On the other hand: If you buy their subsidized solar panels you get them to partly pay for your panels. So: Chinese tax payers subsidizing American solar installations. Isn't that a big win for 'murica?

"that it will continue to be voluntary for the tech giants to search for child sexual abuse material"

All they want to do is continue allowing the "voluntary scanning" by the "tech giants" (meaning mostly Google and Microsoft) for CSAM. This arrangement expires in spring 2026, so they want to extend it. Once this is done, they will immediately resume their efforts to introduce Chat Control.

Note that "voluntary" here means it's voluntary for the "tech giants" not voluntary for the users of their products.

But maybe we should stop ruining the planet first, otherwise it won't matter much whether we have asteroid defense or not.

It's not the either or you describe. It's either we get rid of ICE cars as soon as possible or the future of humanity is in peril. But also either the car manufacturers get it, that ICE cars have no future, and start producing cheaper electric cars, or the Chinese car manufacturers will take over the market. Both "or" scenarios mean that the car industry in Germany is done for.

Apparently Google's customers haven't yet figured out that advertising on the web no longer works (if it ever did).

That's not true. It's more pronounced in the US, yes, but not unique to it. There was a time in the 1960s and 70s where maybe not whole cities but new developments were designed around the car in other countries too. And even nowadays this happens way too often.

> A basic calculator app is hemorrhaging more memory than most computers had a decade ago

32 Gigabytes is still more memory than most computers have nowadays (which would be around 16 GB). A decade ago it probably was more like 8 GB or even just 4 GB.

Two things happened:
1. Complexity increased to a level where you don't have enough eyes any more
2. Many of the remaining eyes are not competent to spot these bugs.

Apart from the price tag: You would need many more ports for connecting SSDs on the server than you would need for HDDs with a higher capacity each.

This has always been the case: Amateurs screw up, professionals have to fix it later. This happens not just with vibe programming (anybody remember "programs" written in MS Access or Excel?) or even just in software development. Amateurs build huts that then collapse or leak, or do electric wiring that then causes outages or worse.

The part that has changed is companies thinking they can get way (again) with amateurs doing the work that would require a professional, because the former are using AI now, and the use of AI makes their output look good on first glance.

My bank also has a website, but unfortunately I need an app from that bank as second factor to log in. And even worse: That app also doubles as a banking app, making a joke of that second factor on my smart phone.

There is not much to see for you during the flight. Others might actually like to see clouds and the ground below or even just the wings. When I was young(er) I used to be one of these people before age made me prefer aisle seats.

You mean that more Maori are leaving New Zealand than non-Maori?
I somehow doubt that.

... for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

(SCNR)

I have been using RSS feeds for many years and I'm not going to change that without a good reason. The enshittification of Twitter and similar services has proven me right.

When Netvibes shut down recently I even vibe coded my own feed reader in JavaScript for the browser (which works surprisingly well).