They just pumped 1B into OpenAI and license these same characters

I think not!

More that you know, even WITH the mass migration.
Half the bay area went somewhere... Not all to Sac

The current executive staff wasn't on board at the time of the hack. Mostly they were at Pulse Secure... That was ALSO hacked repeatedly both before and after the Solarwinds hack.

I called it Sacramentoo... Too hot, too cold and too damned redneck

Look at his area of work... Low level virtualization
I'm betting on a vmware replacement or a company that uses that technology.
There are several that come to mind right off the top of my head.
Oracle isn't really one of them.
They have VirtualBox

when telegraph lines with glass/ceramic insulators on poles went up, people used them for targets
when T1 lines went up with repeater boxes about every mile went up, those became targets too.
What do you wanna bet this is what happened here?

The union helped make a more sane working environment
The union made it so that when I worked more than 8 hours in a day, more than 5 days in a week, I was paid for it (when I worked in non-union jobs, a 12-hour day for the same pay was NOT uncommon)
The union made rules that kept management abuse to a minimum (faster! your metrics are too low... I did the math and my metrics were fine. They were cheating and no one to call them on it.)
Who says I retired early? If you did, good on you. I worked for 46 years.

Nice to hear from ya Elon

I did apply myself. I have retired.

I know who the tools are

We had unions once... And the rank and file bought into "Without a union, YOU can make more. Maybe not Marvin next to you, but he's a tool, right?"

Until we can get over "I'm better than Marvin", unions are virtually dead. Simple "collective action" (lookin' at you google heads) isn't enough. Being in a union means maintaining solidarity no matter what; Not just when it's convenient.

No, they won't avoid paying royalties... They'll pay them to the creator who uses AI.
This recognizes that AI is simply a tool that can be used to make something

it's all perverse IP laws

The real issue is the perverse IP laws. This crap happens because "someone" (looking at you movie studios) licenses the IP to Amazon and they have a stranglehold.

Something similar went on back in the 3 meter dish days... Then the satellite feeds were encrypted.
Those selling satellite systems blamed the cable companies.
It was the studios then and the studios now.

Back in the 20s and 30s, the studios owned movie houses and you could only see Fox movies in Fox movie houses etc.

If you go to the movies now and complain about the cost of the tickets or concessions, you'll be told it's the studios.
If you look into who own the theater chains, you'll find "amusement companies"; They also own the concession providers and are major holders in the movie industry; All the money flows there.

Who owns the amusement companies? Well, they used to make slot machines, juke boxes and pin ball machines.
I leave the answer to the student.

According to TFA he was a Chinese national, living legally in the US.
Does that mean ICE is in his future?

A new tax idea for MAGA

"venture capital firm Hummer Winblad, wanted the start-up to leverage its knowledge of individual music consumers to make lucrative deals with the labels"

This is my shocked face