I doubt they will produce something high-performance on a budget anytime soon, since that is not their stated aim and is not critical to security.
The gargantuan effort Huawei and their partners have undertaken here was mostly made possible by one use-case: the boring but efficient desktops used in government offices. Having any part of the supply chain for those in US hands is seen as a huge security risk by China, and with Trump as president I don't think that's just paranoia.
I guess the dynamic is similar for Schumer's constituents, but because he'll never vote the way they want.
"Attacking" is maybe too strong of an accusation, because for that they would need to be looking for weaknesses in websites and exploiting them. That's too obvious, and as a monopolist Google has way more covert options at it's disposal.
For instance, they may gently bias search results so sites that are not CAPTCHA protected appear more in queries made by bots, and less in those made by humans.
Another thing that has become way more prevalent since the AI bubble, is that scrapers indexing your site are sometimes indistinguishable from a DDoS attack. For this one, Google sells no solution, but Cloudflare does. Now, Cloudflare will not be DDoSing sites not covered by their service, but I have no doubt that they themselves are scraping all the public traffic, and selling it to all the AI companies. That way, scrapers know they don't have to scrape protected sites, and focus their efforts on unprotected ones.
This smells like Stephen Miller cleaning house and purging enemies now he's chief of staff. I think he wants to strictly control the information that is getting to Trump, and Loomer was a threat to that control.
It's very likely also due to cartel behavior between the big three memory manufacturers, something for which they have been convicted in the past.
I think they used the AI demand shock as an excuse to raise and maintain their prices to the insanity they are today.
How about charge him with incitement to insurrection?
Ed Zitron must be salivating right now
In 2002, the United States Department of Justice began a probe into the activities of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) manufacturers in response to complaints by US computer makers, including Dell and Gateway. The computer makers said that inflated DRAM pricing was causing them lost profits and hindering their effectiveness in the marketplace, in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
To date, five manufacturers have pleaded guilty to their involvement in an international price-fixing conspiracy between July 1, 1998, and June 15, 2002, including Hynix, Infineon, Micron Technology, Samsung, and Elpida.
They have also plead guilty to price fixing. Device information
Stevens voice Israel comes to me in my dreams!
Until you get sued for "not warning people about the dangers of giant hamster wheels" by people who lack any critical thinking.
Lawyers are why we can't have nice things in this world.
Doubt it. While the racism was a really fun distraction, life has gotten bad enough for most racist white people to just become disaffected. Many of them who voted for Trump 2 years ago will just stay home now.
On the other hand, saying the N word on camera would very likely activate even more black voters. Due to Dobbs and other disenfranchisement efforts, that demographic is turning out in record numbers already. Hearing the president confirm how racist his party is with a single word could probably get the most uninformed people to head to the polls.
To me it always sounded like victim blaming TBH. Some poor people don't deserve to be helped, so us effective altruists (who do things to make people poorer) will weigh their souls and help those who want to be helped.