Were these headlines generated based on user news submissions? Otherwise the exercise is completely useless. The job of the AI is to turn a user submission into a headline. Not to invent a headline out of thin air. The AI should read the user submission, read all linked articles, and distil a headline from all of that information based on the patterns established over the past 20 years. It sounds like this was just a stupid mad libs generator.

It should be standard for *all* software, period. That's what the Open Source movement is all about.

People need to start thinking of proprietary software just like they do non-peer-reviewed scientific research. We need to build a web of trust.

Do they really think people are ignorant enough to fall for this? Okay, actually the U.S. government undoubtedly is, but not the rest of us. Unless these security researchers with access to the source code are going to be the ones compiling it and releasing binaries, this is nothing but a pointless exercise. If they released verifiable builds, where independent security researchers could release a unique signature of the binaries generated from code they had compiled themselves, then *maybe* this would be interesting. Otherwise, it's just business as usual in the world of proprietary software.

Maybe these idiot Chinese people will enter the 21st century and stop worrying about superstitious nonsense like "disrespecting their ancestor's spirit." I only wish there was a way we could convince all the idiot Christians in the west of this, and outlaw cemeteries once and for all. This is one area where China should exert it's authority over stupid people and require that the bodies be converted into fertilizer to serve the greater good of society in the most environmentally friendly way possible. Cremation releases lots of CO2 and other toxic gasses into the air and is unacceptable.

Carriers don't have access to text message *contents*, only metadata, and besides, any criminal (or anyone who cares about their privacy, really) is going to use a 3rd-party service to communicate, not standard text messages. Logs of these exchanges, lists of contacts, browsing history, links to other websites, and yes, even photos are all potentially valuable evidence in an investigation. I'm sure there's a lot more out there as well. I highly doubt you are enough of an expert in law enforcement investigations for it to matter whether you "understand the need" or not (I'm certainly not).

While I completely understand the benefit in accessing this information, they just need to accept that it's no longer going to be accessible to them and move on to other means of investigation.

I just don't understand. They continue to say things like this, appearing to be in complete denial of reality. Why is this? Encryption is out there. It's not going away, and there is no going back to the way they used to operate. They need to accept this. I believe 100% that companies who have the ability to provide/decrypt customer data with a court order should be required to do so. This should increase safety for all of us, as software continues to be written that ensures it is in fact impossible for those companies to access our data, as it should be. In many cases, this means criminals are going to get away with crimes. It's unfortunate, but this is the price we pa for privacy. The tools are available to everyone. There is simply no excuse for this level of ignorance in the law enforcement community, let alone among politicians.

How the hell is Microsoft continuing to make money? I don't get it. They are hurting in every area as people bail on their garbage, proprietary software left and right. From the complete failure of Windows Mobile, to people's complete hatred of Windows 10, to people abandoning Windows entirely for Mac and Chrome OS/Linux. How is this even possible? Is it still just the same, old monopoly problem with them bullying manufacturers into pre-installing their operating system on all of their machines? Or is it the mega-corporations with incompetent IT staff that continue to insist on using their software on thousands of PCs? This is just incredibly sad news...

Were their metals not properly massaged and marbled as advertised? This sounds familiar...

I would have loved this feature. Oh well, guess the regressives win again.

People already don't make voice calls anymore. How exactly is this supposed to "revolutionize" anything? I'm certainly not going to be more likely to interrupt someone's day with a voice cal (how rude!) simply because I can do it with my voice instead of pressing a few buttons on my phone.

Seriously, stop calling these people "geniuses." They're not. They're Apple users. About as far from a genius as one can get. They've been through some sort of Apple training programme, no doubt, but that doesn't make them any smarter than anyone else. They still can't handle a mouse with more than one button, an escape key, or any of Apple's other trademarks designed for it's dumbed-down user base.

Either buy a decent machine or stop your whining.

Right, suggest an extension (not a plugin) that hasn't been updated in over 4 years and is going to stop working in a month when Firefox 57 is released. Good one. What you're looking for is uMatrix and/or NoScript.

That is ridiculous. The act of visiting a website with a modern browser is giving consent to run whatever javascript the sites sends you, unless, as you said, you have disabled it. To say otherwise seems ignorant to me. You're *requesting* the content, it's not like it just gets streamed to you automatically.

nice idea, but that was only in the EU. Something that consumer-focused would never fly in the United States, unfortunately. Perhaps in other parts of the world, though.

I really can't wait for companies to start implementing this right, as a way to remove advertisements from their sites. Particularly newspapers and other publications I wish to support financially. There's no way I'm ever disabling my ad blocker, but I would absolutely allow using a share of my CPU resources to send a few cents while I'm reading an article or something. As the OP points out, doing it without user consent is not cool, but when done right I think this could be a very powerful tool.