MI5's reason appears to have been to help stifle an investigation into police corruption, which could have looked bad for some important people.

Unfortunately they are known to have done this kind of work in other cases too. They aren't particularly good at it either.

Sounds like it's more likely an issue with the engines. Engine oil is getting into the cabin air, which is outside air that comes into the engine, gets heated, and a small amount of siphoned off to the cabin. The leak is in the engine somewhere.

There will be filters for that air, and it sounds like airlines have been pressuring Airbus to reduce the maintenance on them, which now and then means they fail to stop the vaporized oil getting through.

Simply increasing the maintenance should be enough to resolve the issue.

It'd probably illegal in the UK. That kind of constant monitoring would need a very strong justification.

Who has been arrested in the UK over saying there are only two sexes?

Linehan was arrested for a sustained campaign of harassment and doxing against a child.

Are you talking about the actions taken against people not showing sufficient sorrow for the death of Charlie Kirk? Very North Korean, if you ask me.

Libraries have quite good protections in some parts of Europe.

It legitimizes seizing foreign owned businesses, the very thing that Americans keep accusing China of doing.

As usual, Trump has been played like a cheap fiddle.

IA is in a bad place right now. Not enough staff, ancient and brittle code base that frequently breaks, very poor connectivity outside parts of the US, and of course huge legal problems due to a combination of bad decisions and apparently ignoring legal advice (if they ever took it).

It's unfortunately very difficult to build an archive like that, but it should be a priority. Located in Europe somewhere.

US wind tech is quite primitive anyway. Chinese companies are already deploying blades twice this long. When you see photos of them at the factory they look photoshopped because the scale is hard to wrap your head around.

Airships and windy areas don't mix well.

Chinese companies solved this by being able to build factories really fast, close to where the blades are being used. They are great for large projects where a factory can produce about 1000 blades/year, enough for ~333 turbines. They are much bigger blades too, over 130m each, nearly double what these guys are hoping to move.

They will need to scale up though. SANY has been installing 131m blades for over a year now, and the next generation will be even bigger.

SANY has also developed a system for setting up a new blade factory very quickly and reliably, so they can simply build one near to where the blades are needed.

It demonstrates the issue though. You have to get the reactor up into orbit, and make sure that if and when it comes down it doesn't pollute. There isn't enough research on non-nuclear satellites re-entering the Earth's atmosphere and burning up to really be sure what the environmental impact of that is, especially with the new mega constellations.

It's probably doable, but

1) The cost will be high.
2) The tech will take time to develop and prove safe.
3) Maybe your country can do it safely, but do you trust every country with a glorified ballistic missile to do it safely too?

I had a similar thing years ago. I noticed the RX light on my modem flashing periodically, even though I wasn't doing anything. Did a bit of analysis and saw it was ICMP packets coming from some random IP address. Back then firewalls were novel and computers responded to pings from the internet.

I tried telnet out of curiosity and got straight into some system at that IP address. Not sure what it was, but seemingly some kind of server with a lot of work related shared files on it. Financial info, employee records, that sort of thing. I didn't hang around for long and after randomly trying a few commands found that "reboot" worked, and stopped the pinging.

Could Facebook afford that?

Brexit is costing the UK at least 4% of GDP, every year. It probably won't be undone this decade, if ever before the UK breaks up.

That's £145 billion per year, every year, just in economic losses. The actual damage to people's lives, especially young people's in terms of lost opportunities, greater poverty and suffering, over their lifetimes, is difficult to calculate but must be more billions per year.

In 2023 Facebook only made about $30 billion in profit. They can't afford to put this right.

If the API is available then hopefully someone will build a better Teams app.

People often make this mistake about EU rules. It's not like the US where everything has to be watertight legalese or they will exploit some loophole. Here it works on the basis that there was a negotiation with the people looking at the anti-trust issues, and they agreed but will monitor for compliance and look again if Microsoft acts in bad faith.

It's the same with fines. Just because they didn't open with a trillion Euro fine doesn't mean that the company will consider it the cost of doing business and ignore it, because non-compliance will result in ever increasing punishment.