From the front-lines:

…new artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled drone that can recognize and engage targets based on visual triggers, like a specific uniform. The drones can work as a swarm and can communicate with one another.

In related news, hundreds of thousands of explosive chemical cluster-bomb autonomous drones (VBIED) are being staged by a suspected Russian operative just outside of Berlin, Germany.

Some already have been tested inside Berlin, demonstrating vulnerabilities in the emergency response system.

Neun Autos gehen in Berlin in Flammen auf!

Elsewhere, the cluster-bomb effects regularly are being proven to be extremely dangerous to critical infrastructure.

…impact caused a significant debris field with batteries and components from the vehicle and sparked several spot fires. In a release, police said “the crash presented significant hazard to first responders and area residents due to the vehicle involved and complexity of the crash scene.” Crews worked for hours to keep the fires from spreading to a nearby home and the woods.

Cybertruck forums are now littered with “excited” new owners who discuss how pleased they still are to be stuck in a loop, treated horribly by Tesla in what appears to be a giant Advance Fee Fraud.

These Tesla victims would be in a much better place if they just reported to police they had been swindled into sending $100k to a fake African prince they met via email.

Without fraud there would be no Tesla.

…study attributes Tesla’s growing problems to a negative response from customers…

Notably, serious mental gymnastics are required of Tesla’s victims to remain loyal and dig deeper into their relationship with a fraud prince.

Really disappointed but I took delivery anyways. No regrets but not a good delivery experience.

Really disappointed. No regrets.

What does fraud look like? People are putting down $7,000 in advance fees, assuming $100,000 of paper debt (the vehicle is worthless), for the worst car in history that will regularly break down until they are abruptly killed.

Advance fee fraud.

Some even say the quiet part out loud.

It’s more important to Tesla to have the sale in Q2 than to make you happy.

As if customers feeling stuck under the rule of a fraud prince while being unsafe and unhappy is an actual business strategy? See also: why slave-based monarchy died.

Thank you. Thank you.

The environmental regulators of California keep finding Tesla engaged in illegal toxic harms.

In February, a California judge ordered the company to pay $1.5 million as part of a settlement of a civil case alleging the company mishandled hazardous waste at its car service centers, energy centers and a factory.

That was just a few months ago, when Tesla told prosecutors it would do better. Now this:

Tesla has been ordered to fix air quality problems at one of its electric vehicle manufacturing facilities.

The car maker racked up more than 100 violations for allegedly releasing toxic emissions into the atmosphere from the San Francisco Bay plant over the past five years, an air quality board said on Tuesday.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District planned to issue a written abatement order later this week after Tuesday’s announcement.

Each of the 112 violations can emit hundreds of pounds of illegal air pollution, the board said