iFixIt had a booth at a recent Maker Faire (the right audience for their toolkits and their "If you can't fix it, you don't own it" mantra). I am a long term satisfied customer of many of their tool-kits, and have recommended them to others who want to tinker and repair (FD: I also own Metcal (soldering) and Hakko (SMT rework) equipment, but that is not iFixit's core audience).

Some AVR's do have various boosting choices (including dialog enhancement(s)). The home theater forums have long threads about the issue and what is considered best. And some people just turn on closed captioning.

These are targeted as AI accelerator(s). Just like Google's TPUs, or AWS's Inferentia/Tranium chips. They will have little to no impact on the consumer GPU market (except, perhaps, sucking up more fab capacity and making GPUs even more expensive).

Co-CEO's have a very mixed success rate, unless, as executive chairman, Ek intends to continue to operate as the actual decision maker.

Countries have been spying on each other for, well, forever.

Some countries are just better at it then others.

That the PRC has worked to be good at it is not a surprise.

That the campaign was identified suggests the PRC teams still have some work ahead of them to avoid detection in the future.

Boeing has been doing various paper design exercises for close to a decade on their New Midsize Aircraft (NMA), which has been tentatively called the 797. A number of airlines have expressed interest for much of that decade. The MAX issues redirected Boeing's teams, and pushed back the work on the NMA. But Boeing never, totally, abandoned the work, but instead then decided to wait for new engine developments that would provide a strong compelling operational advantage for a NMA. The first serious step of talking with the engine manufacturers has been talking place. Airbus is not sitting still, and they also are looking at what will eventually replace the A320 series, but as that is a more modern aircraft than the 737, they have a bit more time to make the call.

And that was an important goal of one of their larger 737 customers, Southwest (also Ryanair). The flexibility of any pilot being able to fly any aircraft in the fleet has been important to these airlines. And while each of those airlines have flirted with various Airbus aircraft (to attempt to drive down the price(s) of their future 737s), in the end, they have stayed the course.

Fire tablets are rumored to move to a pure Google Android platform (which also means they will be Google Play certified, and that will mean a lot of apps should just work, rather than needing to develop an Amazon unique variant of the app). But that is not yet confirmed (by Amazon).

For the FireTV platform(s), the list of fully supported (streaming) apps is somewhat limited, and Amazon has been reportedly working with those vendors. And most of those app vendors have needed to create customized variants for the FireTV platform in the past as it is not a Google Android certified platform anyway. Those app vendors also need to build for a number of alternative media player platforms (iOS, tvOS, macOS, Windows, (Google) Android, (Amazon) Android, various TV manufactures platforms, RDK, Roku, ....). Yes, the streaming app vendors would prefer there was only one platform to build for, but that is not going to happen.

It is not clear it could have been passed if it did try to deal with it at the time. International treaties are about long term compromise and consensus building, and no one tends to get everything they want, and a future addendum might be able to address plastic.

Actually, not for all. While steam being 64-bit would be good (and likely will happen at some point (it is already true for Apple systems)), some games themselves need 32-bit libraries, and unless steam ships the libraries themselves, the games will not run. If Canonical dropped 32-bit libraries, Valve would need to provide the 32-bit libraries for the 32-bit games (and then steam would also have access to those libraries).

As long as distros continue to do the work to build 32-bit libraries, why should they? Canonical (as one of the largest desktop distributions) needs to announce the end of multiarch as a forcing function to see it happen (FWIW, some enterprise distributions have entirely dropped 32-bit libraries, but those are not expected to be used for desktop gaming).

I'm shocked! Shocked, to learn there is drug dealing going on on social media platforms. Round up the usual suspects!

Because you can never be too rich or too thin?

Back office functions (HR, Finance, etc.) are typically one of the first things to be combined after M&A. Most of the back office functions are standard (in some cases regulatorily standard) across all industries, so combining them eliminates a number of duplicate functions, and as such, achieves some of the promised "synergies" (i.e. layoffs) across some existing staff. Everyone in those back office positions know this from every other M&A that they have been part of (RH itself acquired some companies, and combined back office functions in the past).