Microsoft has been making wildly optimistic claims with respect to Quantum for maybe five years now, nothing has panned out so far. Their breakthroughs have turned out not to be.

I use four email providers for my various addresses (plus gmail which is only for my smartphone) and some of those providers mandated StartTLS for a while, all now insist upon SSL/TLS nowadays but I can't remember when any of them changed their requirements.

That's pretty much my setup, except that it is 60 days and a different client (no, not Outlook or anything related) - I did it for substantially the same reasons.

Thinking of which, can the tractor be remotely disabled by the owner if the Russian army invades and steals the tractor?
That turned out to be necessary after Russia attacked Ukraine.

Possible oops (looking at a different historical map), not sure that part of Denmark was ever classified as Prussia although it was definitely German for over 40 years. SW Lithuania is also not 100% certain (that second map does not bother with Ostpreußen).

You're aware that finding Prussia on a map is rather difficult nowadays? It lost territory after WW1 and was broken up at the end of WW2, the area is now split up across Lithuania, Russia (the Kaliningrad enclave), Poland, Germany and Denmark.

That was pretty much what happened to "Kim Dotcom's" servers in New Zealand in 2012, except that he was offering an encrypted cloud and had no way of taking backups. Last I heard, the data was gone and a lot of companies / private users were really really screwed. If the servers were ever returned and the data recovered, it will have been years later.
Pirated movies, police raids and politics: A timeline of the Kim Dotcom saga seems fairly accurate, Wikipedia also covers this.

Whoosh?

Back around 2020 in was possible to reset Google Advertising IDs on every device restart, or even more frequently. My setting is not to have one at all, I don't know how effective that is but it does not appear to do any damage to normal operation.

Wyden said in a statement that it was time to "start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat."

More of an international security threat but . . . whatever. I think the Ukrainian army was using this type of data for targetting early on in the war, the invaders were docking into Ukrainian cell towers and their government obviously had access to that data.

Off Topic, and there was an operating framework channelling Iranian nuclear development - including monitoring of the sites to make sure they were not developing nukes on the sly - in place when the Orange One was first elected. It involved Iran and Obama, that was enough for the OO to withdraw from the agreement. The reason this conflict is still going on is that the OO does not want a peace agreement which is basically what was in place before he sabotaged it.

I can't see how those last four (and the Guatemala sinkhole) can have anything to do with this. The first four (the earthquakes) are only marginally less unlikely, unless the plates started shifting in a different direction.

But they want the cameras to always be rolling and reading plates.

"They" in this case is a company called BusPatrol and I think we can be safe in assuming they see this as a source of additional income. BusPatrol is trying to dress this up as protecting children but that is just window dressing.
Everyone is going to be totally shocked, as in shocked when this data turns out to be inadequately protected and turns up in North Korea, Greenland, Venezuela or whoever the next enemy of the month turns out to be. Nobody could have forseen that!

I don't know where you buy your clothes, but mine appear to have been made in S America, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Vietnam and I'm not sure where else. I've had made-in-US clothing before but the quality was pretty poor, probably because they were having to match prices with countries where wages were way lower. I suppose the same applied with clothing made in the UK, although it's been a long time since M+S dropped their "Buy British" policy.

A solution so obvious, one wonders why Canonical aren't adopting it. Even if they did that though, a week (and one which includes a Federal holiday) is totally insufficient.
I suppose it is better than what the current US Administration does, "we shuttered this service yesterday".