This will be great for Haiku, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD installs, there's not the remotest possibility there'll be binaries for these. Not because the software couldn't be ported, but because the sorts of people politicians hire to write software would never be able to figure out the installer.

If your basis for judging research is truth in propaganda why would you trust science from the USA? The current president is a pathological liar and his regime is trying to convince the world that Venezuela's government is a cartel of narco-terrorists so the USA can invade and hand Venezuela's oil wells over to American oil companies. Truth has no value in the USA.

China taxes the rich and spends money on educations. The US gives the rich tax breaks, the rich hoard their wealth, and in many parts of the country schools are literally falling apart while good teachers leave the profession because they cannot afford to live on a teaching salary. Thanks to Reaganomics and MAGA the USA will not be a leader in anything in a few decades.

Tariffs or outright bans on Chinese cars won't keep them out of the USA for long. Those companies can open the same factories in the USA that they have elsewhere. They'll be vertically integrated dark factories that can crank out cars with a fraction of the labor costs of other brands. The cars will not be as inexpensive as they would be coming from China, but they will still be less expensive than comparable cars made in the USA by anybody else. Chinese brands are already building factories in South America and Europe, so they'll know how to do it well when they set up shop in the USA. Xiaomi built up it's electric car program, from initial research to having a car on the market, in only three years. Think about how little time it will take them to just build a factory in the USA.

I still can't get ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude to write a decent story or do an engineering design beyond basic complexity. They're all improving, but they're best thought of as brain-storming aids rather than actual development tools.

Why would a game industry awards show acknowledge layoffs? Layoffs have been part of that industry for decades. A studio gets hired by a publisher to make a game, finishes the game, then lays off half the team because the next project will be smaller. Or there is no next project and the entire studio tanks. If game industry people think their layoffs are bad they should go talk to some 40 year olds working in Palo Alto about how many times they've been laid off.

ya basic, son

Social media has become a toxic dump. If you wouldn't allow children to play in waste effluent from a 1960s nuclear power plant, then you shouldn't allow them to play in the social media that's out there. Because, frankly, of the two, plutonium is safer.

I do, however, contend that this is a perfectly fixable problem. There is no reason why social media couldn't be safe. USENET was never this bad. Hell, Slashdot at its worst was never as bad as Facebook at its best. And Kuro5hin was miles better than X. Had a better name, too. The reason it's bad is that politicians get a lot of kickbacks from the companies and the advertisers, plus a lot of free exposure to millions. Politicians would do ANYTHING for publicity.

I would therefore contend that Australia is fixing the wrong problem. Brain-damaging material on Facebook doesn't magically become less brain-damaging because kids have to work harder to get brain damage. Nor are adults mystically immune. If you took the planet's IQ today and compared it to what it was in the early 1990s, I'm convinced the global average would have dropped 30 points. Australia is, however, at least acknowledging that a problem exists. They just haven't identified the right one. I'll give them participation points. The rest of the globe, not so much.

The "America first" asshole decided that the USA can't build more big solar power installations and there's no other way to build power for datacenters fast enough. Then he decided to scare Indian students away from the USA. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft's Indian CEO decided to expand Microsoft's presence in India. America's chickens are coming home to roost.

Which bubble will pop first, Pokemon cards, Labubus, or AI unicorn valuations?

Huawei is doing original things. Z-fold phones with an OS that does everything a desktop can do and has AI integration that (Chinese sources say) is actually useful. Unfortunately we can't get them in the USA because the federal government has to protect Apple's inability to innovate. Of course Samsung is nipping at Huawei's heels, but if you use a Samsung phone you'll start seeing targeted ads on your smart refrigerator.

Apple signs contracts to buy huge quantities of hardware over years. This probably won't affect them any time soon. All the Android phones are going to be more expensive than iPhones in a year and Apple's stock price is going to exceed $5 trillion.

Only someone with a death with would drive a kei car in the USA. It would be vaporized by an F-250. And they accelerate so slowly that getting killed in a road rage incident would be a serious concern.

Where do the AI companies plan to get their data after they put all the news outlets and publishers of nonfiction out of business? Will there just be nothing written after 2030 in their results? Or will the AIs just hallucinate everything?