There are a ton of beta tests ahead of release, I think it's always prudent to keep up to date very quickly. This seems to be the top security expert recommendation.
Texas keeps trying to ban abortion every which way it can. It is also trying to make voting more difficult instead of more convenient. This has been all over the news in the past year; sources aren't needed to support well-known facts.
a search engine is your friend especially for something as easy to find like this. save your requests for someone to provide links for the much more difficult to locate (much more supsect).
We get really upset about drunk driving. Smoking indoors and in particular around kids. We're going to get similarly mad unvaccinated people taking others down with their Darwin Awards.
Home ownership is now very liquid. People buy/sell/move very easily. Foreign ownership is huge and as mentioned, money laundering is now rife in realestate. Prices in London are estimated to be 10% higher due to laundering. I'm sure that it's much higher in higher priced homes...for a while.
Bill Gates was a destructive businessman. His philanthropy is tied up in his "power" world view. The way the press fawns over his every word is nauseating and a part of this power dynamic. We worship the rich.
yes, he was. But, now, he isn't. He isn't at the helm of MS any more.
I think having got to a certain place with a big caveat, what he and Melinda Gates are choosing to do with the pile of money, is better than what other people (Bezos, Musk) are doing with the money. Even Bezos' ex-wife is doing better things with her share of the money.
The caveat is that I am told, the Gates often require you to use Microsoft IT to do whatever thing you're doing.
The computer has become a commercial ad delivery device. No doubt. These days work on my computers makes me feel like I'm in AdOps optimizing their ad delivery to me.