Your analogy between corruption and weapon expiration is so off. They have zero connection.

The "agencies" are just using porn abuse as an excuse. The truth is they're bitter that encryption is blocking them from accessing people's messages. They've been crying about this every single time they can't get their hands on something. Encryption is supposed to make messages turn into secrets that only the sender and the receiver can decipher. This is the ONLY way any encryption means. There's no such thing as designing encryption "in a way". There's ONLY that one way. Any other way is not encryption. PERIOD. All those 3 letter agencies can kiss my ass if I poke them by the balls.

This is not because IBM has or stole GF's secrets. Several years ago GF acquired the chip fabrication business from IBM. And I think the suit is claiming that high level personnel at IBM still know these secrets and sharing around.

Even though I'm very in support of fighting climate change, I think the international forums including the Paris Accord don't have a clear picture of the "how". Regardless, Brazil is a country full of corrupt politicians. How do we know our money will be put to good use? How many millionaires are we going to create without helping the rainforest at all?

Why would any company oppose the above? And if they oppose, what's their alternative? It's like they're literally asking for permissions to steal messages. And the way they word their argument is like they're doing the world a favor.

What are the chances the new code will allow data collection, tracking, privacy invasion? 100%

I think the most ancient form of this was actually geocities.com, which I vaguely remember belonging to Yahoo. For geocities, you do have to know some HTML to create your site, upload the content up as if you were a web administrator, not a content creator.

This was available before in the form of myspace.com. There was also a more ancient platform in the 90s - 2000s called asianave.com for asian internet users. Eventually all of these sites went bankrupt because only a small % of the users were able to keep their own "page" interesting. The rest was just poor content.

It costs millions of dollars per month to run an operation like Twitter, that's computing costs alone, not including any other costs at all. So if this was not to be for profit, who pays? The only answer to that is allowing it to be owned/operated by the government. Which will turn the free world into government controlled third worlds. We already see how it works in China, Cuba, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela. If we want to join the ranks, by all means, let the White House run it. But if they wanna take over Twitter, Musk is gonna want $100B for his sales.

Regardless of what the motivation maybe... this decision not only clearly indicates GM wants to ditch Apple and help Google collect private information, but they also completely alienate apple fans. Not only future customers, but me who pre-ordered the 2024 Lyriq and waited nearly a year, will cancel my order.

China is gonna try to hack the communication network.

They should have done this a very long time ago... it's called quality control.

I'm unsure of the when... that's why I used the word "probably".

Any chance the AI downloads scifi movies about AI, learns additionally what it can do to humans, and decide to eradicate us all... like the Kaylon do in "The Orville"?

It was probably 20 years ago that I played this game on Windows PC. I loved the game but quickly ditched it because there were just way too many cheaters.