We don't know yet. But the European Commission has to give its approval first. On the other hand, being from different countries might dodge the anti-trust laws (IANAL, though).

This guy really put the "up" in "upload".

My current device hierarchy, ordered by how much I would like to use it to work on a task:

My (former) work linux laptop (I bought it, data scrubbed) (Debian)
My (former) work linux desktop (same as above) (fedora, although I'd like something in the Debian tree)
My Windows VM on my linux desktop
My current gaming laptop (windows, not federated in any way)
My current gaming desktop (same as above)
My rooted android tabled
My unrooted android tablet
My no cost to me, modern with all the features I want Windows laptop that is almost identical in hardware to my first choice, company laptop

I can't put into words how much the user experience, as someone who started on MS-DOS 5 and was a wintelbro thru 2k12r2, has changed. There were manuals, there was a promise. Do things this way, it worked. That promise is gone. Entra and MS Partner program is a hot bag of undocumented garbage that changes without notice. I am spending an hour on a simple IT problem that should take 10 minutes if I were actually able to do things I was able to do two decades ago. When they doubled down on PowerShell? I was ecstatic. I believed in that commitment...deprecating ADUC for ADAC? When ADAC was just a frontend for PS? I was a believer. But now, I'm dealing with the same problems I was a decade ago. Admittedly, PS has made great inroads, but it still isn't complete. It just feels like someone got almost there and just gave up within sight of the finish line.

I know that I am not alone in this. Why is /. pushing some Microsoft marketing link? I've not really been engaged for quite a while, but I have been here...and AFAIK this community was never really happy with MS

Because yes, they are investing significantly. I'm sure using every keystroke a Windows/O365 user types to train your AI has been very helpful in your training. You actually know when it's not another AI generating the data! What a lead that must give you in a world where data-scraping has dead-ended and you have an overwhelming, systemic market share!

Just a side note FYI: In Barcelona only tourists eat paella. And it usually is fast-food paella, which tastes awful and is likely to give you an intestinal storm. Oh, wait, the bus company must be behind... Bus-Paella conspiracy, anyone?

...so for sure El Trumpo wants them down.

I know that's supposed to be impossible to do that without it being public, but I wouldn't be surprised if they Yadayada unallocate redirect DOGE contract something something

My (Japanese) wife and I got married in Spain. Then we just registered the "already existing" wedding in Japan, and that's it!
It can be a romantic alternative for Japanese couples: instead of getting married before the wedding trip, get married during the trip. They have Hawaii quite close, which is a very common holiday destination for them, so it shouldn't be that difficult.

Crossovers strike a reasonable balance if you want to minimize exterior dimension but maximize interior volume - but yeah, beyond that I don't see the appeal (and want to downsize to a sedan (not much hope for getting estate / wagon in the US) as soon as our current crossover ages out (since we'd no longer need the carrying capacity by then). I cringe whenever we travel in a group and have to ask for an Uber XL in the US - more often than not you get a big SUV that has an uncomfortable ride and does not even fit that many people ... on rare occasion you get a minivan which is much better. In Europe the Mercedes V class van is quite prevalent and that is much better as people carrier - especially because the second and third rows face each other which is great when traveling a short to medium distance together.

Asking for myself circa 2016...

Hiding a massive mobilization is virtually impossible in this day and age. That doesn't mean that other information sources aren't necessary, it means that, for this particular datum, they are somewhat redundant (although, technically in the intel world, having multiple independent sources confirming the same bits of information is something that is ALWAYS smiled upon). We may have only needed OSINT to know that the invasion was happening, but I guarantee that the powers-that-be are desperate for good HUMINT on topics like "How long will Putin's cronies put up with this crap?".

How do they envision this working, 'using more than one cloud provider' ? Replicate resources and infrastructure in each? Use the 'cheapest' individual resources (db, compute, storage) in whichever provider, and make them work together? Have competing teams working on different platforms?

You can't just divide up the work between providers like you're shipping packages or building roads. If I were assigned to do this, I'd have all my infra in one provider and perhaps a CDN endpoint in another or something, because that's about the only way this could come within a mile of not being a complete money pit and train wreck. Even if the infra could be easily replicated, you're doubling the management cost and the team required to maintain it.

"This is ageism - you're literally generalizing about people with experience based on a very limited data-set. It's just as bad as insisting on X years of experience, which discriminates against the young."

So the specific person I had in mind on this was a Cisco certified something or other installing switches, who not only insisted that unencrypted telnet was still appropriate for managing the switches because 'it was on a management VLAN' (this installation was at a public high school with multiple trunk lines, certainly nothing someone like me in high school would EVER tap into and sniff) but was also unable to get the firewall appliance (don't remember the brand) to trunk properly with the Cisco gear.

Dude was mid-thirties and had gone to local tech college for his certification. His age wasn't at issue, it was the fact that he treated (and in fairness, was probably trained to) IT like a checklist job.

The words were 'static enough', although I agree that's possibly not the best way to describe what I had intended. I am aware AD has been extended and the way it is managed in the modern era is quite a bit different, I was more trying to imply that experience gained on 10 years ago isn't totally obsolete, and may actually prove useful in the modern environment, whereas some other techs have changed so completely that same experience of ten years ago would be useless, if not counterproductive. A sort of backward-compatible nature to the experience I guess is what I was trying to imply?