"Huh, there's the guy i heard the police are looking for. Sure would be neat if I had some way to tell them where he is."

They're only removing the ability to buy product keys. It will not affect download of the actual install media, which just means everyone staying on win10 will end up using the pirate activation methods that are already all over the internet.

Do you even know how many legal documents are still made binding based off a human signature? Feed sample of desired signatures, let it train, forge docs. Or in the opposing direction, use a specific writing set to fake the existence of a person to confuse all other analysis and obfuscate the source of a document.

Same issue with asbestos. Shit's an engineering wonder material, amazing thermal insulation properties, structurally and chemically stable. Just that teeny tiny minor issue of anyone working with it tends to end up with major lung damage.

You shouldn't have been considering them for any headset the second FB got their fingers in the pot.

It was obvious from the start they were gonna do nothing but stick their big data dick in the entire company for their own corporate goals, user experience and functionality went right to the bottom of the priority pile

> It might be that the manufacturer moved to higher priced chips and retired the old fab equipment.

That's exactly what happened. Square footage in a fab clean room is $$$$$$. If there's no orders coming in for an older process that shit gets chucked and replaced with new equipment running modern nodes faster than your mother can suck down a hot dog. And automotive was the worst offender at being dead stuck on old processes, because retooling their own integrated components is money they hate spending.

He stole from rich people. He's gonna get the whole book thrown at him.

I'm assuming JPEG-XL is getting killed because WEBP, which is fully google home-grown-and-owned, not built by a consortium that just happens to include google, has already supplanted it.

They've somehow dumped 5x Boeing's R&D budget into this project in the past couple years and still made an end result that appears worse in both UX and graphical quality than a small independent developer made in half the time with 1/100th the budget. The entire thing is mismanaged and DoA.

can't you billionaires go off and, like, build an evil lair on a secluded jungle island or some shit like a normal fucking villain should???

> It sounds a bit crazy at first, but we already have truckloads of cables running around the world to power Internet and whatnot.

The physics of fiber optical data transmission are a good bit different than power transmission. Not that they aren't insurmountable, but the economics change fast when you're talking about moving terawatts of power.