This is one problem with locking down the OS. With enough motivation, hackers are able to find ways to get around the security to access the deep system layers. However, users and legitimate apps are locked out and must rely on the OS provided APIs and tools.

This creates an imbalance in the security of the OS. A power user can't launch a root terminal and just take a look at what's going on. They are bound by the OS level sandbox, and can only access so much of the system. Which also means that any user level security solutions are mostly useless, and one must rely on the OS to keep attackers out

In some ways a PC is more secure, than these so called "hardened devices"

Govt like - "See, there is no reason to cry about the economy we destroyed or the retirement savings we squandered away".

60 year old Americans still have another 20 years to save up for old age. Get to it

Microsoft doesnt have a Windows 11 problem. What they have is a management and a leadership problem.

Every opportunity of the last 30 gears has been destroyed and squandered by Microsoft. XBox being the latest victim.

Drastic changes are needed in the leadership coz the current ones have no idea what they are doing

The article talks about some specialist components. I assume these are ones that are high value and need special authorization to purchase. Like high-accuracy GPS chips or stuff for nuclear centrifuges etc.

Surely law enforcement can start going down the list of purchasers to see what is going on.

For consumer level stuff like Intel CPUs, or Nvidia GPUs, there probably is no real way to stop that. The volumes are just too high. But for low volume, high-value specialist components it should be possible to have some control.

They should be liable. Otherwise it just shows that US sanctions aren't really worth much.

Even the managerial boomers are starting to realize how useless AI is. The bubble bursting is not too far away now

If we are adding in FreeBSD, Android etc, might as well also add in MacOS.

They are all quite similar from a user point of view and all based off one or the other NIXes

How much money would Apple save if it just fired their legal teams and instead modified their policies to abide by the law?

It is the same for us Canadians. We also refuse to travel to dangerous places like America

Apple has had more than enough chances to voluntarily fix their anti competitive practices. Only after being fined heavily, they have reluctantly changed their policies where needed.

With that in mind, this is the way to deal with them. Fine them and make it unviable to behave in an anti-competitive manner.

This is just stupid. Customers who get stuck with one of these laptops will likely never buy another laptop from Dell or HP. Extremely shortsighted move

Apps should keep their files in their own directories. Spreading them across a 1000 different directories makes no sense and just make uninstall a hassle

Yeah, just like cutting smoking was going to reduce lung cancer.... right?

Sure, but on the flip side people are dying of sepsis from common infections too.

Common factors like caffeine also can cause antibiotic resistance to develop.

There is still a lot of work to be done around this topic. Knee-jerk reactions like limiting antibiotics are not going to help

NA EV sales tanked because of the price of the new vehicles. Companies assumed everyone was a crypto bro and had 100k to drop on a whim.

Currently most of the new EVs are by Hyundai and Kia, that I see on the road. The main factor being that they are cheap