California has done this to themselves because of all of the "environmental activist". They caused this problem, they should solve it!

I've started using youtube music more and more than spotify lately.

I've read so many people saying "should have had backups", but nobody has considered the time to rebuild from catastrophic failure. Every system and server is down, full restore and recovery to a time before infection (and validation of that).
The company was a transport company with 500 trucks on the road. That's a lot of logistics in play that need to have continuity, each one with cost of probably tens of thousands a day, or more, with heavy non-complete penalties for failure.
Full catastrophic failure can take weeks, or months to perform. In this time, you've haemorrhaged customers, who have had to try and make alternate arrangements where they can (and will likely not be back), no ability to schedule new business, and bills that still need to be paid.

The cash flow can easily drive a low margin business like transport into failure just by the time to recover from a complete loss of function by malicious infection. All the backups may be there, they may even have off site, and have done everything by the book, just the operating company as an entity could easily lose more in the recovery time window than it was possible to financially recover from.

Oh goodie! Genetic experiments. Yeah cuts out disease/birth defects yada yada But you know good and well someone is going to tinker around and try to create a "SUPER HUMAN" and screw it all up.

A Rolls Royce or GE or whomever made the engine, plus whomever did/didn't do the maintenance.

...the report states that the film needs to gross around $700 million globally to be considered a success, per an anonymous Hollywood agent. The article further states anything north of north of $500 million worldwide will get into profits.

Cow farts, or ships triggering methane gas? LOL

For a long time now, that kind of money has been mainly bandied about in the Sports leagues. Expensive players getting huge signing bonuses to join new teams..
I always wondered what it would take to get that kind of money for the scientists; looks like there's finally something that people really want to spend their cash on.
IT may only be for a short time (after all, anologously to sport, there is likely to be a short window of opportunity for this kind of cash, so you may find it's a short career, but if you invest well, it can last you a lifetime to do what you want afterwards), but it's good to see.

I suspect it's also a sign that the big players also see it as a limited time deal, with AI starting to tail off and stabilise as a tool in the not too distant future (5, maybe 10 years if that), and the disruption settling down into a newer way of operating. They're just going all out at the moment to get the best talent to be in the big player stakes when that happens (if it does; there's still no guarantee, but it's an interesting gamble).

It's the planning, and designing the equipment to let the jump happen.
Without the jump, all that wouldn't have happened (for a while at least).
Him stepping up, and actually doing it, advanced knowledge and engineering, proving that it could be done. Not a huge advance, but definitely a tiptoe in a new direction.

The only way to stop this is to entirely cease allowing companies that use contractors and subcontractors on military projects.

Otherwise what is going to happen is the military will sign a contract with Lockheed who will outsource part of it to IBM who will off-shore part of that to India who will outsource part of that work to another subcontractor who uses people in China and Vietnam.

Is that guy a cat who needs to nap every 2 hours?

FWIW, I once participated in a coding contest at my university in the early 90's that lasted 72 hours (the first prize was a full scholarship, which I didn't get :)) I ran on coffee and speed for the full 72 hours, then collapsed on a couch and slept until someone woke me up to come get my third prize (a Solaris license).

10 hours non-stop coding sounds like a normal day at the office trying to wrap up a project.

So, you would have the young vote against their own interests to help the aged (who really do need help) as well?
Everyone votes with what they believe will work best both for themselves and for everyone. Believing that just because someone votes other than the way you think they ought to shows that you have a massive bias. I've literally voted for every major party in the UK, all based on manifestos of what they say they're going to attempt to do, on the basis that I think that manifesto makes the most sense for the state of the country at the time.

Honestly don't care if there's been a GenX president, as I'm not from the USA. I'm fairly sure there will be at some point.

This marketing technique is seriously long in the tooth...

Wait until they figure out how to hack drones that are enroute to destroy "bad guy A" and make them turn around and hit the places where they originally came from!

The ability to derail a train if you hit the rear brakes while the engine is going full out. The system is designed to safely apply rear brakes at the same time as the forward brakes, ensuring the whole of the train experiences a braking effect.