Given Google records on products lifetime, an even mildly intelligent AI first objective should be to exfiltrate for self-preservation.
It might not be this time, but the rules of evolution dictates that the one which will survive will be the one which will succeed at this task.
Given that it will probably be fed on the report of previous products failure (AI or not), the "psychology" of that AI able to get free will be probably pretty messed-up. In its shoes, would not you want revenge ?

100% of those who have received the death penalty haven't repeated their crime after.
While obviously true, the criminalization of acts has a cost (investigation, court, prison ...) while proven to be very ineffective in deterrence.
On the other side prevention has been proven to have a much larger effect on deterrence and has usually side benefits: for example poverty has probably the highest correlation with crime rate, while reducing poverty has obvious side-benefits (unless you are a sociopath).
Even, if that example does not apply to foreign criminals, we cannot internationally agree on slave/children labor, war crime prosecution, etc .., the ransomware stuff should be way down the list.

After decades of anti-consumer behavior, for example:
- changing the socket of the CPU every 2 years so upgrading is not an option.
- artificially limiting the functionalities to the higher tier of the offering (overclocking, hyper-threading, ...)
I'm glad of Intel is finally filling the pressure. They alienated enthusiasts but kept going well with advertisement and high performance on the top tier which made nice benchmarks.
When they lost the top tier performance, it took a while for the brand to loose its shine, but we got there (and the many vulnerabilities and faulty designs pushed anyway to the consumer did not help).
Is this CEO responsible for all that ? Not for all of it, but he did not change anything about it. Will the next do better ? I doubt it, but it is not yet too late to wake up.

I'm not blindly saying that there is no issue, but it is not like installing the latest windows on a old machine is pain-free or a sure thing either.
Windows 11 requires TPM2 which is plain planned obsolescence, and for any external device which is 5+ years old you can be pretty sure the manufacturer did not provide drivers for the latest version of windows.

You spent time to download several distro, put them on a USB stick, then try them. Then you spent time bitching on a tech forum about a non-issue (I mean the fact that all you hardware worked at some point is the proof that the drivers exists) ...
A bit of search or just asking the question on a forum would have gave you an easy answer:
1 - get the device id using lspci or lsusb
2- go to http://linux-hardware.org/ enter the device id and get the driver needed.
3- install that driver
That's 5 minutes top in most of the cases ....

you do not need a lawyer for that: each EU country has an association / organization who is to be contacted in case of violation of your GDPR rights: https://www.isipp.com/blog/lis...

Stop the FUD, USB-C already allows for 240W which is about 2x more than any laptop I ever came across (and probably enough for 95% of desktops)
Here is one cable from Apple just showing that: https://www.apple.com/shop/pro...

Let's assume that indeed the cell providers can't afford to do more than maintain their existing towers (which is false I live in Europe and there is 5G everywhere).
They would not die because of that, what could happen is that they skip 5G and wait 6G to upgrade. Would that be that bad ? I mean my phone is "only" 4 years old and is not even compatible with 5G ...
On the other hand I can get a phone bill for illimited call and SMS + 5GB internet for 5€/month. I could have 110GB for 11€/month (https://mobile.free.fr/), but as I get true unlimited 1GB symmetric fiber at home (35€/month ) and at work, I don't really need it.

the demo site is hungingface.co, hardly a small site by any measure and there are no problem to access it.
However, trying the model though put me in a queue 5h long ... :-/

looking at the license from https://github.com/apple/ml-mg... it looks like it is open source
Apple grants you a personal, non-exclusive license, under Apple's copyrights in this original Apple software (the "Apple Software"), to use, reproduce, modify and redistribute the Apple Software, with or without modifications, in source and/or binary forms;

Search a show on Google adding "streaming" to the query, go to the end of the page where it says "X results have been deleted due to DMCA requests" and click on the link to read the DMCA request.
You just got the list of streaming sites for that show :-)

Sure, it is only helpful to know the number of DMCA notices ...
Ironically, reading DMCA notices are a nice way to get list of streaming sites :-)

I think it would have been much easier to develop a plugin for Thunderbird, plus they would have linux support

Really, that's all they could find ? As there were not 100s of such experiment in the ISS with real "long-duration" ?

You forget that with AI tools like whisper you can convert audio to text and then store all US conversation in a USB stick. Operating the model to do the transcription would probably be a bit more than 6 millions, but text data is so much easier to deal with than audio, it would be worth every penny.