No but it is arguably an act of attainder: finding them guilty of violating national security by passing a law instead of letting the courts decide. I'm no expert on the US consitution but in most democratic countries acts of attainder are generally not allowed.

Those statistics are based on the current operating fleet of aircraft which include a lot of Boeing aircraft built when the company prioritized safety (and hence long term profits) over short term gains. Plus, I do not think anyone believes that there is a general crisis in airline safety just a safety crisis in one company, Boeing, that has transitioned from being one of the most trusted names in aviation to one of the most dodgy in an incredibly short time.

That's entirely missing the problem though. The reason these things are all flops is not because the market is saturated it is because they are producing rubbish. While reducing the amount of rubbish can be argued to be an improvement it is still utter rubbish. If they want people to start watching that means focusing on entertaining stories with interesting characters.

A far better sign if they want to fix things would be firing their current writing staff and hiring people who can actually write good quality material. The staff they have at the moment write like they are 12 year olds producing fan fiction.

It might be low quality but if, for example, you are blind or partially sighted I suspect you'll might really appreciate having access to books you otherwise might not. It would be at least interesting to hear their take on it.

Yes well Harrogate Town Council was never really impressive when I was growing up there and North Yorkshire Country Council was no different so this does not surprise me at all. In Harrogate though there were a lot of street names with apostrophes in the neighbourhood I grew up in, all named after saints: St Helen's Road, St Leonards's Road, St Winifred's etc. probably due to the nearby convent although I always thought the touwn council was responsible for street signs, not the country council.

If their computer security is this poor though XKCD has a great exploit for anyone looking to name their kids - and the country council is generally responsible for the schools (or at least used to be).

What helps even more are strict drunk driving laws and advertising that makes drunk driving both socially unacceptable and removes licenses/impounds cars. In fact in the UK you can permanently lose your license and have to requalify again after the exclusion period which is no joke with the UK's driving test. As a result the UK has about half the alcohol accident rate (16%) of the US and Canada (31%) and Germany's rate (9%) is almost half that of the UK's.

As long as the US and Canada treat drunk driving as a minor offence unless someone is actually hurt/killed people will keep on drunk driving until that happens so the law does little to nothing to prevent it.

My point is that it is not a news story, it's an opinion piece. News stories generally inform the reader of the news in as neutral and balanced way as possible. This was a badly written opinion piece. Going to the sources is the job of the journalist. The fact that even you are suggesting that this is needed means that clearly the so-called journalist did not do their job.

The promise to only have nuclear weapons controlled by humans is worthless even if given in writing if those humans are going to end up being controlled by AI. We already have algorithms controlling a lot of what people see and hear online and if that trend continues AI will control a lot of \people's view of the world giving it, if not actual control, then at least incredible influence over humans....and good luck if you think we are going to be able to stop that from happening given the economic interests of huge companies like Meta, Google etc.

Well I doubt whoever passed the law regard it that way so just because you might be unable to see another way to describe it does not mean that others can't. That's the great thing about talking to people you may strongly disagree with: you learn how others see things and have someone challenge your own thinking, helping to make your own opinions far more informed.

Good journalism requires that the jouirnalist report on the facts in an unbiased manner as possible. What would have been far more helpful here is a factual description of what Utah's bathroom bill actually says for all of us who do not follow the laws that Utah passes and so have never heard of it. That way I can form my own opinion instead of just hearing what the author's opinion is about something I have no knowledge of. Indeed, even if you insist on sharing your opinion you at least need to inform the reader what the opinion is about!

Batteries are typically rated in units of energy i.e. joules or more typically MWh. While they do have a maximum power drain (and charge) raiting that's generally not a helpful number to quote since there is a huge difference in a battery that provides 500MW for 1s vs. 1 day whereas a 500MWh battery can easily be configured for multiple different power draws.

So either you mean 500MWh or else the company you quote are releasing meaningless numbers either because they do not know any better (and this is high school level physics) or are deliberately trying to mislead and neither option suggests anyone should have any confidence in the number.

It does if you are in somewhere like Canada but it actually says something slightly, but importantly, different if you are in the US. Instead of stating it as a right, the US constitution only prevents the US congress from passing a law that abridges freedom of speech. The key difference is that this only binds the US government from resgtricting it whereas an actual right binds everyone, including companies, from restricting it.

In today's world where companies have considerable power this is becoming an incresingly important difference.

That's nothing, we had Exabyte tapes back in the 1990s.

The summary only mentions vulnerability to physical access so disconnecting it is not enough - did you wipe any account information as well? Generally it is much harder to protect something when you have physical access to it and I suspect most Android devices would fail under those conditions. However, by the time someone else has physical access to your TV they are in your home and have access to a lot of sensitive information.

The logical conclusion of this arms race is that eventually they are going to make things so hard that no human will be able to get in without an AI algorithm at which point the only people accessing the site will be the scammers.

...if the allgenations are true the Chinese government might disagree.