Fully autonomous (sp?).

Being pedantic here, but the FCC licenses broadcast networks like NBC-Affiliates, ABC-Affiliates, etc. Most of the major networks don't broadcast over the air to local TVs - they broadcast via satellite to their affiliate network stations who then require an FCC license to re-broadcast that signal locally. Some major networks do own local TV stations that have to be licensed, but the "networks" themselves do not.

I actually ran out of breath trying to read that...

You might want to re-read the prior sentence...

"The researchers also found Necro infecting a variety of Android apps available in alternative marketplaces."

Boeing is all butt-hurt by complaints that their Starliner isn't safe for NASA to use to return the astronauts. So, since we're sending a Space-X flight up with two empty seats, let's put a couple of top level Boeing executives in those seats and they can ride their "safe" capsule back to Earth. Lets see them put their own lives on the line for a change.

Yes, you can buy commercial dehumidifiers that collect more than 3 liters per day. But, in case you haven't noticed, those all have to be connected to mains power. These are SOLAR powered and so don't require access to electricity... That's the BIG difference.

Obviously he has installed self-re-compiling malware in your head so he can read your thoughts...

I went to lunch one day and came back to find my swipe-badge wouldn't let me back in the building. I had to call my boss from the lobby phone only to be told to wait there and he would come get me. Turns out that while I was at lunch, the IT dept determined that I had an "unapproved" PC connected to the network that they couldn't remotely administrate and turned off all of my access to everything AND were demanding my immediate termination. I had to remind my boss that the reason I had a server running in my cubicle was because when we let IT run the database server for the RATIONAL software and we paid them a monthly fee to perform daily backups of our data and then the one time we needed them to restore it they said "Oh, yeah, we've been meaning to tell you that for some reason our daily back up always fails on one of the big files on your virtual server, so we don't actually have a backup we can restore..." We then get special permission from the same IT dept (with pressure from the VP of R&D) to run our own independent server and back it up ourselves and never have that problem again - and that is why there is a second PC in my cubicle and they (IT dept) don't need to remotely administrate it because they've proven they can't be trusted. Then it took days to get all of my security settings put back to the way they were...

Seriously? The company that has been selling/giving American's call data and other personal data (cell GPS, etc.) to our government gets a sweetheart deal and pays less than the other corporations do? Anyone else think that's a weird coincidence?

There are tons of malware apps that can do the same thing, though. Hell, The NSO Group used Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp to do that, why aren't those apps banned by the US Govt?

What information have I provided to TikTok - my email, my birthdate, and maybe a couple other items, of non-security value> What information can they gain from my account? They can see that I like to watch crafting/woodworking videos, funny videos, and will sometimes pause enough to watch a few seconds of hot girls in bikinis dancing around. Oh, no, we've already lost WWIII without a shot fired!

Seriously, though, our country (United States) has no real laws for data brokers or website date security - everything we do (and have done) online is available for a price to anyone willing to pay - even the Chinese government. If the US Govt wants me to believe that they give a shit about my personal data falling into the wrong hands, then they need to create new data security regulations closer to home before worrying about what the Chinese might do with TikTok data - when they can just outright buy EVERYTHING there is to know about us online - plus whatever data is sold on the black market from data breaches at major companies every couple of months. Once the US Govt does something about that (and I don't mean sternly worded letters or hand-slaps), then I'll believe they care about keeping my info private and *THEN* they can start banning foreign apps.

But in the meantime, leave my dancing bikini-clad girls alone!

Anyone remember the good old days when there was ONE video streaming service and you could pay one monthly fee and watch almost everything you wanted?

And then the various big companies started getting greedy and wanted to launch their own streaming service, and it got to the point where if you wanted to watch a variety of shows, it would end up costing as much, if not more than cable TV?

And then the big companies started cheating on their contracts and terminating the streaming rights of multiple shows and movies so they wouldn't have to pay the writers/actors/etc a share of the streaming rights?

It was right about then that video piracy started seeming like a good idea again.

If you go to the ER at your local hospital and they ask you "Do you want a real doctor with years of training and actual real experience who will use up to date medical technology to diagnose your issue(s) and prescribe real medication that has been clinically proven to help/cure your condition? Or, would you prefer to see a faith healer who will anoint you with essential oils while praying over you?" then it's an issue - and you should really re-think your choice of hospitals....

I didn't give a crap about homeopathic remedies that could only be purchased at gas station checkouts and in "Health Food" stores. People that want to believe that have their right and choice to be wrong - unless they're forcing it on their kids in lieu of actual medical treatment. My issue was when CVS started making shelf space available for items that have NOT been clinically proven to do anything and are NOT meeting FDA approval guidelines, Now, you've got non-medical "medicine" in bright and shiny packing on the shelf next to real medicine so that all of the people who claim it's real can point and say "See, I can buy it off the shelf at CVS - a "real" drug store - it must be "real"!

Agreed, where can I subscribe to this newsletter?

Yes, but they're paying a DIFFERENT internet service provider, they should ALSO be paying the internet service provider that their customers are using to access them, at least according to ISPs.

Imagine if you shipped a package and paid the shipping fees, but when the recipient goes to pick it up, they have to pay again to receive the package - this is how our Internet fees work as of today. But then the receiving company says "Hey, we should be getting some of that 'shipping' money, too, as our customers wouldn't even be bugging us for packages if "Big Shipping" wasn't sending us packages every day!" This is the future that ISPs want - to double dip and get paid again for something they didn't even do.