Well, most Americans weren't involved and didn't even agree with the "revolution".

What would be more honest to say is that America was founded in violence and needs to maintain that violence because it has never grown up.

The British emergency number had a bad IT upgrade, back in the 80s, which resulted in emergencies never getting displayed, only error messages.

I think it was in the 90s that an aircraft crashed because an airport monitoring computer was so infected by malware that it was unable to alert the crew or ATC that the aircraft had a serious issue and needed to abort the takeoff.

Recently, Oracle updated Birmingham UK's government IT system. It is no longer functional. At all. At a cost of hundreds of millions. The local government went effectively bankrupt.

I, honestly, DO NOT CARE that you cannot prove software "correct". We need IT lemon laws that make this kind of a botch-up very very very expensive for software vendors to mess up on. When something is mission-critical,

It might deter vendors from supplying government, but I'm not sure how that can be a bad thing. It is better to have an inefficient system than a new iand shiny broken one.

If you want to deinstall the app, blowing up the owner's house is not he way to do it.

This was stupid, reckless, does nothing for actually improving AI safety, risks worsening that very safety, risks OpenAI letting their systems being used on more and more extreme products (because all publicity is good publicity), and in short does the exact opposite of anything that anyone could possibly have imagined going through the mind of of this dweeb.

However, it is what we've come to expect from the Nu Society that is emerging - violent extremism, senseless violence, thoughtless acts, utter stupidity.

Welcome to the "brave" new world where nobody has any brains but plenty of explosives. Any claim America might have to rationality is degraded every time something pathetic like this takes place, and the rest of the world is honestly in no better shape even if it hasn't degraded to open violence yet. I am really not happy.

It can hallucinate all it wants and nobody will be able to tell the difference.

There is no left in America, they moved to the right.

The Dems are probably about level with Ronnie the Ray gun, possibly a fraction more to the right.

If you think the Dems moved 51% to the left, then the reality is you moved 55% to the right, and the Republicans moved even further.

Except none of that actually happened.

The organisation, after Musk took over, became a cesspit of far-right extremism, in which anything the far-right "disagreed" with (such as facts and other inconveniences) were censored.

The EFF has, by this announcement, basically said that censorship did not bother them at all, that extremism did not bother them at all, that death threats against the left didn't bother them, that the only thing they were bothered by was the fact that the intellectuals had all left.

That does not give me overwhelming confidence in the EFF as being concerned with freedom.

It's really not the same thing. See my other post https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23961458&cid=66085502

I don't know how it will work with all the different firewalling options, etc., with Linux, but that's what makes it special for macOS (which comes with lsof, tcpdump, etc.)

It's really nice software. You don't just get a visualization of current connections, you can get popup of new notifications AND the option to set up incoming/outgoing rules. Something like "Firefox is attempting to access slashdot.org port 443:

Allow Once
Allow Firefox to connect to slashdot.org port 443 any time
Allow Firefox to connect to any server port 443 any time
Allow Firefox to connect to any server, any port any time
Deny Firefox all connections

When I got my first Mac laptop, around 2004, Little Snitch was one of the first pieces of software I bought. One of the nice things about the Mac at the time (and historically through OS 7 / 8 / 9 days) was there was a very strong small developer writing shareware culture. That's disappeared a bit more recently (in large part due to the rise of open source, Linux ecosystems, and so forth), but Little Snitch is still great. Another example, Adium remains one of the best chat clients I've ever used. BBEdit is very solid text editor that goes back to 1992! Etc.

Which it was.

That's the part that perplexes me. I can't say I have followed the Vision Pro that closely recently, but at least in the early days, it was very locked down. There are large parts of the system (sensors) that I understand are still not accessible to 3rd party apps. I remember reading several VR developers who were trying to port software from the Quest to AVP and simply couldn't.

To me it would have made sense to open it up entirely. Porn, video games, emulators, whatever!

Are you unsure what "agentic" means? Generically, agency means, more or less, being able to do things. An agentic AI program (ChatGPT in agentic mode, OpenClaw, Claude code) can take actions without being controlled by humans. This is also sometimes called an autonomous agent, but "agentic" has become the dominant term over last year or two.

If you were to try something like Claude code, for example, you would see that it can run shell commands, grep through a source tree, edit files, run git commands, compile, execute, review output, edit code, compile again, etc.

Your post is confused as it assumes that LLMs looking for security vulnerabilities are -- in your words -- "LLMs can unreliably find some defective code patterns if they are obvious enough. (Remember, they cannot do deduction, just statistical pattern recognition. Too much noise or too far from the template and they fail."

That is false. The LLM models in an agentic system are doing more than just looking for "defective code patterns."

LLMs can perform source code level analysis, but they can also, in agentic mode, run fuzzing tools, scan for open ports, write a custom program to attempt to fuzz or exploit an open port, review the output, modify the code to try again, compile, repeat, and so forth. Multiple instances of agentic AIs can do this for many hours and more.

As I've said multiple times before Gweihir, I really don't know if you're trolling or not. You've seemed at least somewhat informed before, so I'm really surprised you didn't know what agentic means, or what has been possible with these tools. ChatGPT agent mode has been out for about a year, and Claude code for a bit longer.

VisionOS 26.4 added support for foveated streaming. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple and Steam have been working together on this.

Then again, Apple's treatment of the Vision Pro perplexes me, so who knows what Apple is doing there...

Nice to know that Greg Kroah-Hartman doesn't know what's talking about--you should let him know that you've cracked that nut, since he is actively working on understanding the situation.

That is not an accurate statement. The current round of discussions are centered around projects that in large part are agentic. Source code analysis is only one of the detection methods that is being used.