Well, that's how a capitalist, free market economy is conceived in the US: the fiduciary duty of for-profit companies consists of maximizing profits for their shareholders, and ethical considerations must not get in the way of the pursuit of that goal.

This amounts to work done for for-profit companies for free. What are people who report such things getting from the companies that will directly benefit from such reports? In this case, could the guy have reasonably charged, say, 100 hours at $100/hr? I understand that some companies give some compensation, but I don't know how much, and according to what criteria. What happens if they don't give what the reporter thinks that is deserved?

Bezos is a consumate asshole, after all.

Accumulating negatives quickly leads to confusing sentences. For example, what does "This is a book that you must on no account fail to miss" mean?

That so many do is a permanent source of amazement.

An exceptional country indeed.

Read Paul Krugman's Substack column: he says something to that effect on a regular basis.

I will always remember where I was and what I was doing when I learned about such momentous news. The world will never be the same after such a tour de force in the high-tech industry. Not even the development of the microprocessor, or of the incomparably useful quantum computer can even hope to rival this.

I ditched Plex long ago: Jellyfin does what I want.

The fiduciary duty of those running a for-profit company is to maximize profits for their shareholders, not to keep employees in the company's payroll. If the shareholders are, to a large extent, foreign investors then, so be it.

Your employer is not your friend; don't forget that the next time they bring up the condescending and populist "we are a big family" nonsense. The conclusion is that if you can (metaphorically) stab your employer in the back, that is what you should do.

Can one trust e.g. that Microsoft's office software will not share data with the US government? Trust them at your own peril.

Thank the orange orangutan for that: that's his achievement in this ridiculous war that he launched.

Not even blurry photos nor videos this time around - remarkable in a world in which practically everybody walks around with a camera in their pockets of such a quality that would have made a professional photographer twenty years ago cry with envy.

Much of the current AI push in for-profit companies is aimed toward carrying on doing exactly what they have been doing along, but with far fewer employees. There are almost no attempts to use AI to do new stuff.

MS and security have been an oxymoronic textbook example for decades now.