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Two Bremerton women face 14 federal charges in connection with a “massive” identity theft scheme involving over 270 victims, acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller announced Tuesday.

Investigators believe Heather Marquis, 36, and Emily Vranic, 33, defrauded at least 278 people across Kitsap and Mason counties from April 2019 to November 2024. Authorities say they stole about $620,000.

Marquis and Vranic used mail and personal documents to access credit cards and online bank accounts, according to a news release.

“The pair would have documents related to their activities mailed to a third-party victim’s address, where they would intercept the mail again,” the release reads. “Once they had fully taken over a stolen identity, statements and other records were mailed directly to their own Bremerton address.”

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Two Bremerton women face 14 federal charges in connection with a “massive” identity theft scheme involving over 270 victims, acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller announced Tuesday.

Investigators believe Heather Marquis, 36, and Emily Vranic, 33, defrauded at least 278 people across Kitsap and Mason counties from April 2019 to November 2024. Authorities say they stole about $620,000.

Marquis and Vranic used mail and personal documents to access credit cards and online bank accounts, according to a news release.

“The pair would have documents related to their activities mailed to a third-party victim’s address, where they would intercept the mail again,” the release reads. “Once they had fully taken over a stolen identity, statements and other records were mailed directly to their own Bremerton address.”

Archive link: https://archive.is/UCf8k

Two Bremerton women face 14 federal charges in connection with a “massive” identity theft scheme involving over 270 victims, acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller announced Tuesday.

Investigators believe Heather Marquis, 36, and Emily Vranic, 33, defrauded at least 278 people across Kitsap and Mason counties from April 2019 to November 2024. Authorities say they stole about $620,000.

Marquis and Vranic used mail and personal documents to access credit cards and online bank accounts, according to a news release.

“The pair would have documents related to their activities mailed to a third-party victim’s address, where they would intercept the mail again,” the release reads. “Once they had fully taken over a stolen identity, statements and other records were mailed directly to their own Bremerton address.”

Archive link: https://archive.is/UCf8k

Two Bremerton women face 14 federal charges in connection with a “massive” identity theft scheme involving over 270 victims, acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller announced Tuesday.

Investigators believe Heather Marquis, 36, and Emily Vranic, 33, defrauded at least 278 people across Kitsap and Mason counties from April 2019 to November 2024. Authorities say they stole about $620,000.

Marquis and Vranic used mail and personal documents to access credit cards and online bank accounts, according to a news release.

“The pair would have documents related to their activities mailed to a third-party victim’s address, where they would intercept the mail again,” the release reads. “Once they had fully taken over a stolen identity, statements and other records were mailed directly to their own Bremerton address.”

Archive link: https://archive.is/UCf8k

SEATTLE — Washington landlords can no longer raise rents by more than 10% per year under landmark legislation Gov. Bob Ferguson signed into law Wednesday.

Effective immediately, House Bill 1217 caps residential rent hikes during a 12-month period at 7% plus inflation, or 10%, whichever is lower. The limit will last 15 years. The bill also restricts manufactured home rent increases to 5% with no expiration date.

“I’m confident that this legislation is going to work for everybody in our state,” Ferguson said Wednesday at Blake House, the first affordable high-rise apartment building constructed in Seattle in half a century, which opened in 2023. “Too many folks are getting priced out, and we can’t have that, right? That’s not an option.”

Rent increases are also prohibited for the first year of a tenancy under the new law. But when a renter moves in, landlords can set the initial rate however they please.

Archive link: https://archive.is/GuAWH

SEATTLE — Washington landlords can no longer raise rents by more than 10% per year under landmark legislation Gov. Bob Ferguson signed into law Wednesday.

Effective immediately, House Bill 1217 caps residential rent hikes during a 12-month period at 7% plus inflation, or 10%, whichever is lower. The limit will last 15 years. The bill also restricts manufactured home rent increases to 5% with no expiration date.

“I’m confident that this legislation is going to work for everybody in our state,” Ferguson said Wednesday at Blake House, the first affordable high-rise apartment building constructed in Seattle in half a century, which opened in 2023. “Too many folks are getting priced out, and we can’t have that, right? That’s not an option.”

Rent increases are also prohibited for the first year of a tenancy under the new law. But when a renter moves in, landlords can set the initial rate however they please.

Archive link: https://archive.is/GuAWH

Tesla has confirmed its latest bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners will not get the Autosteer feature they paid for.

Instead, they will get a year of ‘Supervised Full Self-Driving’.

When Tesla started delivering the Cybertruck in late 2023, the software was incomplete, especially regarding its Advanced Driver Assist System (ADAS) features like ‘Supervised (FSD) Full Self-Driving’, which was included in the price of all early Cybertrucks.

It took Tesla almost a year to start releasing its FSD on the Cybertruck.

After Tesla stopped making new Cybertruck Foundation Series, which are fully loaded with all options, buyers started to have the option of buying the $8,000 FSD package or keeping only the Autopilot package, which is included in the price.

Autopilot’s two main features are Traffic Aware Cruise Control and Autosteer. The first is self-explanatory, while Autosteer is Tesla’s name for active lane keeping.

The vast majority of Tesla vehicle owners don’t buy the FSD package.

As of now, 16 months after Tesla started delivering the Cybertruck, the automaker has yet to deliver Autosteer on the electric pickup truck.

Today, Tesla started reaching out to Cybertruck owners to let them know that it won’t make Autosteer available for Cybertruck owners who haven’t bought FSD:

“As we improve our Autopilot technology, our feature sets will change. Accordingly, Autosteer will not be available for Cybertruck outside of Full Self-Driving (Supervised).“

Instead, Tesla offers a year of free FSD trial to Cybertruck owners.

More details in the article.

My favorite part is how they're now saying both "full self-driving' and "supervised".

Archive link: https://archive.is/1w64R

Tesla has confirmed its latest bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners will not get the Autosteer feature they paid for.

Instead, they will get a year of ‘Supervised Full Self-Driving’.

When Tesla started delivering the Cybertruck in late 2023, the software was incomplete, especially regarding its Advanced Driver Assist System (ADAS) features like ‘Supervised (FSD) Full Self-Driving’, which was included in the price of all early Cybertrucks.

It took Tesla almost a year to start releasing its FSD on the Cybertruck.

After Tesla stopped making new Cybertruck Foundation Series, which are fully loaded with all options, buyers started to have the option of buying the $8,000 FSD package or keeping only the Autopilot package, which is included in the price.

Autopilot’s two main features are Traffic Aware Cruise Control and Autosteer. The first is self-explanatory, while Autosteer is Tesla’s name for active lane keeping.

The vast majority of Tesla vehicle owners don’t buy the FSD package.

As of now, 16 months after Tesla started delivering the Cybertruck, the automaker has yet to deliver Autosteer on the electric pickup truck.

Today, Tesla started reaching out to Cybertruck owners to let them know that it won’t make Autosteer available for Cybertruck owners who haven’t bought FSD:

“As we improve our Autopilot technology, our feature sets will change. Accordingly, Autosteer will not be available for Cybertruck outside of Full Self-Driving (Supervised).“

Instead, Tesla offers a year of free FSD trial to Cybertruck owners.

More details in the article.

My favorite part is how they're now saying both "full self-driving' and "supervised".

Archive link: https://archive.is/1w64R

Tesla has confirmed it has given up on plans to make a Cybertruck range extender to achieve the range it originally promised on the electric pickup truck.

It started refunding deposits for the $16,000 extra battery pack.

When Tesla unveiled the production version of the Cybertruck in late 2023, two main disappointments were the price and the range.

The tri-motor version, the most popular in reservation tallies before production, was supposed to have over 500 miles of range and start at $70,000.

Tesla now sells the tri-motor Cybertruck for $100,000 and only has a range of 320 miles.

The dual-motor Cybertruck was supposed to cost $50,000 and have over 300 miles of range. In reality, it starts at $80,000 and has 325 miles of range.

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The researchers used a novel superconducting circuit architecture to show nonlinear light‐matter coupling that is about an order of magnitude stronger than prior demonstrations, which could enable a quantum processor to run about 10 times faster.

There is still much work to be done before the architecture could be used in a real quantum computer, but demonstrating the fundamental physics behind the process is a major step in the right direction, says Yufeng "Bright" Ye Ph.D., lead author of a paper on this research.

"This would really eliminate one of the bottlenecks in quantum computing. Usually, you have to measure the results of your computations in between rounds of error correction. This could accelerate how quickly we can reach the fault‐tolerant quantum computing stage and be able to get real‐world applications and value out of our quantum computers," says Ye.

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