Imagine if this was your physical home. The manufacturer of your door lock discovers an imminent plot to burglarize your home.
Are they justified in breaking in and stealing all your Jewlery preemptively? I would hope not.
They should try to notify the home owner and the police, and hope they can react in time.
They obviously meant well, it is even likely the results are favorable (though we never know what might have been). But I'm not sure a utilitarian view is valid.
Where are all the lawyers on this?
This also presumably crossed multiple jurisdictions. I bet it's illegal in some of them.

People keep talking about this like this is some futuristic threat. Yet we are living with this threat(and managing it) for a while.
We have weaponize drones and other remotely controlled platforms for many years. I am aware of one incident where the Iranians managed to hijack a US drone, and force it land. But this was presumably done with GPS spoofing and did not give them sufficient control to attack anything.

Air to air missile systems have fully autonomous modes of operation, and we trust them not to shoot airliners out of the sky.

The future is here, has been here, and the the risks are manageable. Of course we need to make sure we have adequate safeguard against hackers or simple malfunction, but we are far away from a Terminator scenario.

Scala has achieved critical mass, it has shown steady growth over the years and will likely continue. It is entirely possible it will never become as big as Java but that should not be the requirement, it is plenty big enough you can count on it.
I have been developing large scale projects in Scala for the last 6 years and I can't imagine going back to Java now. Scala makes it easy and fun to write good correct code.
Scala is boilerplate free, it feels a bit like your favorite scripting languages yet with compile safety a powerful type system and lot's of help from IDE.
Obviously Scala supports Functional Programming which is essential as everything becomes multi threaded and/or distributed. Scala makes it easy to write functional code and is immutable by default, yet it isn't opinionated and you can use other paradigms when they make things easier/faster.
It's fun to write, you don't have to be a genius to use it, though with weak members on your team you will want a strict style guide. I found using Scala is a selling point when recruiting top talent, even those who never used it. Those who have used it, especially coming from a Java background are instantly hooked.
This was verified again in recent Stack Overflow developer surveys where Scala came out to be a very loved language, nearly everyone who tries it falls in love.
I highly recommend

The article doesn't mention any supporting evidence. I'm not even talking about documents from before age 22 like the guiness records people usually ask for. If he is indeed 145 years old there should be an abundance of evidence prooving at least he is more than 113 years old making him the oldest man alive. Where is this evidence, the article mentions nothing, and neither does a five minute google search. I call bull.

I add "unnecessary" parentheses to complex expressions in order to avoid the mental burden of thinking of operator precedence. I instruct my team to do the same.
Obviously if I can name a sub expression reasonably I just extract it, this is often enough not a reasonable solution.
Usually I prefer terse code, but the above is a fairly common exception.

Regardless of this specific lawsuite, we should ask ourselves, are Facebook and others doing enough to stop terrorists for leveraging their platform?
Consider the great effort by Youtube and others to stop copyright infringements. Both internally and by use of DMCA notice and take-down.

The effort in stopping not only incitement to racial violence but also operational planning of such acts seems meager.

I think lawmakers are almost inherently behind the times on this, and we seem to not have an anti-terror lobby anywhere as strong as the stronger-IP lobby. It would be nice to see Facebook get their act together and do more, setting standards for others to follow and if necessary become law.

Since almost no school teaches 4th graders programming obviously this isn't going to be a common answer.
We should ask hows do we increase programming literacy.
In the age of IoT and everything having a computer in it, basic programming literacy for the masses is important.
I have taught first graders to program so 4th graders which don't have a typing obstacle are almost all capeable of learning. It seems a good place to start.
Starting early has obvious pedagogic advantages. Doing so for everyone can both increase literacy and increase social mobility. I'm all for it.
P.s My mother taught me Basic when I was six(in 1989).

Google does not control world knowledge. Vaccinces have been established as far more good than bad well before google came around. And even now we not only have other search engines we also have other means of spreading information including for example traditional peer reviewed journals.
And just to ice it off even if google tried doing such a thing, whixh is futile in the first place, it probably would be discovered. Just like much more benign manipulations were made public.

There is no massive conspiracy as those don't work. And though we really lack understanding of many things we can still do great things using the scintific method.
We can send rockets into space not only without quantom mechanics but also without the theory of relativity. We don't need perfect understanding. Creating predictions and testing them is enough.
I am all for better fundamental understanding and we are making progress there to. But you can not ignore the fact that vaccines work. And the scintific method shows they do. All the fast talk about side effects and scary "chemicals" won't change that.
I don't need to know and understand each and every ingridient in a vaccine to trust it just like I don't verify the airplanr I fly in by myself. I know the numbers show both are very safe. And both are heavily regulated to keep them that way.

It is nice to see at least some small parts of the US are finally catching up.
In Israel buildings up to 8 stories are required to use solar water heating and it has been this way for decades.

As I read the information, It was encrypted in a similar fashion but not necessarily identical. Specifically I suspect a different crypto system was used but it still only rotated lines in the video. They used image processing techniques to restore the only partially garbled image, the did not break the underlying crypto nor did they recover the key. The may not even understand which underlying Crypto algorithm is used to decide how much to rotate each row. They break the system without breaking the crypto, which is common.

Poorly applied crypto is far more common than weak crypto.
We see many mistakes: No IV, ECB mode, keeping weak version along with strong, weak keys, error correction underneath encryption and many more.
In this case they didn't actually apply encryption to the entire feed only rotated the lines pseduo randomly, and the decryption did not require breaking the key nor even figure out which encryption algorithm was used.

As for how good the military is in using it? well The Israelis got caught with their pants down, the US had their totally unencrypted feeds captured by Taliban in Afghanistan, and had a drone hijacked in Iran.
So If two of the most technologically advanced militaries are obviously making embarrassing mistakes, do you think any military is safe?

Until such a time the condition can be dealt with.
If she was unaware and could not reasonably be expected to be aware of her condition she should not face criminal charges (even a DUI charge). But only this time.
As it seems she is not yet over her condition, she should not be allowed to drive at all until such a time it is demonstrated she is medically fit to drive. The article makes no mention of such a limitation, so it seems the judge thinks she can continue driving drunk on self brewed alcohol.

Pesonal data? I have no memory of that.