Who would have thought...

This has been going on since crapto became big enough and its likely a main reason crapto is still around? Crime-support in the from of tax evasion, crime financing and money-laundering was always a major application scenario for crapto. Obviously, it also serves as a scam vessel by "value" manipulation (see Musk and Trump, for examples doing that).

This is called "being careful". They could just have done what Boeing does and risked a few 100 dead but avoided that costly "recall". Instead they determined the possible causes and eliminated the most likely ones, and those include an unknown software fault. They currently are not finding that fault and hence they think it may have been a rare but possible event like a bit flip.

Nice! Also pretty accurate. Well, build houses of cards on sand and this happens. What I do not get is that these people do not see it. It is neither difficult to understand not is it without precedent. In fact, there is a very large body of examples from when other engineering disciplines struggled to get to maturity. And it is even in the mainstream media (for example the Titanic, Tchernobyl and Fukushima).

These people must be determinedly dumb, uneducated and incompetent.

Indeed. The problem of IT security has always been asymmetric, but AI makes this massively worse. The small advantages AI offers on the defenders gets annihilated and then steamrollered over by the advantages to the attackers.

Without the influx of tons of Windows people (that do not get it) into the Linux space, systemd would never have been a thing. That same problem could or could not happen with the xBSDs, but it should at the very least be far away. Meanwhile, all my Devuan installations and the few remaining non-systemd Debian installations continue to run perfectly fine and with no gross security problems.

I am currently beginning to think that Rust may actually improve software security. Not because of its features, but because of that steep learning curve. We have too many incompetents writing software. Rust may be too hard for them. If so, good.

But please, get the Rust spec done. A "secure" programming language without a spec is simply embarrassing.

Yep. The nuclear industry is famous for its bombastic empty promises. And the morons believing them.

And then run it without incident and good uptimes for at the very least 5 years. At that time I will start listening.

Before? The whole thing is just fantasies and hopes and dreams, no substance.

My prediction is that all this "AI Agent" stuff will be dead within at most 2 years due to spectacular failures. They already have created really easy to use attack paths on people's systems and data several times now and they cannot really secure them.

I find it totally fascinating how determinedly these "decision makers" try to ignore that LLMs cannot deliver anything but a tiny fraction of the claims made about them.
Groupthink, FOMO, plain old stupid, all intensely at work.

In other news, LLMs and generative AI lose potential application scenarios that would make operating them worthwhile left and right. Apparently different art communities see it as fraud if you use generative AI and not declare that. And if you declare, nobody wants your stuff anymore. Nice!

As in any subject, unless there is a mindless hype (such as "AI" currently) finding a job with a specific degree requires you to have done well. Too many just want the paper but not the qualification that should come with it and for-profit "education" makes it easy to do so. Then they are surprised they have problems finding a job ...

Obviously. But those that "can hack it" are still going into non-vacuous subjects, not into "AI". And "AI and Cybersecurity"? How utterly stupid are these people? AI helps attackers, not defenders. AI may make defense harder though, because AI generated code is riddled with vulnerabilities. (Yes, I am aware there is more AI than LLMs...)

I've just realized that with the M-type gimps in typical configuration you could use a modified ball gag to augment the anal collection and only need 25 of them. Proper gimpsuits for the outdoor temperature would ensure a longer collection period to avoid hypothermia before the phone is charged.

With the other half being of negative worth? Color me non-surprised.