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Comment Re: Possibly (Score 1) 155

Should free speech be extended and honored from foreign entities? If only there was a way to flag and tag the source.

US citizens are allowed free speech and people on the Internet are allowed to be anonymous. Too much of it good thing can be dangerous.

Even with these barriers enabled, thereâ(TM)s still ways around it. Find some person paste in the US that has the same lineup thinking youâ(TM)re interested in manipulating and you can start supplementing through monetary tips. Add some persuasive comments and a little more cash and you have your own mouthpiece.

Thereâ(TM)s no simple solution

Submission + - Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI (theregister.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit.

Spirit hit financial turbulence when COVID-19 blew in during 2020 and started making losses. Its balance sheet never climbed back to a safe altitude and in May 2026 the airline grounded itself permanently.

The low-cost carrier entered liquidation to wind itself up and is now auctioning assets to raise cash and settle at least some of its debts.

A court document filed last week reveals that one of the assets up for sale is a huge trove of deidentified data, which Google bid for and won for just $10 million.

For that sum, Google bought itself 100 million emails and 500 million items from Microsoft Teams, 17 million OneDrive files and 20.5 million items from SharePoint. The search giant also now owns over 30 million recorded customer service calls, and more than 15 million customer service chat records.

There’s also operational data in the trove, describing over 763,000 flights, five million crew pairings, more than 1.2 million fuel slips, and records describing purchases of 787,452 parts.

Comment Re: 46USC2304 - Duty to provide assistance at sea (Score 1) 123

It's clickbait.

To you pull over and offer to siphon some of your gas when you see somebody on the side of the road?

Let's not glaze over the fact that they ran out of fuel in the first place.

Per abcnews quote:
âoeIf Zuckerbergâ(TM)s ship is there and this vessel just ran out of fuel, theyâ(TM)re under no obligation whatsoever to assist them. Zero,â said Davenport, who led rescues in the Bering Sea during his career. âoeIs it that common courtesy to help other mariners out? Yes, because someday youâ(TM)re going to need assistance.â

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