Due to the end of support, they are heading to the scrap heap 3 years earlier, in 2025.

I don't think this is necessarily about stopping progress. There are situations (such as school classwork, academic research papers etc) where you need to know whether something is coming from an AI program rather than a human, and this can detect those without getting in the way of real useful use of the technology.

One would assume that it worked when the answer was written for the exact question that was being answered. Whether it still works and for the question you are answering is a different matter.

People who expect AI to completely replace human decision making are going to be disappointed. People who dismiss or ignore AI are probably going to lose jobs to it. AI is a tool, and in the hands of someone who can properly evaluate the usefulness of its suggestions will be a big productivity boost.

The outcome will be a loss of anonymity and any ability to erase posted tweets whether by moderators or the original author. The set of people who see both those things as a positive is probably quite small.

That isn't really what the case is about though - if it were that simple the chain would just pay them.

Tabelog changed their algorithm some time back in response to complaints from independent restaurant owners that their algorithm was favoring chain restaurants. The chain owner says that 55% of their restaurants' ratings dropped, none went up, as a result of this change, and argue that it disadvantages them compared to independent restaurants. As a remedy they want to see how the algorithm works so they can invest effort that independent restaurants cannot afford into gaming the ratings system, like they used to.

Reading these comments make me wonder what third world country you all are living in. Around here, if you are in an urban, or even some rural areas, you get fibre installed for free to your property boundary, and just pay for the wiring inside. Internet is a public utility and you shouldn't be dealing with DSL and cable in this decade.

The courts in NZ have ordered him to be extradited. I think he is on his last appeal now, having dragged it out for around a decade.

If you don't mind law enforcement going through it, I guess some random criminal's piracy distribution network is a feasible alternative.

Scammers surprised that other scammers exist.

He has cancer?

He wore a black turtleneck?

My guess, without looking at the company financials, is that it is a bit of both. They benefitted so much from the COVID work environment, that they were always going to drop down from that high, plus the entire market is losing value. This will be a combination of general market sentiment and a correction of a temporary overvaluation thanks to the unsustainable growth due to COVID.

The "company value" is based on what the market thinks. At the start of COVID, growth will have outpaced expectations, so the value shot up, probably to more than the company was actually worth in the long run. As people go back to the office and usage drops, the market sees the drop in revenue and reacts accordingly (even though they should have known from the start that the COVID spike was going to be a temporary glitch). Combined with a general drop in the market, that is probably all you are seeing, not any operational failure that affects the long term prospects of the company.

This.

If your customers have manufacturing in China, you have no control over where your parts end up.
If you don't, then you probably still have no control, and very low sales volume.

You're missing the fact that USB-C connectors can be bought on the open market, and certification is optional (though you can't use any USB trademarks without it), while Apple requires certification. The lab fees for certification dwarf the membership fees in both cases if you are making more than one product.

Not less, the government just wants to take its cut.