Don't worry. In addition to rating your driver Uber might also let you give obnoxious co-passengers one star.

Hacks that involve hackers obtaining data from institutions are becoming so common that it's no longer about hoping that an institution that you have a relationship isn't compromised; it's now about ensuring that you aren't negatively affected by the impact.

Other than [1] monitoring your credit; [2] changing your passwords, or using MFA; [3] being hyper aware of phishing attempts that use information about you, is there really anything else one can do?

Turned off politics?

Are you kidding??

Please look at all the topics that have had the highest number of posts on Slashdot (especially over the last four years); you'll find that they are usually political.

I personally prefer to give such topics a hard pass, as they're usually people agreeing with each other, or people shouting past each other, with few insights to be gained.

These are compelling only if users feel that doing all these is such a hassle that switching to EVs is desirable.

Given that people are creatures of habit, I wouldn't bet on it.

If you live in a country where you can't trust the electoral system, then even assuming that blockchain technology would introduce more trust, what is the incentive for any party that might become the ruling party (and thus benefit from the status quo) to introduce the technology?

It's very obvious from the way things were going that this was going to happen, so this is really filler news - up there with "It's the Xth anniversary of Y" and "It's X holiday today".

The real news is when the number of infected people begin to drop worldwide, or when governments start lifting their lockdowns.

Wow! That is quite a dizzying array of battery technologies.

I wonder which ones will eventually dominate the market...

I'd say that's more of a 'lack of knowledge' than a 'lack of intelligence' problem.

I looked at samples of chats that humans had had with it, here:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgoogle-rese...

I think that its strength is that it can easily cross-reference data related to topics that a human brings up, and this allows it to open up the conversation.

Now that most smartphones don't have headphone jacks...

Where did they get that from? The vast majority of smartphone users do not use top-of-the-range phones that dispense with headphone jacks.

So he should just keep on doing what he's doing, if he believes it's the right and profitable thing to do. There's no need to make any statement - if he's right, then his actions should ultimately speak louder than his words.

I am not sure what the point of making this statement is. Is it that nobody agrees with him, and nobody is committing people and resources to make self-driving cars a reality already? Just saying this isn't going to make self-driving cars magically appear out of the air; it's a hard problem to solve.

Given that there is no hard definition of a political ad, I bet that a lot of political advertisers will start creating a lot of bots which post thinly veiled advertising as comments.

Their talent is more useful down here than up there.