Those illegal narcotics are physically in New York right now. Are the internet servers?

More like will.

It obviously gives us guarantees in terms of what the source will do and what the compiled code should need.

These do not provide memory safety, so memory bugs would not be solved by these. They will find unexpected behavioural issues, though.

The precondition and postcondition statements are not cunningly-disguised assert statements because they're not asserted at runtime. They're enforced at static check and/or compile time.

The policy hints mean that if the kernel is doing something you're not expecting, you find this when testing the code. Equally, though, it means that users cannot cause the software to venture into realms unknown through many of the usual attack vectors because those will require permissions that aren't there.

I read it - and found it interesting - when I was around 15, but that is a while ago now.
My initial thought here was "no wonder Trump is a fan" of AI models.

Boss' Boss: "Why are we paying him to remote in when we can hire an international team to remote in for 24/7 redundant button clicking at half the price of one person?"

International team: "North Korea is willing to pay us to do the job we were hired to do. Sounds tempting..."

What about Edward Bulwer-Lytton? An author so inspiring they named awards after him.

There is a bill which has either just been passed or is currently being discussed, it is to criminalise calling Israel's right-to-exist into question. It looks to me to be stupid posturing because the German constitution guarantees free speech.
What you will see quite frequently in Germany is a city banning a political demonstration for some reason or other. The organisers then appeal this ban in a court (it takes maybe a day) and it gets overturned. I can't remember such a ban not being overturned but maybe there were a couple, several years ago. It is stupid posturing with taxpayers' money which only serves to give work to a few lawyers.

There were two duty officers executing a warrant at the house of Niehoff

Was one of the unnamed people called Niehoff? I even did a text search in that Yahoo link and there was n-o-t-h-i-n-g.

Oh, Remember "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" from the early 1970s? Their "very interesting, but stoopid" fake German wore Nazi uniforms with all the associated symbols, I assume that could never have been shown in Germany. It could not have been anyway, nowadays most Germans speak decent English but that was not the case back then.

You know that the Telegraph was bought by the Axel Springer Verlag (which is German) a couple of weeks ago? I wonder how long that "rabidly anti-German" is liable to last.

The actual link takes you to a Yahoo page which is allegedly quoting a Telegraph article 1:1. I suppose that's borderline acceptable because an attempt to read a Telegraph article gets you a "Create your free account or log in" message, but the FA should have least carried a link to the original story.
I would have liked to have at least looked at the original article (without an account) to see when it was written and maybe also who wrote it - the Telegraph was taken over by the German "Axel Springer" group a couple of weeks ago.

Looking more closely at the allegations (and only articles from Germany and in German), Rainer Zitelmann compared Hitler with Putin - including pictures of both - and someone apparently took exception and complained to the police. RZ has no idea whether it was a Putin fan, a neo Nazi or whatever who complained. According to his lawyer, it was pretty much a joke and the complainant did not have a leg to stand on, the police agreed and dropped charges citing "insufficient evidence".
I remember discussions on this particular law around 45 years ago (it's nothing new), there had been an anti-Nazi demonstration in Berlin back then and the Police went after some of those involved for "glorifying forbidden symbols" - they showed a Nazi cross with a red line through it on a banner saying "Stop Nazis". This was during the cold war when West Berlin was an island surrounded by East Germany, some of the things the police got up to back then (with backing from the courts) were pretty outrageous - including a murder of a student in a crowd and refusal of medical help to a prisoner with cancer until it was too late. A terrorist group named themselves after the date of that murder and killed a politician or two before fading away, I don't think they were ever caught.

Now to Naomi Seibt and the AfD. I'd never heard of her but Naomi Seibt appears to be a Laura Loomer figure who was under observation by the "MI5 equivalent" as a potential extremist. Whenever there's an extremist political crime in Germany (or the UK for that matter) you will either hear that the perpetrator was under observation or that they were not. That Islamic murderer in Berlin a day or so ago (CSD) had been under observation. I don't know how many people currently have that status, Naomi Seibt used that (and her online friendship with Elon Musk) to claim persecution and go for asylum in the US.
The AfD is a collection of various streams of right-wingers with various motivations, some of them mutually exclusive. Some of the things some of them are calling for (expelling naturalised citizens of a darker hue) are explicitly against the country's constitution - the Nazis withdrew citizenship from Jews back in the day and the constitution explicitly rules that kind of thing out.

Three British MPs have been murdered in the past 11 years. Jo Cox (Labour) by a neo Nazi, someone whose name escapes me (Conservative) by an Islamic terrorist and Ann Widdecombe (Conservative, then Brexit, then "Reform" (Brexit re-branded)). Ann Widdecombe retired years ago, she was a public figure who appeared on TV a lot and was murdered around 3 weeks ago by some weirdo for reasons that I don't think have been made public yet, I believe he was not "under observation".

No amount of forest management can help a forest that's tinder dry the whole year.

I live in the Okanagan valley in BC, and this winter we got so little snow, and the snow pack had melted off extra early. A deeper snow pack lets the water feed the water system over a longer period of time, keeping the ground wet for longer. Our early summer was a little cooler and wetter than usual, but our lake levels are the lowest in recorded history. (My city is in between two lakes: Okanagan and Skaha.) I talk to the farmers at the market every week, and every farm exists in a different microclimate, so sometimes 10 minutes between farms is the difference between ground so wet you can't walk in the fields and dusty-dry conditions.

But overall, it's hot and dry here, and getting hotter and drier. We've been on level 2 water restrictions since early May, if I remember right, and we've had a campfire ban for about the same time. There was no ice on the lake over the winter--the long-distance outdoor swimmers swam the whole winter this year. 40-50 years ago (long before I moved here, this is just what the older folks around town say) the lake froze over so solid that you could drive a car across it.

The tinder isn't the issue anymore, even though it's true that we ignored the indigenous people here for too long and should have adopted their land use practices. I wish it were as easy as you say.

As someone with aphantasia, the settings never really stick with me (or that may be separate from the aphantasia, honestly, I don't know) but the vibe is very much what I was hoping for.

I read the book again a couple years ago, and it's aged really well, honestly. The things he gets wrong aren't that critical, in my opinion. I've read a lot of scifi that has done a much worse job of hanging together, even though it's only 10 or 20 years old. Neuromancer was published when I was a kid, and even the NAME is still cool as hell.

The system would have been designed to identify potential issues such as overgrown lawns, peeling paint, and illegal dumping

Ok, so the night before the garbage trucks visit, dump all kinds of crap on the lawns of those who voted for this. Peeling paint is a bit more difficult to organise but spreading the seeds of fast-growing weeds is also an option when the homeowners are away on holiday.