Comment by jerome-jh

- Tiktok releases a free ($0, 0€) smartphone with its app pre-installed

- Android 14 ships without soft keyboard, voice operation and use of suggestions are enforced. Can lipread for privacy.

- Russia threatens the world with a climatic bomb, releasing as much CH4 in the atmosphere as possible, burning however unproductive taïga

- Amazon sells its retail branch to a yet unknown Chinese group, only keeps media and cloud

- news on TV is entirely AI generated, harvesting videos from social media. Only human staff in the redaction is the presenter.

- well known newspapers subscription reaches $1000

- Microsoft enforces Rust on all new code in Windows including kernel and drivers