I mean, sharing passport details with some dodgy porn website based overseas is the exact opposite of Online Safety, but you'll get scant sympathy from politicians

Surely they are the ones most likely to believe that it is safe to put your personal info on a porn site?

(Enquiring for a friend)

they want accurate answers rather than hallucinations and bs trained on reddit memes?

Absolutely not!
Most Google users are far more interested in Reddit memes than reality!

Is the average internet user really so different now?
Yes. Google has rotted their brains. And mine is next in line!

No. They are people who think "this is AI slop. I will go elsewhere for my information".

Mandate an open file format so their data is not held to ransom.

Hint: Open Document formats are your friend and MS formats are the work of the devil.

If economists actually knew anything at all, they would be billionaires, not academics and social media commentators, and certainly would not waste their time talking to politicians.

I am pretty sure that 25 litres of Avgas would go un-noticed, but 250 litres would probably cause the results we saw.

I don't think anyone is suggesting it was 100% Avgas. Just that a fuelling tanker had been accidentally part loaded with the wrong stuff, and no one admitted the error.

There are numerous other substances that might have contaminated they fuel and restricted flow - possibly metal objects where they shouldn't have been, oily rags, etc.

I think it will turn out to be fuel related in some way, and the contamination was shifted by roll-out - so likely denser than JetA and not dissolved, which Avgas would be.

We need to hear what the investigation finds. and not rely on speculation by passers-by.

... did not make thermodynamics redundant.

Some people need to know how to get from basic physics to AI - and that is what Universities are there for.

Others need to know to explain what they want - whether to AI or to their mates. That is what friends and families are for. Or, failing that Schools, and failing that, Google. (Arrgh).

Unfortunately, Samsung have decided that only developers can transfer files to/from their phone over USB! There are reasons why people prefer Huawei - and usability is one!

The persistent redesigning the UI just when you have finally figures out where the last change put the things you need daily is another.

If Google designed cars the brake pedal would go somewhere else every three months!

"When you try to shove AI down everyone's throats till they gag, not surprising if many start having negative associations with AI."

^^^^^^^ This! A thousand times, this!

You just press a button to activate it.

Maybe you do, but for the majority of us, that button is bolted down and hidden behind 2mm sheet steel.

voice commands. - NO, a thousand times NO!

I do not want screaming kids in the back seat operating my car controls by (to, and for) accident.

Anyone who's ever operated a motor vehicle could have, did, and has been saying this for the past decade-plus since these things have proliferated.

Zillions of us have been saying it, but since we buy second hand cars because we don't want this crap, the manufacturers are not listening to us.

They are surprised that new car sales are collapsing just because no-one wants the junk they are selling.

The sales people said "people value newness in a new car". That is probably even true of the gullible people that car salesmen get to talk to.

The design team should, like everyone else, be told "Never trust a car salesman".
Not even as far as you can throw him.

How many of those ports were open?

Most of my sites have a Honey Trap - if you access it you get the output of a random number generator formatted as an x86 core dump. Any human would close the connection immediately. Robots would quite likely think they have a database of trove and fill their H/Ds with garbage.

However, having read yesterday's news, I intend to make my next one format the data as a database of logins.

You are encouraged to steal that idea and do it for me!

someone put a rootkit on a DVD or BluRay disk

More plausible than a lot of the speculation.

I say the Joker did it!