and myself and others will financially support your effortsâ¦

This is false.
Yes google had a "queries scroll" video display in some lobbies, but it was NOT real time and it was manually curated to only safe examples.
I know because I was there, I had the code, and I even pulled an April Fool stunt with my own curated "queries".

As a side note, the very first "slashdot" server sat on a shelf near my workspace at Google.

If you do not promise to stop stealing my stuff, I am not going to invite you back to my house for dinner.

We all appreciate a free press, but free press is not the same as a press that is party to a crime by receiving and publishing illegally obtained material.

The real problem, however, is when the press claims to have obtained inside info and publishes inflammatory articles with the intent to influence policy and elections and that information is later proven to be false. Just a few examples are Dan Rather reporting military records on Bush (fake), Clinton funding (fake) intel dossier on Trump, Wikileaks publishing (fake/edited) videos and declaring a military "slaughter" of civilians. This type of reporting does serious harm to our democracy - and speech that causes harm is not always protected.

A few notes.
Google has been the leader in ML/AI before OpenAI even existed. It has been integrated in their products for well over a decade, including translate, autocorrect, sentence completion, predictive search, etc. Google literally authored and publicly released the leading research on AI and LLMs, including the key research on âoeattentionâ.
Microsoft and OpenAI were bedfellows early on with the specific intent of embedding AI into Microsoft projects. Then OpenAI screwed over Microsoft.
OpenAI complaining is really rich, given how they continue to violate their âoeopenâ charter in the pursuit of Sam Altmanâ(TM)s ego. OpenAI has not been open, they have not benefited others, and they seek absolute control of technology others developed.

> OpenAI doesn't share parameter information. OpenAI doesn't share parameter information.

I am glad the summary accidentally wrote this twice. OpenAI was founded as a non-profit with a goal of being OPEN and has since become neither open nor non-profit. I refuse to use anything OpenAI for this reason and I wish others would reject them as well. Integrity matters. Demand Open.

Cutting cable and OTA is not "Roku". This reads like an ad trying to redefine "streaming" as their product name.

How many slashdot folks use Roku vs :
Amazon Fire
Google TV/Chromecast
Apple TV
Nvidia Shield
Tivo
Google TV 4k Pro

And those are just similar products and ignores smart TVs like Samsung, LG, Sony, as well as other streaming services like Hulu, Netflix, Paramount, Apple, Amazon, YoutubeTV, etc.

I personally have 2 Nividia shields, 2 Chromecast, as well as two Apple TV boxes.

It can be a lot more complicated than sending a "text message" to disable the chip.

The chip itself may need to determine if it has been moved to an embargoed or sanctioned country. For example, a straw-buyer in a Germany purchases 100 GPUs then re-exports them to North Korea.

When each chip powers up and is unable to authenticate location, it must not function. This is not a "backdoor" in the traditional sense, but rather an export control.

Depending on the various architectures and use cases, there are dozens of strategies. Everything from simple solutions like "phone home" to more complex seismic activity distance detection to determine geo-location. For chips that must function in clusters, there can be a single authenticator system in the network with a low latency requirement and cryptographic authentication. Only the authenticator may need to "phone home" to enable all the chips in the cluster. Any chip that cannot securely communicate with the authenticator over low latency (e.g. in the same building) will not complete booting and move into lock-down mode. You do not typically want to trash the chip on a failure, because a intermittent error could accidentally destroy billions of hardware that was operating legitimately in an approved location.

I've written proposals for these solutions in order to secure export approval from Commerce and other agencies.

subject to it being approved and restricted in advance by a court.
This doesn't give them any special access to anyone else's data.

The NYT is suing to get access to OpenAI user chats...
So now we need to worry about everyone getting access to both the Governments data as well as our own, every single time someone files a lawsuit or a random judge signs a piece of paper... I am not sure which scares me more.

AI is a tool and tools require trained operators.

A Product manager experimenting with a trenching tool and cutting an underground power or gas lines would be a failure of the trenching tool.

Users of Mac and Windows get safari and edge preinstalled, so these browsers have a clear and distinct advantage. However, almost all users decided to only use those default browsers to install Chrome and set it as their default⦠so a judge decided it is part of an illegal monopoly and must be removed from Googleâ(TM)s control?

The expensive backroom-deal brandy and cigar smoke coming from the judges chamber canâ(TM)t mask the smell of fecal matter in this decision.

>... go after things related to Google, like the assembly of electronics that are assembled in China, like TPUs and Pixel phones.

Pixel is assembled in India. TPUs are packaged in Taiwan.
How would China go after Google in India and Taiwan? Invasion?

They are impotent and it shows.

While the study may have linked the cause to drugs, smoking, etc and it may certainly contribute to shorter life expectancy I strongly suspect the issue is similar to left-handedness.

Left-handed people have a life expectancy of 2+ years less than right handed individuals. In short, the world is built for right handed people and left handed men were more likely to die prematurely in accidents or in warfare. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...

ADHD more assuredly results in similar premature deaths as a result of vehicle, workplace, and other accidents.

I am both a private pilot, as well as an FAA approved commercial drone pilot, as well as former military member where I assisted in counterespionage. I only provide this as background experience, not as authority.

I have totally dismissed all this paranoid mess for quite a while. However, as I've listened to the public statements from DHS, FAA, FBI, military, etc. as well as listening to the (non-crazy, non-idiot) reports that have been documented, I've slowly become more concerned.

The only thing that seems (to me) to fit everything would be the U.S. Gov having received reliable intel that something highly undesirable came in through a NJ port. The Government is quietly trying and located it without alarming the public.

It is entirely likely that 99% of politicians and Gov't folks do not have a clue what is going on. That is how a TS-SCI program works (top secret - secret compartmentalized information). TS-SCI comes into play whenever there is highly sensitive information that could pose a significant threat to national security if released, sometimes this is special intelligence, sometimes this is tasking orders, and sometimes it is active field operations.

A number of sightings can be dismissed fairly easily in my view. Others cannot. The interesting public reports have been the low flying "SUV sized drones" with loud motors, as this indicates something similar to a Boeing CAV which weighs in at 600lbs or 1100lbs with a large payload. Amateurs do not fly these. These are intended for serious work and cost millions of dollars each. The reports of these flying patterns at low altitude likely indicate they are being used as sensor platforms. Photo or video make no sense at night. Low altitude doesn't make sense for RF scanning. Scanning for radioactive material however seems entirely plausible.

Last year there was a similar use of drones and vehicles carrying specialized equipment to locate and recover radioactive colbalt-60 that was discovered missing in Western Australia.

Given that the sightings started around NJ and recently expanded to the surrounding States, this sounds a lot like a coordinated search that started at the ports and has now expanded. The search is being done at night, when air traffic is lightest, public is sleeping, and drone lighting make capturing clear photos difficult (not necessarily intentional).

It really appears to me that there could (and I stress COULD) be intel of an NBC threat (nuclear, biological, chemical). I do not factually know this, nor I do not have any inside sources. That said, when a reasonably intelligent person considers the totality of the available information and apply Occam's razor, it seems reasonable. The State of global affairs and politics only increase these concerns.

Apologies for anyone thinking I'm spreading conspiracy theories, but I am sincerely open to any other rational ideas that consider all the available data and provide a more logical result.

That issue is due to people trying to get paid bug bounties without doing any actual work beyond setting up a few scripts and not concerned about quality, only quantity.

Actual developers using these tools know their code and can quickly discern when flagged issues are legit and act or dismiss them quickly.

Given AI models are getting quite good at finding bugs in code, the big players (Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Amazon, etc) need to quickly begin no-cost auditing of critical open-source projects in order to identify bugs before those will less noble intentions do. This isn't merely a call for altruism, as these big players are also using most of these open source projects internally - so this is self preservation as well as benefiting the larger community.

If developers can use AI to spot and fix bugs before public release, it could prove to be a game changer across the zero-day threat landscape.