I personally rebooted a PDP 11/23 by entering the boot sequence in binary via the front panel switches on several occasions.

Yet another reason to be thankful I run GNU/Linux. This is doubly appalling: (a) how could they fail to detect this in pre-release tests? Perhaps they never have employees try out updates at home, or simulate typical usage? (b) automatic updates are a terrible idea. I decide when to update, and I wait if I'm concerned about a new feature or my current situation is one in which it would be especially problematic for something to break.

According to the article, the system that does this is a Visa product. Does this mean that only Visa cards are affected, not e.g. Mastercard?

My theory is that they're too embarrassed to let it be known that the drones are being taken down by condors. :)

I wonder whether this is a good idea, for several reasons. First, air traffic control and congestion is already a problem in many areas. Are we in a position to handle a significant increase in air traffic? Second, does this make sense in terms of use of energy and environmental impact? Third, if "flying cars" means vehicles more like cars than helicopters and airplanes, this presumably means vehicles that can also travel on roads. Is it possible to build vehicles that both provide adequate survivability of crashes on land and that are airworthy and energy-efficient? Maybe such issues can all be solved in the long run, but at least in the short run I suspect that this is a terrible idea.

I doubt that the engineers who choose AI chips are going to be influenced by the name. Artsy types might be, but they aren't the ones designing computers.

Prosecution will be slow and by the time they get a conviction the money may have been spent. Shaming people sounds like a good strategy for getting money back quickly.

In addition to the privacy issues, I don't see how this helps the investigation. It makes sense to track people viewing something like child porn, or perhaps videos advocating terrorism, but how does tracking the viewing of innocuous videos unrelated to the alleged crimes help? This would seem to be pointless or at best very inefficient. (If the answer is in the Forbes article, it is pay-walled.)

But why do these devices accept wireless input at all? If their job is logging, they just need to record data and have some means of off-loading it. That could be via a physical connection, but even if for some reason a wireless readout is required, there should be no need for it to accept wireless input.

There's embellishing and then there's outright lying.

This is informative. I'd mod it up if I could.

I don't know why this is modded down. This is an important fact.

Pilots do change seats during long flights and might need to adjust the seat, so disabling the switch when in flight would be a problem.

Administrative IT management has nothing to do with the Computer Science department, or for that matter, with any academic department. There is no relationship between the quality of education that students receive and the quality of IT management.