One of the browsers I use cannot handle Cloudflare Capchas, I'm not sure if it's down to browser sniffing or some incompatibility, but at that point I either say fuck it or copy the link into another browser.

I can think of another company which has a search engine and is also one of the "big boys" when it comes to AI. Do Microsoft do their own AI crawling or is it sufficiently separated from Bing's that Cloudflare can tell them apart (so far).
A second approach is that Google's search engine is their original business. How tolerant would their user-base be if Cloudflare blocked their crawler, worldwide. That war would hurt the sites depending on Google for their traffic, but it would also hurt Google as well. The DOJ was already going after the company (not sure if that's still a "thing" under Trump) but their machinations take years anyway, as thegarbz points out, the EU more likely to get involved and they sometimes move faster.

They also didn't start delving into DEI madness in 2010...neglecting the engineering to chase the "diversity" ghost

btw, the real link is not paywalled.

I'm just wondering how far the parallels with IBM during the Nazi years go, IBM supplied the tools the Nazis needed to identify Jews for deportation and extermination. Obviously I was not around back then but I'd like to know whether that cooperation was public knowledge and what the general public thought of it (in the pre-war years).

So? Donald Trump was registered as a Democrat from 2001 to 2009, although that was when Dubya was President so that makes sense.

Yep, I had writeups from those flame wars. They *REALLY* did not want it discussed. Governors Brown and Kotek continued the pay-to-play system, which is what lost Oregon the Ohio CHIPs foundry campus (before they realized that Biden wasn't going to pay out CHIPs act at all).

All one needs to see this is to be employed at Intel in June, when every single monitor becomes rainbows and the rainbow flag flies on campus every month.

This happened yesterday as well, you'd think they would learn.

I do a lot of browsing using Seamonkey, and that browser cannot handle some fairly recent changes to Javascript. Most Slashdot functions don't need them but the login process does. I logon there by moving the cursor just to the SE of the "Submit" button, then slowly North until my logon appears. After that I'm home free.

The article linked shows a painting depicting the battle of Sluys, what this article skips is that back then only the nobles were taken prisoner (because they could be ransomed), anyone else was killed. Going back to the main article, Geoffrey Chaucer is mentioned as a soldier and diplomat who had been ransomed back in 1359.

Not to mention the millions spent on DEI hiring of marginal people based only on demographics.

He did, on the promise of the Biden CHIPs act money- the employees ballooned to 145,000 worldwide by October 2022.

Due to CHIPs act not coming through as planned, in December 2022 they started rounds of layoffs, which Lu Tan is continuing

How much is this problem is down to AI and how much to beautiful tariffs?

You're suggesting The Matrix is the way to go?