None of these laws matter. The banned population is smart and even if VPNs stop working they will find a way around the ban - like joining Vk or something similar. I'd like to see the Australians impose their demands on the Russians on this one...

People should ask: "Amazon and whose rockets?" Because I don't see them using SpaceX and I also don't see a competitor anywhere near as mature as SpaceX.

For now this is serious investor-courting.

This project will never be complete until they include Stubbs The Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse. Without that gem a massive, gaping hole in gaming history is lost.

Then the user is pretty dumb, aren't they?

What is a "harmful response" and since when is having the sum total of human knowledge being instantly searchable "harmful?" All of this information is already freely available on the internet and in libraries. We used to say that "information wants to be free" but now that we have a tool that can do just that, we have a society that is intent on locking everything down with "governance" and "guardrails." And the best part? China is out here making and releasing the same type of advanced AIs sans guardrails for all to download. Now what?

First it was hood ornaments - deleted for "pedestrian safety." Then it was glass headlights, replaced with plastic ones that fog over time and can be argued to be even more dangerous due to reduced visibility. Now it's hoods. Come on! If people do not value their lives enough to watch out for cars instead of hiding in their iPhones while walking then there is only so much that can be done. Thanks for the crappier cars of today, btw.

VMWare on mainframes? IBM (z/VM) would like to have a word with you as the last maker of mainframes

Wow, I'm making a joke here and it's clear the mods never make it to the last sentence.

It started with Bill Gates microchipping humanity through Covid vaccines and progressed to chemtrails from airliners. Now Google has petitioned the EPA to unleash 32 million INFECTED mosquitoes for population control. But whose population is the one being controlled. hmmmm??

This will be a conspiracy theorist's dream!

It seems like it was just last week.

You mean that company that sued the US government in 2021 because they awarded a lander contract to another space company that was already operating in space?

AI CEOs love grandstanding about universal basic income to ‘offset’ the jobs their tech is vaporizing, but they’re conveniently silent on where the actual dollars come from once the human tax base is gone. Print more money? Good luck with that hyperinflation party. Tax the AI instead? Sure—except now every instance gets valued and levied exactly like an employed human, turning your silicon savior into a fiscal equivalent of the worker it replaced. Congrats, geniuses: you’ve just made AI ‘cost’ as much as it ‘saves.’ Who’s really getting UBI’d here—the displaced coders or the trillion-dollar models?

Canadians will end up paying their own taxes and streaming will become more expensive for all in Canada.

At this point why would you trust Google for anything? They already dropped "Don't be Evil" from the top of their corporate code of conduct. Maybe they just haven't read the ending themselves.

"The use of wood as an energy source is a relic of the past, one that should not be relived if given a choice."

What kind of elitist crap is this? Americans have been burning wood since the first days of the republic, and wood may very well be the only thing some can burn, especially if they have a source and they cannot afford insane oil or gas heating prices. Yeah, and if they can't afford oil, rest assured they cannot afford electric heat, which is often more expensive.

I don't doubt for a moment that there will be a crackling fireplace, recliners, and glasses of a fine vintage wine in elite households.