Guinness should have all the vitamins anyone needs right?

Text prediction is not going to take over the world.
A long time ago, when we wanted to know something, we went to a library, and looked it up. A certain percentage of the books were crap, and weren't labeled, so sometimes we got good info, sometimes bad.
Then came search engines. Initially, a fancy card catalog of web pages, they eventually got better indexing, and a little information about the types of things you looked for before, to help guide you to the right web pages. Advertisements followed shortly based on what you were looking for. (yes, we're really sorry about that)
Phone autoprediciton looked at what you'd typed in, and tried to guess what you might want to type next, mostly cause typing on phones sucks.
Chat GPT is basically a phone auto predict that is marginally smarter, that is trying to guess what comes next, based on your prompt, and similar things it's seen in as much internet accessible info as it could get it's hands on.

The uses to which ANY of these ways of accessing information can be put to use is what needs to be thought of. I can search for how to make explosives. or any number of things that are not good for society in general. That doesn't make the search engine evil. It makes it indifferent. The use that I put that knowledge to is what is potentially evil.

Does it mean that spammers can use AI to generate better looking spam that tries to evade the blockers? Yes. Does it mean that the AI is evil? No. No more than MS-Word is evil. (Maybe a bad example...)

Does it mean we get deepfake videos of our political leaders doing idiotic stuff? Yes. Will that be detectable from the usual idiotic stuff they do? Maybe not.

Does it mean that we should complain about copyright violation? Yes. We should.

Should we be scared that chatgpt is going to take over the world? No. But the people that make optimal useage of it may find that task easier...

So, grant the muni drivers the ability to issue tickets to vehicles that are illegally blocking the road. Set the fine high enough(say 5,000$ per incident), and the problem will go away.

As it stands, there is no motivation to fix this.

The copyright issue I do find concerning. Where should the line in the sand be drawn?

An author writes words that are copyrighted. But they are allowed to use tools like Grammerly, or even spell check to write part of their document.

Someone doing digital art may be using brushes that randomly generate brushstrokes for them. Their art is still copyrightable.

An animated movie traditionally had one set of artists producing keyframes, and another set doing the inbetweening. These days, the inbetweening is typically automated. This is still copyrightable.

Meridia's hair in Brave was done with computer programs running a simulation of springs. Yet the output of that code is copyrightable.

Shader effects, including wave simulation etc are common in movies, TV and computer games. All copyrightable.

Where exactly should the line be drawn?

When we renew license plates in Canada, we already need to tell them what our mileage is. Not too much of a stretch for this years costs to be based on last years driving distance.

Economically. Hmmm. didn't see anything there about luggage, documents, clothing etc. needing to go. Also, administering enemas and emetics beforehand will also lower weight, thereby improving the bottom line. And if you drug them properly, can stack like cordwood and avoid things like seats, washrooms, the galley, and flight attendant's.

This is sounding more and more like Southwest's next business model.

And remember, you can apply Sturgeon's Law recursively as well on the other 10% as many times as you need.

Nortel (and the companies it evolved from) lasted 118 years. and then evaporated in a few short years. Don't fool yourself into thinking it couldn't happen elsewhere.

But who are the trunks out of Russia connecting to? Those are owned by networking companies in the neighboring countries. Turning those off would isolate things just fine, as well as having the benefit that any Russian hackers would need to be outside the country to do their work.

Nobody says you have to support OLD APIs forever. Sometimes the changes are good, other times they are not.
In this case, the owner of the code decided to change the purpose of his code from providing the previous functionality to doing something vastly unlike what it did before.

Were his old version still hosted on GitHub? Yes. Which means that any competent developer who built their stuff against a tagged version would not have any issues. Their code would continue to work.

This wasn't an attack against fortune 500 companies, it was an attack against sloppy ones.

What if he'd changed function B to do something differently, and instead of updating function A to use the new function B, just removed it because it was no longer supported? Would many people who had been using function A complain? Yes. Are they justified? No. Version 1.0 of function A and B are still there, and still work as before. Version 2.0 of function B does different stuff, and there is no version 2.0 of function A.

Nothing says a functioning API needs to live forever at the head. And hopefully this has helped to hammer that home with everyone who got smacked by this.

Nurse Joy seems to be able to fix anything, so why not :-)

The first two - maybe. Basketball would be hard. Lots of people live in their cars, and some of the Uber's I've seen look like they are doing just that. If you were to rig up a food truck properly, you could live there and flip those burgers.

Any additional features that are added to a box that hands out time are going to slow it down, and likely make it less accurate.
It's a clock. It needs to hand out a number when asked.

Sure, you could use additional sources for it to derive the time, but then you fall into the "A man with two watches is never sure what time it is" problem.

And Facebook as the time standard for the world? Seriously? Who would pick that on purpose?

Rice grows pretty much in a muddy swamp. What does drought resistance even mean for rice?

And potatoes are mostly water in the first place. Better root systems means it can search deeper for that water, and won't die if the top layers dry out, but it still needs the same amount of water to form the potatoes.

Having the plants survive brief drought periods is good, but we're looking at no water, instead of low levels of it for a time.

They are getting a masters, not an undergrad. Odds are, they've been legal for at least a couple years.