.Probably because France is not really involved (yet) in this war. This might be the best way to prevent it from happening during a real war.

No, to prevent grid oscillations you actually need synchronous generators (thermal power plants for instance) to produce and absorb reactive power. There are other less convenient ways to do this, but in any case thermal power plants are part of the solution rather than part of the problem.

Who says I didn't have the money to do so? I didn't go into that at all. But since you're curious I'll explain: Yes I had the money to buy one outright, but an interest-free loan was available and I took advantage of it. Had I purchased it outright, then had an expense outside of that like a car-repair, THAT would have had to come out of my interest-charging credit card and ... while I didn't actually check on it, I'm pretty sure Apple/Goldman would not have given me a similar payment plan for the car repair.

I went to an Apple Store purchase an iPad with an Apple Card last year, I wanted to take advantage of paying it off within a year no interest. At the moment of checkout Goldman declined me and wouldn't tell me why. After two days and several scattered phone calls they claimed that it was unusual activity on my account. I pointed out to them that I had successfully purchased and paid off 3 other items on the same payment plan, and that their assertion that my activity was unusual was absurd.

I'll spare you the blow by blow because I know it's boring, but ultimately Goldman Sachs held to their position that they did the right thing, and Apple had to come to the rescue. They talked to each other a bit and I finally got my device on the payment plan I wanted.

I'm greatly looking forward to Goldman getting out of the picture. They really did try to spin it to me like the inconvenience they caused me was somehow something I should be happy about. "This happens because we're diligent about catching fraud!" "But, you didn't."

Well you know, "crunch" is something in the videogame development industry, and is not limited to Ubisoft... It even has a wikipedia entry.
A topic more specific to Ubisoft is the continuous rise of Tencent as a shareholder.

Written language is more precise than spoken language in many languages, and there is actually a reason for that. You cannot ask for clarifications or get additional information to resolve ambiguities on a sheet of paper...

I botched up the link, here is the correct one: EAD

Yes, it's quite surprising. What we know from the EAD :
- The risk is related to solar storms (so more accurately atmospheric neutrons).
- Most of the airplanes will undergo a software rollback to a previous version.
- Some of the airplanes will need a hardware retrofit... but this is just because the software upload cannot be performed as easily on the affected equipment.

So where does this lead us to ? An error in the EDAC/ECC code protecting the memory from neutrons-induced bit flips ? From a hardware perspective it is the most likely explanation, but it would be suprising to have such a bug introduced in a software update since this would be quite a low-level function which would be unlikely to be updated. A bug in the error handling code when such an error happens ? This could be more likely, since error handling structures can be shared between several components. Especially if the error in question is very rare (e.g. double error in the same word) and is not correctly tested during regression testing.

Nevertheless it is not just not another random US list, it is the entity list, which has very serious implications for export control.

The second link is more interesting (and shows how can users be manipulated in doing that):

In an exemplar campaign from June 2025, when the victim searches for a macOS-related issue — for example, “macos flush resolver cache” — they receive a promoted malvertising website in their search results (Figure 1). Users located in multiple countries — including the U.S., UK, Japan, China, Colombia, Canada, Mexico, Italy, and others — received these advertisements; no victims were located in Russia.
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The fake help pages provide victims with false instructions for how to fix their problem (Figure 3).

Here it seems that the main problem is that sponsored links from scam actors can appear as first results in a Google search. From then unfortunately... people have already been trained to copy/paste arcane commands in terminal windows to solve problems. This one even encrypts the curl command in a base64 string to look more innocuous.

Well, the thing also masquerades itself as a tutorial to solve problems that people may have, as a sponsored Google result. And solving IT problems often involves typing arcade commands in a terminal window.

Cross-talk in infrared detectors is a known physical phenomenon, is usually well characterized (I have trouble to believe it has not been comprehensively characterized in such a high profile mission), and the post processing to correct this is well known - basically a gaussian deconvolution.
They must have run into very strange and unexpected artefacts to have to rely on machine learning to correct this...

The article is very interesting, as it unveils how these criminal rings are working...
However the article does not make it clear at all that the arrestations were actually the result of the security researcher actions.

I am really surprised that you think that reading at work and reading a book for leisure is the same thing. For me, this is really different. It would be akin to comparing using a computer to code and using a computer to browse slashdot.

Humans living for millions of years ? You might have to revise that number.