This is a service that was acquired by Google. So in this case even people that were actively avoiding Google products got screwed.

The emergence of LLMs is another factor that makes the TIOBE index irrelevant. Two years ago, people looking for programming language help would ask a question in Stack Overflow, which would then get indexed by search engines. Today, they'd just ask ChatGPT, and the question will be invisible to search engines and TIOBE. In 2025 a higher TIOBE rank probably means AIs suck at that language and people are resorting to looking for answers the old way.

From the preliminary report

"As per the information from Air India, the suggested inspections were not carried out as the SAIB was advisory and not mandatory. The scrutiny of maintenance records revealed that the throttle control module was replaced on VT-ANB in 2019 and 2023. However, the reason for the replacement was not linked to the fuel control switch. There has been no defect reported pertaining to the fuel control switch since 2023 on VT-ANB."

So the inspection recommended by the 2018 advisory you mentioned was not carried out. It is, however, not relevant in this case since the whole module (which includes the fuel control switches) was replaced for other reasons. So if the switches had been, inded, defective in 2018, that was corrected by the whole module being replaced.

I looked at the linked PDF of the legal complaint. It contains a couple of exhibits illustrating the allegedly plagiarized images. They show a man standing in front of an orange-hued urban landscape, not dissimilar from those that occur in reality during wildfire episodes

Claiming copyright infringement on generic images of orange skies would be akin to the producer of the movie "The Beach" suing anyone who prints images of a beach resort with white sands and turquoise waters.

When I search using Google an "AI Overview" panel appears at the top with a summary of the search results, including liks to the original sources from which the AI got its data. Most of the time it even produces useful results. Probably it's a feature I was offered to opt-in at some point. I don't even remember when, but it has been there for months. Perhaps what OpenAI will offer is better. We'll see. However, it's hard to see how this move is "opening a new front". It's more like they are playing catch-up.

Would you like to get killed by Russian debris or by Boeing hubris? Pick one!

You base your estimation in one tax payment per cow. However, the article says the tax is annual. So if you keep the cow for another year, you have to pay again. Another quick google search shows that "American beef comes mostly from steers and heifers slaughtered between 18 and 24 months old.". If that's also true for Denmark, then the actual increase in costs would be between 6% and 8%

"The new bill would require companies training new AI models to test their tools for 'unsafe' behavior."

So I guess they want to re-invent GOODY-2?

It's even spelled out in the summary: "For now, it looks like the favored answer to the data mystery is to blame Asus for misreporting it". The LG washing machine seems not to be at fault. Deciding to go with that misleading title is absolutely disgraceful.

Maybe we'd get lucky and twitter or whatever is called now is next

Because co2 is a byproduct of human metabolism. So the carbon captured by growing the seaweed will be released immedialy if you eat it. In order to capture carbon, the seaweed needs to be deliberately sunk and kept in deep waters. My understanding is that even under these conditions it will eventually decompose and release the co2, but only after hundreds of years. So essentially we would be just buying time.

But a fair comparison would be to enter that question in bard.google.com, which is Google's equivalent to ChatGPT, not in Google search.

When doing do, Bard's answer to "Can 2 + 2 = 10?" is

"2+2=4 in base 10, the most common number system. However, in base 4, 2+2=10. This is because in base 4, there are only four digits: 0, 1, 2, and 3. Therefore, 10 in base 4 is equal to 4 in base 10."

And then it goes on a long explanation on how to convert between base 4 and base 10

That's what a normal person would do. Just use AI as another tool. Except in this case that's not what the guy wanted. The guy didn't care about the inventions themselves. All he cared about was that his AI was officially rubber-stamped as "first inventor AI ever". So it's all a publicity stunt to promote his company.

Probably more exciting than the original show.

In San Francisco bureaucracy moves at a glacial pace. Having your project stalled for years while waiting for permits isn't unheard of. I once moved to an apartment in San Francisco, located in a food desert. The good news was that an H-Mart (Korean supermarket chain) was supposed to open a nearby store soon. I waited for that store for three years. Construction never started because they were stuck waiting for permits. By the time the store opened years later I had already moved to a different apartment. You have all the right to be skeptic about NFT anf crypto, but I can tell you that's not the main factor explaining why this project is delayed or never happening.