A LOT of people don't understand risks OS vendors pose to their privacy, security and safety. Nor do they understand the opportunity costs they pay for allowing unfair monopolization of marketplaces where a single company gets carte blanch to do as they please while everyone else is held captive to their whims.

The play store is the very reason for race to the bottom incentive structures resulting in app stores full of malware existing primarily for data exfiltration. If the OS vendors cared about "people" they would provide users with necessary controls to prevent apps from exerting take it or leave it demands upon users. They instead side with app vendors at every turn because it makes them money.

How do you know app stores or apps are less secure? Less secure than what? Less secure than stock Android + GPS where everything including basic official Google calculator and keyboard apps spy on you?

True. I'm just waiting for someone to call themselves that... black metal, or perhaps drone metal? "Jevons Paradox, formed by former Sunn O))) band member ....".

Sounds like a fools errand.

In the US copyright constrains only performances and reproductions of works and their derivatives. It does not otherwise constrain what others may do with the work itself or with information extracted from the work. This includes any styles, concepts, ideas or knowledge embodied in that work.

It might take you 10 years of painstaking investigation to surface new knowledge at great expense not previously known to the world. The second you publish the fruits of your investigation into a work... only the work is protected not the underlying knowledge. Anyone can read your work and blab the same facts to the world without obtaining any license or permission.

In particular see "Jevons Paradox".

Which, despite its name, is not a heavy metal band.

Just like the person who's fallen out of a skyscraper window and is telling himself "so far so good, so far so good...".

If you look at what it is it's a concrete runway, in the middle of nowhere, with a few fancy-looking curved structures around the periphery.

Oh, and a cool-sounding name.

This isn't so much a "how we will grow" but more a "please someone find a use for this".

No, it's not Art of the Deal, it's Art of the Squeel - he saw what has policies were doing and turned tail.

Maybe they could grow bananas in the US? It's well on the way to being a banana republic anyway.

It's OK, it's just standard power management with an "AI" label attached to it to make it sound cool. Nothing to see here, move along.

"In the Office's view, training a generative AI foundation model on a large and diverse dataset will often be transformative." ~United States copyright office.

Unlicensed material means basically everything.

There are no foundation models having not been trained on "unlicensed material".

If you train your AI by showing it copyrighted works without making a fixed copy of the work in the process there is no violation of copyright. Even if you show it stolen material you don't own or have the rights to while there may be legal liability for theft that also isn't a copyright problem.

That's how you can tell when something is incredibly stupid, when it has the word "challenge" at the end and is spread via social media. I'm just waiting for the Running Head-first Into a Concrete Wall Challenge and the Put a Shotgun in your Mouth and Pull the Trigger Challenge to take off.

That's already the standard in a lot of countries. All the fast lane does is check that your image matches the one in the identity document, nothing more. And by fast I mean actually fast, not just "called fast" - time from leaving the plane to picking up my luggage can be as little as five minutes.

The weird thing with this is that it was the US who forced the entire world to adopt biometric passports post-911, and now they're left behind using humans squinting at you at the end of long queues at their borders. Where you have no rights and they can detain you and seize your property, but at least they can't automatically match you to your passport.

If they're going to have the chips do that, why not cut out the middleman and just have them not able to think bad thoughts? And one of them could find a cure male-pattern baldness while we're at it.