Well, see, in Russia they always end Rocky IV right after Ivan Drago kills Apollo Creed.

The cited article says two in five claim to have been hacked. Sounds like a reasonably credible allegation.

Today, the robot fell.

Tomorrow, I imagine its main developers are likely to fall out of some windows.

Why would anyone store their primary banking credit card info on a hackable electronic device? I have a low limit card through a bank that I do no other business with. Hack it and charge maybe $1K before it limits or you get caught. Not attached to an account with a balance, so nothing to drain.

Heck, why stop there?!

Any self-respecting Slashdotter would DESIGN AND BUILD THEIR OWN TABLET! And fork their own custom Linux distro to run on it!

... use those points to buy stuff at the Apple store?

Wait! Never mind. It turns out that I can buy an infinite number of Linux installs with them.

And your dog will play with you because you have a pork chop tied around your neck.

I'm surprised that a modern phone can't support virtualization. An iphone within an iphone that has no contacts/photos/call history/credentials to plunder

Ryanair flew 206M people last year, so 1% is a mere 2M people, nothing to worry about.

Nickels cost $0.14 each to make, so one could easily make the case for getting rid of them too.

That is, if there had been any actual thinking behind this move - versus just one more random fixation by the addled elderly toddler-in-chief.

Yes but who buys exactly one gallon ? Unless you're filling the can for a lawnmower most people will buy several gallons to fill a car.

Well, not that shocked.

This.

The Emperor's New Clothes is quite applicable here. It's not enough to point out that he's naked as a jaybird, but that this has become "common knowledge" and one is now safe to act on it without negative consequences.

Just try to step up and say that your company isn't going to bite on the AI bait and the market will knock points off your share price.

There's an interesting book out on that topic.

... Pittsburgh is my favorite team!

I use Airbnb and would have been happy to try our alternatives if I had known about them and seen positive reviews like yours. Their marketing must have sucked.