Just waiting for the first airplane crash where the primary cause reported in the NTSB analysis is failures by an air traffic controller who, and I quote, "did it for the lulz."

...What.
Do you know what the capacity of an Olympic-sized swimming pool is? Assuming similar output ratio to a 250kL bioreactor (may not be realistic, there's certainly potential issues with oxygenation and other factors), that's about 30 million pounds of meat each year. You might need as many as 3000 of those to produce every pound of beef estimated to be eaten in the U.S. each year. That many bioreactor facilities would displace around 30-40 average size ranches (~15000 acres).
I'll give you that it would require a lot of supporting infrastructure to supply the biofuel, not to mention significant utilities infrastructure, road improvements, etc. This would absolutely cost a staggering amount. Would it ultimately take millions of additional acres to support this level of production? Maybe, but ranches for grazing cattle currently occupy 600+ million acres of land.
Tl;dr: It would be plenty expensive to set up, but the quoted land use reduction seems believable.

B5 was/is a real gem of a science fiction / space opera series. Always happy to see it made available for new potential fans.
I do wish it was available in higher quality, but that's just how it is.

Shouldn't it really be called a "War Bill", now?

Without reading the article, my sarcastic take is that either:
A) There were a bunch of mistaken selections (with undisclosed costs) before hitting on the "right" one
- or -
B) It worked on the first try, but "Big Blind" is actually a Hellmouth. :-P

The issue (as is the case in other market sectors) becomes getting people to use your service in the first place. Breaking into a market can be tough and require a lot of time and money/promotional work.

Epic managed this (to the extent they have), by:
A) capitalizing on their hit game "Fortnite" to get gamers to install their platform (analogous to Steam with HL2 in the beginning), and
B) Throwing money at the problem by way of offering a reduced platform cut (only 12% instead of 30%) and by paying developers to release exclusives on their storefront (limited-time exclusivity, not permanent).

Epic had enough capital to generally pull it off, but smaller stores basically starve to death in Steam's shadow. Because, sure, I could buy stuff from other storefronts, but I already have Steam, already own a ton of stuff on Steam, and the things other storefronts want to sell are already probably on Steam, too!

It's not that the idea of AI DJs really bothers me that much. Especially if it was limited to AI-curated mixes or something like that.
It's the advertising. We've been down this road. We know where it ends. You know it, I know it.

Good point. If they are including phones, I find that figure quite believable. My personal experience with enterprise deployments is certainly nothing from which to extrapolate worldwide trends, but I'd find it hard to believe that experience to be so completely out of step with general trends.

According to the summary, they do deal with that, presumably by only recording the mic input rather than the whole conversation.

I'll go ahead and guess that this is Meta training/testing their AI in production for moderating accounts/content on the Meta platform.

Maybe instead of "Terminator" he should mix up something based on "Detroit: Become Human". Might require some care to keep it from turning into "I, Robot", but I know I'd be interested in seeing what he might come up with.

Given the topic, this struck me as an amusing qualifier. Based on the paper's conclusion, said paper should sail through the peer review process with flying colors, given it's probably citing EVERYONE! :D

I don't entirely hate the idea. VW gets a benefit from simplifying hardware variation, just unlocks via software.

Summary is unclear. The article also notes that Volkswagen did not clarify whether the upgrade is tied to your account or to the car.
If it's to the car, then....*shrug*. If it's to the user...I guess it depends one whether that upgrade is applicable to future cars (seems unlikely).
What I would fear would be treating it like certain console games where you could sell the game disc but certain features (included DLC, content, or w/e) would be tied to a one-time code that came with the game and the purchaser would have to buy a replacement code from the publisher. They can fuck right off with that bullshit.

This is true when the parameters are ambiguous. Assuming the command issued was something along the lines of "move foo bar", an incredibly simple trick is to append a backslash change it to "move foo bar\". The command would return an error about not finding the specified path.
Also, don't force overwrites with "/y" when you aren't planning to overwrite data. Of course, the "AI" could just as easily have been running it interactively and just bulled its way through the unexpected results.

This is a fair and proportionate response to such a ridiculous policy. The idea of a nation taxing a foreign company not operating within their borders for transactions with (or involving) their citizens is preposterous, and it's curious how they even conceived of such a hare-brained cash-grab!

That was, naturally, sarcasm. Uncle Sam *always* wants a piece of the pie. For instance, foreign streamers that monetize will (generally?) be taxed on earnings resulting from viewers in the US. I find this specific example interesting, but, more broadly, "foreign corporations" profiting off US citizens/companies will be required by the US to pay taxes on "Effectively Connected Income" (and possibly non-ECI, as well).
What's good for the goose...