Microsoft's end goal is to turn Windows into a vending machine. They want to charge everyone by the minute for using their Cloud services, and making desktop Windows unpalatable is part of that plan. They want to lock everyone into a no-exit Cloud prison.

When someone gets sued (possibly even prior to the suit being filed) in the U.S., he is under an automatic legal obligation to retain ALL records for Discovery. Failure to do so has some serious legal repercussions. So no, this judge is not doing anything out of the ordinary. He is simply requiring OpenAI to abide by its standard legal obligations.

We've all been paying to be spied on ever since the availability of remote communication. Morse code transmissions were monitored by the Government, and it's only gotten worse since then. The cells phones we all carry are routinely spied on. Our landlines were always subject to secretive government taps, etc.

However, none of those things had ads interjected into them. Invasive ads are a scourge on humanity that has never been seen before the common age.

I totally agree with you, though that is a stop-gap resistance measure. Eventually, we will have to be millionaires to afford the older cars.

OTA updates should be seen as implicit acknowledgement that the vehicles are not road-worthy, and should be banned around the world.

That would be a good next step. And then opening up the programming interfaces and documentation.

I wish I hadn't already commented, or I would moderate this comment up. It's a straight-forward explanation as to why Zuckerberg is full of shit.

Which games are you referring to?

Their sudden, massive gobbling of scarce electrical resources are causing those scarce resources to be become even scarcer. Most utilities are regulated, and prevent them from operating as a free market (and rightfully so, in most cases). If these data centers were subject to capitalistic principles, they would be paying 100 times what they're paying now.

Regulations meant to protect you and me from the excesses of unrestrained natural monopolies are now working again us, which means we all pay higher prices to prop up the excesses of data centers. That is a problem that needs to be rectified. Data centers need to be made to pay the actual prices for the damages they are causing. AI companies as well. They are both severe outliers that are ruining electrical availability for most people.

AI companies need to spend billions of dollars across all of the countries from which they are sucking down massive electrical resources.

Yes, they are waiting for Starlink to finalize the tech. There is no point in stealing the old tech when the new tech is just around the corner.

This is a bad, bad idea; perhaps with the sole exception of knowing which lines of code need to be scrutinized by a competent developer, and to know which developers need to be banned from making kernel submissions.

A future article: Scientists have discovered a technique that allows identification of a person using only the advanced technology you likely already carry with you, and which is not affected by the ambient electromagnetic interference that is omnipresent in our technological society. It allows tracking a person from room to room with a near-perfect degree of accuracy, provided that each room is irradiated between approximately 380 and 700 nanometers. The technique begins to falter outside of this range, so it's not perfect. However, it has been shown to be able to distinguish a person from others even in crowded areas, which opens up a plethora of heretofore untapped potential.

As an added bonus, we are all carrying a pair of electromagnetic receivers that can directly detect this range of the electromagnetic spectrum, so this technique is very cheap and highly cost effective. We tend to reflexively keep these receivers turned off, so it may take some adjustment to your daily routine before you start noticing the benefits of keeping them activated, but scientists confirm that it takes very little practice before keeping them always-on becomes routine.

My brain have have reversed in age during the pandemic:

1) Psychological stress. I have never been happier in my entire adult life as I was during the pandemic. Working from home became the accepted norm. I didn't have to deal with shitty workplace offices (they are all shitty, without exception). I got to watch my kids grow, rather than only witnessing a small sliver of it. My wife and I got much more time with each other, which let us bond more than we had ever been able to bond in the past. Online shopping became the norm, etc. My stress level went down by an order of magnitude. My entire family got COVID, were bed-ridden for a day or two, then recovered like nothing happened. I hadn't slept that well in years, and my wife and I were supposed to be in the high-risk of death category. The pandemic years were the best years of my entire adult life, and they ended all too soon.

2) Social isolation: I was able to get away from people in general. Talk about mental rejuvenation! I had my wife and kids with me, which is all the socialization I need and want. I had the Internet for entertainment and education, and whatever socialization I wanted. Better yet, I could end socialization as needed and wanted. I was able to measure out what little socialization I wanted, and end it when I had enough. It was great.

3) Disruptions In Daily Life: Daily life requires all the things I don't want, so changing it was highly welcome. My stress level (and blood pressure) went way down during the pandemic. The worse part of the disruption was when it ended. Going back to daily life has raised my stress level (and my blood pressure) again.

4) Reduced Activity And Wellness: I lost 40 pounds during the pandemic due to increased and regular exercise, and due to greatly reduced stress. My blood pressure went down, my bonding with my family increased, and every metric of wellness I can think of improved (including my blood lipids). They were the golden years of middle-aged wellness.

If these are the markers for brain aging, my brain must have reversed aging by a few years. Bring on the next pandemic!

Very few people claim to be working full steam for 40 hours a week. The claims are just the opposite. We see substantial diminishing returns well before then, with rare exceptions.

The most effective way to destroy focus is to be in the office. Phone notifications are far down the list of focus issues. I get way more done in my home office than I ever get done at the company premises.