"Monitoring" is all but useless once a malicious actor opens a new account in your name. With persistence you may be able to reverse the damage to your credit, but you have to put in the effort yourself because the credit monitoring companies and credit reporting agencies sure won't do it of their own accord. And even if you manage to set the record straight, *somebody* has to pay for all the purchases made on the fraudulent credit cards obtained in your name before they were shut down. In the end, we all pay.

The solution isn't credit monitoring, but better controls on your account to begin with.

Declare the current collection of garbage to be a sculpture. Problem solved.

Pretty sure the existing Windows code is already non-human-modifiable, otherwise they would've fixed the bugs by now.

Why? There's sure to be plenty of work fixing the inevitable bugs this project generates.

The legal notice says Google has copied a "large corpus" of Disney's works to train its gen AI models, which is believable, as Google's image and video models will happily produce popular Disney characters -- they couldn't do that without feeding the models lots of Disney data.

Not true. Google could have fed the models data produced by other people, e.g. fan fiction, parodies, etc. (But, that being said, we all know that Google probably did feed their models with actual Disney content, wink-wink.)

Wow, that's HEAVY!

Yes, and committing burglary would incur a stiff jail sentence from the local authorities, but that doesn't seem to stop lots of would-be burglars.

Obnoxious !== illegal. Being obnoxious doesn't warrant having your camera/glasses broken.

So, like Reagan's SDI ("Star Wars") defense shield in the 1980s.

It sure seems like most of Windows 11 was vibe coded with Copilot. But tell me again why we want AI forced onto our OS.

If I buy a car in South America and drive it back to the US, how/where will I be obligated to pay tariffs? Will I be able to just drive across the border unimpeded or will the authorities make me pay?

2026 will surely be the year of quantum computing, Linux on the desktop, and full self driving cars!

7. Moving fast and breaking things

How convenient that they fixed this after the end of Windows 10 support.

It's called Mr. Robot and Sony is playing the part of Evil Corp.