Says Mark Gurman, who probably has the highest accuracy of anyone when it comes to reporting on Apple. I wouldn’t surprised if he knows more about Apple operations than many of the top managers inside Apple itself.

It’s fucked, the best I can do is to say that there isn’t immediate threat of the radioactive materials getting out unless the older Shelter Structure collapses and that forces the materials out with New Safe Confinement not being able to prevent it since it was already damaged by Russian drone earlier in the war.

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Carr said that Congress temporarily authorized the hotspot program during the pandemic, and the FCC didn’t have authority to bring it back when the congressional authorization expired.

Gomez disputed Carr’s legal argument, saying that “Congress gave the FCC permission to expand the applications of E-Rate funding as the technologies used to educate children evolve.” She pointed out that the Universal Service law says the FCC may designate additional services for support. Gomez continued:

When the E-Rate program was implemented, dial-up Internet was the standard, and today, September 30th, 2025, AOL is discontinuing dial-up service. It is safe to say the landscape of communications technology has changed dramatically throughout the life of the E-Rate program. As underscored during my visit to the High School for Environmental Studies in New York a couple of weeks ago, students are now using Chromebooks in classrooms on a regular basis, and they are expected to submit homework assignments online using platforms like Google classroom. These changes are made possible with support from E-Rate funding.

Yet George W. Bush did that for bookmobiles so we know Carr is full of shit.

Say “thank you” to Zionists and their defenders for making every Jew’s life less safe.

Am I the only one who finds this whole tradition creepy?

AI Overviews is content taken from existing sites, AI Mode is content generate entirely by an LLM model (which article in this post talks about). PolitiFact in reference to Google talks about autofill search feature which predates “AI” since it was released in 2004.

If you want people to take your aguments seriously, don’t mistort the facts to get your point across. Maybe Google fucked with their search algorithm or modified the weights to prefer some sources over others in the AI Overviews, but they couldn’t fuck with AI Mode since it didn’t exist then.

Privacy issues could be mitigated and to the specific “issue” of children and teenagers accessing adult content basic parenting and conversation would have a bigger impact than trying to forbid it. How has that worked out historically with alcohol or smoking?

By UKs definitions in OSA once considered family shows like Dancing with the Stars and other entertainment productions could be banned. Sexualized content is everywhere in real life, internet just mirrors it, not creates it.

The fundamental issue with age verification is censorship. Once framework is created it can be applied to any other content someone deems you shouldn’t access. What is legal today can be illegal tomorrow.

Google’s AI Mode was launched in March of 2025…

I have no idea, but it was one of a few forums that reported it first before news sites even were aware of it. I posted follow-up here https://lemmy.zip/post/49951704

“At this time, there has been no confirmed leakage of personal information or customer data to external parties,” the press release read.

This is fluff. SB 243 is the real deal, which he already vetoed once.

The governor is also weighing another bill – SB 243 – that passed both the State Assembly and Senate with bipartisan support this month. The bill would regulate AI companion chatbots, requiring operators to implement safety protocols, and hold them legally accountable if their bots fail to meet those standards.

That I could get behind.

Does Canada uphold binding international law? The answer is No.

As Prof. Matthews points out: “This dramatic development marks the first time leaders of a western allied state have been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the ICC.” Apparently, Canada believes that binding international law does not apply to western allied states.

Not over war - over genocide. There is a difference.

Your friendly neighbourhood ally has more interest in your resources than Russia or China.

Fixed, thanks.

Today

Europe: Imposes sactions with a goal to hurt their economy

Tomorrow

Iran: Moves economic ties to other countries sanctioned by Europe
Europe: shocked pikachu face

If you look at the Chinese press and social media no sale is expected.

I did and see the opposite. Most expect it to go through but see it as a win since they retained ownership of algorithm and the access to US market.

Trump has a history of announcing sales without agreement.

While true, it’s usually self-serving ego boost. This being a fake deal would be a huge embarrassment instead.

Cooperate on what? It was never about national security. The US just wants to control all social media platforms. From China’s perspective, it has outlived its usefulness as a data collection platform and could be better leveraged as an asset in trade negotiations.

My guess is that approval to sell will be followed by some tarrifs relief or some other trade deal.

Trump said Xi said they will approve the deal. That said there is no official word from Chinese government as of yet, but them not denying it outright makes me think they will approve the deal.