... 100 megabits per second. Who cares what lies upstream of the DSL modem, ONT or whatever?

Imagine the fusing electronics inside an artillery shell and the forces that sustains. Now imagine those fusing electronics built with vacuum tubes ...

No. Because that's a $5000 Chinese instrument running your firmware.

... dropped its coconut.

I didn't take it that they deserved to be killed, but that it was taken as amusing when someone who is held-up on a pedestal as being so great/successful to the point that they start to believe it themselves dies as a result of their own choices.

When people learn of Thomas Midgley Jr as the engineer that invented both CFCs and leaded gasoline, who later died as a result of his final invention, a system of cables, pulleys, and slings that were supposed to give him some additional able-bodiedness after he'd crippled himself through persistent toxic lead exposure, most people basically laugh it off. I see a lot of parallels to the situation with this submersible.

If the camera had been recording and locally-storing video when the vehicle imploded then it possibly would have been useful. Even that would be a stretch, as it's unlikely that it would be recording the hull itself, but it wasn't wrong of investigators to try to check.

no, it wasn't porn.

The camera, which as pointed out was not mounted inside of the craft's hull but was itself independently rated to extreme pressures, was mounted on the outside. The camera suffered damage regardless as the forces of the craft imploding appear to have shoved or tugged on the camera so hard that the internals saw surface-mount components break off of PCBs, but no additional pressure from the depths entered the housing.

The card survived by virtue of being within a package that was solid enough to keep the interior stable, but flexible enough that it didn't crack like silicon chips or solder joints did.

As for the contents, it sounds like there were only pictures and videos that were from prior use of the camera because something software-wise was not configured completely right, and data that should have been copied-off to remote mount points was left on the local filesystem instead. That's why there was nothing useful on the card.

From the summary: "The phones sell for up to $5,000 in China because Chinese network providers do not subscribe to the international blacklist for stolen devices."

I have a difficult time believing that sort of price. Frankly I have a difficult time believing even half the price of a brand new phone for a used phone regardless of provenance, unless the stolen phones lack Chinese government spyware or unless the Chinese government heavily restricts the purchase of phones to the point that getting a new device is next to impossible.

Yes, it is moronic.

And yes, this is how some people are using these systems. Not everyone in even fairly senior positions have subordinates that can be kept at beck and call to summarize lengthy or highly technical reports for them. In many cases those people who have authority in the org have to do that work themselves because the company has already used existing staff reductions through the older label of management information systems to reduce the number of staff as computers have been able to replace a lot of the work that clerks used to do. Those people in charge of sections or departments or divisions might not be able to just command technical staff that are already burdened by their own work to do this for them, and the clerical/admin staff that handle office functions don't have the technical background to do it either.

Those people really do turn to these platforms to try to distill down the information for them. The whole drive is for efficiency, and reducing staffing costs is usually the principal way to increase efficiency. It's moronic, but it's also occurring as the people using these systems don't really know how they work or why they get the results they do. And it will keep getting worse.

Perhaps. On the other hand, there's a lot of background work done to support clearances*. And in some cases, ongoing contact with intelligence case workers, even for an inactive one. I know they are still watching me. Probably waiting for that hot Russian supermodel girlfriend to show up. (I can dream, can't I?)

*Interestingly, I found out about my background checks when a case officer conducted interviews with neighbors. It seems that he selected our neighborhood drunk to talk to. In addition to my wondering what (mis)information he might have recieved, they always wind up interviews requesting that the details not be discussed. Whereupon, the neighbor immediately went out and told half the people on the block. Getting most of the details wrong. And this all predates OPMs involvement. So I can only imagine the recent shit-show.

Of all of the things I've heard complaints about misuse of Excel for over around three decades now, literal financial spreadsheets is a first for me.

Summarizing a report for a prospective reader of said report is pretty much by-definition not checking it, because checking it would require reading both the generated summary and the actual report.

Summarizing reports seems like a great way for someone writing the report who has to say something about an unfortunate development managing to downplay it where the LLM fails to include it in the summary. It allows obfuscation of negative news or status potentially, and the consequence would likely fall on the person who should have read the report but instead got the not-even-cliffs-notes version.

I don't know if English is your first language, but if so have you tried speaking with someone from Scotland ? Even Uhura would struggle

someone is going to make a crapload of dough...

No, it was a garbage pod.