Your best engineers will be AuDHD, and AuDHD folk don't do well in these sorts of synthetic tests.

I can code in 20+ languages for over 12 different OS', write code that's good enough for CERN to run for particle accelerator data collection for a decade, have accelerated systems by an order of magnitude by understanding the poem space better than their previous engineers, but I am abysmal at exam style settings.

The software industry is riddled with SEs who write abysmal code but can pass a coding test easily. They're the folk that you have always needed to reject but didn't because they ticked a box.

The DOD/DOW have been working on this for a while. They discovered, early on, that the device had a propensity to cause permanent nerve damage.

It's very unlikely the US have fixed that, as they'd largely sidelined the work as a failure. However, at 36%, Trump needs something he can call a win, no matter what the long-term consequences.

It is primarily a firmware issue though. While it could be a hardware issue who is going to bother with that when you are one firmware update from having your router controlled by a foreign government. Add an auto update feature for the firmware and you are good to go.

I would have thought the potential security issues revolve around the software running on the hardware rather than hardware. Moving the hardware manufacturing to the USA is not going to fix that problem.

Anyone building an AI data centre in Essex needs their head examining. Build it somewhere in Scotland we're with DLC you can do 365x24 free air cooling. Oh and your close to all that renewable energy so no need for building massive amounts of grid infrastructure to transport energy down south.

Water usage is going to be highly dependant on your local climate. All the new AI data centres are direct liquid cooling so other than filling the cooling loops in the right location you will never need additional water. The problem is building them in hot places say Arizona, California etc. were especially in the summer you need water for evaporative cooling.
For example even in the UK you will need some evaporative cooling should you stupidly decided to put your AI data centre in the South of England. Come to Scotland and you can run free air cooling 24x7 every day of the year and have a really significant margin over the maximum daytime air temperature ever recorded.

Bear in mind that the Soviet Union weaponized pneumonic plague, creating stains with multi-antibiotic resistance and increased environmental stability.

Since when has the British Isles not been part of Europe? Please stop equating Europe with the European Union, the two are not the same.

No cancer does not hit everyone equally. If you smoke you are more likely to be hit by cancer, and if you are over weight you are more likely to be hit by cancer. These two factors are the biggest avoidable ones for cancer.

In the UK at least (and I doubt it is different in any western country) those factors are overwhelmingly prevalent in lower socioeconomic groups. That is the better off you are the less likely you are to be a smoker and the less likely you are to be overweight so the less likely you are to get cancer.

Data from Scotland shows that cervical cancer rates in the cohort of women eligible for the vaccine who took it up is a big fat zero. That is there is no rounding in that it is actually none whatsoever.

...Modern ejector seats cause spinal injuries from which full recovery is "unusual". Smashing the spines of pilots might not be the most effective way to boost morale.

$22,000 per hour. The F35 will be nearer $42,000 per hour. These are under-estimates, as they do not include price hikes, crashes that close businesses, crashing into businesses, crashing into heavily-populated sports centres, etc.

Not really, the government would in such a scenario tell the AI firms they just got bumped to the back of the queue, because power for the general population is more important. The alternative is the population riots and that will not work out well for those in charge of the AI firms if they kick up a fuss. Especially in the US were the mob will be armed with guns.

That is a bad example. The height of the wall was sufficient to stop the site being flooded. What they didn't figure in was the land dropping over one metre in height, so all of a sudden the wall was no longer high enough. The bigger issue was having the backup generators in the basement, which is a dumb idea were ever you happen to be when their failure in a disaster situation has such dire consequences.

Whether we like it or not, whether we use Windows or not, Microsoft is going to insist on adding the tax whether the PC comes shipped with Windows or not. This is illegal bundling, Microsoft has essentially ignored prior rulings, and it's pretty much a certainty the courts will be fine with this.