... my posts on Slashdot.

The work these shadowy agencies and departments do has been going on for decades.

Even without modern tech, shadowy people doing their work in back rooms of government agencies or in royal palaces are nothing new.

If you get credibly accused of.... So don't get credibly accused of....

That's the reality.

Now, if writing in a style that is "bot like" constitutes "f'ing up" then I'll concede your point. But someday soon, bots will be able to write in ways that, in a pre-LLM era, we would call "excellent writing." Even absent LLMs, computers already out-do humans at some intellectual tasks, like playing chess.

of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee.

Tests like these shouldn't be a "gotcha." They should be fair.

* Had employees already been through some basic anti-phishing training?
* Did the test include something that someone who paid attention during the training course would be reasonably expected to spot?

There is one other use for tests like these: To survey the population of employees: What % of employees clicked on the link, and what do we need to do organizationally (not "just for those who failed") to lower this number to something we can live with?

But it shouldn't be a "gotcha."

They can turn Ukraine into glass. "At all costs" means they will start and lose World War III because most of their nukes were spent turning every hectare of Ukraine into uninhabitable wasteland. But for the few minutes that Putin lives before the incoming missile vaporizes him, he can laugh maniacally and say "I beat Ukraine! Ukraine is no more!"

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For the gallows-humor impaired, this is NOT a serious suggestion. There are no winners in a nuclear war. If he's even thinking about ordering a nuclear strike on Ukraine, even one bomb, hopefully one of his aides will be brave enough to make sure such an order is never followed.

Russian sites like Yandex, Rutube, VKvideo... are great to find porn. But if they go down, I'll take the minor inconvenience for the sake of Ukraine.

More seriously, Yandex has been throttling queries rather aggressively lately, and I'm pretty sure it has something to do with their compute going up in smoke due to Ukrainian drones.

Back in the 20th century some power companies would put your hot water heater on a "controllable" meter that could be turned off during periods of high demand. The rate on that meter was lower than the rate for the rest of the house.

Industrial customers who are willing to be "turned off" can also get cheaper rates from many utility companies.

The work this agency is or will be doing has probably been done for decades. This may just be a re-organization to bring people together under one agency.

First, many knowledgeable techies can't write for the general public. I'd say most can't. The general public doesn't need "intelligent technical articles" by the techies. It needs it explained in their terms.

Second, it is absolutely insulting to judge someone solely by their degree after 25 years of professional experience in the field of tech reporting for the general populace.

Heat Rays - >Tanning Lotion -> automatic rifle frying

... that wetware has vulnerabilities too?

Or to put it another way: "Oops, I didn't mean to do that, sorry."

The use case I envisioned is experts who COULD do the work by hand use AI as a tool to be more efficient. This assumes they are expert-enough that will recognize if their AI of choice is giving a false-positive rate that makes their work harder, not easier. It also assumes that since they are being paid for their time (but perhaps only a pittance or not at all if they are students), they will be paid by their employers or funders as much for reviewing the AI's output as they are for the other parts of their research.

War department is Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth doing their fascist circle-jerk.

The DOD/DOW have been working on this for a while. They discovered, early on, that the device had a propensity to cause permanent nerve damage.

It's very unlikely the US have fixed that, as they'd largely sidelined the work as a failure. However, at 36%, Trump needs something he can call a win, no matter what the long-term consequences.