Leave politics out of the decisions around energy (coal, gas, nuclear, wind, solar, hydro, whatever) and let the free market figure it out and you will get a good outcome for energy users.

Any account with permission to upload packages to NPM should be required to have strong 2FA (TOTP or a hardware key of some sort or something equally secure), have session tokens that are linked to the browser/IP/device (to prevent session token theft) and maybe also require a 2FA auth before a file upload.

Although I am sure there are some who will say "that's not acceptable, we need to be able to automate things and 2FA gets in the way". Sorry but security against hackers is more important than being able to click "go" on some CI setup and have it automatically upload the new version with no human actions.

Is this as bad for the environment as the current methods of extracting lithium?

Just making the content in Canada is not enough, its about "preserving Canadian culture" or some BS...

It should be possible to buy a car that has NO network connectivity of any kind, NO GPS or satnav (maps on your phone connected through Android Auto or Apple CarPlay is better than in-built satnav on basically any car anyway), and NO data harvesting (so nothing for the insurance companies to use against you)

The summary says that they did have backups but that the AI screwed those up as well.

Maybe we need something like the "data haven" described in the book Cryptonomicon... Find a country that doesn't give a stuff about copyright or America and is willing to let someone build big data centers full of cloud storage to hold all the stuff.

Having had experience with Chinese cars here in Australia I would definitely pick the models from some (but not all) Chinese brands ahead of what Detroit is selling in Australia these days. (I can think of several Chinese pickup trucks I would pick ahead of the Ford, Chevy and RAM pickups you can get here for example)

A higher up at Microsoft posted on twitter saying the issue was caused by paperwork that these projects didn't do, that all of them were impacted at once because the missing paperwork is tied to a deadline and that Microsoft is working to get it sorted out so these projects can continue.

Plenty of games used things like GameSpy where the online component is handling matchmaking and even though he actual game is peer-to-peer or one of the players is the server or something, they still won't work because the matchmaking servers are gone.

Given the date its hard to know if this is real or fake...

I saw it and loved it. Definitely worth seeing in the big screen IMO.

You can't buy your way to a 5 Star ANCAP safety rating. They actually crash test the vehicles (or in some instances, accept verified validated crash test footage/results/etc for the same model car from EuroNCAP or similar)

Many chinese cars (at least the ones they are selling in western countries) score very high on safety ratings.

Oh and these cars almost all get 5 star ANCAP safety ratings (the highest possible) so they are just as safe as anything from Japan or elsewhere.