Possible oops (looking at a different historical map), not sure that part of Denmark was ever classified as Prussia although it was definitely German for over 40 years. SW Lithuania is also not 100% certain (that second map does not bother with Ostpreußen).

You're aware that finding Prussia on a map is rather difficult nowadays? It lost territory after WW1 and was broken up at the end of WW2, the area is now split up across Lithuania, Russia (the Kaliningrad enclave), Poland, Germany and Denmark.

That was pretty much what happened to "Kim Dotcom's" servers in New Zealand in 2012, except that he was offering an encrypted cloud and had no way of taking backups. Last I heard, the data was gone and a lot of companies / private users were really really screwed. If the servers were ever returned and the data recovered, it will have been years later.
Pirated movies, police raids and politics: A timeline of the Kim Dotcom saga seems fairly accurate, Wikipedia also covers this.

Whoosh?

Back around 2020 in was possible to reset Google Advertising IDs on every device restart, or even more frequently. My setting is not to have one at all, I don't know how effective that is but it does not appear to do any damage to normal operation.

Wyden said in a statement that it was time to "start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat."

More of an international security threat but . . . whatever. I think the Ukrainian army was using this type of data for targetting early on in the war, the invaders were docking into Ukrainian cell towers and their government obviously had access to that data.

Off Topic, and there was an operating framework channelling Iranian nuclear development - including monitoring of the sites to make sure they were not developing nukes on the sly - in place when the Orange One was first elected. It involved Iran and Obama, that was enough for the OO to withdraw from the agreement. The reason this conflict is still going on is that the OO does not want a peace agreement which is basically what was in place before he sabotaged it.

I can't see how those last four (and the Guatemala sinkhole) can have anything to do with this. The first four (the earthquakes) are only marginally less unlikely, unless the plates started shifting in a different direction.

You can use it as a living room gaming box; my wife uses it like that often. She uses it as a handheld when playing old arcade games on an emulator, but for more serious games she hooks up a big screen, keyboard and mouse in the living room.

Why do you think the Dutch authorities are now blocking the acquisition of Solvinity by some US based firm? Solvinity manages the servers for the national identity provider scheme (DigiD).
Personally I don't think the government should be using 3rd party clouds for anything remotely critical. They have the scale to make running their own infrastructure worthwhile financially, and the know-how to run it effectively.

But they want the cameras to always be rolling and reading plates.

"They" in this case is a company called BusPatrol and I think we can be safe in assuming they see this as a source of additional income. BusPatrol is trying to dress this up as protecting children but that is just window dressing.
Everyone is going to be totally shocked, as in shocked when this data turns out to be inadequately protected and turns up in North Korea, Greenland, Venezuela or whoever the next enemy of the month turns out to be. Nobody could have forseen that!

Pragmatic? The decision was made at the very last minute despite the grave risks having been pointed out months ago. No action was taken. Now they unnecessarily blocked the takeover instead of taking actual pragmatic action. Such as: offering Solvinity to let the acquisition go through, if they are willing to end the contract for this service early, and sell the servers that are already living in a Dutch government-owned data center to a new partner willing to operate them.

"Competing with things in even higher orbits" is exactly what they are doing in this scenario. Round trip to a Starlink satellite with on-board AI compute is less than 100ms. Round trip with older satcom systems like BGAN to a base station is 700-1500ms. This in an environment where regular radio transmissions are highly unreliable, and putting the processor on board is not viable. As I said, it's a niche application, but a real one, and there may be others.

I don't know where you buy your clothes, but mine appear to have been made in S America, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Vietnam and I'm not sure where else. I've had made-in-US clothing before but the quality was pretty poor, probably because they were having to match prices with countries where wages were way lower. I suppose the same applied with clothing made in the UK, although it's been a long time since M+S dropped their "Buy British" policy.

Low latency AI edge computing. There's several military applications, such as directing drone swarms or even providing AI to individual drones.