Well... I'm sure that the office building owners feel motivated to keep getting their lease checks. That's what this return to the office plan is really about.

I'm curious what Facebook, Bytedance, and X are planning to do to comply with this new legislation.

I'd imagine that Facebook will use it's new friends in the US Federal government to get this overturned, Elon probably doesn't have that kind of political clout anymore, though.

There is a big difference between "Supporting stronger penalties" and "Making the e-babysitting service I've relied on for the past 10 years less useful by preventing content customization"

I'm expecting a huge parent backlash against this one.

Yeah, I can't see this move being popular with parents at all. They've been letting YouTube and YouTube Kids babysit their kids since they were 3 by plopping them in front of a smartphone or tablet when they get cranky.

I'm not sure if I could have enough storage to store a local copy of every game, movie, and TV show that I'll need to keep myself entertained for a lifetime. Saving a copy of every YouTube video I ever watched would probably go into dozens of TB on it's own.

It would be pretty cool if there was a free peer to peer storage network to store this kind of stuff. The copyright holders would never go for that sort of thing, though.

Even it it was all copyright free material, you know that some jerk would eventually store kiddie porn or explosive schematics on it and get the system shutdown by the feds quickly.

Some Apple OS X apps can get a bit spammy with notifications if you don't disable them. Apple TV in particular can get pretty obnoxious about new show announcements.

"Professional" edition of Windows 11 isn't much better. It's always trying to cram OneDrive, Edge, Microsoft 365, and CoPilot down my throat after it updates itself.

It doesn't really matter if you disable these notifications, either, because they seem to have a way of reenabling themselves after a feature release.

I'm sure that they'll find some new ways for people to buy Bitcoin soon, so they can find another path to expand the pool of buyers.

First it was the crypto exchanges, then came the Bitcoin vending machines, and now you can buy Bitcoin ETF's for your brokerage account and IRA.

I'm not sure what's coming next. The ability to buy preloaded Bitcoin wallets at Costco? I mean, why not? You can already buy gold bullion there.

Knowing Apple, what they really want is for some other big tech company to develop a thought controlled device first.

Then Apple can copy their design, make some small ease of use enhancements, add some rounded curves, slap an Apple logo on the back, and then charge twice as much for it. It's the Apple Way!

The selling prices for NVidia GPU's have been about 30% over the original MSRP already for any new 40X0 or 50X0 series cards since the 50X0 series cards launched.

Does this mean that the prices are going up AGAIN, or was that just a warning that the prices are staying there?

Seems like it might be a good idea to find some new factories to import stuff from... at least for the next 3 1/2 years anyway.

I certainly wouldn't want to rely on Chinese imports right now, considering that you could be spending anywhere from 20% to 200% on tariffs depending on how angry Trump is that given week.

Quite the opposite, the $200 Android version will automatically opt you into sharing all of your location data to advertisers for targeted advertising. I'd imagine that it will also share your pictures for "quality assurance" reasons as well, which will probably get fed in to the AI modeling company who offers the highest winning bid.

And it will all be completely legal, thanks to some well placed campaign donations to the right congressional members.

I'd dumb it down even more, and say that NVidia's real message is: "We don't really care how you use AI, as long as you're buying our GPU's to run it".

I think that you're confusing Siri Specs for the inevitable $200 Android knockoff version that comes 18 months later.

If we learned anything from the Apple Intelligence rollout debacle, it's Apple is deathly afraid of the scenario you just mentioned and neuters the hell out of what the AI can do. If anything, people will get pissed off when they get blocked from adjusting the hemlines on their dress photo by more an an inch.

With the latest CGI improvements, they could probably do most of these scenes in a LA sound stage now with minimal loss of quality. I doubt that on scene shooting is going to be a requirement for Star Wars movies in the future.