That was my guess. Sometimes getting 9 people who are too slow to get out of jury duty can work for you, sometimes it doesn't.

The article makes mention that it's "too cumbersome" to use another app store. I guess those are the same people who go to their car dealer to get new wiper blades, new battery, or tires installed. Go somewhere else and you might have to look up the part your car needs.

How can Google's store be found to be a monopoly, with multiple app stores out there that are default for devices made by those companies and optional for Google's devices? How many alternate app stores are there for iPhones?

I have multiple relatives who sent their DNA to these guys. Because of what you can infer from relatives DNA my privacy was already compromised just from their normal practices. Now with the data breach, my privacy is additionally compromised.

I never agreed to any arbitration with them. So I can still sue?

I have quite a few foolish relatives who have gladly sent DNA and family information to these guys and ancestry. So yes, I'm affected too. So the 6 million and climbing number of people hacked is really a drop in the bucket.

Usually hacking of a relative's financial information doesn't affect you, but DNA can. By that measure, this is potentially the data breach with the greatest impact of all time.

Lots of things have been codified in international law to make war less brutal. Full metal jacket bullets, mustard gas. The rules had to do with being less brutal to people. If the definition of "people" changes then all the old rules go out the window.

"You are the Creator."
"You're wrong! Jackson Roykirk, your creator, is dead! You have mistaken me for him, you are in error!
You did not discover your mistake, you have made two errors.
You are flawed and imperfect. And you have not corrected by sterilization, you have made three errors!"

I don't use Plex, so pure speculation: Do the friends you have shared access with have the ability to see what videos are on the server and watch history? If so, then these emails might be a blessing. People may not have known how much was already being shared.

I wouldn't equate possible changes in Oppenheimer to the Ministry of Truth in 1984, but books, movies, and music do get changed. (Han shot first). If you rely on streaming for all your media then you leave it to someone else to not only make the media available, but to give someone else the ability or responsibility for fidelity.

Some combination of libraries and personal collections are needed to not only to insure the availability in the future, but to insure they are unchanged in the future.

It's not a stretch to imagine the same people who want to ban or alter books being in the position of gatekeepers for some sort of streaming or online archive. You can fight the system to keep them from getting into mischief, but you will likely be more successful in keeping your own archives.

I don't have kids so no direct experience with handing over an internet-connected device for them to do who knows what. But it was for a young child I would not have set it up for anything to be "hacked" that mattered to begin with. Besides the various permissions various devices ask for, I only use accounts that are appropriate for the device. The only network resources they have access to in the home are read-only for that account.
For all the different TV and entertainment devices I have a -TV account I use. The only thing it is used for is entertainment options. It's not the same email address I use for email, banking, utilities, etc. My TV or set-top box will not be used to change my electricity rate plan.
On the off chance I need to share files or information, I will email or otherwise send data to these limited accounts. They have no ability to purchase new apps at all. They might be on some sort of family group where a purchased app can be used across the family. if a new thing needs to be paid for.
This is for devices that in theory have no ability to wander the web or load things on their own. I sure as hell would have the same or similar setup for a device some kid poking might be poking around with. If I gave a kid a device to use, the worse thing that might be possible to happen is that the kid loses all the magic gumdrops they earned in some game.

It's worse in the Guardian article. The "photograph" is shown with credits. Smarter sites show a larger image and correctly identify it as an "artistic depiction"

There are too many people who will read it was observed by the JWST and think that's what was observed.

https://www.wbur.org/npr/12131...

I've connected my phone to the car's systems before. The process explicitly asked permission to download my contacts and text messages. If I was in a rental and just wanted to be able to listen to an audiobook or take an incoming call, I connected it without giving such permission. And I still wiped the system when turning the car back in. This sounds like people who just click OK to everything, don't bother to learn how things work, and if surprised later, look to make a buck.

Awesome! Until now, being an Uber driver and working from home were mutually exclusive. This means it's possible to sign up to be a "driver" and not leave your couch.

Or only 5 months with no nukes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

If the AI reads the ads, does that count as paying to read the page?

If we see blocks of text output of AI bots interspersed with mentions of car warranties and viagra, then it probably read the ads.