This is overblown, it's just the professional doomsayers worrying that their made up job is going to get harder. Scratchpad based reasoning have always been a hack. It's like the guy in Memento using postits trying to keep track of what the fuck he is doing, but unlike the robots at least he was aware that he was an amnesiac.

Let me guess, it's exactly the same as every GTA game since GTA3.

It would be better if the memory limits could be set by the users, not nanny Google though.

I just don't buy this with infrastructure like water or electricity. Most of the cost of creating a network is finding somewhere you can to put your cables. You already have to lay pipes to deliver the water, putting cables next to them is marginal extra cost.

Amazon went from selling newly printed books to buying books and throwing them into the shredder.

Requires a top end card that will only fit in a tower case. More portable than a datacenter, I guess.

Give it a couple days. Not to be outdone, Anthropic will be begging Alabama to investigate them too.

"Screen time" is a pointless metric, what matters is what's on the screen.

So Arnie the Arsonist is standing in the middle of a bone dry field, with a lit match in his hand, saying "betcha there's going to be a wildfire starting right here!". Who's the mark taking that bet?

So turning your TV into a part of a botnet is now "increasingly being linked to cybercrime". No shit.

None of these work because corporations will always find loopholes to waste your time until you give up. The only solution is to set up a consumer protection agency where people can file their complaints directly, and those complaints will be investigated by said agency. This motivates corporations to have good customer support, because they would rather handle issues internally.

What's left out is that the books need to be destroyed after scanning for legal reasons, to prevent publishers from claiming that they have made an unauthorized copy. IP reform can't come soon enough.

There are more subtle ways to make a compromised RNG. One that can only be cracked by you, not everybody on the planet.

This is the real reason Microsoft is funding the AI hype train. Nobody can buy a computer because the AI labs are hoarding all the hardware, so now you have to use MS's cloud.

Preventing the bypass of age restrictions will be a great new excuse for preventing you to do what you want with your own device.