The tragedy of Alien 3 is that there was far better lore in the comics world. Newt had been returned to Earth but was kept in an institution to keep her experience secret and made to think she was crazy. That could have been a full TV series by itself. I loved the movie, but hated that it destroyed published continuity.
Wikipedia says unmanned underwater vehicles fall in the drone category as do unmanned surface vehicles.
Speaking of which does Ukraine use weaponized RC vehicles and roaming unmanned anti-ship subs? I would think you would get a larger payload and better damage from the undercarriage.
China can set the fertility rate to whatever they like. It is tied to taxes and penalties. They can move the slider to make it fiscally impossible to be childless.
I do not think I have owned a single device where the headphone jack was the first item to have issues or fail. Even unused debris would trigger switches changing sound sources. I am happy to be done with wired headphones being yanked off my head.
I would not necessarily trust that. Had an army coworker who regularly beat information out with rubber hoses where he was stationed. Sort of the evil version of don’t ask don’t tell.
Worked that way from FaceID introduction. Apple never cared enough. If you share your phone it is on you that the phone accepts the face who you share it with after you enter a pin. It really should have a new face button under the pin.
Passkey lock in appears to be a temporary issue. One of the WWDC announcements was that the FIDO alliance worked out a way to securely port passkeys between platforms. I expect Google to adopt import and export before year end.
I believe the issue Google is attempting to solve is frustration when a single web page spams multiple permissions requests. (Location, camera, microphone, advertiser tracking, notifications, privacy policy agreements, terms of service, etc…). The benefit to Google is better fingerprinting when a single sheet allows all at once.
Edit: perhaps they will sneak in a Google automatic login as a permission to smooth user interactions.
That's the "cover story" use case. The real use case is so that passkeys created on Apple devices can only ever move to other Apple devices, and ditto for on Microsoft or Google devices, and the real point of attestation is so that they can force you to use theirs by cryptographically ensuring that you're not using open-source ones like KeePassXC.
As an example, see this issue opened against keepassxc saying that if they continue allowing plaintext passkey export, they're at risk of being blocked once attestation is standardized:
The goal here isn't maximizing user choice, it's to enforce minimum agreeable standards by the major vendors. It's up to you whether your personal needs wholly align with what they want to mandate, forever.
On the flip side it makes a company seem sparklingly inept when they use VOIP as a method to filter valid users. I haven’t done business with companies like Netflix or Uber because I don’t feel like paying AT&T a cut for identity verification. There are plenty of other methods like digital licenses which are both more secure and with better privacy protections.
I wish we could all agree on a better way of auth -- but unfortunately this is all we have. Asking normal people to do anything outside of phone number or email (or 'login with [other account based on phone number or email]' for auth is basically impossible.
