"Aliens are real" is a completely different statement than "we have contact with aliens".

The first is a deduction. Given the size of the universe, it is incredibly unlikely that we are the only life in the universe.

Only the 2nd would be a bomb shell. And he didn't say that.

It doesn't really matter if it's paid for by the state, corporate tax, or income tax, in the ed it all amounts to the same thing. What matters is that it's a collective arrangement, not something any individual company is on the hook for. That is what sets it apart from most of the rest of the EU.

In the Netherlands, there's a rule that an injured employee will receive 70% of their wages for up to 2 years. But it's payable by their employer - whether the employee got hurt at work, or on the ski slope or whatever. Why is that bad? Large corporations simply self-insure against this risk: the numbers even out close to the average in larger groups. But if you only have 5 employees, you can absolutely not afford to run the risk of losing an employee for 2 years while still having to pay him, so you have to take out very expensive party insurance against that. Labour laws that offer good unemployment benefits and retraining on the employer's dime suffer from similar problems, that's what this article is about. Better to carry these risks collectively.

I wonder if there's a big industrial economy that's motivated to beef up its domestic chip making capability that would be interested in capturing the 20ish nm flash, psram, DDR4 etc market?

reducing efficiency and lowering productivity.

So cynical. In a modern economy such things increase productivity. And by "modern economy" I mean at least everything post invention of agriculture.

Every time we reduce the need for people to grow food, pound nails, dig ditches, or whatever, we invent a bunch of new jobs like professional priest, receptionist, lawyer, HR specialist, etc. These jobs are inevitably higher paying than the ones they replace, and thus increase overall productivity.

Silly optimists have always predicted the automation would let people work less but fortunately we've always realized that's a terrible idea.

Truth in advertisement would go such a long way to solve so many different problems the modern world has.

Are your garbage bins not precisely in the location required by your home owners' association? Lawn a trifle too long, or maybe cut with an unapproved pattern?

Do you live in a "border" city, i.e. one that is within 100 miles of a coast, land border or international airport? Have you been engaging in antisocial behaviour such as gathering in groups and/or protesting outside of designated free speech zones?

Have you carried identifiable literature or membership insignia from a non-state sanctioned organization, or entered or exited a known or suspected meeting place of such an organization or residence of known or suspected members of such an organization?

Let's assume that they are right, because why wouldn't they? It does make sense that muscles grown in a lab are not identical to muscles constantly used by the animal. That there's more to biology than cell division. We already know that what the animal eats has an effect on the taste of its meat. Of course there's a difference if it never ate anything and isn't actually an animal.

And then there's the idiots who tried to turn us all into vegetarians by labelling their non-meat products as "steaks" or "burgers" or whatever. You know, instead of using proper names that are not intentionally confusing. Many of us tried - intentionally or otherwise - these "meat replacement" products and found out that they taste nothing like the real thing and at least half of them are simply disgusting. Of course we're now more careful with meat alternatives.

And the problem with venture capital is that it'll go elsewhere if you are just moderately successul, because that doesn't cut it. They want their investments to be the next Google or Facebook.

Tell that to Elon.

So thanks to AI, Spotify has essentially eliminated itself as a platform for small, niche artists.

It does pretty well writing documentation.

Lots of people are chasing the no-code dream but something that helps out with the stuff everybody hates doing would be super useful. The world uses a LOT of documentation too, far beyond just software.

Our nation requires that our partners be willing to help our warfighters win in any fight.

Makes you wonder what they refused to do that made Pete so mad.

Sure. But I don't have to make it any easier for Zuck, right?

Why are you attributing this story to The Register, when all your links are to somewhere else?

Telcos that were also looking to push AI-enabled customer premises equipment -- requiring even more compute and memory content -- face additional headwinds.

Maybe you should run the summary through an LLM and ask for a summary?

Also, why are you so upset? General bad day? Work for a telco?

Proton and Standard Notes seem to have gone in together to write their editors.

It's not particularly hard to write a spreadsheet or word processor. It's not even hard to write one that runs in a web browser. Supporting Microsoft's document formats is hard, but that seems like an argument in favour of the EU developing their own standard, not against.