I am still shocked that they started to ship first phones to media outlets and what they sent looks like half decent at least 150-200 USD phone, properly functionally Android stuff. I’d be even more shocked if eventually regular people would get something for their money. How much was it? 400-500 USD?

And if they actually did glue the tacky cover on in the US, the “assembled in the US” label might not even be fraudulent.

What’s next? Trump putting voluntarily a limit of 1 bn USD on the money he will rob from the US tax payer with no oversight?

You mean because of “Clicks” because there are real BlackBerry clones on the market that you can actually buy?

At least they are as dangerous for the people inside as they are for the people outside. There is a reason why they are not street legal in the EU and many if not most countries in the world.

Electronic trash as well.

Essential for compensation.

That’s dire. In Europe a lot of new compact EVs have been coming on the market in 2025 and 2026. Manufacturer’s finally got the message. They even started to bring prices down with no nonsense offers. I just had a look, not even VW wants to sell its new ID.Polo in the US. You know, finally VW is building good cars with good interior again, after having gotten rid of the remaining traces of the “copy all the Tesla nonsense” disease and then they don’t even attempt to sell them in the US.

Also no Hyundai Ioniq 3, no Opel Corsa Electric (or other Stellantis variants), Cupra Raval, Mini Cooper SE, or some of the Chinese offers (BYD Dolphin, Firefly Firefly, Dongfeng Box etc)? But there is the Fiat 500e on the market, isn’t it?

Renault 5, soon Twingo and VW ID.Polo. Hyundai Inster … at least in Europe. I guess in the US they’d rather sell you some oversized childcrusher instead of giving customers reasonably oriced compact options.

“unsupervised” means that AI (Actually Indian) is driving those things, most of the time, right?

I am not a fan if AI slop and low effort vibe coding and hate AI images, music and videos with a passion, but it should be pointed out that this study was about re-programming a complete program from scratch, from documentation.

There, all failed miserably. This study was not about smaller work packages or narrower tasks.

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The US has more than caught up though. The US regime is currently working on establishing a DNA databank of all political opponents it can artest under unlwaful conditions, during lawful protests for example, long enough to get the samples, feeding everything into one huge database with all the other legally and illegally aquired data. When the time comes they’ll have already a list of everyone who has to disappear, like the Gestapo in Austria during Anschluss.

Not really anything new. Psyops warfare of a dictatorship based on paying traitors elsewhere to do the dirty work. Merely the payment details have changed.

This is not more than the wild claims of some gas turbine lobbyist and focus mainly on the UK. The EU is currently trying hard to reduce the reliance on gas, that lobbyist won’t change that as it is a pretty fundamental strategic requirement.

It could be however also that they don’t do it to EU users. Who knows.

I had to test it, using Firefox on iPhone (so webkit) in the EU, got a small pop up at the bottom nagging about their data stealing app, but with a big closing button at the top. It closed just fine.

I was not talking about erhical companies just companies that can’t just go bankrupt without a trace. Google and Co do actually care about billions of fines. Why do you think US tech fascists are so hysterical about EU regulations. If they didn’t care they would just ignore them

You do know that your argument has the same merit against the actual Gestapo, do you? Do you also blame Gestapo’s political victims for voicing dissent publicly when everyone knew you’d end up in a KZ for it?

You’d be surprised. When fines are commonly in the billions, they start to care as a matter of fact. At least proper companies do. Criminals with scam businesses are a different story of course.

Having to calculate your final price of your meal, is a hidden price. A transparent price is when you pay concrete prices for concrete services, without any x% surcharge on everything. Maybe you like it that way, but exactly that should be illegal in the EU because it serves no purpose other than making prices appear smaller than they are by having a smaller number there that is not the full price.

In the US maybe, I doubt this is legal in the EU. It is most definitely illegal with sensitive data like health data.