See that bright thing low in the southern Swedish sky during daylight? Primary fusion power source there.

I suspect there will be a bit of activity in Parliament that will close the "does not specifically say the inventor must be a (natural) person" element of the current legislation/regulations.

Am I alone in thinking that nothing of value has been lost here? Heck, I hadn't even noticed the OneNote came with Windows 10. It also seems to come in Office 365: I ignored both.

I only wish I could close my account. A few years back PayPal in Australia locked accounts and started demanding a copy of passport/driver licence and some proof of residential address ostensibly to meet Australia's anti-money laundering laws. I refuse to provide them with that detail; they do not need it to process a credit card transaction or deposit funds in my account. I do not trust PayPal with the information being requested. Any official request resulting from suspected money laundering on that PayPal account would lead immediately to both the bank account and credit card, both of which are concretely verified as mine by regulated banks/credit unions I actually trust.

Rather than offer an opt-out-and-close-your-account option, PayPal locked the account and I cannot even close it without providing that information. PayPal will not accept any credit card that is linked to the locked account anywhere, but will accept a completely anonymous credit card without question. So much for anti-money laundering.

Many large organisations channel all HTTPS? traffic through proxies. I wonder how long it will be before major proxy platforms can accomodate a new protocol.

The App Store also drives physical purchases of Apple hardware, so how much of the $400 gigabucks claimed is pouring directly into Apple's other pocket?

In Australia there was also a concerted push in 2020 for people to get the regular seasonal flu vaccination (causing associated shortages) to reduce the load that seasonal flu puts on hospitals.

If the South Australian QR-driven tracing system is anything like the Queensland version then it may be either the generic QR scanner in many camera apps or the specific application reading the code. The app is only a thin wrapper over a web site. In the Queensland case, if the generic Samsung camera detects a "Check in Qld" QR it offers to open it with either a generic browser or the specific app (and I can make the selection sticky). A legitimate QR will lead a browser to a web page you can register through, but it's easy enough to see this being abused because people just click without reading. Scanning the QR code from the specific app rejects invalid URLs. The direct app approach will be more practical once using that tracing method becomes mandatory (from tomorrow for certain businesses in Qld). At the moment there are about 6 different check-in sites in my commonly visited list.

At some level Apple's deliberate actions are interfering with a legal licensing contract between the user and the application licensor (which is often not Apple). This seems to fall within the definiton of tortious interference. The plaintiff has to prove that a valid contract existed (the application is linked to the purchasing account and the user accepted the licensor's terms), that the defendant had knowledge of the contract (they brokered the licensing deal), that the defendant acted intentionally and improperly, and that plaintiff was injured by the defendant’s actions. It seems that all except the "improperly" component should be fairly easy if the plaintiff was genuinely injured.

Yes, because the other one-to-rule-them-all, MyGov (http://my.gov.au), works so well.

Nothing in TFS or the article suggests that either Hunt or Birmingham did have such detail. From TFS:

That is, someone impersonating Birmingham in some unspecified way asked an unnamed party for details and got them. The article claims the unnamed party was in the Minister of Finance's contact list and that a fake Telegram account was used. It does not seem far fetched to think there would be quite a few businesspeople/diplomats with Hong Kong connections and the Finance Minister's ear.

From the article:

...and they tried a similar trick again by impersonating another politician.

Just started to happen in Australia. The State of Victoria from July will levy 2.5 cents a kilometre for full electric vehicles and 2 cents a kilometre for plug-in hybrid vehicles (that's more than CAD 150 or USD 140 for what I expect is typical annual usage). South Australia and New South wales have indicated they will follow suit (no doubt different details). I venture our EV takeup is lower than either the US or Canada and this will help ;)

Clearly superior capitialist openess in the Land of the Free (tm) has done wonders to suppress the propagation of the coronavirus.

The phased roll-out has been a little hampered by the Italy withholding AstraZeneca exports, but with a total active case count around 150 (all in mandatory quarrantine I think) there's no massive rush. Local production of the AZ vaccine will definitely help ramp up the rate here and for our near neighbours (if our politicians can see past the usual self-interest).

"You can use a single weapon to collapse the entire North American power grid,"... or you could just connect it to Texas.