You're right, I should have added self-important assholes to the list.

I'll bet the AI companion will end up being one of the best selling among these. At least they provide some value for the buyer. The people who find it creepy (i.e. journalists, women) were never the target audience in the first place.

Ok. What specifically, did he do that was illegal? Influencing tech companies is not illegal. In fact, it is very much free speech.

You'll want to constrain the selection lest they pick something like Morning Glory Milking Farm.

I think they mean 500 words per minute, which is a fast but still comprehensible speed.

TTS is text-to-speech, the automatic conversion of text into voice. Essentially having the computer read to you.

Not sure how that's better than audio books though.

From ProPublica:

So there was a loophole in the rules. And of course they're doing this to save money, so the Americans they hired weren't highly technical and probably can't identify attempts at subterfuge.

I mean even if someone very technical was there the perform the supervision, it would still be hard to defend against a persistent attacker.

Nothing's changed partly because most businesses can see that whatever deal they sign with an ISP will be unnecessary in 4 years at most. Less if state law gets involved. Why would they acquiesce to ISP demands?

Net neutrality is much more important for smaller websites. The large internet companies have far more leverage than the ISPs. As a user, I would much sooner change my ISP than move all of my contacts over to Hotmail. That's not the case for /.

From the Alan Turing Institute:

The irony.

Plus when you're launching hundreds of these, it really doesn't matter if a few are lost. You are probably double or triple tapping targets of any significance.

I think it's worse if we had that capability and then lost it.

There exists software that if it crashed would lead to the same kind of loss of life, yet we don't have a standard that we can hold such software developers to.

There's no alternative to roads. Even if you manage to take all passenger cars off the roads, you still have busses and trucks, and your road still has to be maintained. Moreover, since most road wear is caused by these heavy vehicles, the maintenance will be more or less the same as before.

And software on American cars can be used by the CIA to spy on me. Guess which government can cause me more problems?

How many liberals have set fire to EVs? Intentionally I mean.

This. The Canadians had political problems that made it impossible to buy good buses (i.e. weatherized for winter) and then dragged their feet on infrastructure needed to make it work. Battery cold weather performance should not be a thing for busses. Heating the battery can also be done while it's charging, since you expect the bus to run continuously. The battery will heat itself up as it is used, and if it's well insulated, it will have no trouble maintaining its temperature.