Exactly. Especially as it seems that the AI companies are selling their tokens at below cost. Small-scale installations for local models may make sense for individuals who want to keep their data isolated, but they do not make economic sense for companies.

That I very much doubt, these were probably prepared for export. I can think of a few questions here:
- some Slovakian political parties are pro Russian, what was their role in this debacle?
- what is the background for the Cypriot "shell company" involved?
- what numbers are they using for the SMS messages? Specifically, the country code.
- the SMS-activated Russian backdoors depend on which network? G2, G3, G4 or even G5?

DDR4 prices have gone up as well, over 400%. Even DDR3 prices have spiked. Same with storage, HDDs are up 200-250%. People who can't afford the latest hardware have already turned to older tech.

We might see some Chinese companies filling the gap. We can only hope.

It's a start, though I wasn't aware of the requirement to have the meter changed. It's not needed here, the inverter is supposed to handle the cut-off.

The benefits do go to the tenant, that's been the problem of getting this stuff financed. The landlord pays for better insulation, solar panels, heat pump and perhaps a battery, but it's the tenant who reaps the benefits in the form of a lower utility bill. In the Netherlands we can at least charge more for energy-efficient rent-controlled homes, but financially it is still rarely worth it... the housing market being what it is, you can charge €1000/month for a leaky bicycle shed. It seems that the Belgian solution is to simply force landlords to make the upgrades.

"The fact that Grand Theft Auto VI will be a purely digital release has not caused its price point to budge."
Yeah, what did you think was going to happen?

I'd love to buy into SpaceX the space company. Not so much into SpaceX the AI company. Their valuation is based on xAI and X for a large part, and their outlook on their total addressable market is over 9/10ths AI - a market in which they are at the moment not all that well positioned.

That sounds like an issues with the tests, not the grades.

There was always the case of Nicolae Ceauescu. Some (cherry picked) quotes from that link:

He soon won popular support for his independent, nationalistic political course

Ceauescu adhered ever more closely to the communist orthodoxy of centralized administration at home. His secret police maintained rigid controls over free speech and the media and tolerated no internal dissent or opposition.
Hoping to boost Romania’s population, in 1966 Ceauescu issued Decree 770, a measure that effectively outlawed contraception and abortion.

Ceauescu also instituted an extensive personality cult and appointed his wife, Elena, and many members of his extended family to high posts in the government and party

There's nothing in that article about his tendency to micromanage or his indifference to the misery caused by his policies.
In Trump's case, his version of Decree 770 is more something his fellow-travellers want than he himself, but he appointed them.

If they want to convince you to buy something, they have to have numbers where they can be reached. If I get a call from a (domestic) number which could be genuine, I ring back from a number which is configured as a fax and see what happens. A telemarketeer and then it's "is Birgit there? Sorry, wrong number."

You're aware that numbers can be faked? Or suppressed altogether (neither is legal for telemarkers where I live)?
I've had callers from non-existent dialling codes (I'm not in the US) and also from fake numbers within well known dialling codes. Once I had such a call from a real number and called back (from my fax's number) to see if it was a real person, they were getting a lot of such callbacks and were not happy.
My VOIP modem allows me to block a small number of ranges of numbers and I use that to block all country codes starting with 3 (which includes France). It really helps.

Well, when I saw

an optional zero-data-retention feature for enterprise users

I interpreted it as "deleting everything".

Do the police have access to those betting patterns?
With any wildfire which was initiated deliberately, I'd want to look at anyone who "predicted" it - and their associates.

Somehow read an 8.5 mile hike that was actually 14 miles

8.5 miles is close to 14km. I can't see how that could have been a factor but the correlation feels too close to be coincidental.