Compounding their error, this is not the first time AI quotes have been found to be bogus, and it's not the second time either. Absolutely pathetic.

Why is everyone repeating that $175 million figure? Having RTFA it is given there as £100m (oh, Slashdot still has not got around to implementing Unicode, 100m GBP). He was even giving technical support (via Telegram) after he'd been arrested.
He will have been 17 to 19 years old while he was selling the kits, so he will have been a minor for some of these offences.
Having seen where Eastcote is, I realised I lived in that area for a few years but it is well before he was born.

Eric Schmidt, Google's former CEO

Looks like he's no longer part of the problem.

People who send me too many Signal or WhatsApp (sorry, I need that one) messages get muted, either for a week or permanently.
Apps which alert me to things I don't care about, they are no longer permitted to send me notifications.
Spam cold callers who don't show their numbers? I no longer take calls from anonymous callers.

Older versions of Android used to cause a light to flash on notifications, my new phone no longer does that and that means hours of battery life just through that simple fix.

You can reconfigure that button the way it was.
Last Friday I was looking at rebooting my phone, pressing the normal button brought up this helpful message telling me how to use Google Gemini. A couple of minutes later I had the normal button back to doing the normal things when I pressed it, still a total PITA when it happened.

Trying to turn this story into some surveillance state bullshit is just absurd. Read the back of a concert ticket. For at least the past 30 years tickets have clearly informed me I might be photographed and recorded at a concert. They warn you when you're going to buy the fucking things.

Don't take your mistress to a concert, you're just as likely to be seen by a neighbor as you are to be caught on a kiss cam. I don't give a shit about the guy's morals but he's demonstrated he's far too stupid to run a company. I hope his wife cleans him out, she deserves every penny after having to deal with his dumb ass for so long.

Are these values "continuously measured" or is the logging event driven?
As to what the difference between simultaneous and two seconds, the "simultaneous" end of the scale is a clear indication that the switch locking mechanism was broken.

08:08:42 Engine 1 fuel switch flips to CUTOFF
08:08:43 Engine 2 fuel switch flips to CUTOFF

A question: What is the the granularity of those times given? I get the impression that it is one second, but there is quite a difference between
08:08:42.999 Engine 1 fuel switch flips to CUTOFF
08:08:43.000 Engine 2 fuel switch flips to CUTOFF
and
08:08:42.000 Engine 1 fuel switch flips to CUTOFF
08:08:43.999 Engine 2 fuel switch flips to CUTOFF
One of those is essentially "simultaneously" and the other pretty much two seconds apart.
Even tenths of a second would be better than what we have been given.

Even reading the second half of the summary was sufficient to understand that.
In my case I don't have a social media presence and am not prepared to shell out $500 * for a meal so it's "other people's lives".

* - $500 US, I've been to Jamaica and (years previously) Hong Kong. 500 of their dollars would be more acceptable.

No, it's more like "the government has to follow its own rules".

So tell me that's what's been happening over the past few months? Beautiful tariffs introduced and withdrawn on a whim, deportations by the US equivalent of the Gestapo (they tick most of the boxes) on a whim, DOGE destruction spearheaded by someone the anointed one is now considering deporting - that is just skimming the surface.

Slashdot subject-lines are a maximum of 50 characters long, if they exceed the limit they are truncated. "fiel" was a truncated "field".
Note that replies start with "Re:" so a further 3 characters were lopped off to compensate - "fiel" was reduced to "f".

Federalise the techs? (I think that's the expression)

You won't find lawyers prepared to disbar other ambulance chasers over such such a "triviality". I wonder if the other lawyer (or his/her paralegal) should have noticed, that would have killed the case then and there.

This is mostly about Donald and his tendency to unilaterally break conventions. Europeans are worried about backdoors mandated by His Highness on a whim, although that is also a problem with the British and the French.

I checked and it seems I had already disabled Gemini. I can't remember having done so but will presumably have done it as soon as I knew what it was - normal Luddite behaviour for me.