End of the road for lithium-ion batteries

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Right after today's daily tech update, I'm going to play for you a great clip from my nationally syndicated radio show. It's called I know, the Kim Commander Show. Funny how that works. And hey, if you're not subscribed to it, wherever you get your podcast, what are you doing?

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You're missing out. You need this intel to live in today's world. This week we're looking ahead into 2026 and the tech coming. And that includes the beginning of the end for Lithium Ion batteries. Hi, I'm Kim Commando for LinkedIn. A great company hire changes everything. LinkedIn's AI assistant filters applicants, showing you top matches fast. Post your job for free@LinkedIn.com Kim Lithium ion batteries changed everything when they first appeared in 1991. Suddenly, we could go all day with a single charge on our phones and laptops. Their fatal flaw is fire. If they warp or take an impact, they're more likely to short internally and burn. Ask any firefighter. They'll tell you putting out a lithium ion battery fire, especially in a car, is impossible. 2026, though, brings a giant step forward. A new generation of solid state batteries pack more energy into smaller spaces. A car that may get 300 miles on a lithium ion battery will get 500 with a solid state battery. And the risk of fire is extremely rare. Sign up for my free newsletter@getkim.com and now, as promised.

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On the current podcast, Andrew and I sat down with a woman by the.

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Name of Leah Rosa.

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She's really amazing. She says that she was trained by the KGB when she was just 18 years old to seduce and manipulate targets. She was a spy, but they call it sexpionage. That's right. She calls herself a former Russian sex spy. And now she's sounding the alarm that those same tactics are being used to manipulate people in scams or in Silicon Valley to steal trade secrets from tech executives. It's really an amazing story here, just take a listen, just a little bit of the interview. How does one become a Russian spy?

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Okay, so in my situation, my father was a high ranking officer who worked in the military for at least like 35 years and he actually brought me there. So he's a, you know, just to say in the beginning he's a real patriot of the Soviet Union. Right. The country which doesn't exist anymore. Ussr. I was born there. So when I came to the department and then I was enrolled to a special program which calls Honeypot Honey Shopping or Sex Espanage. They actually estimated us through different parameters like the iq, the ability to survive in unpredictable situations.

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Wow.

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Of course the appearance as well. And of course your physical ability. If you would be able to, you know, run for a long time or like do martial arts or whatever.

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What did the training consist of? What were they teaching you? Were they teaching you about like the male psyche and how to seduce somebody? I mean, did it include that? And also how to get secrets back to the then USS are from 350 round students.

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There are only 5 females were chosen for this special program. They wouldn't call it particular Sex Espanage. They wouldn't call it Honey chop or something. There was just a special program which five of us, five young females had to attend special classes where 80% of the information we would receive. What about psychology? How to influence people. How to program someone's mind. How to seduce, of course. How to use sex techniques and what kind of sex techniques. How to subtly manipulate. How to create this desire in someone's mind. So this person would think in this particular way it would be target. So this person would think that this is, this is his idea, right? But all the way he. Even till the end he wouldn't realize that actually it was all set up.

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Wasn't there some kind of focus on the tech bros in Silicon Valley too?

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Oh my God. Thank God. Thank God.

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No.

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That's why when I read this article in Times, I was like, oh my God, the US taxpayers lose like $600 billion annually because like this Russian and Chinese spies actually steal the intellectual property from all these huge tech corporations. That's crazy. And I'm also at US taxpayer. So I was like, you know what, let me actually kind of like share those simple techniques. How to spot manipulation. Because there's so many corporations flying.

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Give us just really quickly three signs that, that you are getting manipulated.

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So number one, when as you mentioned before, when you see someone love bombing you, right, without any even like reason, so much energy, so much time, this is the first question you should think like why, right? I just met this person, why this person giving me so much of these things, why? And the question towards to you, why I'm so important to this person? Number two, if manipulator in this, in this case you speak about woman, right? If she asks a lot, for example, like a lot of to do together, a lot of like things to kind of like maybe to give information of something when it's a lot of like demands or like when it's a lot of kind of like time spending together. This is also a question, why is this how this person lived before, right? Without meeting me, why this person wants to be with me 24 7. Okay, and then the third important thing to see if emotional swings at emotional swings, it's a very bad dark manipulation techniques. When somebody love bombing you, love bombing you and above, the person disappears for a few hours, it's okay. But if the person disappears for a few days and then comes back like nothing happened, that's a huge red flag. This is a huge manipulation. It means that the person basically tries to put you on the emotional swings. Like I give you like, you know, a lot of traits. Good boy, good boy. Then bomb ignorance, coldness. Then the person, the man feels in the situation like something happened. He's paranoid. So this is the the worst dark manipulation technique where the manipulator literally hooks this target, and then he just completely defends from manipulator.

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That's all great advice. Yeah, it really is, Aaliyah. So to hear the full conversation, what you want to do is wherever you get your podcast, just search for the Current or search for Kim Commando, and it'll pop up. I'll tell you, it's a very, very telling interview. She's really brave for coming forth like that.

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