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Why is it a win, and for whom?

Possibly both. Signal will want to protect themselves legally.

Only a day or two left to write to your MP and object to it.

No, Trump explicitly said the USA couldn’t pay for medicare, medicaid or children’s daycare because the money is needed for wars. And there’s still Greenland and Canada to invade, plus whoever else gets on the list.

https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/did-trump-say-no-healthcare-we-are-fighting-wars-75e7d0

VPNs don’t prevent a device from announcing its real location. And they protect you from a MITM at the ISP but not at the VPN provider, so you just switch who you trust. VPNs also don’t do anything to help with the browser fingerprinting that companies use to track you around the web. From the point of view of the services and sites you connect to, all a VPN does is change your IP address, and the IP address may not be a big part of how they track you in the first place. VPNs alone do not improve privacy much at all.

What VPNs do is shield your traffic metadata from inspection by the network hops between your client and the VPN provider (though the content is almost always enxrypted even without the VPN), and change your apparent location for any service that is exclusively using IP-based geolocation.

Maybe there wasn’t one.

One way to do that would be to stop the endless misdeeds.

I’m glad they’re keeping their cameras safe, but I do worry that a handheld laser could still reach a camera on a tall pole, though the operator might have to stand far enough away that they couldn’t be recognized. I hope no one would try to damage a valuable camera like that.

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When the RAM and SSD prices started shooting up I bought 2 spare (used) sticks of DDR4 and an SSD and put them on my shelf as potential replacement parts for my 5950X/RTX3080 PC. I don’t anticipate changing anything except replacing what breaks, for the foreseeable future. I was always a tech enthusiast but I’m getting old and don’t know how long I can stay employed, so if the prices stay high this may be where my tech journey stops.

A lot of people chose Bitwarden because it was open-source, so they don’t see the very closed Apple Passwords as a suitable alternative.

Or it’s something you earn through transparency.

Don’t forget all the water and electricity that will be taken away from the people.

It also fosters a culture of non-cooperation with colleagues (because they are now your competition), where workers and teams try to sabotage each other, or at least not help, and throw each other under the bus. So there’s mutual mistrust too. And no one wants to take a risk and innovate, leading to further stagnation.

Meta is doing the exact same thing:

Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant will reportedly hand out roughly 8,000 pink slips on Wednesday, May 20, eliminating about 10% of its global workforce. Notably, though, these cuts will arrive on the heels of one of the most lucrative quarters in the company’s history: $56.31 billion in revenue and $26.8 billion in net income for the first three months of 2026…

https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/meta-layoffs-8000-workers-zuckerberg-ai-spending

“EV demand has declined considerably, due to the rollback of environmental regulations in the U.S. and other factors,” Honda said in a statement.

We need an influx of affordable EVs to make it possible for car buyers to respond to the rising gas prices. The price threshold is still too high.

From the linked System76 blog:

New York’s proposed Senate Bill S8102A requires adults to prove they’re adults to use a computer, exercise bike, smart watch, or car if the device is internet enabled with app ecosystems. The bill explicitly forbids self-reporting and leaves the allowed methods to regulations written by the Attorney General. Practical methods for a bill of such extreme breadth would require, in many instances, providing private information to a third-party just to use a computer at all. Privacy disappears.

That’s appalling, and NY won’t be the only government trying it. This is going to be one of those battles we need to fight again and again.

Also, Microsoft create many vulnerabilities by using AI on their own code. AI can do it all!

Over the many decades I’ve been alive, there have been regular articles saying “scientists discover that such-and-such an animal may feel pain.” And then its forgotten and people continue to treat animals terribly, until a couple of years later a similar article comes out. I can’t see where the thought would even come from in the first place that these animals wouldn’t feel pain, except for religious dogma and a desire to continue abusing animals while telling yourself it’s OK. There’s no reason to even suspect most animals aren’t feeling pain.