Describing Belgium as a 3rd world country says more about you than Belgium, but I'll agree with a lot of the rest you wrote.
Belgium has a population approaching 12 million, that court thinks they are more important than they really are. I suspect this happened because Internet Archive could not afford the lawyers to counter whoever brought this action.

There is one difference, I only skimmed through the previous iteration of this story but did not notice an explicit claim that Maury Blackman was behind the removal. Implicitly? That's a different story.

Everyone I know who makes my equivalent AGI, except for my household, has 1+ dogs, work crazy hours, and have been told that their dogs are lonely and depressed.

Not one or two people.

EVERYONE. Dozens upon dozens of my clients, colleagues, peers, friends from grade school, etc, have a dog or two, and then they have to have someone come spend time with said dog when they're putting 10+ hours away from them.

Wag/Rover/etc is part of their crazy consumer spending. I always am shocked to hear they're spending $1000 a month on their pets.

Americans are insane about their pets. Instead of buying a dog, I invest in corporate veterinary hospitals, because it's crazy profitable.

Given that the previous story on the main page is https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/28/1732217/chinese-universities-want-students-to-use-more-ai-not-less, they are reacting to what a very large number of potential customers want.
Me? I don't use Windows or Edge.

Switzerland has had this problem for 80 years now.
From what I've read a couple of decades ago, Switzerland was a primary beneficiary from WW2. Quite apart from selling Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns to both sides, large sums had been deposited into bank accounts in that country by Jews who did not survive the war - and also by some Nazis later on. At least the Nazis were more likely to have immediate family members still living, unless they went for murder-suicides like Goebbels. It was allegedly policy for the big Swiss banks to require all details from people claiming their inheritances and a lot of people could not do that, that policy only changed decades later.

Looks like this one from 37 hours ago although they at least reference different source articles.

Compounding their error, this is not the first time AI quotes have been found to be bogus, and it's not the second time either. Absolutely pathetic.

Why is everyone repeating that $175 million figure? Having RTFA it is given there as £100m (oh, Slashdot still has not got around to implementing Unicode, 100m GBP). He was even giving technical support (via Telegram) after he'd been arrested.
He will have been 17 to 19 years old while he was selling the kits, so he will have been a minor for some of these offences.
Having seen where Eastcote is, I realised I lived in that area for a few years but it is well before he was born.

Eric Schmidt, Google's former CEO

Looks like he's no longer part of the problem.

People who send me too many Signal or WhatsApp (sorry, I need that one) messages get muted, either for a week or permanently.
Apps which alert me to things I don't care about, they are no longer permitted to send me notifications.
Spam cold callers who don't show their numbers? I no longer take calls from anonymous callers.

Older versions of Android used to cause a light to flash on notifications, my new phone no longer does that and that means hours of battery life just through that simple fix.

You can reconfigure that button the way it was.
Last Friday I was looking at rebooting my phone, pressing the normal button brought up this helpful message telling me how to use Google Gemini. A couple of minutes later I had the normal button back to doing the normal things when I pressed it, still a total PITA when it happened.

There is no right to privacy.

There is no right to your image.

Government can TRY to make those rights, but the freedom of expression is superior to the idea that you can stop me from hand drawing your image when you're at the beach.

Are these values "continuously measured" or is the logging event driven?
As to what the difference between simultaneous and two seconds, the "simultaneous" end of the scale is a clear indication that the switch locking mechanism was broken.

08:08:42 Engine 1 fuel switch flips to CUTOFF
08:08:43 Engine 2 fuel switch flips to CUTOFF

A question: What is the the granularity of those times given? I get the impression that it is one second, but there is quite a difference between
08:08:42.999 Engine 1 fuel switch flips to CUTOFF
08:08:43.000 Engine 2 fuel switch flips to CUTOFF
and
08:08:42.000 Engine 1 fuel switch flips to CUTOFF
08:08:43.999 Engine 2 fuel switch flips to CUTOFF
One of those is essentially "simultaneously" and the other pretty much two seconds apart.
Even tenths of a second would be better than what we have been given.

Even reading the second half of the summary was sufficient to understand that.
In my case I don't have a social media presence and am not prepared to shell out $500 * for a meal so it's "other people's lives".

* - $500 US, I've been to Jamaica and (years previously) Hong Kong. 500 of their dollars would be more acceptable.