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.

That's pretty much what a widget is.

Forget losing jobs, these things will make workers lose limbs. Traditional robot arms are fixed in place and surrounded by a cage, and accidents still happen. Humanoid robots just move all around the floor carrying heavy parts, with seemingly no thought given to safety.

I'm guessing Microsoft's reasoning is that since you trust the driver, you probably also trust the companion app from the same vendor. On the flip side, what's stopping LG from pushing the adware into the driver itself? Unfortunately, this is an issue with every OS that has a monolithic kernel.

The Slovakian land registry also got hacked 2 years ago. I wonder if they are using the same software.

Literally every EV uses Panasonic 18650 cells already, the lockdown is in software.

Maybe this will be a lesson to manufacturing as a whole that putting industrial control logic into the cloud has always been a retarded idea. Even if you have perfect security, your competition can still shut down your production by hiring a DDoS.

One of the hardest parts when switching to Linux was learning to use the command line and shellscripts instead of relying on "power tools" for everything. It's a very different mindset from the Windows world, but once you adjust it's a lot more pleasant. I feel like telling people that "Linux is exactly like Windows now" is counterproductive. Sure, you can try to use Linux like Windows, but it's a miserable experience.