Canada has made several major technology gaffes lately, given their rushed immoral approval of the Cybertruck, and now this:

Coaching staff and contractors working with Canada’s men’s and women’s national soccer teams have been engaged for years in efforts to film the closed-door training sessions of their opponents, including during the women’s gold-medal winning Olympic tournament in 2021, two sources with first-hand knowledge of the activity told TSN.

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On Thursday, Canada beat New Zealand 2-1 in their Olympic tournament opener.

Lombardi was caught by French police on Monday, after they saw him retrieve a drone that had been flying over the New Zealand team’s training, The Globe and Mail reported. The Globe reported that police retrieved footage of a second New Zealand training session from the drone and also obtained text messages between Lombardi and Mander. The text messages reportedly showed that Mander was aware of Lombardi’s activities.

Interesting how the French Police have been so quick and effective at drone prohibition, given Canada has gotten away with cheating for so many years. Apparently they cheat the most at home games?

Ironically, either these hyper-competitive Canadian coaches weren’t improving basic drone secrecy protocols at all (e.g. use a dead drop) or they fell into the trap of believing their own lies.

Related: the unsafe and unreliable Cybertruck can’t be driven in France.

Parce que les piétons ne sont pas les mêmes aux USA tout simplement : les américains ont une couche de gras supplémentaires les protégeant en cas de choc : cette couche absorbe les chocs et protége les piétons.

Design failures are suspected in yet another unnecessary Tesla crash, where the Kool “AI” driven car (robot) launched from standstill through a wall and into a restaurant.

…Peel Regional Police saying officers were called about the incident around noon. When police arrived on the scene they found a vehicle had crashed through a wall of the Pickle Barrel. Photos posted online show a damaged white four-door sedan inside the restaurant with debris, tables and chairs scattered about.

In related news, Canada just approved the Cybertruck so even more properties and lives can be destroyed by people who can’t afford the robots they can’t control.

Oracle’s systemic and widespread trafficking of people seems to have been settled as its former business model, after being caught and charged in court.

“This case is groundbreaking. The allegations in the complaint were that Oracle was building detailed dossiers about consumers with whom it had no first-party relationship. Rather than face a jury, Oracle agreed to a significant monetary settlement and also announced it was getting out of the business,” Barnes said. “The big takeaway is that surveillance tech companies that lack a first-party relationship with consumers have a significant problem: no American has actually consented to having their personal information surveilled everywhere they go by a company they’ve never heard of, packaged into a commoditized dossier, and then monetized and sold without their knowledge.”

If you may recall, a San Francisco law firm landed the claims two years ago even without any federal privacy law in the U.S., so a rapid high-fee settlement indicates Oracle was very deep in the wrong.

The suit, which was filed Friday as a 66-page complaint in the Northern District of California, alleges the tech giant’s “worldwide surveillance machine” has amassed detailed dossiers on some five billion people, accusing the company and its adtech and advertising subsidiaries of violating the privacy of the majority of the people on Earth.

Space is rapidly being cluttered with expensive orbiting garbage full of toxic chemicals, thanks to lack of environmental planning by SpaceX.

The latest report, as forced by FCC regulations, is that SpaceX is a Titanic mistake, a catastrophic collision error at mass scale just waiting to happen.

Satellites in SpaceX’s Starlink megaconstellation made nearly 50,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers in the last six months, about double the number made in the previous half-year. […] SpaceX revealed the increase in its latest Semiannual Constellation Status Report, which was filed with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on July 1. According to the report, on average, each Starlink satellite fired its thrusters 14 times between Dec. 1, 2023, and May 31, 2024, to dodge orbiting objects, such as other Starlink satellites…

Apparently SpaceX came up with a business plan of causing massive traffic jams and pollution. Some hope AI magically can be trusted in figuring out all future crash avoidance despite exponentially harder risk. This sounds about as likely as Tesla delivering a million robotaxis by 2024.

In fact, their satellite AI seems poorly designed and probably can be gamed easily by an adversary, forcing massive constellation-level collisions.

During the first four years after the first Starlink launch, the number of evasive maneuvers kept doubling every six months… the more maneuvers Starlink satellites make, the faster they use up their propellant, resulting in a shortening of their operational lives.

What will they not think of next?

It’s almost like they were setup to be paid to burn money while they ruin the skies.

In a five-minute exposure with the scope’s camera, 19 white lines defaced the picture. It didn’t take long to realize the culprit. […] Even SpaceX was surprised, Cooper said. The culprit seems to be surfaces that scatter light diffusely, but the company is still trying to figure out precisely what makes the satellites so [awful].

In short, a company notoriously awful at predicting anything is saying everything will be fine, so just relax because the worst is yet to come.