BlueLightning

humbug1873 said:

Encryption, Weapons different stuff same stupid story. You can't limit its use to the 'good' guys.

The "good guys" depends on what country you live in, and may be influenced by political, religious and other affiliations.  

These hacking tools are heavily used by both sides in many countries.  Politicians are frequent targets, often by the opposition parties, military, militias...  In the US, there are fringe associated groups of both major parties that hack major players of opposition parties.  In the US, there are multiple fringe parties, from far right (neo-Nazi) to far left (Marxist).  

Few (if any?) chips have been built by Apple itself.  IF chips were built in that area, I'd tend to suspect HP, Samsung, Sun Microsystems or a military contractor.    OR maybe she's been into that wacky teabacky with Elon Musk, Mickey Mouse or Goofy.  Perhaps just a very vivid, creative imagination?  

Apple buys most of its SoC chips from TSMC.  In the past, Apple has purchased processors from Samsung, Intel, Motorola and maybe a few others.  Memory chips from the usual suspects.  Back years ago, Marvell, AMD and Avaya may have manufactured some of their own chips (they have a presence in Santa Clara).   

In other parts of the USA, both GE and NCR have been forced to clean up major contamination from many decades ago, when dumping PCBs and other dangerous chemicals was very common.  

i'd take any social media comments with a full cup of Morton's salt, doubly so with Mastodon or Truth (Anti)social.  

Many electronic devices, or containing gasoline, will go up in a blaze of glory if damaged sufficiently.  

Gasoline tankers, refineries, chemical plants, trains, planes and electrical transformers explode multiple times a year.  

Television sets, refrigerators, dryers, ovens and other home appliances burn down homes many times a year.  

Anything with a high capacity battery (even a 12 volt car battery with a gasoline leak or certain other fluid leaks) can go up in flames.  

Short circuits, especially in homes with over-sized fuses or other safety features defeated, can burn down the house.  
Safer to store flammables in an explosion resistant cabinet, such as used by many companies to protect workers and plant equipment.  

Mobile electronic equipment will be safer when/if solid state batteries eventually become available.  
Fire resistant chemicals used for circuit boards and fire-fighter clothing have been linked with health concerns.  

Interesting that the first wave of new AI-enabled Microsoft laptops seems to  have NO intel inside.  They appear to use Snapdragon chips from Qualcomm.  Snapdragon is  an ARM-based design.  The  Snapdragon chips resemble those in recent Apple products and Android products, more than the older WinTel design.  Suspect Intel will have a difficult to impossible task of catching up with NVDA, APPL and MSFT.  QCOM has double the market capitalization of INTC.  TSM has six times the market capitalization of INTC.  

IF the AI-enabled Microsoft laptops are using different chips for CPU, GPU and AI/neural engine, there may be additional lags due to multiple off-chip communication paths.  Not seeing much on specifications yet (at least not on vendor sites, especially Best Buy).  Would expect higher power consumption in a discrete CPU, GPU and AI chip design, along with more heat.  Memory contention between the separate chips would likely require additional overhead on the CPU.  

Not totally sold on AI without detailed follow-up fact checking.  One recent study posed (IT) programming questions to ChatGPT.  The ChatGPT answers were wrong more than 50% of the time, and often too wordy.  Hey, let's let AI drive cars and trucks, and remove the steering wheel.  
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/chatgpt_stack_overflow_ai/  

Maybe Adobe's lawyers don't have enough work?  

Seems similar to the old-time lawsuit from Apple (records, ie former Beatles) against Apple (Computer) decades ago.  

Believe I've seen similar icons to that used as Adobe's logo (some over 50 years ago).