Before Trump, it was a cultural norm that a President of the United States was expected to follow ethical and moral guidelines as well as laws; not only because anything less would be dishonorable and a disservice to his country, but also because otherwise he would pay a steep political price for his unethical behavior. Trump's most significant political innovation has taken the form of figuring out how to convince a plurality of the American public that the only real standard for Presidential behavior is "whatever you can get away with".

EU Won't Require User-Replaceable Batteries for Wearables

LSU physicists have developed the first room-temperature quantum material

Oh, that explains why BSD which predates Linux is an also-ran, while Linux is the world's most popular operating system and many major contributors told us in so many words that they chose to contribute to Linux instead of BSD specifically because of the license.

Indeed it would sound very easy, except that human movements aren't random, and with proper statistical models it's quickly possible to determine someone who didn't know the difference between natural restricted and biased variance and randomness.

You're the target audience here: the people who think that this "sounds incredibly easy" will be the first to have their bots blocked. Yeah it'll be worked around, but the bar is raised in the meantime.

semiconductor manufacturing has been a cyclical boom-bust business for pretty much forever.

what we need is for someone to focus on making them affordable

Linus Torvalds on AI, Junk Patches, Humans, and Godzilla

I don't even know what our victory conditions might be now that Castro is dead.

... it seems to me the USA is unnecessarily picking on it, seeing as it doesn't pick on equally despicable dictatorships (Saudi Arabia; China) that are just as bad as Cuba but more powerful.

The Los Angeles Police Department is ending its agreement with Flock Safety, a company that operates surveillance cameras throughout the city.

LAPD announced that it will allow its agreement with the company to expire Saturday, ending the department's three-year relationship with the security firm - at least for now.

"This contract is not being renewed because of serious concerns around civil liberties and civil rights issues, particularly around privacy and the data that is being collected from these cameras," said Dean Gialamas, LAPD's chief information officer. "The LAPD had to make a difficult decision, in this case discontinuing using Flock services until we can get those data, privacy, security and sharing concerns ironed out through a contractual relationship."

LAPD says the department does not use Flock's cameras to help U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"We have received confirmation from the Westland Police Chief that he has decided not to bring the Flock camera contract before City Council for a vote," she said in her post. "It was clear Council was deeply divided on the issue."

She added that the current Flock cameras placed around the city will remain so, until the contract expires within the next month, before coming down afterward.

Sampey said that it is an example of city officials listening to residents, many of whom voiced concern about the cameras.

The FCC approved the satellite, ... to test an innovative technology that could advance American leadership in space.

Why on earth would you need to shoot someone for... driving away???
Are you a psychopath. Evading arrest doesn't carry the death penalty in law.