If it was one-and-done, the tech companies would, indeed, look at as a cost of doing business and move on. But there are potentially a huge number of these lawsuits pending, and a few million here, and a few million there, and soon it is real money.

A number of the extremely rich have reportedly already moved their official residence out of CA just in case this law passes (Brin, Page, and Zuckerberg, for example).

While it is fashionable to pick on Microsoft (and they do deserve some shame), the Linux Kernel had many failures to fix the various copy-fail/dirty-fail variant vulnerabilities (a new fix once a day for a period of time) just a couple of weeks ago. No OS is immune from fixes that are not complete.

Unfortunately yes, as some security update fixes turn out to not actually fix the entire set of issues that the vulnerability took advantage of (it might have fixed one avenue, but not all alternative avenues).

There is a group of people who believe their self worth is based upon owning the newest greatest shiny thing every year. Sales to that group are mostly price insensitive, and they will pay whatever it costs.

No, you don't always need to buy a car, or at least you don't in locations where you can walk to where you need to get, or which has viable public transit, or various taxi services.

There is a limited number of TLAs, and FLAs. And any TLA/FLA(as in four)/FLA(F as in Five) abbreviations will eventually get overloaded and reused. I don't care would ANSSI has abbreviated itself to, what I care about is what their authorities are.

A number of larger organizations have conjectured based on current progress that Q-Day (when quantum computers will be sufficiently capable of breaking classic encryption) may be as close as 2029. Due to the "harvest now, decrypt later" issue, stopping certification of new products that do not have PQC capability a few years earlier (given the time frames for acquisition, testing, and deployments) makes some sense. It is possible that the engineering challenge of building a sufficiently capable quantum computer will not be overcome, but it is just an engineering challenge, and the engineering tends to only get better over time.

While probably true, the enterprise customers using PeopleSoft ERP solutions are all paying for maintenance services (there really is no other option for such ERP solutions).

I doubt Apple engineers try booting Asahi linux as part of their testing. In the past Apple has also managed to break Asahi boot and Apple engineers have adjusted the bootloader once the issue was identified. That seems like the most likely scenario (this is a beta release, after all).

It is not uncommon that the patch Tuesday updates results in some problems in some environments and on some machines, even those size of those updates seem smaller.

Microsoft did not share the specific tools they are using (and no single tool is great at everything), but it seems likely Anthropic's Mythos was among the tools used at least by some of the teams for some of the code base. Microsoft already offers the Mythos model on their Azure platform to Project Glasswing member organizations.

And also without a display (but can show sms texts, to address the viewing part of the directive)? In other words, a dumb (flip) phone. Perhaps Motorola can re-introduce the zombie apocalypse phone (the MotoFone F3).

Not really news. Apple announced a year ago that MacOS 26 would be the last to support Intel Macs. They simply actually delivered on their promise.

Well, it is (sort of) Orange-y. Who is to say one cannot kill two Trump's with one bridge metaphor?