The check must have cleared.

Ship it! We'll fix it later.

"American tech companies are required to share data with the U.S. government due to the Cloud Act in force in that country." - the CLOUD Act. It's not clear if a subpoena or summons was issued as required by the act. . All I have seen is that the US "demanded" the data. The Dutch government probably didn't want to go up against the US government, or worse Microsoft.

Microsoft had no choice but to comply with the subpoena. The Dutch, and the rest of the world, does have the choice in which cloud service, if any, they put all of their data.

How are they going to get a professor present as a proctor? It's hard enough to get one to show up for class.

Who in their right mind would volunteer for this mission?

I'm reading a book called "Alien Secrets" by Ian Douglas that says that the US has known for a long time about aliens. The aliens are the source of many of the technologies we use today.

Except there is already a product with that name.

The check must have cleared.

If they can produce it at a price competitive with the alternatives, it could be added to animal feed as a protein source. Then humans could eat the animals it was fed to. Yum!

That's going to be hard on his wife.

Except Beth Mole's articles.

No AI?

Sort of off topic but the SciFi Channel now runs one of the wrestling shows.

Nadella thought when he bought the government he owned it. Actually it turns out it was only a license to use it and the government reserves the right to make changes to the end user agreement at any time.