banks trying to make their policies seem like law to customers is nothing new

boot into linux , download the update , do something cool , forget about rebooting into windows and applying the update, keep doing cool things, evolve , etc....

use the arp young grasshopper

No way man , those pigeons are working for the man

This really doesn't seem like a QA problem to me (a professional QA) , it seems more like a pushy boss problem.

If it were a QA failure you could expect other related defects as they tend to cluster , this is because very few functions are totally isolated so if you have defect in a function its likely to effect others. In this instance i would expect lots of charge failures or rapidly depleting batteries in devices that had less serious variants of this defect.

Where you have a single component over specced and rushed to market thats something a QA is going to flag , but they can't fix it , the person receiving that flag was told about this and decided to sign it off as acceptable risk and lots of people got burnt, some more literally that others.

QA is only as good as the management lets it be

Whilst landfill is a horrible waste for these smartphones letting them explode is going to be far more damaging to the environment.

Samsung should be put under pressure to find a way to reuse the other parts and dispose of the batteries another way.

The issue seemed to be more that the batteries where not configured right than inherently dangerous so its possible a reconfiguration could be done with them.

All these rats eat stuff and poo it in the burrows. That will not happen anymore if you kill the rats. Hope they factored in the cost of moving all that stuff. I'll bet it will get more disgusting than the rats fairly soon.

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Lauri is a highly ethically motivated hacker and a gentleman who has been stitched up by his government.
I've spoken with him and I know your assessment is only based on the contents of your ass , which also seems to be your mouth.

The US does not provide leadership to the world, it provides bullying and aggression that make the world less safe.

Leadership should be about inspiration and bringing people together mutually, this is not the middle ages we are supposed to be enlightened by now.

Also disinformation is not the right term either given that mostly what happens is that people find out stuff that powerful people want to hide and that actually provides valuable perspective on how broken US politics is.

To be fair there were phoneboxes everywhere in the uk before mobiles but now they are scarce and rarely working.

Suggesting that 2fa would have helped here is not helpful. This happened because an Iranian phone company was hacked, using 2fa via SMS is not going to achieve anything when the phone conpany is not trustable.

Logo on the bbc was my first introduction to programming and I've made a career of it ever since. Thankyou great pioneer and sharer of wisdom.

The real test here is how it copes with combatants trained using different techniques and equipment. Ai is only as good as its sensors ability to recognise what is happening. The test is too easy when your combatant is the guy who wrote the training manual you based the software on. I'm not saying he's a bad choice but there is a sample size of 1 here which should always ring alarm bells.
No I didn't read the article, its on the daily mail website so not worth it

With the UK in the thrall of EU referendum I can't help think this would be a non story at any other time.

Its alarming how keen the media is to stoke racist devisions , please treat them with the suspicion they are trying to make you feel about other races instead of accepting it as valid.

Racists are second rate citizens, they are selfish and unhelpful. The easiest way to solve your problem is stop being a racist and only you can do it for yourself.