This One Amendment Isn’t For Sale

And we are back to being HOT, again, this week. Our savvy listeners know that this means cj and Jeff are both at risk of melting and as such, are incapable of putting in a solid 45-minute recording.  Instead, they are hosting the second headline-only episode this month.

There’s more amazing battery tech this week (this time some super-fast charging batteries shoe-horned into a Lotus Elise!), Apple cracking down on apps that “fingerprint” their users, and US spies love this one phone surveillance loophole.

As an aside: apparently, there’s a bill called “the fourth amendment isn’t for sale”.  We’re not sure about the other 26 amendments, but hopefully, someone will buy the 18th Amendment and finally put it out of its misery.

And more confessions this week: cj’s spent hours watching his toddler son chasing a laser pointer; he’s also been known to feed samples of delicious smoked prime beef ribs to his local raccoons; and Jeff’s most colorful dreams involve getting 10 long, hard miles to the kilowatt.  Super hot.

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Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Store API rules | Engadget

The NSA Is Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance 'Loophole' | WIRED

Ultra-fast niobium batteries boast 6-min charge for Lotus Elise-based EV | Ars Technica

Lotus lost £145m in 2022 and job cuts are now looming | Top Gear

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