I want someone to turn the whole "president Jack Ryan" stuff into movies/TV. Although considering that it all starts with a Japanese kamikaze pilot crashing a fully loaded passenger jet into the US Capitol and killing most of the government in one fell swoop, its probably not something Hollywood is going to want to put on screen...

The Neuromancer TV show looks good although its hard to tell from that clip how well its going to follow the book.

What I am most interested in is how they depict cyberspace and whether it looks like the simple depiction described in the book or whether it looks more like The Matrix.

Here in Australia when I have gotten jobs in the past I had to show my government issued ID (I have one that has all the same ID verification as a drivers license but without the right to drive) and I had to give them my tax file number (the unique identifier tied to your data and details at the tax office and that the employer uses to handle income tax etc).

I imagine the UK has similar systems (some kind of ID held with the tax office or similar government departments and a drivers license system or similar) that employers could use to verify that you are who you claim to be.

It's hard to justify the tank printers for my use case, I print enough color that I need a color printer but I don't print enough to justify spending hundreds of dollars on a tank printer instead of just buying a cheaper normal inkjet and buying cartridges as needed.

I would never buy HP junk. My current printer is a Canon inkjet (I absolutely need color printing and color lasers are still too expensive) and the printer I buy to replace this one is going to be another Canon.

Its all about making sure that CNN ends up in the hands of a Trump ally who will turn it into a Fox News clone and destroy a major thorn in the side of Trump and the republicans. Anything else that might happen is secondary to that.

As someone who has spent a lot of time doom-scrolling on twitter, I can see where the EU is comming from on the addictiveness of social media.

Does this mean 3rd parties will be able to buy all the computer modules and things for the tractors and load the firmware packages onto them and then install them into the tractors and have everything work?

The difference is that an E-Scooter doesn't contain any of the data harvesting that you get in a car...

We have all the Chinese EVs in Australia and yet the Model Y was the best selling car (of any kind) in Australia for May of 2026.
I don't think Chinese EVs would kill Tesla.

I could absolutely see it hurting the EVs being put out by Detroit though...

Considering what AI (that is built with safeguards and/or restricted in its availability) is already capable of when it comes to finding exploits in software and other dangerous things, imagine what an AI specifically built as an offensive cyber-weapon could be capable of doing.

The companies that design the chips and contract overseas fabs to make them are very much American. The US can absolutely tell, say, NVIDIA that it has to do this with its chips regardless of where they ultimately get made.

I don't know what its like in other countries but here in Australia, cheap EVs from brands like BYD and MG have been very popular and I haven't heard any stories of them being unreliable or of the companies behind them giving bad service.

I know someone who owns an MG EV and they have had nothing bad to say about it or the brand.

The modern technological world (interactive personal computing devices, global packed-switched data networks etc) probably wouldn't exist in the form it does if it wasn't for the US government and its agencies like DARPA and NSF.

There is an excellent book called "The Dream Machine" that tells the story of how the US government bankrolled much of the computing revolution of the late 20th century.

Do the people of the UK (i.e. all those people who voted at the last election and will vote at the next election) actually want this ban or is the government saying "we know people don't want this but it is necessary to keep kids safe online so we are implementing it anyway"?