And, to be fair, among all the "Orwellian" this and "Orwellian" that people throwing around nowadays, the situation with fines for wrong units of measure was literally Orwellian.

'I arst you civil enough, didn't I?' said the old man, straightening his shoulders pugnaciously. 'You telling me
you ain't got a pint mug in the 'ole bleeding boozer?'
'And what in hell's name is a pint?' said the barman, leaning forward with the tips of his fingers on the
counter.
'Ark at 'im ! Calls 'isself a barman and don't know what a pint is! Why, a pint's the 'alf of a quart, and there's
four quarts to the gallon. 'Ave to teach you the A, B, C next.'
'Never heard of 'em,' said the barman shortly. 'Litre and half litre - that's all we serve. There's the glasses on
the shelf in front of you.
'I likes a pint,' persisted the old man. 'You could 'a drawed me off a pint easy enough. We didn't 'ave these
bleeding litres when I was a young man.'
'When you were a young man we were all living in the treetops,' said the barman, with a glance at the other
customers. ...
"E could 'a drawed me off a pint,' grumbled the old man as he settled down behind a glass. 'A 'alf litre ain't
enough. It don't satisfy. And a 'ole litre's too much. It starts my bladder running. Let alone the price.'

(Funnily, though, the real case about beer among the Metric Martyrs was the other way around, precisely about a Polish bar owner in Britain being prohibited to sell liters)

without knowing what percentage of human-generated code contains vulnerabilities of the same kind. If it's 20%, then sure, extra vigilance is required; if it's 60%, then we should replace the codebases with Copilot output wherever we can.

Even the tortured interpretation of CFAA that the government liked to use to make open API calls sound like federal crime has been out the window for more than a month now, with the SCOTUS decision in Buren. Sloppy journalism.

Guess which word in that sentence doesn't belong there.
Hint: it's a Russian site we're talking about.

"Some Colleges Are Offering To Take Your Tuition Money In Exchange For Absolutely Nothing"

You have an app in Java. Oracle kills all versions of JDK dead. Do you a) rewrite your app in C# or b) find another JVM?

"The customers could enjoy the scenery while viewing the commercials, the ads, and information on amazing offers."

Now looks good.

dude can start banning people in his account again (Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump)

I hope by "it" you mean the Big Red.

Yes, I know, Dane-geld and all that. And I agree. But no one who is a victim of a crime is obligated to take the fight to the criminals in order to theoretically deter other criminals in other places, especially not when that also involve letting your business go belly-up in the process.
Their security and backup procedures are crap, no argument, but if you want to punish them, punish them for that, not for the payout.

Spyware known as Windows 10: 933 CVEs, of which 184 have score greater than 9
Crapware known as SupportAssist: 4 CVEs, highest score 8.8
What exactly are we talking about here?

People used to believe photographic evidence (which came to existfairly recently). Then came Photoshop; someone with enough patience is now capable of faking one single frame very convincingly. Photos are no longer believed; world yet to end.
People have a habit of believing video evidence (which came to exist even more recently). Then came AI; someone with enough patience will soon be capable of faking a clip very convincingly. Videos will no longer be believed; world is expected to survive.

A thing that
1. is a blank screen in its default state, instead of showing time
2. has to be taken off every night to recharge
may be smart, but is not a watch.

There are still enough Pebbles around to get yourself a stash. Also, the battery is soldered at two points to the power leads, so changing it is doable.

"Government strangles a nuclear plant, plans to bribe the company with billions of tax money to build solar instead."

"A Russian company with close ties to KGB squashes a patent troll, remains a Russian company with close ties to KGB. The Congress will still advise anyone who's not out of their minds not to trust their computers to the Russian company with close ties to KGB".
FIFY.