Is Australia one of the countries (and just for the sake of completeness, is Austria?).

I just checked, and 66% of the electorate voted in 2020, it was 64% in 2024 (Figures for the presidential election).
The figures for the mid-term elections held at the same time were 50% and 46%.
The 2020 figures constituted a record over the last 100 years, the 2024 presidential figure looks pretty close to the record if you ignore 2020 but I think the midterm figure may have been exceeded once or twice in the 1960s and early 1970s.

I'm in Europe now and there was a spate of arson attacks a couple of months ago, sometimes hitting the same target multiple times. Some of these attacks were unsolved AFAIK but in cases where they managed to get hold of the "perps", most (or all) of them were teenagers from the Netherlands who had been trained and then driven to near the targetted building with the materials they needed to carry out the attacks.

One of the browsers I use cannot handle Cloudflare Capchas, I'm not sure if it's down to browser sniffing or some incompatibility, but at that point I either say fuck it or copy the link into another browser.

I can think of another company which has a search engine and is also one of the "big boys" when it comes to AI. Do Microsoft do their own AI crawling or is it sufficiently separated from Bing's that Cloudflare can tell them apart (so far).
A second approach is that Google's search engine is their original business. How tolerant would their user-base be if Cloudflare blocked their crawler, worldwide. That war would hurt the sites depending on Google for their traffic, but it would also hurt Google as well. The DOJ was already going after the company (not sure if that's still a "thing" under Trump) but their machinations take years anyway, as thegarbz points out, the EU more likely to get involved and they sometimes move faster.

btw, the real link is not paywalled.

I'm just wondering how far the parallels with IBM during the Nazi years go, IBM supplied the tools the Nazis needed to identify Jews for deportation and extermination. Obviously I was not around back then but I'd like to know whether that cooperation was public knowledge and what the general public thought of it (in the pre-war years).

So? Donald Trump was registered as a Democrat from 2001 to 2009, although that was when Dubya was President so that makes sense.

And?

This happened yesterday as well, you'd think they would learn.

I do a lot of browsing using Seamonkey, and that browser cannot handle some fairly recent changes to Javascript. Most Slashdot functions don't need them but the login process does. I logon there by moving the cursor just to the SE of the "Submit" button, then slowly North until my logon appears. After that I'm home free.

The article linked shows a painting depicting the battle of Sluys, what this article skips is that back then only the nobles were taken prisoner (because they could be ransomed), anyone else was killed. Going back to the main article, Geoffrey Chaucer is mentioned as a soldier and diplomat who had been ransomed back in 1359.

How much is this problem is down to AI and how much to beautiful tariffs?

You're suggesting The Matrix is the way to go?

Just out of interest, did DOGE go after the FAA at any time?
We had a Slashdot poster (posting as a/c of course) blaming DEI whenever anything went wrong at Boeing, as you can imagine that was a lot of posts.