It was less than a year ago that KB5026372 was breaking VPN connections; and now they've broken them again?

We're taking pious lectures about excessive attack surface and too many features from the systemd guy?

Just get an older one (I'm sure Goodwills and eBay is swimming with them). The darned things never seem to break. My alarm clock was a free gift from the electric cooperative that my mom received in like the early 1990's. She gave it to me since she already had one - that thing went with me to college and back and is still waking me up every morning.

Yeah - I understand using your phone as an alarm when travelling and such, but if you normally sleep in the same place every night, it just makes sense to setup a fixed alarm clock there.

While I USUALLY have my phone in my bedroom, there's non-zero chance it might be downstairs or over in my home office. That fixed alarm will still wake me up though.

They are, but the summary is also a bit misleading. The fact that they are adorned with RGB lighting is completely irrelevant to the story or why the FTC cares.

No need to even mention RGB. Just: Razer falsely advertises face masks as N95 and FTC is not pleased

I can attest to that. There's a decent amount of COBOL code in some of our local programs that is using 2 digits with the logic that 78 (when the system was first installed) is 20 + number and greater than 78 is 19 + number.

That was good enough for the "operations" fields (eg when something happened, or a bill date) but it was incredibly sloppy and would eventually break in 2078. I'm thinking we'll bee off that software by then and if not I don't particularly care myself.

I think realistically most people that read a lot have moved onto e-books. Just like physical copies of video games or music are dying, so are physical copies of books. Not only is it convenient, but realistically the cost to "publish" an ebook is effectively nothing.

Aside from proximity, Mars is better suited to colonization than the moon.

There's a minor atmosphere that makes traditional flight possible, and evens out the temperature swings a bit.
The day/night cycle is nearly identical to Earth so solar arrays are more practical (compared to lunar days lasting 28 Earth days).
The gravity is higher (38% of Earth's gravity compared to 17%), so muscle atrophy and general disorientation should be less severe compared to the lunar surface. On the other hand this does make it harder to get back off the surface and into orbit again.
While both likely have "enough" water, Mars has more.

The only thing the moon offers that's better is for resupply or emergency scenarios, Earth is just a hop and a skip away.

So rather than them hating each other, they'll be united in their hatred for the UN.

Nobody wants anyone coming into their home and telling them what to do. The issue between Israel and Palestine is that both of them consider the land theirs, and and foreign interference that sides with one side will be hated by the other, and any that supports neither side or both sides equally will be hated by both sides.

The reality is that the elites of both sides want to fight . . . but realistically Israel is the side that will come out on top militarily, so the Palestinian leaders have to be willing to come to the table and negotiate. They're not getting one state, and they're not getting any historic territory back - not without land swaps anyways.

Come to the table. Draw up official borders and have nothing to do with each other. Israel doesn't control what goes on in Gaza's borders and they become an independent state (maybe united with the West Bank, maybe West Bank becomes its own separate country - who knows). After that though, any attack from EITHER side against the other is an act of war. There is no more fighting, no more trying to reclaim ancestral lands - you have your territory and you stay there in peace.

I'm a little confused by who is supposed to be caving to the threat here. It's a paid database, so I assume that Thompson-Reuters/Refinitiv aren't thrilled; but it was apparently stolen from one of their customers, not directly from them, so their reputation for security competence isn't really affected; and I suspect that most of the people paying for access to this sort of database need something authoritative that ticks the "I'm really trying to know my customer, really" box when feds or auditors come around; so even a reasonably fresh and reasonably large leak is still of limited value("So, you decided to reduce costs by basing your compliance efforts on data of unknown completeness, potentially subject to unknown modifications, sourced from unknown criminals? Very interesting...") as an alternative to continuing to subscribe.

If anything, it seems like its release would be largely positive: probably lots of interesting leads to be followed up, both with regard to what the creepy data broker types know and the things they know about the people they consider relevant, by people who are in no position to afford access normally(if it's even something you can just purchase if your money is green enough; rather than being offered specifically to potential customers known to be in financial services; not just anyone with a checkbook).

No, its not. It wouldn't be SO bad though, except that they no longer allow memory upgrades after the fact (at least on all the entry level stuff where they start at 8gb), and whilst 8GB of memory for a PC cost $25 or so, Apple wants $200 to bump up from 8GB to 16GB of memory.

Apple uses their software to lock their users into their hardware ecosystem where they charge exorbitant amounts for stuff.

To a large degree, yes.

You don't annoy people into submission. There is a societal contract where we all have to live together at some baseline level of cooperation. There can be disagreements that don't affect that, but when you start interfering with societal level functioning (blocking traffic, etc), then the rest of the public just becomes angry at the protestors.

Societal controls are what keep those other people from mowing you down wholesale with their cars. You can't expect to benefit from those parts of organized society while trying to halt others, because eventually the people in the cars will start "protesting" in their own way by running you over.

If you want society to keep them from running you over, then you also have to expect society to clear the road.

I'm sure some branch of the government will cover the damages. Realistically on a governmental scale the cost to repair the damage is peanuts so even if they COULD argue their way out of legal responsibility, the PR just isn't worth it.

Heâ(TM)s arguably not wrong that VMwareâ(TM)s offerings outside of their core product are kind of inchoate(though, in fairness, itâ(TM)s not like the âhyperscale cloudâ(TM) guys donâ(TM)t all have a stable of shit thrown at the wall to see what sticks that surrounds the core of services that people actually care about or trust); but that seems like a pretty shabby excuse in this context; where it would have been trivial to just not fuck with what people were using and liked while making the alleged investments in glorious future VMware; then letting the value proposition of that help sell it.

As it is, itâ(TM)s hard to read this as anything other than an awkward(and almost certainly temporary, nobody ever genuinely stops trying to boil the frog once they start); climbdown after recklessly spooking more customers, harder, than intended.

If you are trying to explain why we haven't detected any aliens, how is "they were massacred by even more advanced aliens" a remotely adequate answer? That just leaves you with "why haven't we detected the even more advanced aliens?". The question was never "why do we detect so many deathbots and so few little green men?"

If anything, superintelligences are presumably more capable of doing high-visibility things(if they want to) by virtue of being more advanced; and, while they could all be carefully hiding because they're paranoid that same explanation would hold for standard aliens as well.

Seems like an awful lot of hypothesis to explain nothing.