(alt subject : "Oops, all data breaches!")

Nothing to see here, just normal day-to-day government work circumventing the 4th amendment by outsourcing data collection to the private sector. This kind of thing happens all the time.

Move along, Citizen!

What experience does Blue Origin have with building and operating a space telecommunications network? Any?

Apparently, no. Apple Maps Renames Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ After Trump Order

You said home ISPs sought to deploy Trusted Network Connect about 20 years ago. It hasn't happened. What's holding it up? The rise of mobile devices, smart TVs, and other devices incompatible with the remediation means available in quarantine?

Welp, that was short-lived. Apple Maps Renames Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ After Trump Order

Snubbing Huang and Su is not as notable as some of whom made the list. It is one thing to decide that there are a lot of relevant, highly influential people, and inevitably some cuts are going to have to be made. But Paris Hilton made the list. Seriously?

It's more a case of the fox being in charge of the chicken coop; or bank robbers gaining control of the bank.

The job of the press in a democracy is to hold officials up to scrutiny.

Has he(George Santos) done anything to help the Republican Party?


Yes, he has. He has made a bald-faced mockery of the rule of law. That's priceless for supporters of an imperial presidency.

The fact of the matter is that the very existence of unregulated bookies like Kalshi incentivizes actions that may not be reversible, like, I dunno, bombing another country or burning down an orphanage.

Hypocrisy would seem to imply that both Kristen Welker and Trump are lying, but what Welker said was absolutely true - Trump has had some mixed results with his endorsements as not all of those he endorses have won. Trump even confirms it in his rant, "when the recent WINS of Darline Graham and Mike Mazzei, stand at 100% for the U.S. Senate, and 98% for the U.S. House" -- Trump's longer-term success rate is lower, and his memory is apparently shorter...

From Trump Boasts His Endorsement is ‘Strongest in History of Politics’

The article then goes on to list his endorsement success rate over more years ranging all the way down to 43%. Seems like mixed results to me.

I imagine many/most things, specifically here phones, are like this. They (can) keep working just fine even after they stop being supported by the manufacturer - which, arguably, should longer for most things - but some (many? most?) people balk at continuing to use them. Seems like planned obsolescence to drive continued new sales - and generate a lot of eWaste...

Others are content to keep using a device until they literally can't. For example, my first cell phone was a Qualcomm QCP-1900 I had from 1998-2015 on PrimeCo, which became nTelos, which was bought out in my area by Sprint, which wouldn't support the phone's spectrum. I then had a Kyocera HydroVIBE from 2015-2021 on Ting/Sprint until Sprint was bought out by T-Mobile who wouldn't support CDMA and required VoIP (which the phone didn't support) - it was also on KitKat and just stopped getting play/app updates. I currently have a Pixel 5a on Ting/T-Mobile ($17.34/month, btw), which isn't getting Android updates but still gets Play and app updates and still works great.

Treating them "like"? Remind me, who keeps buying these products? /s

The movies The Matrix and The Terminator are regarded as documentaries.

But will it be Cook or Ternus who changes Lake Ontario to Lake America in Apple Maps? Will it be the last act of capitulation and sycophancy by Cook or the first by Ternus? Cook will either be a hard act to follow or an easy one...

Trump pushes Apple to change 'Lake Ontario' to 'Lake America' on its maps

Or, at least, they'll push for more age brackets other than just, "under 13, 13 through 15, 16 through 17, or 18 and older" as well as other characteristics to better align with common marketing demographics... For example, from A definition of demographic segmentation and how to use it

Always remembering that we're the product ... /s