More of the same baseless fear mongering with zero evidence from the US, it's only unfortunate that Canada follows along instead of making its own decisions. The US lost any credibility after Iraq, any kind of policy shift should require more than "trust me bro".

Sounds like a more shit version of the Escobar phone. An accomplishment in and of itself.

I guess Microsoft is fortunate that there is a trade embargo, so they don't have to license the IP from NK.

I like how Snowflake can be used either as an adjective or a noun in the title and still be valid.

While some were fired early, some also stayed on for months/years and were clearly doing the job they were being paid for to an acceptable enough level to pass muster.

The GPL definitely has the advantage if your goal is to try and foster an active ecosystem around a code base. You know, so you don't have to go begging for people to come back to you with use cases when people just take your code and run with it.

I suspect the majority of the "active users" are neither active nor users, but are instead users of another service forced to see Threads content in their feed or elsewhere. Forcing it onto more people without their consent is not creating an active user base, no matter how you want to liberally define a user in order to pump the numbers. This will go the way of Google Buzz and similar garbage that did the same before.

That's a pretty moronic takeaway. With tariffs on their supply chain, some components become too expensive to bother with when selling in the US market, so they can simply not provide those models in the US where the tariffs eat away too much of their margins to make it worthwhile. That doesn't mean that they can't continue to source and supply those systems in other countries that aren't run by clowns.

Definitely a pair of companies that deserve each other.

Good luck finding a European labour court that will agree that an employee is non-performant just because they happen to WFH.

There are plenty of people who should be launched into space, just without any need for one of those returny rockets.

you must offer 50% more pay. If you want people to not act like employees and instead like owners, then they need to be similarly incentivized. Google's lack of competitiveness is also not going to be improved by trying to work the rank and file to death.

It was also devised with the notion that the machine would get smarter. It didn't account for the fact another way to pass the test is for the human to get dumber.

Unfortunately regulation takes time, so they'll probably get away with it for a while before eventually being slapped down. A similar thing happened with automotive OEMs that were intentionally trying to cripple their vehicles and restore them to normal behaviour behind a subscription model.

Any company that makes its money writing bubble sort implementations in python will be absolutely killing it with AI.