That keep using that word, but I do not think it means what they think it means. e.g. "Playstation exlcusive" would mean a title was exclusive to the Playstation. If it was ALSO available on PC, then it's NOT exclusive, now is it?

.. these are enjoyed mainly by the super-rich, who have the money & leisure to take care of themselves, eat well and live longer anyway.

I'm pretty sure, if I've paid for a game, the payment record (which goes through some pretty stringent bank checks) doesn't "vanish" after 30 days. Check that. Yep. You bought the game. Job done. Nothing to see here... SONY, stealing game purchases back from customers won't achieve anything, but lost sales & bad (well, worse) reputation.

Jonathan Nolan said when they made the first series of "Person Of Interest", it was science fiction, but by the last series, it was a documentary. Looks like he wasn't wrong. I wonder who plays Finch in the real world, as it's unlikely the real one would have the same idea of building ethics and morality into their A.I. "machine".

It's about the very real possibility of replacing live actors. They might look uncanny valley NOW, but then so did early CGI. 1992's Lawnmower Man looks absurd, but by 1999 The Matrix had CGI character animation that still holds up now. What will A.I. generated actors look like in seven years? Probably as good as real actors. THAT is why Hollywood is upset. Sets? Actors? Lighting? No longer needed. Generate it all. In a computer. From the script. Which could also be written by A.I. (judging by recent films, that part could be a step up).

About a decade ago there was a scam email you'd see now and then that went along the lines of "I've hacked your PC and recorded you doing dirty stuff and I've got passwords, videos and screenshots, so pay up! Here's my bitcoin account" with variations on that theme. Now it's governments attempting to pull the same scam. That's what it essentially boils down to.

The F150 lightning, as I understood it, was being discontinued because of poor sales. And that wasn't because of foreign rivals (nobody else wants or makes these large trucks, except for the US market), or domestic competitors - let's face it, the Cybertruck wasn't going to give any truck a run for it's money and while the Rivian R1 is good, Rivian are a start-up not equipped to take on Ford. The reason America buys foreign cars is quite simply because it has, for many decades, consumed far more than they could ever make, affordable workforce or not. Trump's protectionism is more like living in denial. Demand is simply too high for any domestic supply to meet. Even Ford's domestically made vehicles are more than 50% foreign parts. US Unions objecting to automation and at the same time demanding higher wages just makes it cheaper to produce elsewhere. It all boils down to if the American consumer is patriotic enough to want to pay extra for that "made in the USA" sticker. And past history suggests not.

Since I paid a premium for an OS that didn't pull this crap, can I expect the price to drop sharply? If not, my next phone/tablet won't be Apple. ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE? This is the hill your market share dies on. You have been warned.

No. I never use MS account login and I never will. Way too many red flags and security issues. The day there isn't a workaround, is the day I stop using Windows all together and that day seems to be fast approaching.

This cartoon from 2005 applies just as much today. https://www.reddit.com/r/Propa...

It will speed up error checking, code testing. Syntax correction and intelli-sense suggestions. But it can't create anything. It also cannot see its own mistakes. So programmers will have a really stupid smart assistant, but programmers will still be needed to make sure the AI code isn't a hallucination that is syntactically correct, but actually total gibberish - in my experience in the last year using Claude, it spits out some great looking but totally worthless code. And you need someone who knows their stuff to vet this kind of thing out. And create the new code AI cannot. So yes, programming will change (as it does every 3-5 years) but programmers won't be replaced any time soon.

"Protect the children" No. Not the job of the state. That's parental responsibility. And I say that as a parent of two adults who grew up with the internet. Anyone who suggests it IS the job of the state to gatekeep on children's (or anyone's) behalf almost certainly has an agenda and it won't be what they claim.

Whatever will we do for overpriced buggy unoptimised sloppy ports of (at least a year) old games? Oh no, anyway...

Since the reported failure rate of A.I. worker replacement currently runs at 96%, I'd say he's either wildly optimistic for the benefit of shareholders, or just plain drinking the A.I. chat kool aid. Either way, it is not going to happen.

A lower price, RELIABLE 8TB drive would be nice. I bought two Seagate Ironwolf drives for my father for his 2-bay NAS, which he uses for backup (very low use). One failed within three months and it took almost as long to get them to replace it. Ideally, some 8TB SSD drives suitable for NAS use that don't cost £600 a piece would be good too...