Temporary storage of an IP address, purely for preventing cyber attacks, not linked to any other data, does not require GDPR consent.

All browsers should switch to discarding all site data by default, unless the user specifically indicates that they want to keep it. That could be by logging in, or it could be a manual confirmation.

I use CookieAutoDelete to enforce that on Firefox. All site data, including cookies, gets deleted after I leave the site, unless I specifically tell it that I want to retain it.

It was the studio. It's also something that has been going on for years. Cuts and edits are often made to suit local laws, e.g. the UK release of Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones was censored in the UK to remove a head butt, which would have bumped its classification up from PG and limited its audience.

Japan is another market where it happens frequently. As well as laws around censorship of genitals, there are some about showing drug use. Sometimes movies just don't get released or are heavily delayed while the hype dies down and then come out on DVD, like Oppenheimer.

No refund?

It's not worth it. For every time it costs you money to replace the whole unit, another 9 times you saved money.

Especially in cars where electronics need to be highly resistant to vibration and moisture. You don't want sockets or rework on the boards.

I estimate no more than 5 seconds from launch to the first complaint that Copilot showed someone's kid porn.

It's only 5 seconds because Microsoft's bloated code won't be able to do it any faster than that.

The idea of relying on commercial providers to develop this stuff at their own expense is okay if you aren't in any hurry to get back to the moon, but if you are... Their commercial timelines are probably not going to line up with your political ones.

Still, it would be interesting if Chinese and Americans could meet up on the moon in the next decade, Apollo-Soyuz style.

Well the keyless entry can be useful. For example my car lets you open the boot by kicking under the bumper, if you have the key on you. Useful when your hands are full.

Anything less than 100% security negates that occasional benefit though.

With Arabic they use a different pen nib that makes pushing easier, so they can rest their hand further down. That doesn't help with top to bottom languages though, and for them as they first adopted European stationary and were influenced by European languages, it made more sense to go left to right.

Brexit and the fact that LR vehicles are very easy to steal due to a botched keyless entry system probably did more harm. COVID too of course.

Some keywords can get your video demonetized or hidden from searches. The rules keep changing and are not clear. At the moment mentioning Epstein in the first 10 minutes seems guaranteed to get your video hidden.

Right. You are at the border. Tired from your long flight. Agent asks for a cheek swab. Your choices are to refuse and at best get turned away and have to go back to where you came from, at worst they arrest and detain you for weeks or months, steal your stuff, trying to break into your phone and computer, and eventually deport you.

From the sound of it they are having issues with under-performance causing lag, and/or bad wireless interfaces. The CPU and the wireless chip are probably soldered to the PCB and not replaceable, so easiest thing will be to just replace the whole computer.

They may also have run into component reliability or software premature ageing issues. Tesla had that with early model computers, where excessive logging would wear the flash memory out in a few years and brick the car. They were very difficult about out-of-warranty replacements, but in the UK if it's a design flaw like that they can't really avoid it.

Geely is fine. Their other brands have decent reliability records, like Zeekr, Polestar, other Volvo models, even Lotus (as far as luxury sports cars go). They aren't on the level of BYD or SAIC, but they are also not the reason why Volvo is having issues. Volvo is mostly antonymous, they just use Geely parts where possible, and the computer doesn't seem to have anything to do with them.

BYD just set a record for the fastest production car ever. In the video the driver lets go of the steering wheel at 350kph. Must seem slow when you were doing 500kph a few moments earlier.