This is Europe, so selling that data can get you in deep economic trouble. Same if a company buys it for use in Europe.... Chinese intelligence are surely siphoning the data, though, but I doubt they're selling it.

This is not being pushed by social media. On the contrary, these are pushed in order to enforce bans of social media to children, which most Europeans want.

You don't know for sure that an attacker doesn't know of or use this problem - or keeps it at hand in case an opportunity arises. A security bug doesn't enter a plane of non-existence just because you don't know that it is actively exploited - yet. It's a problem waiting to happen. These tools make some of them easier to find, for both good and bad actors. Ignoring it won't help.

Either that, or if they are too slow in increasing capacity, China might just build a bit and eventually take over the market. If RAM manufacturers are thinking of "if we do nothing, we don't risk money building another factory and we earn money hand over fist as it currently is" they might be in for a rough awakening.

If they are able to remove ads like this, shouldn't they remove fake celebrity endorsement ads instead? Just removing all ads for crypto and non-mainstream investments should go a long way to fix that...

Here in Norway, you can not buy a sim card without some sort of ID, physical or electronic (we've got bank certified online IDs we can use for sig documents, online purchases with credit card etc). However, if the carrier was caught selling your PII they'd be in massive trouble. Fines could be up to 10% of gross revenue, as per the GDPR.

One man's jailbreak is another man's severe security bug. If an actor with resources tries to break the phone- e.g. if ICE is used against "enemies of the state" (which Trump has branded Democrats already) - having all of those holes patched is good. This makes it harder for Cellebrite, three letter US agencies etc to get access to your data. It also makes it harder to resell stolen phones, so they're less attractive targets for criminals.

That doesn't make sense, unless there is an overlap in skills. E.g. why should laying off support staff mean that you can't hire AI experts from the rest of the world, to give one example? As long as there are real checks for salary levels- you're not doing this to save money - why should this be a problem at all?

In addition to games and gaming consoles and services linked to these, Sony also sells headphones, microphones, cameras and accessories in the electronics space. E.g. they sell the arguably best wireless headset, the Sony wh-1000xm6. As you can see from the name, they suck at marketing. They also provide a lot of OEM audio equipment for cars - they're partnered with Ford, Volkswagen, and Toyota. They produce a lot of imaging sensors, that are used in many cameras and cell phones. They also have a massive movie and music division.

OpenAI's US Ad Pilot Exceeds $100 Million In Annualized Revenue In Six Weeks means the revenue in 6 weeks was about $10 million.

That's a rounding error - was it worth destroying the product image over? I almost wrote "and their reputation", but the deal with drunk Fox news-host currently roleplaying as a secretary of a department that doesn't exist that had dipped into gutter already.

Ogg is used by large parts of the industry: It is used by the most popular streaming service, Spotify. Not only is the Spotify client widely used on PCs, TVs, and all kinds of streaming boxes etc - a lot of audio equipment also has Spotify connect. All of these devices support Ogg.

As for why not everyone is using it - mp3 had the inertia, and AAC is better than Ogg for the same bandwidth. For mobile devices, that matters. These days, free lossless codecs (FLAC mostly, some ALAC) are taking the spotlight - alongside proprietary spatial audio format, like Dolby Atmos.

Indeed. Providing anonymous emails to avoid giving your real information to spammers, tracking companies, and other commercial entities is one thing - but providing it so your authorities don't get it is a completely different ballgame. If you want rule of law back in the US, you need to get "MAGA" out of power completely and let the GOP rebuild as a conservative party while out of power for a long time at all levels. Maybe you even need a completely different party to emerge.

I disagree with Apple really should have just been honest with its pro users and said "We no longer care about you,"'.They've abandoned a very specific and shrinking segment of pro users, but the vast majority of pro users are covered by today's lineup with Mac Studio at the top. There just aren't that many things which need a traditional tower anymore. And I'd argue that almost no-one needed the Mac Pro - as you excellently explain.

One minor peeve - what is "pro" today? Most office workers can do their work just fine with the some of the cheapest equipment you get - isn't that "professional" enough? Even most developers can do most of their work on laptops these days - and if they need more horsepower, that's likely to be on the server side anyway. Don't they count? And what about project managers, lawyers, and CEOs - aren't they "pro" either?

They were targeted as a workstation, not a "Mac in a PC-like chassis for home". So they had Intel Xeon CPUs, AMDs workstation line of GPUs, ECC memory etc.When looking at similar offerings, they weren't priced that bad.

Even more than the PCI-lanes, there wasn't hardware to justify it. With Apple Silicon, the GPU is built in and you can't fill the case with cards from NVidia to make it a CUDA-monster or handle graphics beyond the (impressive) abilities of the combined CPU/GPU.

If adding 3rd party GPUs was possible, the use case for actually buying a tower might have led to a huge increase in sales - relative to its existing sales level, of course.