Oracle wants to use AI for mass surveillance

 Larry Elisson, Executive Chairman of Oracle, said the company is going all in on using AI fro mass surveillance, the register reports. At he Q&A session of the 2024 financial analyst meeting Elisson said:

• Citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly recording and reporting,
• Drones could be used to pursue police suspects instead of relying on patrol vehicle chases.
• Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, If there's a problem AI will report that problem to the appropriate person.
  

Getting rid of Noto Sans Symbols and other fonts in Powerpoint

If someone worked on your PowerPoint presentation using Google presentations, you can end up in a situation that PowerPoint gives an error when saving the presentation that the a font (like Noto Sans Symbols) cannot be found.

Getting rid of this is not easy. Find and replace fonts often does not solve the problem for me.

Solution that did work: 

1. save the Powerpoint as an XML file
2. Open in a plain text editor (Notepad++, ...)
   
3. find an replace "Noto Sans Symbols" (or the font mentioned in the error when saving) with something like "Arial"
4. save again
5. Open the XML file with PowerPoint
6. Save again as .pptx
7. phew!

I found the solution here...