How on earth do you introduce a bug in handling POP3 protocol? Surely that code was mature by the turn of the last century.

This is a myth. Linux malware is less common because it's a less valuable target than the more ubiquitous Windows systems.

If you want an OS that is intrinsically more secure, try OpenBSD. Their proactive auditing is second-to-none, and has been known to patch bugs before they were discovered to be exploitable.

Not so easy as one might hope. There was a time when docking stations used proprietary connectors, and while not "universal", they worked extremely well.

Since manufacturers have switched to USB-C, it's become a crapshoot. This is because USB-C defines the physical connection, not the protocol. That USB connector on your laptop might be USB 3.2, USB 4, Thunderbolt, or one of several other possibilities. In my experience with so-called "universal" docking stations, the results are just as varied. Sometimes everything works except dual monitors. Sometimes everything works except the USB-A ports. Sometimes everything works except charging. I've even seen different behaviour with the same docking station swapped between "identical" laptops. (Same model, operating system, and BIOS).

Countries all over are scrambling to reduce reliance on US trade.

Check out the fascinating history of Huey Long. He was a Governor and a Senator in the 1930s who tried to ban personal fortunes in excess of $100,000,000 with his Share Our Wealth plan. He was assassinated in 1935.

Not to mention ransomware payments, which are always demanded in crypto form.

Trump's tariff war is the biggest reason that the current Liberal government got reelected at all. The Liberals were circling the drain before Trump's aggression brought Canadians together behind Mark Carney.

The reason ventures like a new pipeline are being reconsidered in Canada is partly due to the threats to our economy inflicted by Donald Trump. The US has historically been Canada's largest trading partner. Then Trump went on an irrational tirade about trade deficits, claiming that Canada is "ripping us off" and that the US is "subsidizing Canada" by spending more money on Canadian goods. He thinks it's unfair that Canada, with a population approximately one eighth that of the US, is not buying an equal amount of goods. Never mind the fact that on a per-capita basis, Canadians buy 7 times more stuff from the US than Americans buy from Canada.

The upshot is that Donald forced Canada to lose all trust in the US as a trading partner, and the Canadian government began scrambling to protect Canada's economy by reducing reliance on US trade. This has taken all sorts of forms, such as seeking new trade deals with other countries worldwide, and boosting economic revenues of sectors such as mining and petroleum. If Donald Trump had not started wreaking such havoc with the Canadian economy, Canadians would have far less appetite for things like a bitumen pipeline.

Canada officially adopted the metric system 55 years ago. We still use both imperial and metric in daily lives. Ask a person of their height or weight, many will respond with feet, inches, and pounds. Long distances may be described in miles or kilometers. Certain items such as drill bits are almost exclusively in fractions of an inch. Temperature is in Celsius but we intuitively understand Fahrenheit. Volumes are in litres but we're somewhat comfortable with pints and cups. Gallons get a bit murky because US gallons are smaller than imperial gallons.

I still have a couple of versions of You Don't Know Jack on CD. I haven't played it in years, but it was a real hit when I set it up at parties.

You might be surprised what can be done with only 6 seconds of video. It's a challenge, like writing haiku. Some of them were pretty damned funny, and often because they were cut short in the middle of some action or reaction, leaving the rest to your imagination.

Gawd, it was bad enough when human performers sang country music with a fake southern drawl, not we have AI fakes of fake southern accents.

These people are not hackers. They're extortionists.

AI impersonation is making it harder and harder to tell legitimate people apart from fakes.

Here's an example of deepfake audio being used to impersonate a CEO and steal US$243,000.

Here's an example of an AI-generated person that is so realistic her own family couldn't tell the difference.

And here's a video conference call where everyone in the meeting other than the victim was a fake, including a deepfake of the Chief Financial Officer.

If your own family can be fooled, so much for employees being "smart enough".