The best possible outcome would be for Polestar to release EVs with no connectivity systems and no automated driving systems, for the US market.

This bill should have had an exit tax provision.

Will this create an opportunity to have Linux ported to iPhones and other vulnerable devices?

Who do you think built and runs those data centers?
About 50% (and growing) of federal government data centers are run by private corporations.
That means no more mandates on those private sector contractors to reduce or even report on ecological impact, water resource usages, electricity usage.
Free license to pillage.

The idea is to let "The Free Market self-regulate".
In reality, this is code for "Give the tech billionaire oligarchs unrestricted free reign".

The data center build up under the guise of AI **will** pay for itself as part of the massive surveillance and control aparatus.
Helping you write emails and collect cooking recipes with AI is the excuse, not the objective.

RFK Jr. has arbitrarily declared that future vaccines will only be approved if the control group in the trials got an inactive placebo. Why? No reason at all, it's just an absurd requirement he made up.

Placebo, double blind trials are the golden standard for drug / clinical trials. It seems reasonable that vaccines should be subjected to the same standard, specially those introducing new technology, like mRNA.

I don't know a lot about this project but I am not understanding why they wouldn't just move to a non-Fedora based distribution. There are *LOTS* of them.

Or fork Fedora, right?

That's what it takes now for police to catch up to 14-16 yo criminals.

They will apply for a larger number of foreign worker visas next year, due to the "shortage".

I do not believe for a second that 20-30% of deployed code at MS has been written by LLMs.

I do believe it. There's endless blobs of XAML, CSS, boilerplate HTML, that are currently squeezed out by disposable H1Bs.

if the whole thing was scripted without any real AI action taking place, to promote a product that wasn't yet running or ready for prime time.

Oh sweet summer child! Of course, scripted, every time.

with officials increasingly pointing to Russia as the likely culprit.

Just in time to sabotage any peace deal in Ukraine. Next thing, the Russians will blow up their own gas pipelines, again.

Does this mean that they will use AI to address their growing list of vulnerabilities? : https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cve.org%2FCVERecord%2F...
Does this mean that they'll significantly cut back their number of H-1B filings as well? : https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myvisajobs.com%2Femp....

"but I see no reason why a future computer program should not be."

Other than the philosophical impediments to computational consciousness (see Searle's Chinese Room), which Dawkins must surely know about.