This is one place place where there should be tariffs: Domestic companies exploiting foreign workers as cheap labor.

Well, by now, since everyone has its own personal wiretap in the pocket (smartphone) that constantly listens and report all activity to the big data companies, they no longer need this fancy stuff in secret rooms.

Privacy no longer matters to anyone, so there's no news to this, or the people just don't care enough for the news outlet to care about the subject.

All my smart TVs are kept dump. They don't get my Wifi SSID / pass.

I prefer connecting a nice AlmaLinux mini PC to it. Fast enough UI, standard and compatible browsers, no data collection.

Wow. You must be new here. No one does that. I mean, most don't even read the full summary.

I just learned it from the title.

Not sure about UK or USA, but here in Quebec (Canada), the healthcare system still relies on Fax machines for communications between different departments or hospitals. Same thing with the passport office in Canada, when they require a document, you have to send it by Fax machine, even if you have the document in your hands and are standing right in front of the person requesting it at the passport office.

Another thing, the healthcare system in Quebec still requires having embossed cards for health insurance AND for the hospital card. You could be dying in the emergency room, if you don't have your hospital card, they'll let you die until they had time to print your embossed card. There is even a hospital that almost stopped working because their embossing printer stopped working.

Outdated systems is not a conspiracy. It's because it's so complex to publish RFPs and deliver projects that most administrations will let existing systems go to collapse before they're replaced or upgraded urgently and with steep budget busts.

Back in the days, Google would just find relevant stuff crawling the web, in these days where SEO wasn't a thing. Now, if you have great info but no SEO skills, you'll be on the 16th page in the results and get no hit on your great info.

AI is getting relevant, cause it gets (mostly) good answers to questions, compared to Google, where answers are getting more and more sponsored, and less relevant.

As for TikTok, AKA the PRC, I can't say, I will never let that shit in my home on smartphone. Just as Temu.

If so, why aren't they simply using one of the gazillion cryptos already existing? Some are barely traceable, and can then be converted to USDT or other USD pegged crypto, then exchanged for real money.

I suspect it to be one more scheme to finance their father's legal troubles with the fool's money voting for the Donald, after the book and the running shoes...

Except if you're gullible, as the masses are. Just as in this quote from Men In Black. "A person is smart, people are dumb." When it's relayed on the social media, people become as dumb as a crowd.

Those who tend to follow the masses are the most prone to be tricked and skewed by online half truths, or by downright "Truths" from Truth Social or X posts. What we could call "The 80%". In the 20% remaining, you have those of us who can really think for themselves.

You guys find this funny, but knowledge gets lost these days. Poor guy, people are laughing at his comment, while he has an ID in the in the 6M mark. Probably new from last week.

Read The Fucking Article.

This is to refresh the knowledge among us all, and keep it alive!

Maybe using accurate words, instead of marketing punchlines, would make the climate cause more credible. From what I hear, it has become a big joke. Always using bigger superlatives lowers the credibility level.

I don't understand how a Chinese company, or one that is owned by foreign interests (even if it the company is established in the US) could be covered by the US constitution anyway. Moreover, it has nothing to do with the constitution, it's a health safety issue, and national security issue

iOS and Android are spywares from the start. Both of them. They report all kinds of data (location, browsing habits, app usage, etc...) to the mother ship.

Then you have to trust that they won't leak / provide it.

The only way to NOT have a permanent spyware with you is to not have that iWhatever or Android with you.

Seems like it's the whistleblowers dying inadvertently.

So now you're getting higher prices whenever you try to buy airline tickets on Expedia, or toilet paper on Amazon? Asking for a friend...