I guess they won't have to torrent research papers anymore, if the researchers themselves give them their research.

It's a lot more complicated and nuanced than that. This bloke did a fun summary of the different aspects: https://youtu.be/-JQKYzcmhyQ
TL;DW version is... money, of course.

This plane looks to me like a scale model of something bigger. A new shuttle ?

How would they avoid the swelling up of the cells? The cells are tightly packed and there isn't much space for new stuff.
Also shorting due to dendrites is still a problem.

Designing "multi-step enzymes" was not "something people do..." though was it ?!
"AI" in the hands of qualified people made it feasible.

4090 issues were last year. This story is about 5090.

Yes, those were 4090 from last year. So far, with 5090 the reports are for NVIDIA manufactured Founder Edition cards. There are no reported cases of partner cards yet (afaik). They might be affected too - but at this point this is just a speculation.

The report is about Founder Edition cards, which are manufactured by NVIDIA itself, not by partners.

Why a DB is needed at all ?! Surely there are rfid tags with enough memory to store all of the ownership's data not just an ID number that then needs to be looked up in someone's database.

They had a 20k a small, city EV years ago - the e-UP which was surprisingly decent, even though it was on ICE chassis. The later models had 40kwh battery which was good for 300-400 km in the city. Unfortunately, they killed it few years ago.
I doubt they will hit the 20k price with the id.1. Dacia Spring (which is a much worse vehicle than the e-UP but is actually selling now) is 20k.
VW's biggest competitor in Europe are not the chinese, but it's own subsidiaries like Skoda and Seat, which for the last 10 years actually make as decent cars as VW, but cheaper.
The chinese cars still have a perception problem about quality and safety (which may or may not be true) in the same way Japanese and later - Korean cars had in the west. The Japanese and Koreans overcame this and now are considered at the top in terms of quality. Maybe the chinese will manage to do it too some day, maybe - not.

Year an a half ago I was looking for good 3d printer, having played around with one 9-10 years ago.
Bambu was all the rage at the time with their X1C and P1S. I liked how reliable they were in reviews, but I didn't like how hard they were trying to push you to use their cloud. The thought of handing over your models to someone out there didn't sit right with me and I decided to pass on Bambu. I was sure it was just a matter of 'when', not 'if' they were going to pull something like this.
I got Qidi X-Plus3 instead and it's been perfectly reliable without requiring cloud connection. It runs open source firmware based on Klipper.

That is a weird one. Why would he pardon a narco dealer of all things instead of let's say some of the many whistleblowers prosecuted by previous administrations?!
I have the feeling he wants to project himself as the top mafia boss - "swear allegiance to me and I got your back no matter what". A whistleblower on the other hand is useless to him, even dangerous - pardoning one could encourage someone to leak dirt on his administration as well.

More than 15K$ per vehicle.
That's how fines should be. Let's hope the companies will think twice the next time they want to skirt regulations.

"Ultra 69" would've been nicer.

0.064% of speed of light.