...just to play video games and use Office.

Imaging having that job -- to curate enough amateur porn to train an AI to detect it.

Free drinks served to you at the slots and gaming tables. People showing up with partying clothes and being relaxed and carefree. Yes, they're gonna spend money, with or without blue light.

When you publish a paper like this, even if you are wrong, no one alive right now will be able to tell you that you were wrong.

Win-Win.

...and you can't turn that behavior off.

Apple cares about your privacy though, so they're totally not doing anything with those pictures outside of your device.

Yes, privacy should be on by default.

No, because people are the product when it comes to software and services. Collecting data about your use of software or a service for metrics/analytics and then selling that data allows the software/service to be provided for free. No one will opt-in to have their privacy turned off, so the model collapses. When that model collapses, no more free things.

Oceania's Ministries had machines that would produce the books and media consumed by the proles, filled with content the government of Oceania would keep the proles subdued and entertained.

The moment I heard the news, I downloaded the client, got signed in and was pleased to find my old v-bucks balance sitting there waiting for me. This is a separate v-bucks bucket from the console client I normally play the game on.

For example, all those SSA payments for people ages 150 years old and up. Or money being spent on gender studies in third world countries.

And is just as unwanted

The entertainment industry is not essential to life or the security of the nation.

Let the creative get back to creating things that are new and leave the stories already told to AI and public domain.

We were finding too many "planets" in the Solar System, so humanity changed the definition of "planet" which resulted in demoting Pluto to Dwarf Planet status and a host of other celestial objects.

I think we should do something similar with "Moons". For example, require the definition to be an oblate spheroid. That would demote almost every captured asteroid to being a "Dwarf Moon".

Then maybe the Gas Giants won't have a ridiculous number of "Moons" and let the word "Moon" give the correct stereotypical mental image of a spheroid when the term is used.

I don't know where that code is taking my device... you know the personal digital device I use for almost everything. Will there be malware?

I went on a cruise that sailed along India's west coast, making two stops. The entire time we were in Indian maritime waters, our cruise ship had to have its Starlink Internet turned off.

The popculture awards business has already been giving Grammy awards to artists who use autotune, and some that don't even write the songs (in whole or in part), or even play some/all the instruments.