I read all the comments here and while there are many quips about her inclusion, there was nothing substantive. Here's a response from Gemini, and I'm forced to confess that she's doing work that very much needs doing.

TIME included Paris Hilton on the 2026 TIME100 AI list under the "Shapers" category for her high-profile political advocacy and lobbying efforts against AI-generated deepfakes and nonconsensual intimate imagery. Why She Was Included:

- Anti-Deepfake Advocacy: In recent years, Hilton has turned to lobbying lawmakers on Capitol Hill to pass federal legislation—like the bipartisan DEFIANCE Act—that allows victims of nonconsensual digital and AI-made explicit media to sue perpetrators directly
- She partnered on investigative projects and documentary series, such as Searching for Mr. Deepfakes, to expose the operators of sites misusing artificial intelligence.
- Personal Purpose: Drawing from her own decades-old experience with nonconsensual digital exposure, she used her massive mainstream platform to demand accountability and legal guardrails for emerging technology.

It matters enough that Trump goons are making a deliberate effort to flout Congress's law. I would guess that for the people unwilling to pay for cable, the rule change gives stations a chance to turn viewers into captive audiences for very specific content. You can bet the "equal time" rule is next for the chopping block.

After my company switched from MS to Google office tools, I made a desperate attempt at making LibreOffice do what I need, then gave up. LibreOffice's problem isn't file compatibility, it's usability.

Hysterics aside, OP is being unfairly downvoted. If we were to take the total uptime (in hours) of the grid for every household in the US vs the total time possible for every household, the uptime ratio is likely somewhere in the range of 99%, with perhaps 1-5 9s after the decimal point. This is a gold-standard for availability. Now it's entirely possible some regions are regularly slammed by weather events that repeatedly bring down the grid for those people, but those events shouldn't be uttered as a failing of the US grid as a whole.

If you invoke Apps Script from a Google app like Sheets, Docs, etc. you can go to Extensions --> Apps Script. At this point, the user is confronted by a barebones IDE that has no Gemini window ready to assist, unlike the apps themselves. So you want to vibe-code some solution for the Google app? No problem! Just talk to the prompt in the app itself, then copy its code outputs into your clipboard, context-switch back into Apps Script, and paste. It's the 21st century version of sneaker-net. One might expect Google should do better

While the sentiment is understandable, I don't know how you think Ukraine could be operating in a way that achieves the goal of maiming individuals instead of killing them, Munitions that blow off limbs also universally kill people.

The irony of this story is that Americans see China as having a reputation for innovating nothing and copying everything. This story shows us that the Chinese aren't allowed to compete in the US when their innovations threaten US markets. Americans will carry on in ignorance, secure in the knowledge that their stereotypical view of Chinese tech remains unchallenged.

This will seem off topic, but hear me out. There's a vibrant arcade emulation scene out there that lets users play all their favorite stand-up arcade games Finn the 1970s on. One of the features pursued by the "purists" is to add CRT scanlines to the output of their LCD screens because that's how it looked back then. Why did the original machines have that feature? Because it was the only tech around.

At the same time in history, nobody was driving one-speed transmissions. Why? Because it was the only tech around. The limitations of the tech at the time wasn't a style choice but instead a technical necessity. It's really quite perplexing that people want to hang onto a tech experience that existed because it was necessary and not because it would always be the optimal solution.

I work in the EV world and "telemetry", machine-based data is being collected all the time from people who opt-in for broadcasting vehicle health back to headquarters. All of the identity information is obfuscated as aggregate information is processed. In cases where outliers show up such as seeing signals pointing to isolation fault or other types of imminent, catchable failures, it is possible to grab that outlier and then work backwards to identify the customer and then do proactive outreach for service prior to a critical failure actually taking place. This is acceptable practice in dealing with California's privacy requirements as well as the EU's GDPR.

Working in this mode for geofenced phone telemetry on the face of it doesn't immediately sound like an encroachment on civil liberties. Curious to hear the perspective of others here.

I used PowerToys to map that dumb key back to CTRL as it's my go-to for CTRL-C,V,W,X,Y,Z. Even still, it's not functional when trying to do CTRL+SHIFT+Arrow keys for highlight-jumping complete words in text editors. Even worse, I was never able to get the remap to work in VS Code, despite trying to follow wildly varying online instructions for configuring environment settings in the app, none of which seemed to apply to my installation. I ended up going to Cursor because I got a license at work for it, and the Cursor IDE (a fork of VS Code) gets rid of that horrible mapping, yay.

One thing I've learned about science articles with "could" in the headline - it's almost always science fiction and worth nobody's time to read

Agreed. Antiques Road Show needs to stop with their critical race theory attacks on white people. /s

It's funny that you're giving advice in response to something that was clearly a joke. You might consider dispensing with dispensing advice.

It's a fair point. Why not set noon to be the point at which the sun is highest on either of the solstices? That doesn't sound entirely arbitrary.

attractive young women with "vast tracts of land" playing guitar solos from my favorite classic rock songs.