Well, how good is the ELO rating at predicting the result of a new e.g. soccer/football match? Especially compared to the old-school standings tables?

One important thing to point out that I just recently groked is that the whole Artemis program is NOT about "footprints and flags". We;ve done that already.
Some things are almost comically convoluted (like the Lunar Gateway station) , and just landing something on the Moon can be achived way easier than Artemis is planning.
But the point of Artemis is to push many, many new technologies that we haven't had before. One exmple is how often HLS (SpaceX's Starship) will have to be refueled in orbit just to be able to get to the Moon. As I said: there are easier ways to get to the Moon. But if we 'unlock' on-orbit refueling with a degree of reliability that we can launch something like 7 tankers, dock them with a spacehip in orbit, transfer dozens (hundreds?) of tons of cryogenic fuel there and return the tanker to earth and launch it again in a day or two, that would be an AWESOME tech to have available in our tech-tree.
Same with a new lunar rover - building an updated Apollo Lunar Rover would be almost trivial. But building a completely new clean-sheet design with many modern bells and whistles could give us way, way more information. It's not about driving some dudes around on the moon. It's about coming up with many new crazy tech advancements.

I think this is overkill. At the risk of triggering 640k jokes: 25Mbit should be enough for anybody, if seen as a minimum viable speed.
What does one REALLY need more than 25MBit for? A Netflix 1080p stream seems to be about 5MBit.
Sure, 4k seem to be around 15MBit - but do you really need 2 simultanous 4k streams as a MINIMUM? For the vast majority of people, 1080p is more than enough.
Apart from video streaming, the only thing really benefiting from higher speeds are faster bulk downloads (like huge games) - but, again, why would you require these to be that much faster as a MINIMUM, probably with quite increased infrastructre costs?

While I can't stand TikTok (and other endorphin micro-dosage services like Instagram and YouTube Shorts and Twitter), I think this is the wrong approach.
Where are the millions in funding for psychological resiliance training? Media literacy? Scientific investigation on how these services impact the brain (especially developing ones!)?
And the "our children's eyeballs are/could be indirectly being bombarded by the Comunist Party of China!!!" argument is silly. Russian (and chinese) propaganada has more than infiltrated 'western' social networks a long time ago, too.
It's all so hypocritical, too. Like the whole Huawai "national security 5G" topic. As far as I know, the only mayor tech giant that has had proven backdoors (at the minimum with 'ooopsie! we have a hardcoded admin password in out infrastructure critical devices!') is Cisco.

I'm quite ignorant on RF engineering, but I always wonder why important GPS receivers aren't simply RF shielded in a way so that only signals from the sky reach the antenna?
AFAIK, almost all GPS spoofing is done using ground-based equipment.
Genuine question: why would it not be sufficient to put the GPS receiver in a metal bowl with its opening towards the sky? Shouldn't this block all ground-based interference?

I obviously haven't tried doing this, but I'm willing to bet that most image generating AIs, and especially the unrestricted open source ones, can be coaxed/promted to generate stuff like this, unless specific additional protection algorithms are at work.
I mean...why would they not be able to create something like that?
If they 'know' how children look like, and they 'know' what genitals look like, they will be able to diffuse from that information, because they of course have no ethics or morals. Those, we add with many special filters and commands.
This smells like that company holding a grudge against the other company, or them just trying to enter the news-coverage.

Strange. I would've thought that detecting homoglyphs should be relatively easy? There really aren't THAT many legitimate use-cases to use vastly different Unicode codepoints from different parts of Unicode in the sme email? Or to use the lookalike Unicode characters mixed with regular ones?

I think it collapsed because SpaceX / Starlink will try to beam regular 4G signals from their satelites, which should work with any old cell phone without modificaion (it will appear as a regular weak, low priority cell).

Google has always allowed rather simple side-loading of 3rd party apps. Hell, Epic could even release an .apk of their own Android app store and charge money for their sales without Google getting a dime. I really like that about Android.
So why is Android/Google always dragged down to the same level as Apple in these lawsuits? Apple runs a completely locked-down ecosystem and explicitly does NOT allow any sideloading, let alone alternative app stores.

I don't understand why Google is treated similarily to Apple in these lawsuits. I think Google's long-standing policy of making it (very slightly) hard, but easily possible to sideload 3rd party apps and even 3rd party app stores is a very reasonable compromise. Nothing stops Epic from just releasing an .apk with detailed instructions on how to install them on Android. No commision to Google necessary.
Hell, they could even release an .apk for their store and charge commision to other companues if they wanted. I have never seen an Android device that doesn't officially support side-loading an .apk.
Even the older Chromebooks had a, IMHO, cool feature that you could open them, physically move a screw and unlock dev mode. Anyone could do it if they really wanted, but it was a decent barrier for 'n00bs' to not mess up the locked doen system, which is one of the selling points of Chromebooks.
Apple, on the other hand, doesn't allow any sideloading whatsoever and runs a completely sealed off walled garden.

I don't understand why Spotify is still so popular.
Youtube Premium gets a lot of hate, but I think it's a great and fair deal. You get Youtube without ads, Youtube Music (which has basically all the music, but you can also listen to Youtube videos as if they are music), and, especially with the family plan, it's a great deal.
I know there are workarounds to get all of this from Youtube in a more pirate-y way, but I think that if someone charges a fair price for something, there is a certain ethical obligation to not sail the high seas for that service.

I'm no tree-hugger 'no chemicals!' type. But I just refuse to believe that fooling our taste receptors into thinking sugar, i.e. an energy-boost with lots of calories, is incoming, and then just having some fake molecules arriving.
We evolved taste and love for sugar for a reason, and I'm willing to bet one beer that taste perception has secondary effectos on the body (i.e. enzyme or hormone production in anticipation of sugar).
The real problem is gluttony. We are eating too much sugar. So we should all just get a grip on that and treat sugar as what it is - a 'treat', like a candy, to be enjoyed once in a while.
That's why I love those new super small coke cans. Sure, they have a lot of sugar, but a fraction of a big glass or a normal can which one would normally serve and drink in one setting. They give you the coke experience one sometimes craves for, without hacing to drink more than you need to satisfy the craving.

Maybe I'm living in an opinion bubble, but is there any other IT vendor with as toxic a reputation as Oracle?
I understand that many companies are stuck in Oracle-land, but why would anyone want to get in bed with Oracle with new stuff like AI?

I'm more of a Debian guy, but I always thought that people used Red Hat derived downstream distros exactly because they are basically the same thing as their coorporate offerings, and the win-win was that those users would eventually maybe upgrade to 'real' Red Hat with support and all that?
So users would get a taste for the Red Hat universe, and Red Hat would get tons of beta-testers and potential future clients, at basically zero cost.
So why would they change this? If they really pass their changes on upstream, why would anyone use Red Hat derived distros? Why not go Debian/Ubuntu?

Time-based tarifs require smart meters. Are they going to install millions of these?