cypherpunks

Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?

to all five of your questions: yes

yes, i linked to the wikipedia article where i got those figures from

The headline VW to shift from cars to missile defence in deal with Israel’s Iron Dome maker strongly implies that they are going make less (or even no) cars as a result of their military business, but the article actually says this "shift" is at one of their car factories which they had planned to shut down next year.

The article also neglects to mention some relevant information about the VW Group such as its origins and who owns them today (although they are a publicly traded company, the Qatari sovereign wealth fund, the German state of Lower Saxony, and the Porsche family respectively own 10.4%, 11.8%, and 31.9% of the shares, and the Porsche family holds 53.3% the voting shares).

what happened next? (do the terms actually allow you to cancel it immediately for no cost, or is their $10/month-for-nothing offer an alternative to paying a cancellation fee?)

(well actually) you forgot Poland

signal's "sealed sender" feature has an incoherent threat model

Regarding TVs, WikiLeaks' Vault 7 publication in 2017 included "Weeping Angel", CIA malware for Samsung TVs which streams audio from them while they're in "fake off" mode.

https://mashable.com/article/cia-samsung-tv-hack-weeping-angel

xkcd#37 moment

It's good to see someone in this thread who knows what an IPv5 address looks like:

IPv5 addresses consist of four hextets a 16bit each.  For the visual
representation, those grouping are used.  The hextets might be
written in decimal, separated by dot '.' characters, or as
hexadecimal numbers, separated by colon ':'.

It's long past time to start replacing our IPv4.1 deployments!