Or in this case, humanity is coming to its senses. Hopefully the whole trend of screens and QR codes for everything is starting to go away everywhere, not just 'smart' homes.

Yes, but somewhere in the middle is an additional step where some company is raking in tax money.

- You need to stop using Word

Everyone (except for journos needing clickbait, of course) realizes this is clearly nonsense, right?

Is it really a 'breach' if the information is publicly available? If it is indeed true (which remains to be seen) that this was a publicly exposed database, I don't think you can really say something got 'breached' or 'hacked'. But also, why would anyone sign up for an app that requires you to provide photo ID? That's never going to end well.

> I don't think there is a definitive explanation other than a general assumption it's a global warming thing.

That must be the stupidest thing I've read on the Internet today. Leap seconds are not that rare.

It was only five years ago they forced everyone to control their devices via the cloud (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20200627020116%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.belkin.com%2Fus%2Fsupport-article%3FarticleNum%3D316877). It was a very controversial move at the time, because people wondered what would happen if the cloud support were to shut down. Before, devices were controlled locally.

If the Stop Killing Games thing actually ends up achieving something, that should set a precedent for similar regulation for IoT appliances. That being said, you have to be a special kind of retard to buy a cloud-connected baby monitor.

People will even continue to breathe.

is obvious

It's the Atlantic...

I'm not sure they actually hate that though. From the point of view of credit providers, the reason they can (and do) provide all these incentives to responsible credit card users is that they are making money on these transactions. They want card users who are responsible. From the credit providers' point, the reason they are charging irresponsible users high interests is that this group has a high risk of defaulting. Generally, credit card companies want users to pay of there debt, because they make most of their money on transactions, not from interests.

Contrary to what OP (or the Atlantic) state, the difference is not so much between wealthy and poor users, but between responsible and irresponsible card users. Now, there is a clear correlation of course between being poor and being irresponsible with money, an there are probably groups o people for whom the causality works in either way.

Unfortunately, in many countries it doesn't anymore. As someone with a 2G-only phone, this is becoming a real problem when traveling. I will soon have to replace my still perfectly working phone just because the network is no longer available, which is extremely annoying.

It is somewhat ironic, but certainly not surprising, to celebrate a software package's anniversary by announcing a major push to enshittification. Hopefully there will be a fork that removes these 'functionalities'.