That's a bullshit narrative. Europe's tech industry is thriving. It is just not driven by the same motivations as the psychopaths that are running US' tech giants.
The difference is cultural, not about competence.

Both the UK and the EU have real problems with politicians being clueless, pushing things that have implications that they don't understand, sure. But that is the situation more or less in every democracy, but as long as there is one, they can still be challenged.

Everyone with a little insight and who is in his right mind understands that some US tech giants need to be reined in, for the benefit of us all.

There are modern TV screens for digital signage and conference rooms that come without crap, but they also come without any receiver and often without speakers, so you'd need to get those separately.

Except for that they work just like TV:s used to, with remote control, multiple HDMI inputs, etc.

I've worked in the AV industry where we installed these all the time.

printf "* Samsung TV\n" >> brands_to_avoid.txt

Indeed, because the purchase is once and then you have the item: the properties at purchase are imbued in the item and any degradation of its properties would be your own fault from where on. A good or service that you would rent could be another matter however.

But the core of this case is really about what things mean in advertising.
For example, if you buy a car that has been advertised as "30 miles per gallon", you'd expect that to mean a standard mile and a standard gallon, not some historic mile and some "gallon" they use in another country somewhere.
Goods have to be advertised using standard definitions for you to be able to compare different alternatives against one-another.

I believe otherwise; that every human has an instinctive sense of what is right and what is wrong.

It is just that we often reach for excuses that are emotionally convenient to skirt around them, to make ourselves feel better.
We go for ideology/party line, religious doctrine, junk science, group-think, doing what you are told, etc.

The workaround "asking for a fictional story" was well-known long before ChatGPT 4o was released.

Any proper safeguards should have protected against that one. If they didn't, then the company behind it is at fault for not having taken enough precautions.

That's my objective assessment. Subjectively, I hope they burn, for that and many other cases and reasons. They have been piling up for far too long.

Cool. They have a much larger chance of winning in Japan than in the US.

Japan has pretty strict intellectual property laws. They don't have the concept of "fair use", so Perplexity is unable attempt to skew any such provisions to suit their purposes.

I have seen several YouTube creators do that and complain about it. ... and those inspire others to do the same.

And the Indiana Jones Trilogy consists of the movies Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade.
(Fate of Atlantis was never filmed)

This seems like just a desperate cost-cutting measure to me.
They can blame digital mail all they want but the background is that PostNord, and especially the Danish part of it, is infamous for having been severely mismanaged and bleeding money for many years.

Unfortunately, the Danish service had merged with the privatised former Swedish postal service, so the Danish arm is dragging down the Swedish one as well. They are still delivering letters in Sweden but now only every other day.
Because of how crappy it has become (in more than one way), it has the nickname "PostMord" ("Post murder") over here.

I hope that there will be a court case, in which Google gets slammed hard for having provided wrong information in their "AI summary".

The world needs something like that, to set precedent to force AI companies to take responsibility for what their products produce.

There is in practice no such thing as "generative AI". All is derivative. ... and derived from pirated works in most cases.

I think this outrage is not just a rejection. I also think that Linus intends this to set an example, that no matter who you are or how big a company you work for, you still can't submit bad patches.

BTW, the helper function should not only have been in a RISC-V - specific file, it should have been called "packw" and returned a signed integer. (if you know RISC-V, you know why).

Ridiculous amounts of animal waste is not taken care of, and let to rot and produce greenhouse gases.
I'd think that would be low-hanging fruit to take care of first.

The Beyond Burger and many other fake meat products based on soy or pea protein contain methyl cellulose for texture. It is an emulsifier believed to dissolve the mucus membrane in the gut, which would increase the risk of infection and possibly cancer.

I am a vegetarian that has had colon cancer twice lready, so I try to avoid this, but it is difficult to find any meat-substitute that doesn't have it.
When you're not at home, cooking your own food, your choices are more or less limited.