over $1 billion has qualified for the ballot despite strong opposition from tech moguls and Governor Gavin Newsom. The proposal, which would impact roughly the state's wealthiest individuals, has sparked debate over wealth inequality and political influence. {

  r/technology · reddit-subreddit · 18,868 score · 814 comments

• 5. MIT Study Finds Gas Cars Aren't Secretly Better For The Planet Than EVs, Despite What Everyone On Facebook Says

  A new MIT study confirms that battery electric vehicles (BEVs) produce significantly fewer emissions than internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) in most U.S. regions. Across all analyzed zip codes, BEVs typically save 40-60% of emissions, though savings can vary from 0% to 82% depending on the local electricity mix and driving patterns.

  r/technology · reddit-subreddit · 15,931 score · 1,399 comments

• 6. Washburn High School teacher took tech out of the classroom. Students call it a success.: At the beginning of the school year, 46% of students reported confidence in their reading abilities. By February, it was at 96%.

  A Washburn High School teacher removed technology from her English classroom to combat student distractions. Students’ reading confidence rose from 46% to 96% over the school year, and sustained silent reading sessions grew from 10 to 30 minutes.

  r/technology · reddit-subreddit · 19,475 score · 466 comments

• 7. Mispriced Steamdeck

  A Reddit post featuring a pawnshop's pricing label for a Steam Deck sparked discussion about its unusually low price. The image shows the handheld console tagged well below its typical used or new value, leading to speculation about the backstory.

  r/SteamDeck · reddit-subreddit · 18,840 score · 508 comments

• 8. Meta's CTO says morale is almost 'the worst it's ever been'

  A top weekly thread from r/technology, drawing 15,650 score and 1,081 comments.

  r/technology · reddit-subreddit · 15,650 score · 1,081 comments

• 9. Dozens of Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO's speech

  Dozens of Stanford graduates walked out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech in protest of the company's AI work with the US government. Pichai appeared to anticipate the protest and made light of it in his remarks, though he largely avoided addressing the AI controversy directly.

  r/technology · reddit-subreddit · 18,700 score · 462 comments

• 10. Microsoft's new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly on Windows

  Microsoft's new Outlook for Windows takes 10 seconds to open an email after clicking a notification, while Outlook Classic performs the same action instantly. The performance gap is attributed to the new version's reliance on web-based frameworks like Electron, which users criticize for increasing resource consumption and reducing responsiveness.

  r/technology · reddit-subreddit · 14,892 score · 927 comments