This again brings my thoughts to what whistleblower John Barnett had said.

He had worked as a quality control engineer on the 787 plant, where he had claimed that defective parts that were supposed to be recycled had gone missing -- with the fear that they had been taken and installed into air planes.
Another claim was that he had seen clusters of metal shavings in the electrical wiring.
He had urged his bosses to take action, but instead he got transferred. He retired early because of job-related stress, and started blowing the whistle.
And then he died from a gun shot wound on the day of a deposition in the whistleblower case ... which the police somehow determined to have been suicide.

This makes me wondering, of course ...

I have a long-haul flight booked on a 787 coming up in two months. I'd like to get some definitive answers.

People who have never been into a niche hobby don't understand how much it costs to manufacture something in low quantities.

The Commodore 64 Ultimate consists of several components that on their own used to cost more to buy separately and put together. With all the attention that the reformed Commodore is getting, I assume that they must be expecting more orders to come in -- and that that could get the total price down.

Just a separate motherboard costs $299.

Then add a new reproduction injection-moulded plastic case. Even the metal moulds for a small part can cost tens of thousands of dollars to have made to exact tolerances, not to mention the injection-moulding machine it is put into. Plastic is cost-effective only when you use the mould to cast many parts.

Then, unlike the original or the emulation box that came out a few years ago, this new Commodore 64 has a mechanical keyboard. OK, the actual keyboard is actually new and with N-key rollover and LED backlighting, but replacement keyboards for the Commodore 64 have been made multiple times by several enthusiasts.

And BTW, this is FPGA-based. Not an emulator running on an ARM-based SBC.
There is therefore no joystick input delay, and it works with original joysticks and other peripherrals.

There has been an option in the Search Settings for turning off AI-generated summaries for a while now.

The "Hide AI-Generated Images" option is new though (to me, at least).

I don't usually use DuckDuckGo for images. It annoys me to high hell that unlike on other search engines, I have to right-click on the link under each image to open it in a new tab or window.
There have been too many times that I thought I had opened a number of image search results in a new tab each, and then realise that I've only opened the thumbnails.

Some years ago i had an appointment for an interview as software developer at King, but then I found accounts on how they had treated former employees and contractors, and that really changed my mind.

I think that the "corporate death penalty" should be applied more: Forced shutdown and its assets forfeited.

That's very far from what it would need to do.

I've worked briefly with developing software for training human operators of national power grids how to handle emergencies.
It is about having a cool head, to route round problems, and to bring plants on and off, all the while keeping supply in balance with demand. It is a delicate thing: if you don't do it right, you'll get rolling blackouts. And if you have had a blackout, you'd need to bring the system online again in a controlled manner.
Even during normal operations, operators have to continuously take minor routing decisions to keep a grid in balance.
And when I say continuously, I mean around the clock, working in shifts. And you'd bet that there is redundancy: with operators on standby in sleeping quarters, and a second or third team in other control rooms in other locations in case of e.g. terrorist attacks or natural disasters.

I haven't seen it, but I'm sure that some automated software could be used to find routing alternatives. But that doesn't have to be an "AI", specifically: I believe that some kind of constraint-based system would be more suitable.

One problem with neural-network "AI"s is that they are utterly unpredictable in scenarios that they haven't been trained on.
Therefore, it is my strong opinion that there always needs to be a trained human with a cool head to take the actual decisions.

Because of that aspect of AI, a year ago, IMF came out with a stark warning against using AI for tasks that could influence a society's well-being. Their perspective was for that of economics though: warning that AI could e.g. bring a stock market slump into a crash.

I collect the officially published article for each of these hardware vulnerabilities faster than I have chance to read them.
With this one, I've got 93 articles, and counting.

I'm sure that an actual researcher in this field would have quite many more ...

I would rather be able to make phone calls with tablet that is sturdy, durable and does not fold.

Then have to use external devices to make phone calls: such as headset, smartwatch or ... a portable handset.

A tablet will be able to have more battery for radio communication and processing power, and is the superior device for when I actually need the touch screen anyway.
Size does not matter. I'm carrying my man-bag with my anyway.

Why? Why is this not possible? Does Google's Android license forbid it?

I always open sensitive web sites in "Private Browsing" / "Incognito" mode anyway, if only to make sure that the session is closed when I close the browser.

At least in Chrome/Chromium, browser extensions are disabled in that mode by default You'd have to enable them if you want them.

The cynic in me thinks that perhaps Samsung's economists have a bleak outlook on how the purchasing power of the average American consumer is going to be within foreseeable time.

Oh, it does have Wifi and "Handheld video games consoles" is mentioned in the annex. So, no, Nintendo should not be off the hook this time.
I'm stupid of course (and posting at 2 am ...)

The EU directive applies only to devices that could be classified as "Radio equipment".

Because the Nintendo Switch 2 doesn't communicate with the outside world, they are off the hook, for now.

I've already been doing it for over a year.
Try to keep up, will you.

There is the Asterinas project: a kernel completely written in Rust and with a Linux-compatible ABI -- being able to run Linux binaries.
Unsafe Rust is limited to a small portion of the whole kernel.

Classic AI, sure. LLMs: absolutely not. I avoid it on principle.

The crime of stealing people's works for "AI training" has also effectively stopped me from publishing any of my personal source code or CAD drawings on-line.
Not only do I not want it copied without my consent, I also have some source code that is very very ugly, optimised for specific compilers for embedded systems -- and which should never ever be used as a template by someone else, who is probably not very skilled ... or who is under more stress because their boss has got the delusion that fewer people would be able to do the same amount of work.

Here in the EU, there is law that says that a content creator has the right to opt out of "AI training". (except for the "for research" loophole).
However, even if there are well-established file formats and protocols for expressing opt-out (where there aren't), the techbros have already shown over and over again that they don't give a sith -- they have even used pirated works.
Before there are proper non-AI licenses, and infrastructure in place restricting access for those who are bound to EU jurisdiction and are well-behaving, I don't see how the situation could improve.

I would be wary of getting even a single one of these into my lungs.

You know what else are tiny particles smaller than a human hair: asbestos.