In this case, however, the border crossing officers hadn't been looking for evidence of criminal activity.

They had been looking for names and contact information of anti-government protesters.

The motive for the search was for conducting unconstitutional activities. By giving them a duress password, the owner of the phone was protecting people from being victim of potential crimes.

I wish I could afford a shovel. I have a hole to dig.

That robot reminds me of a RealDoll.

Perhaps they were already building sexbots and are diversifying into new markets.

OpenAI already logs everything you do with their service, and this keypad can only be used with OpenAI.

We all know that a mouse moving in a perfectly straight line means a machine is controlling it [...]

Unless your mouse has angle snapping or is a wireless mouse and there is movement lag because of interference.

You should do it the other way around.

Running Windows directly on hardware is not viable in 2026. You should only run it in a virtual machine under Linux.
Then you would be able to roll back from buggy Windows updates and malware outbreaks.

How about a drone with a powerful laser?

Don't forget to write "Seabass" on the side of it.

In Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash -- which introduced the word Metaverse from which Meta got its name -- the people wearing connected, cameras, sensors and AR-goggles on their heads were the ones who got paid for spying on people left and right.

So, does Sony think that SSDs will be affordable again in 2028?

Read-only optical disc media still haven't been hit by an AI-boom induced price hike RAM and NAND Flash has, AFAIK.

This. And configure the containers so that it takes regular snapshots, so that you either always start from the same snapshot, or are able to roll back after a crippling Window update or malware outbreak.

I would say that recent developments have made Godwin's Law obsolete.

I can recommend also Andrew Hulshult's cover album IDKFA.

Climate change allows mosquitoes that carry diseases to survive further north than they did before.
This is not doing anything against the root cause, only mitigating a side-effect.

Then they wouldn't be cooperating on marketing with Microsoft.

If you have a NVidia GPU that is no older than five years then it already contains a number of RISC-V microcontrollers doing various tasks, and so will this chip.

Her contribution to Star Wars must not be underestimated.
George Lucas' original edit of the first film was a mess. She and the other editors moved things around and fixed the pacing.
Do watch: How Star Wars was saved in the edit.

She did edit Empire Strikes Back, even if she did not get a credit. (Star Wars.com did not forget it though), and then The Return of the Jedi.
She was also there behind George Lucas all the way during the production of all three movies in the original trilogy.

Unfortunately, Marcia and George had a messy divorce in 1983, and she had no part in later Star Wars productions (which explains a lot of the prequels...).
However, George Lucas famously sold Pixar to Steve Jobs to pay for the divorce ... and that company then became legendary.