An exchange in South Korea distributed 620K wons to winners of some sort... but they accidentally shelled out 620K bitcoins instead. Recipients immediately began selling them and THAT caused the crash.

It dramatically changed my life too, in a good way. Ever since the upgrade to iOS26, my phone became completely silent from calls/texts of the scammers. People who actually want to have a legitimate conversation with me will always say their name and I always accept their calls.

On the other hand... if this was implemented by Obama or Biden, you'd be writing a heartfelt message endorsing their decision. It ain't got shit to do with your concerns for anybody's safety/security. It always boils down to hate for Trump.

Their term is not long enough to plan a major upgrade/replacement project. But most important of all, they shit their pants thinking about doing something like that. No agency chief wants the responsibility of technical issues five thousand years beyond their technical knowledge. The FAA running on decades old computers is the proof of everything.

The guy is dead... just let the matter pass. Anything dug up now is not gonna undo any harm already done.

Pretty much every neighboring country was affected the same way. My home country, Vietnam, had seen people being kidnapped by taxi drivers who spray something in the rear cabin rendering the passenger powerless. They wake up in the middle of nowhere. They were forced to do scam calls and were beaten nearly to death if they refuse. Some escaped, but most of people who attempted were re-captured and literally killed in front of the remaining victims to set examples. Some of the stories told by the escapees were the most horrific, nothing short of holocaust. I'm glad these thugs get the death sentence. Among them, the mastermind (forgot his name), is wanted by US for the same reason.

The demand of BTC purchase dropped because one man has been advocating for crypto.

This is something that I said a long time ago when 8K started arriving... 8K is impossible to distinguish using human eyes. If we perceive no benefits, we're definitely not going to pay an obscene amount of money for it. The investment in this technology is such a waste of R&D, just like the 3D TV before that.

Amazon is not taking over their own last mile delivery. The still do the long haul transports between warehouses, but the last mile is taken care of by a network of small businesses who partner with them.

By the way... if you're interested in being their delivery partner, you can study the process here https://logistics.amazon.com/

AMZ has been quietly, over the past several years, to establish relationship with newly created private small businesses whose only business is to execute the last mile delivery. The companies operate out of the AMZ warehouses right next to the packages being loaded onto their vehicles for delivery. AMZ pay those companies the rental cars, the driver wages, plus something along the line of $0.20 per package delivered. Depending on how big/efficient each company works, they earn around 150K/year. The only problem with that it's not the type of business where you can hire someone to run it for you because the earning is just enough for a personal income. If someone is very efficient they can make above 200K but not many people can. You get only Xmas, New Year and Thanksgiving days off. The business must be open the rest of the days... so you can't really have a sick day. This way they pretty much get to decide everything and not having to deal with a huge corporation who has negotiation authority.

Being a professor and all... did he not under stand what the confirmation prompt meant?

You must be referring to the TV Series "Person of Interests". Yeah if its 100% autonomous I'll believe it. But who will provide the certification of its autonomous status? I can't possibly be "Research", "Control", or "Northern Lights", or any government agency, including the executive branch.

On the one hand European governments enforce extremely strict laws about privacy. On the other, they give themselves the ability to steal any kind of communication they want. Security safeguards? Are they all doing drugs? What stops a cop (who already has access) from using it illegally in a stealthy way? Who stops him from selling that information, or worst, using it for blackmailing?

This part caught my attention; maybe the administration is trying to trigger this by design. They want this refusal so that the high risk people won't be spending the money they cannot repay. Sounds brutal but I think it might just work. Without having a credit card beyond $1K, they can't spend their life away and focus on earning more instead. In this case, the 1 year timeline makes sense. When someone is forced not to spend on the cc for a year, it should get them into the habit.