I worked on a prototype of the intelligent high beam system back in 2002. I was pleased to see the system in my 2022 Buick Envision, kicking in the high beams when I was alone on the road. The only adjustment to the algorithm from what I worked on was to instantly turn the beams down when detecting oncoming headlights or taillights - the prototype had the ability to calibrate a short period to dim gradually, so there would be no sharp cut. I can understand why you'd want the cutoff instant, though (and made the argument back then). Very neat to see it in action. (No, I'm not the inventor, but I wrote the software and worked out a lot of details to detect headlights/taillights using what was basically a web camera t the time)

I guess a few decades of being able to start my car with my fob was imaginary.

An NFT can, very easily, be used as proof of ownership for things far more tangible than an image or video... an NFT could represent ownership of a game, for example. Tie in the wallet and it's a quick check to determine that the wallet's owner owns a license to play your game or use your application with full features. As much as we all dislike DLC, that is another use. Vehicle and even land titles may one day use the blockchain to provide proof of ownership. There is VALUE to the concept of NFTs, and whether you like it or not, there are even people who will not stop liking NFTs, as well - no matter how much you demand it.

Summary: Unity buying the part of WETA responsible for the digital tools, while the WETA VFX Studio will was not part of the purchase.

So I guess nothing was stolen from Porsche?

I'm still ticked off that some Target C-Suite exec clicked on a PDF and got his entire system infested with malware that stole my credit card numbers some years ago... what kind of rinky dink network security does a company have that phishing attacks are even possible? Any admin-level account held by an executive should be a special account... no e-mail, and only accessed in rare cases. They do not need any special access beyond getting e-mails and shuffling presentations around. That doesn't require the sort of access that malware needs to infect a system.

"Ville de Bitche is a town situated in northwestern France with a rich military history, pastoral landscape, and an unfortunate sounding name," reports Slate. (Adding that the "e" is silent....) I've never pronounced Slate without a silent 'e' - is there anybody out there pronouncing it "sla-tey"?

Early 90s... an explosion at a chemical plant that made an Epoxy Resin used int he manufacture of IC chips, in particular DIP chips used for RAM at the time.

The immediate response was that the price of RAM (and no other chips) TRIPLED in price over night.

The problem was... the resin cost $6/lb and never increased in price. Sumitomo had a 6 month stockpile untouched by the explosion. Companies that made use of the resin pellets for RAM production also had 6~12 month stockpiles. In fact, they weren't even scheduled to produce any of the resin for months.

Needless to say, the production resumed long before there was any real shortage, but prices did not fall until systems required a magnitude greater level of RAM.

Later, we saw a flooded Thailand that somehow crippled hard drive production... again, an artificial jump in prices that has never really returned to reality.

Big tech manufacturers and their distributers will always seek to turn crises into money machines.

Strikes again....

THIS. "City of London" is a single square mile, and is exclusively run by corporate entities as part of some centuries-old tax evasion scheme. The police are a joke, and funded to only look after their corporate masters' interests, without regard to moral and ethical grounds.

Well, looking at the error now, I guess it was specifically an issue with her last name, and probably something generically taking the serialized data and changing "True" to true without consideration for the data type.

Ugh. ...and yes, for the record, I absolutely hate fad languages and this ADD approach to computer science. There is something to be said for sticking with time-tested languages and tools, with mature, robust libraries, rather than turning to the next "shiny thing" either to be cool and hip, or simply to be proprietary (as usually the case with Apple) for the sake of "think different" or maybe more correctly "lock out other platforms".

Anyway, either they are really bad at writing validation code for the serialized inputs, or transforming the serialized data in some attempt to clarify the field values, which is dumb when done with no awareness of types ahead of the transformation (changing quoted True to unquoted true, assuming it's a boolean value and your non-standard serialization format requires an unquoted true to interpret as a boolean value - the transformation code makes the assumption that the input is improperly formed because it does not know the real field type, and only assumes it)

Sorry, but "racheltrue@icloud.com" has no delimiters that might mess with a concatenated query, and definitely would not affect properly sanitized, delimited, quoted string parameters for a SQL query.

I would have to see the code to understand how this could mess up validation for her login. Using an IndexOf or Contains for "true" makes no sense, in any context, either. I can't fathom even a bad coding scenario where that might happen.

On the other hand, if it had to be coded in one of Apple's non-industry standard language de jours, I suppose there could be some room for massive fail.

Simple enough solution... block all links to "media outlets" who demand payments. Block them globally. Don't negotiate. Don't legitimize the ridiculous law.

Let's see how long they last before demanding the laws be changed.

Apparently, something that died in 2020.

For my company, everything in our IT grew. NetOps people found their VPN systems tested and expanded capabilities greatly. Security grew... and we brought on more developers (all of them contractors) for the incredible growth we saw due to the challenges brought on by dealing with COVID and the lockdowns (and how it affected our business).

There was no "death of IT" and anybody who predicts this, then claims they are right is insane.

...a stone and steel multistory building with a very beefed up cellular network, augmented by wifi with triangulation/location capabilities and logging (which means they can easily track those rioters with cell phones regardless of their posting, as long as it was on).

Then again, we could say "wake up sheeple" and again question whether jet fuel can melt steel, too.

I'm sure your intention was not to stir up the more conspiracy minded, but if it was, your username checks out, I guess?