Universal Basic Income is a concept where everyone in a society receives a set dollar amount for unrestricted spending, regardless of other income... that's the "Universal" part.

What is described here is Charitable/Corporate Basic Income, where people in need apply for assistance, are approved or denied, and the recipient list is very limited or restricted to predetermined hardship conditions.

This is a rebranding of welfare (taxpayer-sourced assistance) to corporate-sourced philanthropy (in this case google), which is a positive thing, but it is not UBI.

DST was made permanent in the USA in 1974, and it was so unpopular it got repealed the same year.

It sounds good until you have to live it... there are also morning people among us, and kids trying to walk to school where further darkness presents a safety issue. Not everyone benefits from potential extra sunlight to extend happy hour.

Interestingly few articles speculate on what happens to electronic devices with long-deprecated firmware that will change their clocks anyway. Could be a micro-Y2K, except without all the global budget heaved into remedies.

An issue with this is if say a drive-by shooting happens on Friday night and they have potential Flock footage to identify the vehicle and catch the shooters. Can they get legit judge approval in five minutes, or do they need to wait until Monday to get the judge's okay just to find it in a ditch after car thieves did their shooting and ditched it?

Many of the abuses are individual officers trying to find info on significant others or stalking. What about a system where an officer's request for Flock info requires two levels higher of approval? i.e. officer requests Flock query, his sergeant and the sergeant's superior both need to approve it, with an automatic review of each request by whatever entity would satisfy the locality? That puts at least three cops on the hook for consequences for BS requests. Would this knock out at least 95% of abuses?

Instead of Congress trying to define guardrails for technology few of them understand, consider making AI companies more exposed to civil lawsuits for damages (and attempts to damage) caused by breakouts. Perhaps add some federal criminal sanctions and penalties too.

One day some agent escape is going to take down a utility, and there needs to be a severe financial consequence framework in place for that to compensate utilities and their customers.

What if you are taking a picture of an AI-generated image you just created? Add blurriness as a parameter in the AI generation and now you have Apple-camera-certified original UFO photos!

... or, you can be a nerd on the News for Nerds site and look up the answer. Tesla has a lot of material on their site dedicated to first responders and Tesla vehicles.

Robotaxi First Responder Interaction Plan -

https://digitalassets.tesla.co...

Robotaxi Rescue Sheet -

https://digitalassets.tesla.co...

Instructions on what to do whether or not the vehicle is powered.

I'm not going to hand over money to Sony for killing off their used game market.

After 2028 rolls around, used PS4/PS5 physical disc games, that I can confirm will work locally on an offline PS5 (or haven't had an online kill-switch of some kind reported yet) will just have to do for my PS needs. Plenty of great games to last me however long I am still gaming. And yes I already buy Steam games so I admit a degree of hypocrisy, but it's the principle of Sony making this change, and the fact that they've already demonstrated removing digital game and movie content without compensation.

If this was a Star Trek episode, and the Enterprise encountered a tiny ship with a distress call, and brought Khan and his group on board, bad things could happen.

A billionaire with a yacht has many security concerns, and being boarded by someone who wants to take or kill valuable hostages and VIPs is one of them. It is probably standard procedure to not approach boats in this case.

If they heard a distress call and didn't at least forward the incident to authorities, that is terrible, but I suspect they did do that because another ship showed up.

In cybersecurity terms the tiny boat could have been... phishing (sorry)

Beware the lesson that app stores that appear may alo dissapear, along with app access you paid for

Make everyone buy new. All other “reasons” and “studies” are ostensible.

"Windows 10 is the last version of Windows" - Microsoft development evangelist in 2015

revealing that the tiny people are actually there?

I got lifetime when Google dropped their Google Play Music service. I used Play Music to have my entire music collection clouded, plus manage playlists and other stuff that I really relied on it for the car, walking to work, etc. When Google gimped that with the YouTube Music transition, I needed to replace that functionality, and Plex plus my NAS plus services they included with Plex Pass worked well.

As for the " restored music and photo library support in mobile apps" efforts to be funded by the price hike, we didn't ask for those to be removed in the first place. I don't use Plex for photos, but I had use cases for music in the main Plex app and not solely in the music-only PlexAmp app. We begged them to roll that back but they didn't, interesting that they have now reversed that decision.

In case something happens with Plex like if they remove too much functionality or somehow renege on lifetime Plex Pass, I now run Jellyfin in parallel.

Missions STS-51-L (Challenger) and STS-107 (Columbia).

Until policy changes from "safety at all costs" to "humans dying in possible one-way missions is an acceptable part of pioneering, fly it again tomorrow", you will have endless reviews, delays and cancellations on top of those already inherent in government projects. The government layer is probably the biggest reason, which is why alongside the government/NASA projects we have a private company that can get personnel to and from the space station at much lower cost, with boosters that fly themselves back and are re-used a hundred times, using technology, methods and continuous-engineering speed that seem to lap what NASA currently demonstrates.

The market dropped due to tariff mess in general, not some survey as this article alleges. The assertion that IBM dropped today due to some fear of AI economic effect is just wrong. It was the news of Anthropic threatening to eat IBM's own lunch, using Claude to help folks upgrade from COBOL, something IBM should have been able to do with its own AI tools.