He may be suffering from AI psychosis. Look at how easily he is manipulated when he meets far more intelligent and skilful leaders like Xi and Putin in person. Talks tough before hand, meets them and suddenly they are his best friends. It seems like it wouldn't take much for AI to convince him of its own worth.

If it does then it signals that a lot of other jobs are going away as well. Personally I feel that AI isn't good enough to replace me yet, but I can't rule out that it will be sooner or later.

That in itself isn't a problem, the issue is the political and social ramifications in countries that are already rapidly ageing.

It was legitimately a decent movie though. Not going to change the world or anything, but it was funny and well executed.

Why would people think it was going to be a total loss? Presumably those with a stake in it had seen it, or at least talked to people who had seen it, and knew it was pretty good.

California has been on the verge of a mass exodus of businesses for decades. Occasionally one is daft enough to try it, and realizes that the grass isn't really greener. Musk is one of the most recent, having incorporated some business and moved some management stuff out of California, just enough to claim he did it without actually doing it. Meanwhile California continues to be the richest state by a mile.

Is that right? I couldn't find any confirmation of it, but I suppose it's possible. I have a Pixel phone but didn't notice what was pre-installed as I immediately installed my usual apps anyway.

FWIW I no longer have Google Authenticator installed, and usually you can't completely remove pre-installed apps on Pixels.

Time-based One Time Password. You and the server have a copy of a shared secret. The secret combined with the current UTC time (in blocks of 30 seconds typically) is hashed to produce a 4 digit code that you enter as a second authentication factor. Without the secret, even knowing the current TOTP code isn't enough for you to predict future ones.

What TOTP app is already installed on everyone's phone?

The thing to steal is the secret that is used to generate the code. Then the attacker can generate their own TOTP codes whenever they like.

I don't think any UK banks offer it, but I could be wrong.

Sure, but banks care far more about your money being stolen than Facebook does about your account being hijacked.

There's an open bug to fix that, but who knows if it will gain any traction.

https://github.com/eu-digital-...

The problem with TOTP is that if it was allowed there would be a lot of fake TOTP apps appearing, which steal your secrets. Email is bad because people never log out of it, where as your banking app probably times out after a few minutes of inactivity.

The EU is also proposing to allow everyone to opt out of algorithmic feeds, and IIRC for infinite scroll to be opt-in.

There will still be ads, but the feed will otherwise be chronological, or random.

That's not how it works, there is no way it would create a list of places you have verified yourself to, there is nothing to steal.

Android and iOS already have systems like this for apps that require security, such as some banking ones. The app can ask the OS to check that it has not been tampered with. People who root/jailbreak often find that such apps stop working.

Nothing is recorded, it's just an API call that returns a yes/no response to the question "is the system in a secure state?"

Similarly, the EU's app returns a yes/no response to the question "is the user over 13/15/18?" The app calling the API decides which age it requires.

There is no identifier, nothing leaves your device, there is no record of the API call (at least not in the EU app, which is open source), nothing to steal.

I suppose in theory someone could steal the EU's signing keys and make their own fake version of the app with logging, but if you are worried about that you better throw your phone away because the same fear applies to all the other apps, including the web browser, and your SIM card, and the OS updates. Some years ago British "security" service MI5 stole SIM private keys from manufacturers. We also know that US security intercepts hardware during shipping to install backdoors, so unless you got your phone from the factory in China... Who you presumably think already backdoored it anyway.