We can agree EU is not good at tech but world class in extracting revenue from syntax.

The enshittification of engineering at Boeing has gone so far that at some point they will hire Elon to save them ...
In the mean time Elon deserves to get all their space contracts.

As Snowden showed, a lot of info flows from our "privately owned" companies to our state actors too.
Maybe in the end as we won't trust them and they don't trust us we'll just chop the Internet in too with a Checkpoint Charlie for data packets at the interface.

Nice to see the US is explaining to China how to sabotage the tech that the US spies are going to try and steal in the coming years.

Most probably? Have you heard the name Daszak?

Actually what they were hiding were research projects with a certain lab in Wuhan.

Have you actually seen exactly what they were trying to hide? Spoiler alert - it's something that happened BEFORE Covid became a pandemic and that involved Chinese partners. You might be a bit ... uncomfortable, when you read it.

Do they get to be friends later in life?

Apple claimed that Europe's regulation of charger connections was stifling innovation - it turns out, now it's happened that consumers love it.

so true

I can't mod you up, but I think you've perfectly summed it up.
The only real effect of this upgrade will be to ugrade the fixability number.
However, which will force the whole of the industry to follow.
And some of the third party laptops -eg Lenovo- may be genuinely user-repairable or even user -upgradeable.

So easy to first post!

Magnus never denigrated Alireza, in fact I remember a lichess online blitz where he said he was proud of having won a game against one of the best players of the next generation. He also calls Penguin (Andrew Tang) a serious blitz opponent - maybe he isn't better at chess than Carlssen but he certainly can play faster. I don't think Magnus has any issues with younger players being good at the game.

Edmund

Or else airport workers will make their lives hell