So Anthropic demos Mythos and OpenAI has to say put out a press release.

Altman's house of cards is collapsing...

Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead..

I don't think it is a team. That would be even more people with 130 some odd billion reasons to show their cards.

I don't even think one of there letters could sit on something like this effectively. Hell even the airman rescue mission leaked, and there was little or no financial incentive to leak that.

That was actually my thought. It wasn't until I got to the mention of Twitter than I figured out they didn't mean X11.

I did think switching from X11 to Wayland was a funny thing to post publicly about. And a funny thing for /. to pick up.

While I can't drop $2K here and there throughout the year without thinking.....I don't consider $2K a bank breaker. I'm not rich, but I do like to save up and drop some coin 1-2 times a year on something nice.

Maybe cameras or new lenses (lenses can be $$)....or the odd cell from time to time.

I think last time I dropped about $1100 or so for my iPhone 12 Pro Max.....and I did pay it off 12 mos interest free with Apple Pay....

But that's just me using their money...in truth I almost NEVER buy anything I don't have cash in hand for.

But if they let me finance interest free I'll do that and keep the cash in an interest bearing account of some kind.

Again I'm far from wealthy, but I have no real debts.....but I know a lot of people and $2K is pocket change for them....and these aren't few and far between types of people, I see these types all the time all over the place.

It's not rare by any stretch of the imagination.

I am not the one here that doesn't know what I am talking about.

Availability is a leg of the CIA triangle bro.. If the authorized user CANT get access and its not fixable. That is a security failure, and likely as serious as a total confidentiality failure.

You getting root does not make you the evil made, you getting root means you SE'd the owner into running something, found a nice heap spray in the browser followed by a local privesc etc. Realistically these are all going to be drive-bys of some kind, where the victim stumbles onto your watering hole, runs whatever code you the attacker react when the listener calls home. Go in plunder and leave if you identify the box as being someones home PC. You're not going worry about persistence or dwell time..

I wonder. Certainly in suburbia yes. Cities though.

People have to be able to park, vehicles have to be able to get by in the opposite lane if you cone off an area being patched. I am not sure you can necessarily fix every hole in a give couple blocks at the same time without creating a significant traffic problem.

That's 10 times more than I'm willing to spend on a phone.

That's fair.

But do remember, there are a LOT of people out there with a LOT of disposable income.....

I don't trade phones often I currently have a 12 Max Pro....and it's looking a bit long in the tooth. Not holding a charge long enough, and the lightening connector isn't dependable for charging, so I've been using nothing but magnetic charging past year or so.

While I'm quite interested in hearing about and seeing the "fold" Apple phone.....from my early understanding, it will NOT have the camera specs they 18 Pro Max (or whatever they call it) phone will have.

I'm MUCH more interested in camera than folding...

Bullshit.

About the only thing secure boot really protects from is the evil-maid. All other cases affecting most users by the time something is in a position to modify the kernel or boot loader it was already in a position to do all the damage that would matter to that person.

You had root on my box, you have already had the opportunity to crypto ransom me, just vandalize my system in general, find and extract any sensitive data in my home directories and on any mounted volumes.

Even advanced persistent threats for the most part are not going to be trying to spliot the pre-boot environment, if I want dwell time on a corporate network I want to compromise assets that are usually always online.

In fact I would suggest for most users of home PCs anyway (to include laptops that rarely if ever travel) are less secure for using secure boot and even FDE. Most of them are one bad update or certificate expiration away from rendering their data completely inaccessible and unrecoverable. We know most of these users have no backups, and the tiny percentage who do have never tested them. -That is the opposite of security folks.

FDE does make sense for corporate environments and secureboot probably does as well but it has not f***king business at home and should NEVER be acceptable as being part of any requirement. It serves only one real use there denying people freedom to do what they like with their own hardware. It does nothing but enable DRM, and it does so at the cost of massive potential harm to the end user.

Only if it is in the public interest to destroy bitcoin.

Imagine if one person were suddenly revealed to unilaterally posses sole authority/ownership over 1/10th of dollars in circulation with no checks, or limits on how or what they could do with them, when or how fast!

Do you think that would do much for dollar confidence? I think likely lead to a pretty immediate discounting of the dollar probably around 10% in real value. The impact on Bitcoin would be a great deal more pronounced because Bitcoin is so much less liquid.

They (Iran) obviously chose it because it is at least in the short term comparatively difficult to sanction but also not to difficult to convert. It would not do them much good to collect tolls in some other currency and subsequently have US diplomatic pressure cut them off from the banking networks that generally handle that currency.

I am not saying that Bitcoin isn't highly traceable and that the US and other governments wont try and won't ultimately succeed making it so punitive to accept payments (in bitcoin) from Iran that Iran has to trade their bitcoin at a significant discount to those wiling to launder it and / or accept having tainted funds they can't spend a lot of place as well. That will happen, but will take some time to become really effective.

It does leave you wonder if the people who whisper in Trump's and Bibb's ears and their friends who might whisper in the ears IRGC types might indeed have provoked this whole thing in order to create a situation Bitcoin or some other crypto-currency could be forcibly inserted into the "international system".

It is interesting to think about because I do still believe in light of hyper-sonic missile and drone tech, and expanding Chinese influence there were / are good strategic reasons to remove Iran as an international player right now, for the US. Attacking Iran was a smart move... Letting them survive as even a regional power isn't. The ability to fight them is determined by the domestic clock on war powers. Trump is an idiot for wasting two weeks on this cease fire, he should economically disabled them, finishing it. Whoever he listened to on accepting those terms is not advising him well. We should have at least destroyed their remaining oil infrastructure, before any pause.

I think you give him too much credit. I don't think his "messaging strategy" has any design, nor is it a strategy. It's just Trump saying whatever shit bubbles to the top of what sometimes passes for a mind. And it's random and changes every four hours because he's random and changes what he believes every four hours. Or every four minutes.

I don't think he even "learned" to act like a reality show... I think this is just who he is and who he always has been, albeit with an added layer of growing dementia. He was moderately successful on reality TV not because he figured out how to be moderately successful on reality TV, but because his normal personality, style and complete lack of ethics, morality or consistency just happens to be perfect for reality TV.

At Walmart, extremely low quality everything is available year-round.

It's been ages since I was last in a Walmart.....when I looked at the extreme poor quality of meat and even most veggies/fruit I could not believe how bad it was, and not significantly cheaper than one of the "real" grocery stores around the area.

I just can't believe people regularly shop at Walmart....at least for food....???

I think after this moronic attack, they now know they don't actually need nukes, at least not until the world loses its appetite for oil, or finds other sources that make Gulf state production irrelevant.

Why do they disable the GPU core....?