Given ByteDance's apparent ties to the Chinese government to ban Tik Tok, this would likely give validation to other countries to ban Facebook, on the same basis. Maybe Meta is looking to get banned elsewhere?

Here it’s is more than backup or redundancy. It’s also about limiting the ability of one bad actor to wipe out both the redundant copies and the backups. This likely means a push location, with versioning, that requires someone else’s keys to delete repositories.

And consumers aren't willing to pay more money, unless its something niche. The problem maintaining a small outfit. unless there are ways to reduce maintenance fees?

So the tariffs are only impacting China and not doing anything to bring jobs back to the US? Not sure whether thatâ(TM)s considered winning?

Exactly. I will blame Trump for a lot of things going to shits, but the American aviation infrastructure has been notoriously under funded for a while and has lacked the steps to modernise that we have seen elsewhere. The fault is likely on congress and those managing the infrastructure. Between the 737 Max and this, the FAA is probably going to improve how it does things, but here we can blame Trump for staffing that will lead to future issues.

What I am curious now is how they will address all of this going forward.

We can blame Trump for a lot of things, but not this particular instance. This would have happened before Trump and I doubt Biden had any say in this either. This was either something coming from the FAA or congress (I haven’t read into the history of the move).

One thing I do question is given that some operators didn’t not want to move, that they didn’t opt for a hybrid solution, with some operators in the local location and some in the remote location. At the very least it would have provided some sort of redundancy, since communication lines over a distance would risk becoming a weak point.

A1 moderation?

From what Iâ(TM)ve seen, there is more and more AI generated content there by day, with little evidence to label or ban. in addition to any other negatives, this is certainly another one.

Iâ(TM)ve always been bothered by the some of moderation, but itâ(TM)s their site. At the same time Iâ(TM)ve been looking to see if there is either a self-hosted equivalent or one that can run locally? Any suggestions?

Quire possibly, but right now I don't think anyone has presented a proper path forward.

One minor point, the manufacturing entity is Raspberry Pi Ltd (a for-profit entity) and not the foundation which as far as Iâ(TM)m aware still focuses on the education side

ICE cars use a fuel that is taxed, but as far as I am aware the electricity used for cars isnâ(TM)t taxed in the same way. This means that the government will likely suffer a tax shortfall from electric cars. Given this, as much as Iâ(TM)m not a fan of the current Republican government, this tax may actually make sense.

The problem is more likely the reasons they are giving for the new tax and therefore doesnâ(TM)t work in their favour.

What you say it true, but whatever impacts Apple here is going to impact other companies that leverage Foxconn and Chinese manufacturing. That include Logitech, Lenovo and Sony. The US consumerism, its want of cheap products and not investing in home grown manufacturing are what has pushed manufacturing elsewhere. Also, as far as I can tell no sitting government has done anything effective to address this. What Trump is doing is more distraction than anything close to effective.

They already had the "neural engine" as part of their chips, but as for the whole "AI" thing it as much noise as it is value. This is to the point that there are products I will actively avoid if it has "AI" on it. For me this is like a dishwasher that needs an app for some of its functionality, rather than solving a real problem.

There are certainly cases where AI or AI-like can be useful, and there is no question that Siri hasn't had the iterative improvement that it needs to feel like it is improving and keeping people excited. Its just that AI is just another tool and it shouldn't just be jammed into everything, just to satisfy marketing or the devs who don't want to think of how properly formulate an algorithm,

BTW this is not intended as a defence for Apple, but the problem of trying to make AI the magic sauce that will solve everything, while actually causing more noise, and CPU usage, in a good number of cases.

Even if it wasn't intentionally fraudulent, it was effectively fraudulent.

One defence is Apple doesn't typically announces features until they are ready and released, so this led to the screw up. Then again the whole "Apple Intelligence" thing feels like the dev team trying to play catch up to the the marketing wishlist.