A warrant is a right to search and they can serve that to the messaging provider. The phone is yours - properly written software should require your consent to change functionality unless you were served the warrant directly.

Since this command wouldn't be an update in the app store, it means that the backdoor would have to be a permanent part of the software. Not good for the other 99.99% of the time the software is in use.

If it's your device, you should still be in control of what it does. We've already lost that for the most part, but it doesn't change the argument.

You can automate a detailed prompt if you're just filling in the blanks on an API call. The two descriptions are still compatible with one another.

I think the story is proof that design doesn't matter. People will buy garbage if the marketing is good enough. You have to have a good product AND good marketing to beat a bad product. Just look at every major purchase you've done in the last 20 years - cars, appliances, TVs etc.

A "news" company owned by Robinhood. So basically manipulating people to invest more by providing not-quite-impartial investment advice news.

These companies have a lot of cash right now, but likely won't get many returns investing it in more new tech. Might as well vertically integrate and invest in something that's otherwise an expense anyway.

There's still a high likelihood of there being a trial in absentia for Putin. Can't say for sure whether OP was trying to draw a parallel but this Meta trial looks like whataboutism.

Microsoft certainly counts on incompetence being a benefit for secure boot keeping out Linux but it wasn't the purpose. Linux can benefit just as much from securely signing boot code. What's needed is getting OEMs on board with a simpler process for adding new keys. It's basically all a manual process for non-Microsoft keys. I don't think there's anyone to blame but Linux distros if there isn't even an organized push at this point.

XVideos admitted to having 160 million monthly active users in the EU. It seems a little suspect for such a huge disparity between major platforms. When you have anonymous users who are potentially sharing an IP address (whether in a household or carrier grade NAT), you can find a lot of ways to manipulate the raw logs to say what you need it to say.

The company still has to comply with the law over other protocols. It's only the end user lying that works.

The only way to make any system work is to always be aware and vigilant of its limitations. Democracy deserves scrutiny. Populism inherently disadvantages people who aren't in the majority. It's an uphill but necessary battle to convince people to vote for something that improves the country as a whole instead of for themselves specifically. That doesn't mean Democracy isn't the best thing we have right now.

Turns out customers can tolerate slightly worse quality.

Research like this needs to be published early and often. At least then some people will question what they see when it is abused.

Are they finally going to attempt quality control?

Samsung refrigerators are going on a decade of having the same failures due to a design defect. There's an entire Facebook group dedicated to helping people get full refunds on their failed refrigerators.

My Google Pixel 6 Pro constantly loses cellular and requires a reboot or Airplane Mode because they went with Samsung's 5G chip over Qualcomm's.

Their TVs look nice but have their own string of failures - not just with the backlights failing prematurely.

The one product that seems to be consistently very good is their solid state drives. And they overproduced those so much that they didn't make any money off of those.

There wasn't anything in the summary about it accomplishing work or making people productive. Their long hours are just to make a statement.