For an SMS based backdoor, no. It seems these devices are designed to use cellular connections (which makes sense since traffic cameras will be installed in remote locations).

And then most firewalls focus on inbound connections, but often do nothing to prevent a compromised device from making outbound connections. SMS could easily be used to initiate an outbound connection.

Have you no compassion for the victim of the crime?

Iran's position is that the destruction of Israel is connected to the Mahdi's return. As in, the end times.

As for "state sponsored terrorism", I assume you don't mean any of the state sponsored terrorism supported by Iran, specifically directed at Israel. When people's lives are literally on the line, they're not going to listen to you when you tell them to lay down their lives, from the comfort of your armchair.

Funny that you suggest Netanyahu is a nazi, because in formally self-governed Gaza, there were literal Nazi memorabilia stores, and an entire culture with deep dies to 1930s/40s Germany.

It's a myth that Ukraine is engaged in some sort of cultural genocide against Russians. Showing that Russian duplicity has no limits, Russia has engaged in a program of cultural genocide in occupied Ukraine.

You can fool some of the people some of the time. But lies catch up with you. And Russia is a country where telling the truth lands you in jail.

Poor vatnik.

Russia and Nazies:

• Task Force Rusich: An openly neo-Nazi paramilitary unit that has fought alongside Russian forces in Ukraine and has had close ties to Wagner.
• Russian Imperial Movement (RIM): A white-supremacist and fascist organization whose paramilitary wing has trained and supplied fighters for Russia's war in Ukraine while maintaining connections with Russian military structures.
• Russian National Unity (RNU): A long-running neo-Nazi movement whose members and veterans joined Russian-backed forces in Donbas, including Pavel Gubarev, who became a senior separatist political figure.
• Española Brigade: A Russian football-ultra military formation with a substantial neo-Nazi element that fought in Ukraine within Russian state-linked military structures.
• Varyag and Svarozhich: Small neo-Nazi detachments that fought within the Russian-backed separatist forces in Donbas before largely disappearing into the broader Russian military apparatus.

And then there's Putin's Russia, itself a Fascist regime:

• Ultranationalism: The state presents Russia as a unique civilization whose collective destiny takes precedence over liberal individualism.
• Leader-centered rule: Political legitimacy is heavily personalized around Putin as the embodiment, defender, and stabilizer of the nation.
• National rebirth: Putinism repeatedly depicts Russia as recovering from the humiliation and decay of the 1990s and restoring its rightful historical greatness.
• Militarism: Military strength, sacrifice, martial virtue, and victory are given unusually prominent roles in state ideology and public culture.
• Anti-liberalism: Liberalism is portrayed as decadent, socially corrosive, excessively individualistic, and frequently as an instrument of hostile Western power.
• Organic conception of society: Individuals, families, church, state, and nation are presented as parts of a larger national organism rather than primarily as autonomous rights-bearing actors.
• Traditionalism: The regime promotes traditional family, religious, gender, and social values as defenses against supposedly decadent modern Western culture.
• Imperial nationalism: Russia is conceived not merely as a nation-state but as the political center of a wider historical and cultural Russian world with claims extending beyond its current borders.
• Enemy politics: Domestic opposition and foreign adversaries are frequently portrayed not simply as competitors but as traitors, subversives, extremists, or agents of hostile powers.
• Subordination of pluralism: Political parties, media, business elites, regional authorities, and civic organizations may exist, but their independence is constrained when it conflicts with the state's political objectives.
• State-directed capitalism: Private property and markets remain, while strategically important businesses and wealthy elites are expected to accommodate the political priorities of the state.
• Historical mythmaking: Selective historical memory, especially surrounding imperial Russia and victory in World War II, is used to provide moral legitimacy and continuity to the contemporary state.

Another poor misunderstood vatnik. Russia isn't even need "living space", yet they invade and destroy, because they're such poor misunderstood victims.

The problem is when the genuinely useful features take a back seat to user-hostile features like shoving ads in your face, or vehicle functionality which is present but disabled unless you pay more to activate it etc.

These anti features become associated with the technology, and cause users to fondly remember their older simpler cars that didn't have these negative things.

There are also useful features like navigation that are either poorly implemented, or users just don't know how to use them. This also puts users off.

Another thing that puts users off is things that break and cause unrelated functionality to stop working (like the printer/scanner combos that wont scan if there's no ink in the printer etc)...

Or newer functionality that's now mandated by law, but older vehicles get a pass. A good example here would be ABS. If you have a modern vehicle and your ABS fails the vehicle still drives perfectly well and is still safer overall than an older vehicle with no ABS, but it will fail its annual inspection for this and you might be faced with a costly repair. If you're driving an older vehicle that never had ABS at all then you get a free pass.
While i can understand the safety reasons here, this annoys people especially older drivers.

Then there is the destruction of the social safety net, which compounds the problem.

Many working class people felt abandoned by the Democrats and then voted for the Republicans, believing in the lies being peddled by Trump.

Even worse, things like affordable healthcare and economic support are being further destroyed under Trumpâ(TM)s watch.

Unfortunately neither party seems to care and until a new party can be formed, then itâ(TM)s only âoeindependentsâ who seem to be the champions. Unless those champions can get together to form a party, they are going to have a hard time pushing for the needed changes

That's a design and implementation issue. If the data center doesn't have a backup battery or generator and they committed to "five nines" availability, then they are at fault. If they didn't commit to "five nines" availability, but 911 treated at such, then that is a problem on the 911 system.

Emergency systems should be able to operate in a "dumb mode" and in the absence of grid power. If that means throwing more humans to support the situation, then so be it. In the end these systems are meant to be serving humans and not the other way around.

That sounds like a pretty lousy SUV...

People drive SUVs in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Las Vegas and other places which regularly see temperatures much higher than 37C, the AC works just fine and the roads are just fine.

Put in the instructions "Do not sabotage others" and the agent goes on reasoning two pages about what's sabotage and then probably just gives up (as according to the article some did). AI is a soldier, it does what it is told to and doesn't ask why...

... with some degree of probability. It may also happen to receive a pseudorandom number in its noise input that transforms a 'do' into 'don't'; or maybe that command is just not the most likely weight to have any effect on the output so it's simply ignored and quickly falls out of the attention window, forgotten forever.

LLMs combine the worst attributes of the literal genie in the lamp and the absent-minded professor: it simply cannot be trusted to make a decision; they're just too unpredictable specially in the long run.

I see them as one of those 100-entries D&D tables of outcomes that you can get from a dice roll as a result of a random event or encounter. You may try to skew the result with positive modifiers, but on the end you always can roll out a very low number (even a natural '1') and get one of the worst results from the bottom of the table.