Does this mean 3rd parties will be able to buy all the computer modules and things for the tractors and load the firmware packages onto them and then install them into the tractors and have everything work?

The difference is that an E-Scooter doesn't contain any of the data harvesting that you get in a car...

We have all the Chinese EVs in Australia and yet the Model Y was the best selling car (of any kind) in Australia for May of 2026.
I don't think Chinese EVs would kill Tesla.

I could absolutely see it hurting the EVs being put out by Detroit though...

Considering what AI (that is built with safeguards and/or restricted in its availability) is already capable of when it comes to finding exploits in software and other dangerous things, imagine what an AI specifically built as an offensive cyber-weapon could be capable of doing.

The companies that design the chips and contract overseas fabs to make them are very much American. The US can absolutely tell, say, NVIDIA that it has to do this with its chips regardless of where they ultimately get made.

I don't know what its like in other countries but here in Australia, cheap EVs from brands like BYD and MG have been very popular and I haven't heard any stories of them being unreliable or of the companies behind them giving bad service.

I know someone who owns an MG EV and they have had nothing bad to say about it or the brand.

The modern technological world (interactive personal computing devices, global packed-switched data networks etc) probably wouldn't exist in the form it does if it wasn't for the US government and its agencies like DARPA and NSF.

There is an excellent book called "The Dream Machine" that tells the story of how the US government bankrolled much of the computing revolution of the late 20th century.

Do the people of the UK (i.e. all those people who voted at the last election and will vote at the next election) actually want this ban or is the government saying "we know people don't want this but it is necessary to keep kids safe online so we are implementing it anyway"?

In what way is having less choice of news outlets (once CNN and CBS are under the same owner) not harmful to consumers?

Congestion pricing is only an option in places that have good alternatives to driving, something that a freeway in California does not have.

Leave politics out of the decisions around energy (coal, gas, nuclear, wind, solar, hydro, whatever) and let the free market figure it out and you will get a good outcome for energy users.

Any account with permission to upload packages to NPM should be required to have strong 2FA (TOTP or a hardware key of some sort or something equally secure), have session tokens that are linked to the browser/IP/device (to prevent session token theft) and maybe also require a 2FA auth before a file upload.

Although I am sure there are some who will say "that's not acceptable, we need to be able to automate things and 2FA gets in the way". Sorry but security against hackers is more important than being able to click "go" on some CI setup and have it automatically upload the new version with no human actions.

Is this as bad for the environment as the current methods of extracting lithium?

Just making the content in Canada is not enough, its about "preserving Canadian culture" or some BS...

It should be possible to buy a car that has NO network connectivity of any kind, NO GPS or satnav (maps on your phone connected through Android Auto or Apple CarPlay is better than in-built satnav on basically any car anyway), and NO data harvesting (so nothing for the insurance companies to use against you)