Just a note, Norway isn't in the EU!

Yea, I think that's the elephant in the room, tiktok is the one social media app that comes to mind, that has a lot of users, and has a chance of being outside the NSA's ability to coerce or control via the owners, since they're in China...

Yes, but then if Sony were wanting to buy it out, they'd either have to pay market rate, or do some offer to convince enough shareholders to take a haircut on market rate. As of today, it's sitting at $2.85 billion market capitalisation, so yea, that would be quite a buyout if Sony wanted to.

While it's a tired trope that real communism has never been tried, I'd argue that real capitalism is also a bit of a theoretical fantasy. Companies eventually get so large, that the easiest way to protect their dominance and for directors to keep meeting their KPI's is to horizontally integrate, lobby legislators and essentially start operating outside the rules that everyone else gets, and ultimately do whatever it takes to prevent competition.

I think we're seeing a supply side constraint because that's probably the narrowest choke point which can provide favourable terms to themselves, and unfavourable conditions for their competitors. Competition for new platforms is practically dead on arrival, since the money is in the software sales, not the hardware.

it's a publicly listed company in Poland, people can buy stonks.

It's not palpable, it's the way of the world. It's not about being right, it's about being able to compel, even resorting the the use of violence. This has been happening since time immemorial. This is essentially what occurs when the US gains a new enemy; some country is able to break out of the US's sphere of influence, and starts running its own foreign policy, which the US doesn't wish for itself.

This approach is currently on display with the war in Ukraine, where Russia sees Ukraine as an indivisible integral part of Russia (mind you, they don't care what the Ukrainians think...), and has waged a war to overturn its government and insert one more cooperative with the kremlin. Now the question is, which wars has the US involved itself in, where something similar wasn't the case?

Europe is now in a wonky, divided situation because France and Germany would rather turn a blind eye to Russia, and keep that trade going as it suits their business interests, and keeps their social contract in place, similarly most of the rest of the world would also prefer to just trade with China rather than become antagonistic for similar reasons, but the USA's hegemony is at stake, so it's trying to twist the arms of others in order to force them to do something, they otherwise wouldn't. If the US is wanting its European "allies" to do what it wants, it's going to have to cough up and give something in return, and here lies the problem.

On a long enough time scale, we're all dead...

If in the summary it says "a range of royalty-free music from independent artists" I presume that means no copyright, hence, the artists aren't getting a single cent. But they're independent though that's important for some reason...

I think it's more a case of their tech is probably not "good enough" to compete, so they're just on a campaign to pooh-pooh their competitor.

I think the issue in general is that this happened really suddenly, and google have been really caught off guard with this. It's not like as if AI competes against some marginal product line on the periphery of google's products; microsoft is going straight for the jugular by integrating it into bing as it's directly targeting Google's crown jewel in 'search'.

Years or battery cycles have no relevance here, the cycles that governments or politicians worry about are election cycles. South Australia has fixed 4 year terms, so if they get the timing just right, they can roll out a nice new shiny system in time for the next election, and it won't be causing problems for the election after that.

Hey, I've heard that one before, in Russia they call it a "vranya".

I'm thinking that this is probably not intended to actually force secure software, but rather start to add some compliance requirements, and create barriers of entry for imported internet connected devices. After all, following "best practices" can really be whatever the industry decides, be it good or bad.

I suspect that the least worst scenario will be to force development to plan for security testing, and document it in an auditable manner. Meanwhile, hardware has certain security standards and devices (such as TPM), so they may become legally required to be implemented and again, demonstrated that the software has it implemented, and/or auditable documentation to show that it has been tested, all in order to demonstrate compliance.

The main problem I have with the article is that the author mentions google, yet doesn't put two and two together that what they're criticising has been taken directly from google's play book. Seeing that it's vice, one can safely assume that it's some hipster author who thinks they're in "tech" because they write about it, just regurgitating some crap that probably got fed to them by a google employee.

In any case, the cat's out of the bag, chatGPT is far from perfect, but definitely done a decent enough demonstration that there's something worthwhile there. There's no going back now, so becoming a luddite with respect to predictive models, isn't going to solve anything. Time to reskill, and change course, because a lot of jobs are going to change or disappear, and no one has been preparing anyone for it.

That is exactly what I wrote in the second sentence that you didn't quote.

This is just another part of foreign policy, just like warfare. Those countries who can be coerced and must do as they're told, do so. Those who feel they can hold their own, and don't need to comply to another nations whims and demands, won't, and in this, we have all the enemies of the US; those countries who feel they don't have to subject themselves to the US's foreign policy. The smaller nations got acquainted with the US military, while the larger ones like Russia and China, well they get the evil eye while the US tells all its "friends" to not play with them.