If they left them in place they might be used to collect data, which might in turn be used to show that climate change is a real problem. We can't have that, it gets in the way of maximizing oil companies's profits.

Google will protect you at the bottom of the stairs.

This use of "surface" seems to be a recent favorite of the PR droids... I've seen it multiple times this week for some reason.

It sounds pretentious and forced - it's quite annoying.

While Office 2021 is affected by the expiring license, it's still under support until Oct 2026 and users just need to update. It only reverts to read-only if you don't update.

Thank you. I had been wondering about this precisely because Office 2021 is still receiving updates.

So this is really only an Office 2019 issue. Which still isn't great, but it is at least older.

And from the sounds of things, this only impacts the retail-licensed version of Office 2019. The volume licensed LTSC version doesn't rely on an activation server or certificates.

So the first thing that jumps out at me is - in what sense is this an executive order? He's asking for voluntary compliance. There's no more weight behind this than there is one of his Truth Social posts.

But, in any case, I assume he is "asking" because one of his underlings pointed out that he can't actually force companies to comply with it, and he doesn't want yet another EO overturned by the courts.

I mean, come on... This one screams class action. I just got an email link to a list of current class action suits I could click on to see if I qualified, and none of them were over as clear cut a complaint as a company purposely crippling software initially promised to keep working.

As part of its successful "Debug" program, Google is tapping into its tech expertise to raise an army of sterile male mosquitoes to lower the number of illness-spreading bugs.

I spent all of two minutes looking, but I can't find any evidence this program has done anything yet. So it what sense is it "successful"?

This is about reducing ewaste, so how about phasing it in by requiring increasingly long warranty periods for non-replaceable batteries?

Which is, of course, nonsense. Nothing stops you from making a copy of encrypted data. What sucks is that for a backup, you likely can't do incremental.

Surely.
The great example is phones - I'd love to see a data driven study on network quality/cost to users for cell phones in Africa. They largely skipped the whole "stringing wires all over the fucking place" step and jumped straight to cell phones. How has that worked for them compared to mature hardwire telephone systems in developed countries? Pros? Cons? Long term benefits/costs?

Personally, I'm blaming the remote-working immigrants!

Try saying that. /s

If you wash away the salt deposits, that implies using water and thus generating brine. Brushing the salt away might be better. Main thing would be avoiding losing the salt to precipitation, as the idea seems to be to avoid it returning to the ocean.
Figuring out how to economically purify the salts, including separating out the lithium, would be a neat trick.

The Neo is the Apple laptop here.

Dells offering is branded XPS. It sounds like you conflated the two.

So the Neo definitely has access to Apple parts - and its been confirmed to use the same SoC that was previously just used by the iPhone line of products.