Headline at NBC now says "more than $350 million". I imagine it was a typo earlier rushing to get the story posted.
"With this outstanding landmark judgment, the 'client-side scanning' surveillance on all smartphones proposed by the EU Commission in its chat control bill is clearly illegal," said Breyer.
"It would destroy the protection of everyone instead of investigating suspects. EU governments will now have no choice but to remove the destruction of secure encryption from their position on this proposal – as well as the indiscriminate surveillance of private communications of the entire population!"
I hope he's right, but I'll believe it when I see it.
The partnership between Google and the Environmental Defense Fund
I interpret that to mean that Google is getting paid for this work. They're not doing it out of kindness.
ETA: So, yes, PR BS.
In my decades of working for software companies and dealing with clients, I have had many conversations that went something like...
Client: We need the software to do _____.
Me: No problem. That's a common request and can be set up in the configuration. I just need [ some specific information that only the client can provide ] from you to set it up. It'll only take me a few minutes.
... crickets ...
Several months later..
Client: WHY HAVEN'T YOU DONE THIS YET? MY BOSS IS SCREAMING AT ME! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!
I can't help but imagine something like that happened here. They've probably been repeatedly requesting this information for months, and whomever is responsible for providing it for the orchestra is just incompetent.
Bill didn't "pass," it was just kept alive
18 Republicans joined Democrats to advance the measure, which leaders hope the Senate will approve as early as Tuesday.
Pretty sure the person you're responding to didn't think a /s was necessary, seeing how obvious the sarcasm was.
If you need to add insulation to make switching to a different heat source worth it, then adding that insulation without switching will reduce your current utility bill. It's not like the insulation (or lack ther of) cares how the heat was generated.
I'm not aware of anything that's made to be used as a heat source that doesn't need electricity to work properly. Gas furnaces have fans that circulate the air. Gas boilers have pumps that circulate the water. Even most fireplaces I've seen have a fan system for circulating air (and those that don't are obviously just for ambiance and not meant to heat the room they're in, much less the house). All require electricity.
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I did too, so went back to find it..
The Class A misdemeanor charges, the highest level short of a felony,
So, not a felony.