Plus, it doesn't really fix the real problem that I have with my GMail address. I get tons of spam thanks to my 15 year old e-mail address being part of about 2 dozen security breaches over that time.

What I should really do is just start over and change my e-mail address on most of my commonly used accounts, but even that's a temporary solution. I know that they'll be another breach or someone will just flat out sell my e-mail address to a mailing list without my consent.

You don't think that Elon could make all those copies posted on X disappear if he really wanted them to? I think that all it would take was one phone call from Trump to make that happen.

Yeah... forget gaming. Asking Copilot to generate dumb memes for you is the best source of entertainment in 2025!

Considering that the major backers are Meta, Oracle, XAi, and Palantir, they'll probably spend the rest of their first year of their two year stint arguing over which AI framework and hosting providers to use.

Couldn't they run the EU data centers in some independent LLC HQ'ed somewhere in Europe?

You would that they could structure this somehow so it would be independent of the US regulatory framework.

That's been a problem in tech since the beginning. Take a look at the PC ads from the 1980's... They always have some old white bossman with the keyboard in their lap and another happy smiling person standing behind the computer (?!?) looking at the screen from a 90 degree angle. Nobody actually types that way, and the other person could never actually see the screen from where they're sitting.

Meta has a knack for building/buying the replacement for the "thing" that becomes cool after their original service starts to die.

Facebook started becoming uncool, so they bought and expanded Instagram.

Then TikTok became cooler than Instagram, so they added Instagram Reels for a similar bite sized mindless video experience.

People got mad at Twitter after Musk turned it into X, so then they built Threads and started migrating Instagram users to it.

Then Open AI released Sora, so they created Meta AI "Vibes" to compete in the AI generated slop video space.

If someone else comes up with a new social media platform, I'm sure that they'll either buy them as well or compete a competing product and crush them with advertising and cross promotion.

Isn't Texas one of those states that requires ID verification to watch adult content? If so, you might actually have a valid case here. Watching someone else's porn without consent AND with no ID verification is probably a double whammy in Texas law.

Does anyone remember the Firefox phone OS debacle? I'll bet that one cost them tens of millions.

As least as of today, the AI slop in Firefox is restricted to a slide out menu on left hand side that brings up a console for your LLM of choice. If you don't like it, just close the side menu and be done with it.

It's not nearly as obnoxious as Chrome or Edge, where they have a Gemini or Copilot agent reading everything on screen, eagerly waiting to offer "suggestions". I'm not sure what's done with the data they're scraping, but I can't imagine that they are just tossing it out without feeding at least some of it to an ad targeting mechanism.

I think that the original plan under the Biden admin was to make EPA fuel mileage and emission guidelines so strict that by 2031 only plug-in hybrid and EV pickups could meet them. That way, you don't have to "worry" about EV pickups being more expensive than their gas counterparts when the gas versions can no longer be built or sold new. I guess that you could still get a used one, but those older trucks aren't going to last forever.

Hey... maybe that one prolific pro-nuclear poster on Slashdot will finally get their wish, and we'll be drowning in cheap power by 2029.

I doubt it, but dare to dream?

It sounds like Ford is trying to keep their new battery plants busy until we get a new administration in 2029 that's going to try to force everyone to start buying EV trucks.Which is probably a smart move.

Considering that the major backers are Meta, Oracle, XAi, and Palantir, they'll probably spend the first year of their two year stint arguing over which AI framework and hosting providers to use.

I have to wonder if the Trump admin has a shortage of tech workers thanks to all of the people that they laid off due to DOGE. I'd imagine that many more top performers just got sick of dealing with Elon's incoherent ramblings in early 2025 and went elsewhere.

That said, they're probably still saving money by hiring new tech workers right out of college for the lowest wages possible. They can probably offer pennies on the dollar now, considering that most big tech companies are trying to avoid hiring junior workers and use AI and outsourced labor where ever possible.