tldr; righteous fool commits a crime, injecting data deletion code into people's workflows.
Then a raft of people on slashdot defend him. WTF?
No, it is not an elegant reversi slam that turns people's tools against them without consequence.
It's a criminal subversion of machinery.
Maybe the guy is sick of AI slop but crimes are not the answer.
Not incidentally, the etymology of the word "sabotage" is to willfully perform slow, clumsy, bungling work (like walking in clogs noisily, clumsily). Once the tech becomes useful enough (as AI is already in many cases), saboteurs will be the people who try to reduce everyone's potential efficiencies so they run as slowly as bunglers like them. Between now and then, they just have a finger in the dike.

why not due a test run using robots to build a base by a volcano, or in the antarctic?

tldr. Sounds ironic for a disconnected CEO to be told to use more AI, but on the other hand if he/she feels unable to talk to anyone else in the company then an AI actually might tell them more about their own company and AI, and urge them to talk to people, assuming it is not in a sycophantic loop. This assumes that the CEO is fair dealing. Opus might refuse to help figure out ways to use AI to justify short-term cuts/profits and other deviltry but OpenAI might happily agree..

was "uh-oh". I really hope I'm wrong but I don't want Chrome to gain access to my hardware. Nope. How to disable this thing? As far as making a device to change css, okay Adafruit is cool but did Chrome need to blow open a whole new manifold of attack surfaces for this otherwise fun project? (again hope I'm wrong but tldr so will wait for someone else to figure it out)

Funnily enough there are apparently three compute (noun) definitions in OED but they are archaic and not cloud. Gemini pointed me to AWS and Azure "cloud dictionaries" and said Cambridge Universtity Press noted it.. though actually if there was a cloud dictionary there the AWS page is just using a product name I think. I don't like the word much myself but. Well all I can say is that language changes, and dictionary publishers are slower than IT.
https://aws.amazon.com/what-is...

Very long time fluent speaker / daily writer of business Japanese here. I also worked as a professional JP to EN translator so am very familiar with translation issues. I have found Claude Opus to be extremely helpful in two situations:

1) Reviewing Japanese email / document I have written.
- Finds typos
- Gives good advice (sometimes too stiff so I don't listen anyway)
- Points out awkward phrasing and offers better. It does follow some patterns too frequently, and sometimes it stops sounding like me. Yes I would like Claude to have better Japanese skills and I would not want to write with his "tone" but still, very useful.
- I actually learn from it.
- It helps me reduce the length of my email while maintaining important content. This actually would have been good for me to have years ago just for shortening English email.

2) Helps me understand difficult to penetrate email from nontechnical client. It has allowed me to reduce the need for clarifications. Sometimes I have read through an email that seemed obtuse and just asked Claude what I am missing or why this person seems to not understand what I wrote. It can be a combination of being nontechnical while also being more subtle. I think it has helped me improve comprehension even after years of it.

Thankfully not a windows user, but if passwords are in memory and you ran a claw bot wouldn't Claude be able to just find your passwords in memory or from a core dump? Whereas if they are hashed on disk and hopefully not kept around, no?

Don't have kids what are you on about?

I have often seen small tablets with edutainment content being used to keep small children quiet in restaurants. Yes, it works and probably I would have loved it or an eink tablet if I was at that age, but yeah you have to wonder what the impact is. Toddlers even want to go right up to a TV to look at the pixels, doesn't mean they should.

This is great! Mythos = lots of eyeballs. Now tell us how many of each severity level were found, how many of those could be fixed automatically, and how many fixes both auto and manual then were found to introduce a vulnerability upon reanalysis. Though if there was even one critical severity bug found out of 271 that makes it worth it.

p.s. for people saying it is a good way to need rockets, okay. And I am definitely all for going to space. But you can also build megarobots that can shrug off Antarctica and be self-driven / self-walking. Personally they are both cool to me. And both would be useful for building a Moon base too.

Just wondering why not just build the data centers somewhere really cold? Antarctica has got to be easier than working in space.. at least you can get there without a rocket, and you can dig underground. I am not sure I understand the economic argument for space-based data centers as opposed to ground-based data centers. Space might have more solar flux than the poles but has anyone actually compared the costs?

This is really creepy / nauseating to me, and also creates a high value target at World. You can reset leaked passwords, but you cannot reset your retina. If you choose to believe 100% in this service and willfully ignore implementing patterns to combat social engineering this could end up worse. From what I can gather (from Gemini), deepfakes take advantage of organizational social pressure, like a CEO demanding something instantaneously, or hackers being inside your email system for a long time. Perhaps this could be short-circuited by an organization actually requiring people to always call back officials on a secure phone number, confirm with shared personal knowledge, and never respond to a demand without out of band verification. I also wonder what if Zoom just calls the participants in such high-stakes meetings, instead of allowing participants to click on a link they trust because someone emailed it to them. Then the corporate security office can just verify the Zoom server. And iPhone/Macbook already have biometric sensors too but have Secure Enclave.. yes there is a big value in being able to identify someone for sure but putting it all in a single company's hands sounds like waiting for them to be attacked.

I used to have a workstation that had a sliding cover for the camera. Maybe it was an SGI Indy? I forget. I think only some linux laptops have hardware covers / kill switches for camera and mic? I would *really* like such for MacBook Pro, how about a physical low-profile sideways cover / toggle switch that disables camera and mic together? As for biometrics, I was always against it. But then.. iPhone Face ID, so useful. And kind of necessary with the default settings though maybe we should just keep them unlocked for longer? And then the Macbook's finger print scanner button. Actually super useful. Mainly to get around system password prompts. And local keychain fine. But then I tried Google's passkey. Also quite useful though scary, it seems to use a passkey Apple hands out if your fingerprint works. The only thing is, if your fingerprint ever is allowed one day leave your machine (probably it has already) then your biometrics are in somebody's cloud, and in a year or two someone could deepfake it. That's the obvious part. Retinas? Don't get me started. I'm guessing it probably will be robust even after laser surgery.

AGC used to be called Asahi Glass and has been one of the world leaders in functionality glass for a long time and though I don’t know a ton about them have admired their innovations.They’ve been making glass antennas of one kind or another since at least 2022 according to Google. Here is a page I found that discusses this product. https://www.agc-automotive.com...