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Comment ...also, reconsider your relationship w/ LinkedIn (Score 1) 68

by echo123 (#66395486) Attached to: Skydance Offers Buyouts, Gives 5-Day RTO Order

...that's just a hard "no", to the point I'm seriously considering becoming a professional "interview troll" once I retire!

I can't imagine that working out well, because you'll be inundated with recruiters, mostly based from another country even though your market might only be the US Government for clearance-level jobs, (Public Trust counts), all competing to work with you for what amounts to a single slot somewhere, to the point you'll go mad with all the time and attention suck -- especially if they have your phone number. And reconsider your relationship with LinkedIn also.

Comment Re:Good for the US as well... (Score 4, Informative) 169

by echo123 (#66373082) Attached to: Russia Was Not Ready For the Data Center War It Started With Ukraine

Oh and no matter which side of politics you support, anyone who wants elections in the US to be free, fair and democratic should be opposed to foreign governments and entities using social media bots to influence the outcome of those elections.

Oh, hey! Didja hear about the Saudis and the Emirates and Qatar buying CBS and CNN?

Submission + - New Ai-Powered "America.gov" Government Website Uses Gemini and Grok (cnn.com) 3

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fahrbot-bot writes: CNN is reporting (and others) that President Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled America.gov, a government website meant to serve as a one-stop shop for people trying to accomplish basic tasks like renewing a passport, enrolling in Medicare or applying for disaster relief.

The site, which launched with some basic functions ahead of a full rollout next year, is designed to serve as an AI-powered guide through the thicket of government agencies that Trump officials pledged would ultimately save people a whole lot of frustration.

The administration’s new initiative aims to allow Americans to access dozens of federal websites through a single point, making America.gov akin to a search tool that pulls information from across the government. And in the same way that people increasingly use AI models like ChatGPT or Google Gemini to compile information and provide customized answers, Trump officials claimed that America.gov would be able to do the same for people’s interactions with the federal government.

Enrolling in Medicare, for example, will become a matter of typing the request into the America.gov AI tool and following its step-by-step instructions. The same goes for applying to a government job — the new tool will now let people upload their resume directly to the site — or answering questions about federal benefits, publicly available documents or other necessities that fall under the federal government’s vast umbrella.

“Our vision is that one day, this type of convenience and simplicity will be across every government service,” said Joseph Gebbia, who leads the government’s National Design Studio.

But the reality is that the most advanced actions won’t be available until some point in 2027, raising questions about how long it will take for the administration to revamp the way the people interact with the government’s websites. The current version of America.gov can only do “answers.”

In related news, Variety notes that America.gov confirms, for now anyway, that Biden won the 2020 election.

Submission + - Trump says Arch will be a military complex with weapons, drones, sniper's nest (theguardian.com)

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fahrbot-bot writes: The Guardian is reporting, along with others, that President Donald Trump is proferring a new argument for building his triumphal arch in Washington DC: it will be converted into a “top grade military complex” replete with drone and ammunition storage space and customized sniper facilities on the roof and plaza.

In a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday morning, Trump claimed that his new plan came at the “strong request” of the US military. He said the 250ft structure would be able to “house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage”. The president added, “There will be no facility like this anywhere in the world.”

This seems like a ploy to get around courts holding up the project by re-framing the project as a National Security matter, as he did with the East Wing of the White House. (Can the Kennedy Center be far behind?)

Submission + - America PAC's VoteSafe.org is nothing but a honeypot (cybernews.com)

Submitted by echo123
echo123 writes: Elon Musk’s bogus voter registration website is collecting extensive user data and selling it.

The website was funded by Musk and is operated by America PAC, a conservative political action committee founded in 2024 to support Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

The VoteSafe.org website has been promoted as a way for Americans to register to vote and check their registration ahead of the November midterm elections.

But MeidasTouch and Snopes found that despite presenting itself as a voter-registration resource, the site doesn’t actually register users to vote.

The site's privacy policy says America PAC can collect information, including:

        Users' names
        Dates of birth
        Addresses
        Email addresses
        Phone numbers
        IP addresses
        Location
        Information about how they interact with the site

It also permits the collection of "inferences" about users, including their preferences, characteristics, behavior, attitudes, and psychological tendencies.

The policy says the information may be shared with or sold to business partners for targeted marketing.
 

Submission + - U.S. almost attacked Chinese ship over hallucinated AI nuclear arms report (cnn.com)

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fahrbot-bot writes: CNN is reporting that an AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack on a Chinese ship.

The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.

The kind of “hallucination” that the tool used by the analyst in this case conjured has not been an isolated incident across the intelligence community since these tools began proliferating across government, according to one of the sources.

Comment Re:just got the driver for my wifi6 (Score 1) 27

I think we're in agreement that this is out of control... but I would say its not "people" who aren't satisfied, I'd say it's the companies themselves that keep pushing this out the door to justify their own existence... then it becomes a self perpetuating cycle. This is why I referred to wifi... got a machine last year with wifi6... was so new there was no linux driver... until... I don't even care, but I think it was included in the most recent kernel... but there are zero significant improvements for me.. iirc, I went with an ndis wrapper... so that's even less efficient than native support... and it makes zero effing difference to me, you can't tell one way or the other when you're using it. Just read the next comment... I'm already behind! now wifi7 is out! Yawn. Don't care one bit.

Comment Re:just got the driver for my wifi6 (Score 1) 27

alright 6G whatever... so it's not wifi.... but its all the same argument
keep moving the goalposts so nobody ever gets anything done
we're just hamsters in a wheel

last year's tech is still just fine, there's nothing in it for you to upgrade, you probably arent even using the full capacity of what you've got.... speed? size? we've had fast enough and big enough for quite a few years now.

Comment just got the driver for my wifi6 (Score 1) 27

I don't want to hear about wifi "improvements".
I seriously think this just creates reasons to upgrade rather than solving problems or making MY life any better.
Like all technology: the way to fix it is always more technology.
Its a self serving cycle for the tech companies, keep chumps on a constant upgrade cycle.
Good for business, questionable for the end users.

Comment Re:Landfills are such a bad idea (Score 1) 183

by echo123 (#66281754) Attached to: Toxic Underground Fires Are Spreading at California Landfills

If you're right then the fix is just to pay people to sort it all, don't need an AI for that. The disappointed oligarchs will just switch it off when most of the solutions involve just paying folks enough to do whatever needs done.

Actually AI sorts everything very well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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