Correct, the administration we all allowed to be put in place is a symptom of the wider issues at hand. Hence more proof the public education system in the US is a failure overall. Voting for new officials won't undo the damage to voter age individuals that were pushed through the system.
Both sides are complacent, the lame duck Congresses, etc that has been pilling up over the past 30 years or more.

I purchased a zip 100 (parallel port) to double my Packard Bell 486 SX 100 mb hard drive. It was magical right up until I powered it on. Back then I didn't understand much about speed restrictions due to connection types, etc. I even tried running Photoshop and probably Macromedia Flash directly from it.

Kids today don't realize the struggle was real :D

Same argument could be said for why do only a few actors get all the big money parts. Why aren't the roles distributed more evenly. Because people sell and I for one wouldn't mind seeing another Val Kilmer movie as long as the cgi is good. He was a decent actor in his day and it's really no different than watching a sequel to most of the 90's movies. The money goes to his daughter.

Or give it to both of them. They could probably each send 10 missions for the price of one Boeing mission that will be too big to cancel and too bloated to meet deadlines and come in on budget.

It was all over the news. Esp the bathroom issues. Just not more important than war and pressing issues.

Maybe not guilty as hell but definitely negligent.

They also run the government in the US and Ukraine.

Imagine the possibilities. 1) Hmm, well Bob you bitched about the boss and coworkers a lot in your last three startups. Weâ(TM)re going to pass on hiring you. 2) looks like you code well but your former coworkers complained you were lazy. 3) we built a profile on you from former and current messaging and it's clear you are coasting at this point until retirement.. your fired. I guess the last one might be good for long term employees at any company

The issue is you need to add a cookie stating you opted out, otherwise it has no idea if you actually did. Now if there was a blanked browse option like robots.txt to state you opt-out of x,y,z or all cookies that would be smarter but less money for them.

Well bad news Trump wants to tap American auto makers to make military vehicles as well. They will need to cut something which is probably going to negatively impact their consumer business even more. Not sure what we are gearing up for but hey why not have a few million extra vehicles laying around.

No different from when ExxonMobil CEO sued to ban fracking in his backyard. We are all hypocrites. I don't want toxic chemicals spilt in my yard but ok with purchasing products that are made in 3rd world countries without regulations on exposure or storage to said chemicals. Ever see how 3rd world countries mine computer parts for precious metals? Data centers suck, they will raise the temp around and will be noisy has hell. I live near a pharmaceutical manufacture that keeps expanding and they are constantly making more noise (adding air handlers etc on their roofs where they can't hear it but direct line of sight to my neighborhood. Best to say no now and figure out better solutions than regret later. Plus when Trump learns we are behind in the AI race he will probably make yet another law (because he loves his smaller government BS while making more rules) and do the exact opposite by banning the ability to ban datacenter.

Should you have input on your own clone? I'm sure we all question ourselves from time to time, "I don't say that", "I don't act like that", "I don't sound like that", etc when in reality we do. The need to feel accepted and present a specific image might hinder the actual usefulness of said clone mimicking yourself.

The real question is if this model doesn't have guardrails to "do no harm" or attempt to crack password or was tuned to specifically allow what they block the general public from.

Another bone headed move that we are starting to see from our AI overlords. Build powerful models that they gate keep and possibly lend to governments first.

I bet this will play out quite nicely as foreign countries and anyone with enough money to build a similar model, even a watered down model to fine the same security holes and exploits. Us paying folks aren't smart enough to not do bad things with AI :D

Microsoft didn't pay the "sponsor poor Mozilla" ransom and now Mozilla is crying about it.

I'd feel worse about this if Mozilla wasn't such a dumpster fire. Even if Microsoft did nothing wrong it still doesn't help that for the past 10 years Mozilla was essentially propped up by Google cash so it would make Google not look like a monopoly. Pretty sure they had plenty of money and runway to be relevant. Maybe Microsoft should have paid the ransom to "sponsor" them and we wouldn't be seeing this article.