After putting an unrepentant pedophile in the Department of Justice, naming a Russian spy for National Director of Intelligence is just keeping with the theme.

No, but they are the only vehicle members of the Church of the Crypto Musk are allowed to buy.

By experts, do they mean anyone that paid attention to science and/or history classes in any developed country?

I see you never had to jump through the hoops to get Gmail to not silently drop all your emails.

Techbros see all cyberpunk as an utopia, Zuckerberg even renamed his entire company after the Metaverse in Snowcrash when that’s one of the obviously dystopian cyberpunk worlds.

(Good) cyberpunk was always a documentary done through a slightly distorted mirror lighten up under neon glow.

You forgot option C) which is part of Fascism 101: selectively enforce the law to prosecute your political opponents, target minorities, and just have something to hang on people in general just in case.

“Coincidentally” that’s how the War on Drugs™ always worked in the US.

Yes, there’s a trolley problem and it seems pretty clear you picked the lane that ends up killing every single Palestinian.

This should be a feature in every phone. At least on Samsungs you can schedule reboots but it’s not as convenient as putting everything in full lockdown automatically if the phone hasn’t been unlocked in 24 hours.

Like they did in North Korea?

The only thing that surprises me in geopolitics right now is that Iran is not mass producing nukes yet.

Did the hat fit you?

He’s just asking the European right to not make excuses.

It’s completely different, Trump wants cut the interest rates and put at least 10% tariffs on all imports. If he actually follows through the current dollar denominations are going to be cheap toilet paper.

Google doesn’t sell their private data collection. They use it to target ads so it’s the most valuable thing they have (or as they would call it their “unfair advantage”), so selling it directly is out of question. There are multiple data brokers that also have very comprehensive lists that will happily sell it to anyone.

Since Hungary is letting russians in unchecked amidst a wave of sabotage and terrorist acts by russian agents, they can use article 29 of Schengen Border Code to suspend them.

The other countries can just sign other agreements outside of the EU framework to bypass Hungary. Or maybe they will grow a pair, kick Hungary out of Schengen and make the border crossing painful enough to crash Hungarian exports.

And agricultural products would also be the obvious place for the EU to retaliate too, so if Trump goes ahead with his harebrained plan to impose ridiculous tariffs they can forget about exports as a viable business model.

Their lack of a patent for controller vibration prevented Sony from having vibration on Sixaxis - notice that despite all the BS that it interfered with motion sensing, Dualshock 3 came out just a few months after Sony managed to settle the suite with Immersion.

Since there’s no penalty for making a patent and not using it, it’s probably cheaper for Sony to pre-emptively register everything that comes from brainstorming sessions.

Sony patents random stuff just in case all the time. It doesn’t mean it’s ever going into a an actual product.