Well, Linux is European, and we are at least less hostile than the US.

China has domestic hardware for government computers.

For example, they have multiple domestic CPU designs. RISC-V, ARM, MIPS, and even some licensed AMD Epyc cores with the random number generators replaced by domestic designs.

Richard Stalman used to have one of the MIPS CPUs IIRC, until it got stolen. Reason being that it was the freest laptop available at the time, running almost entirely open source software.

Cloning the data won't help. The data on any half decent phone is encrypted. The encryption key is kept insecure a secure memory, which requires the password to unlock.

When you use the duress password, it doesn't overwrite the data on the flash memory, instead that key is wiped. The secure memory has an integrated processor that generates a new key.

Merely having a copy of the data is useless, because unless there is a flaw in the key generation there is no way you can decrypt it. If there is a flaw, a mere border agent probably isn't going to have access to that information, it's the sort of thing that the NSA keeps to itself.

If you don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons, disarm Israel. They have at least 100 nukes, and multiple ways to deliver them. Stop the settler state sponsored terrorism too.

Take away the reason why Iran thinks it needs nukes to secure its existence.

If they find water it will certainly put them at the forefront of moon science.

By the way, those articles seem fine. The first two are well established history at this point.

Just because it is sold cheap doesn't mean it isn't valuable. It may just be that people who value it don't know it exists, or it isn't available due to international shipping, or they won't start looking for years to come.

That's why I get scanned books onto the Internet Archive. Maybe nobody will care, but maybe someone will 10 or 100 years from now.

Competition is usually good. YouTube has been rapidly enshittifying, and there isn't really any alternative.

You can have both physical controls and a big screen. I like having a big screen for Android Auto, but wouldn't give up the buttons for other functions either.

Some of that stuff is good. Autopilot systems that actually work are great for long distance driving. You need some compute power for Android Auto/Carplay, and having a built in sat nav can be useful too. Remote management of air conditioning and charging are very nice to have.

Of course BMW's ads and other bullshit would be enough for me to return the car. My car has physical buttons for key functions too.

If they do find ice there, it's going to be huge. And an issue for the US, because everyone wants to go look there, but if the Chinese find it first it will be politically difficult to justify following their lead.

Unfortunately cooperation is too much to hope for, but it looks likely that China will get boots on the ground there before 2030 either way.

It's supposed to be about enabling new technologies and new business opportunities. It's hard to say how much slow broadband holds things back, but Starlink claims "typically" between 10 and 30 Mbps upload speed. If you work from home then I hope you don't need to share any large files. I work from home and that would be a major impediment to me.

That's just Musk hype, i.e. hopelessly optimistic drug-induced rambling.

I'm sure when they finally get it to work, Starship will be cheaper than other options. It won't be as cheap as he claims though, not by a long shot. There will probably be cheaper options too - Musk often claims he is going to make the cheapest product, but fails and others do even better than he was hoping to. Cars, solar, batteries, tunnels, robots.

To expand on your excellent point a little, the issue here is that they are offering a service, and users can use that service to create songs in the style of famous artists. If you asked some random session musician to create a song that sounds like a Tailor Swift one, with vocals matching her voice as closely as possible, using everything they know about her musical style, they would probably refuse.

It's the same with non-consensual use of people's likenesses, and requests to write novels in the style of famous authors. The only humans that do it usually hide behind an alias and post pseudo-anonymously online. Very few dare charge for the service.