Okay, but - has he "entered" her... um, heart?

One goes better with tartar sauce.

Although, admittedly, some people do like tartar sauce with their fish too...

But that's just a bunch of asterisks?

Clicking through a few levels, it appears this is based on an analysis of stolen password dumps. It does not say whether they took steps to limit their analysis just to passwords grabbed in bulk as part of data breaches - so, if brute-forced passwords make up a meaningful percentage of the total, it's possible their overall counts are biased and inflated.

Okay, technically it's possible - but those Kryten hardware accessories are prohibitively expensive for most businesses.

Is this the same Klarna that has already been through one cycle of being super bullish about AI and then having to re-hire some actual customer support?

I was more bothered by his stressing the word "speed".

Like, when they played the whale sounds backwards, they heard "turn me on, dead man" and "I bury Paul"!

Wharton as well.

I wouldn't think a late payment should count as a default. That last part sounds like trying to shove the data into your pre-assumed narrative.

Tell us how many people ended up not paying the money back, one way or the other.

That's only very partially true. The uptick in unpaid mortgages gave the house of cards a little tap; but it was the giant pile of increasingly exotic leverage constructed on top of the relatively boring retail debt that actually gave the situation enough punch to be systemically dangerous; along with the elaborate securitizing, slicing, and trading making it comparatively cumbersome for people to just renegotiate a mortgage headed toward delinquency and take a relatively controlled writedown; rather than just triggering a repossession that left them with a bunch of real estate they weren't well equipped to sell.

Yeah, when I hit that sentence my brain went "how's that again?"

I think they've seen too many sci-fi TV shows where someone gets sucked out an airlock and is instantly frozen solid.

Okay, get ready, I'm gonna blow your mind with an idea. Are you sitting down?

Socks... to protect all your Apple Socks. It's like layering, but for your Apple stuff!

A brain enema would be preferred.

It's certainly possible that some people do, sincerely, 'fear' that the onrushing machine god will speak chinese and that it would be just the worst if all humans were rendered obsolete by the wrong side's robot when that's supposed to be our job; but, especially with how tepid the results are for the money poured in, it seems much more the case that we are seeing a lot of nakedly cynical playing of the 'give us what we want, lest the chinese win' by people who are otherwise on deeply shaky ground in terms of things like massive copyright infringement, voracious data mining, and an endless hunger for capital without any signs of returns.

It's like a vastly hypertrophied case of the 'race to 5G' stuff; where, if we didn't give Verizon whatever they asked for, China would have a faster rollout of 5G and we would lose the 4th industrial revolution or something? It was never entirely clearly what losing the race was going to involve.

The existential tone of the claims seem especially curious given how meagre the leads people are pouring billions into seem to be; and how readily 'AI' models can be poked at via distillation attacks or good, old-fashioned, electronic intrusion. If The Singularity kicks off that presumably changes everything beyond the powers of meaningful prediction(though that holds for whoever develops it as well as everyone else; given the odds that it will slip the leash); but as long as you are in the realm of incrementally more or less flakey chatbots it seems a bit weird to even talk like there is some sort of victory condition that will trigger and cause one side to lose.