.. and why is this tagged with 'technology'?

Just wondering why is this on /. And I why should care about this why?
Sounds more like news for a live style magazine to me,...
Sadly more and more /. news are more and more irrelevant.

would be kind of 'funny' if this was a new angle off ransomware,...

Personally, like most others, I prefer to pay more and get a life-long version than the monthly payment stuff.
Like with most stuff I prefer one-time payment over monthly costs to have lower base costs.

That said, the whole software as a service thing seems to drive more and more users and companies to Linux and open source software.
At least in my corner of the world more and more companies are switching and or alt least experimenting with Linux alternatives since they prefer to donate to projects (one time or from time to time, to sponsor a feature) more than having more and more of the software they use changing to saas.

wondering:
what could a carpet/swarm of these do,...?
how long is the battery live?

How about first getting rid of the scroll-lock-key? (I know less people using that key than the caps-lock-key)

another idea: how about Trump uses all the plastic waste to form a plastic wall,... unlike barbed wire a plastic wall probably wouldn't be stolen,...

better let the EU think about what to do with it than blindly dumping it into the ocean and increase the general pollution of the oceans even more,...

"Almost every computer with an Intel chips dating back to 2011 are affected by the vulnerabilities. AMD and ARM chips are not said to be vulnerable like earlier side-channel attacks."
source: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2019%2F05...

"a fairly stable machine" -> so not really usable in real life,...
"fairly stable" systems tend to cause problems at the most convenient times,...

'Cornell scientists create ‘living’ machines that eat, grow, and evolve'
this kind of gives me the creeps,..

Did someone show Trunp the IronSky Movies and this is what happend after he spoke with the NASA folks and he realized Mars isn't an option?

Seeing the bitcoin prices falling and falling I wonder: "Why would malware creators still create such stuff, isn't there anything more profitable than this?"