The reason they fired the generals was because they refused to swear allegiance to the man over the nation. They are purging anyone who does not pledge personal loyalty.

It is an attempt to remove the final check on the power of the executive.

"I need the kind of generals that Hitler had. Why can't you be like the German generals?"

"May you live in interesting times, May you gain the attention of powerful people, May you get what you wish for."

Funny you should mention weaponization. There is a plan for that.

Pete Hegseth just appointed Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to head up the DoD's Project Meridian:
"identifying the capabilities required to achieve absolute technological dominance on the next-generation battlefield" ,
"how the US military can utilize new technology and also carry out warfare in untested terrains including subterranean depths and on the moon" ,
"artificial intelligence, autonomy, directed energy, robotics, biotechnology, among other critical high-tech areas" ,
"these new domains, new ways of fighting, and technological developments will profoundly alter the character of warfare" ,
"the United States must anticipate future operational environments and act decisively to develop the tools to dominate in them"

Did the FTC miss the oval office meeting the other day?

AI companies are the new oil. Hands off the Super Intelligence.

Way to read the room, FTC.

8GB RAM is going to throttle the system worse than a bad heatsink. :(

It is probably livable in an entry-level laptop but I imagine anything you do will stutter unless you are careful to eliminate background processes -even just typing text in an editor. That is incredibly frustrating.

I would not buy an 8GB laptop. The PC I am using right now has 16GB ram, and it is just a basic office computer for web browsing and running Excel.. (Beelink mini-bookshelf PC)

Gemini said my private benchmark improved by nearly an inch! I told my wife, but she didn't believe it....

Backwards compatibility has always been Windows biggest strength, and it biggest weakness.

Applications continue to work from version to version. Customers like this.

But it means not changing older infrastructure that the old applications need in order to run. Even when they have replaced older code, they had to implement a compatibility layer to allow the old applications to keep running. This meant not fixing some problems, because the fix would break certain programs that users rely on -older applications worked the way they did because of bugs in the underlying Windows code and fixing the bugs would break the applications. In modern Windows, they have used "compatibility mode" to provide sandboxes to run the older code in. But it still means bloat and unpatched bugs.

I doubt Microsoft would sell Xbox.

There is too much synergy between the gaming division and the hosting & services divisions. They can eat their own dogfood by hosting Xbox games on Azure and managing accounts and subscriptions and stuff via Microsoft Services. Having internal customers for your core profit centers is good business.

And then there is the value of the gaming division itself. They have put a lot of money and effort into buying studios and IP. It has the potential to be a profit center long term, if they can successfully consolidate the various properties under unified leadership. Not as much as the hosting and services divisions, but better than the Windows division.

That is what they always say right before announcing the sale.

"It's not for sale."
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"Welcome to our new corporate owners."
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"We couldn't tell you because the negotiations were under NDA."

This is a good idea. This type of automation should not be too difficult.

I have no idea how well it works, but previous interaction with our government services has not been good.

I wish them luck with this.

Why? When was the last time one of these billionaires bought their own gas or groceries or anything else? Minor issues like cost of living do not effect them personally.

Life is different when money is just a number on a scorecard.

Indeed. Powerful people were offended. Round up the usual suspects and stage a public hanging so we can be seen taking action!

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GOOD countries don't have to restrict people to prevent their escape. They may warn people of the danger of kidnapping, but that is not the same thing.

GOOD countries are where people want to escape to, not from. Where do people want to go? Europe, Canada, America (yes, even now...)