What you say it true, but whatever impacts Apple here is going to impact other companies that leverage Foxconn and Chinese manufacturing. That include Logitech, Lenovo and Sony. The US consumerism, its want of cheap products and not investing in home grown manufacturing are what has pushed manufacturing elsewhere. Also, as far as I can tell no sitting government has done anything effective to address this. What Trump is doing is more distraction than anything close to effective.

They already had the "neural engine" as part of their chips, but as for the whole "AI" thing it as much noise as it is value. This is to the point that there are products I will actively avoid if it has "AI" on it. For me this is like a dishwasher that needs an app for some of its functionality, rather than solving a real problem.

There are certainly cases where AI or AI-like can be useful, and there is no question that Siri hasn't had the iterative improvement that it needs to feel like it is improving and keeping people excited. Its just that AI is just another tool and it shouldn't just be jammed into everything, just to satisfy marketing or the devs who don't want to think of how properly formulate an algorithm,

BTW this is not intended as a defence for Apple, but the problem of trying to make AI the magic sauce that will solve everything, while actually causing more noise, and CPU usage, in a good number of cases.

Even if it wasn't intentionally fraudulent, it was effectively fraudulent.

One defence is Apple doesn't typically announces features until they are ready and released, so this led to the screw up. Then again the whole "Apple Intelligence" thing feels like the dev team trying to play catch up to the the marketing wishlist.

Can you give examples and especially of ones that weren't primarily of a US interest? I'm not saying you are wrong, just that I'd rather have some supporting evidence that I could validate.

Right now the US doesnâ(TM)t want go be part of the world and itâ(TM)s narrow minded leadership would have probably tried vetoing it or something similar.

When the US wants to become a leader or a relevant player again, then Iâ(TM)m sure we can talk again. Right now itâ(TM)s as much a liability as Russia is.

Not just that, but I think it was made into glue and meat courtesy of Doge and Trump?

Assuming you aren't joking, then its one of the largest e-commerce platforms around. There is a good chance on of the many online stores you use make use of it, for their shopfront.

You can also check Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

While congress roles over and rubber stamps whatever he says, he does kinda have that authority being effectively granted. It is a sad day when congress members care more about appeasing the president than their constituents.

The FTC only made the cuts because of DOGE decisions. So then saying they are lacking staff is confirmation that DOGE is making a lot of short sighted and short term decisions.

I suppose one thing that is becoming clear, thanks to DOGE, is that successively running a country is a lot more labour intensive than some people think it is.

At this point I am not sure whether there will be a functional government in 3 months? Either way the NASA cuts will make Roscosmos look in better shape. Thank you Musk and Krasnov.

The NPM site needs to improve and do a bit in terms of quality control. My items:

  - Preventing publishing packages with no linked website or README.md
  - Prevent duplicate packages which are just referring to the same GitHub repo (currently they don't seem to care)

From my experience the Fire Store was rife with fraudulent and unvetted apps. There was little evidence Amazon was doing any quality control or checking that downloaded apps actually matched their description.

While apps stores do typically take a 30% cut, this in part goes to running the store and keeping apps honest. And it is still less than a brick and mortar store would ask for.

Should we ask if we can use data on him, his family and friends as a test data set?

If a Windows install is just being used for games, maybe it is time explore SteamOS?

People use their tablets as laptops when combined with a keyboard.