The politicians have no idea and are too clueless and out of their league to have any idea of the reality of it whatsoever.

They merely write laws (well, they tell people smarter than them to write laws, and they sign them), and they think that laws can actually accomplish magical things.

This is starting to split hairs. There are lots of legitimate reasons for pages to be fetched by a "bot". If you post a link to a social media platform, that system will fetch the page to access the HTML meta tags to find things like the page title, an image to represent the page, a description, etc, and that is what is displayed in the post instead of just a plain URL. That request also doesn't result in "eyeballs" and ads are not served. Browsers can pre-fetch URLs on a page, again, not resulting in the page actually being viewed by a person.

I'm not seeing a huge issue with AI fetching something on-demand to generate content, which is totally different than scraping data to train a model. This is really more in the realm of a traditional search engine in this regard.

If Cloudflare is misrepresenting the data to make it appear as if data is being scraped for training purposes when it is not then that is indeed something different.

I should have searched this out and included it in my comment. Here's the video that prompted my comment. Also note this video was from 4 years ago, just before the huge explosion in AI capability.

In the first season of The Mandalorian, when a de-aged Luke appears, I remember the complaints that the CGI wasn't great, and within days there were alternate versions using AI that actually produced much better results than what Disney spent a fortune doing. A lot of people were wondering why Disney didn't use these tools if they were available to the general public, and now it makes sense. It was the legal side of things and Disney not being sure they fully owned the result if it wasn't created by a work-for-hire human being.

Yes, because it's not about accuracy, but fear and control on the populace.

It's nice to think that, but as a parent of a 16 and 19 year old, I can tell you right now that generation is so used to everything being rolled out in shrink-wrapped, shiny, ready to use packages, that they will gain no deep understanding of networking from this. They will install an app, like TOR, on their phone / iPad if they hear it will let them access something that was blocked from them, with no understanding of the underpinnings or what is going on at all.

That would be nice if the individuals had a say-so in the matter and not just the corporate overlords.

This is the wrong time for this kind of news. We're supposed to be beating up on Boeing at this point in time. Please align yourself with the narrative, Slashdot.

It's been 15 years since the first Falcon 9 launch, and 10 years since the first Falcon 9 came back to earth and landed. When you say "eventually" just how long are we talking about here? As another commenter said, just wait until Starship is launching stuff into orbit. That will be even more disruptive than Falcon 9.

Props to keeping the underpinning technologies secret for this long. That's almost as big of a feat as the engineering itself.

Is this a new feature of slashdot? Is the plan to report on every passenger plane engine fire occurring across the globe?

If it wasn't this particular set of twelve accounts, the "disinformation dozen" would have been some other set of 12. People were sharing what they wanted to share, and that is what made those accounts popular. It was content people wanted to hear and wanted to share. Once any of those accounts reached some critical mass the viral snowball affect kicked in and they got more and more exposure, so that particular group was the ones churning out the content. That's the way social media works, due to a combination of algorithms and basic human nature.

Just wait until these little bastards have on-board AI that visually identifies targets and kills them autonomously. That is the next step. The jamming of radio remote control has already lead to the use of fiber (they literally carry miles of fiber optic line that unspools as they fly, making them impervious to RF jamming, at the cost of reduced range). The next logical step is to allow them to function without any human input - that gives them both range and immunity from jamming.

This is not good.

They have recovered the switches, and they are quite intact. As shown in this video. They will absolutely know if these had the safety mechanism or not.

Further, the fact that they were turned off 1 second apart fits the scenario that they did have the safety mechanism in place, and that the pilot had to lift up on the switch, then toggle it rearwards (cutting off the fuel), each individually, as opposed to purposefully or accidentally flipping them both off at the same time.

How is this upvoted? I have seen news story after news story showing when all the alerts happened, and what they were. It is extremely well documented. The alerts went out in plenty of time - the warnings went out over an before the river in that area had begun to rise, and watches and other alerts four hours before that.

The problem with biased political rants like what you're spouting is they will result in more deaths. That's because the REAL reason these girls died is not going to be addressed if you want to make Trump, or even the NOAA, the bad guys.

The failure is in the extremely localized levels - that is the local government and even the camp itself. The NOAA can't know that in the absolutely insane amount of thousands of square miles they forecast for that there would be a summer camp in particular danger. That is up to local authorities. You want to place a camp right on the banks of a river, in one of the nations most risky flood zones? Then the local authorities are the ones with emergency services, building code inspection and enforcement, on and on, who are the ones who are supposed to make sure these kinds of situations can be handled. For example the fire department will come and inspect the place for fire safety - exits, alarms, fire plans, fire drills, fire extinguishers and on. Their flooding requirements / plan was token at best, and that is why people died at the camp.

This is a wake up call for local governments to require alarm systems to trigger evacuation to higher ground. What triggers it? How do they know? Is the business responsible for the costs? The county? That is what has to be done to prevent this from happening again.

Here are all the alerts that went out, in spite of what your post says.