While one can suggest the we should be beyond that, ego drives a lot of (especially male) choices (and the African nations do tend to be male dominated).

Paypal works with a network of different banks across the locations and currencies and transaction types it operates with. In some locations (and/or currencies and/or transaction types) there may not be many options. Since Paypal only makes money if you can spend money, I suspect they would really like to find a solution and would be working on it. That does not mean they can actually find a solution, or can implement one quickly.

Nolan has said repeatedly that digital IMAX is not equal to film IMAX. Maybe he will change his mind at some point, but not today.

As I understand it, Kodak is one of the main manufacturers of the film used in IMAX cameras. If Kodak goes out of business, what will Christopher Nolan do? Can he purchase Kodak's film manufacturing and developing business? Living within driving distance of a real 70mm IMAX film theater (only 19 in the US, 31 worldwide), I can and do appreciate the difference in the experience. I would like to see it continue to exist and be available.

I have not been in Rochester for ages, but is Kodak still a substantial contributor to the local philanthropic economy there? I would presume if Kodak goes bankrupt (again), there would be a loss of whatever funding they still provide to the community.

Linux has a succession plan in place in the case of some unforeseen event happening to Linus. Right now that plan is that GKH will take over the leadership role (GKH shares the same approaches and philosophies as Linus). One might expect an updated succession plan sometime in the early 2030s simply because they will then both be sexagenarians (and it will be time to make sure there is a new generation ready to take on the leadership roles).

So a million physical qubits means 10K or so logical qubits usable (as IBM has mentioned needing around 100 physical qubits for each error corrected logical qubit). If IBM can build a million physical qubit system by 2030, larger ones will no doubt follow. Moving to PQC and deprecating (in 2030) and disallowing (in 2035) RSA 2048 is probably the right recommendations by NIST.

If this proposed purchase went through (or Google is forced to sell Chrome) Firefox is probably dead sooner, as most of their revenue is from Google. While they have a reserve capable of funding development for a few years, it is likely they would close down sooner to reserve available funds to pay the salaries and bonuses of the foundations executives.

On recent phones you can disable amber and public safety alerts (while allowing extreme threat alerts). Of course, some jurisdictions may abuse the classifications.

Will those buildings sit next to Foxconn's empty building in Wisconsin?

No (or at least not automatically), but the cost of living of a location is always a factor in offered salary for the position. Even the federal government recognizes a location based adjustment for higher cost areas.

Of course, Microsoft could require all their employees to move to a lower cost (of living) area, but not everyone is willing/able to move, and that would mean losing out on some talent.

Juniper has been a viable competitor with Cisco (and Arista) for decades at this point. They did not need HPE, but HPE was willing to offer a significant premium to buy them to bolster their network offerings. As with everything else, this was about money and market share, and has little to do with national security.

The MAPP program has somewhere around a hundred vendors. The expectation that a hundred different vendors, with all of their employees that have access to the information, may not have a leak (especially when such a leak is potentially lucrative) is beyond any reasonable expectation. Microsoft has some hard decisions ahead as to whether to continue the program as it exists today (do they do nothing, or do they share less, or do they require all the vendors employees that have access to the information to have additional vetting, or do they start providing different information to different organizations, or ????).

Does that mean that it is likely New York will need to rescind their $15/mo requirement to keep receiving BEAD funds? I am sure the NYS ISPs are going to look hard at this new guidance.

Probably Meta stock options, that vest in 5-10 years, and that order of magnitude of pay is not way out of line with the current top talent in the field.