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Comment do not understand (Score 4, Interesting) 34

they could deploy anubis -- which is free software! -- and put an immediate stop to 99% of the problematic crawlers, but they've decided it violates their principles because it does computations the user doesn't want and is therefore malware.

I guess TLS negotiation is also malware?

even more reason to not donate to them if they're going to burn it on running two sysadmins ragged when a free software solution already exists.

Comment no way 20-30% (Score 3, Interesting) 71

I do not believe for a second that 20-30% of deployed code at MS has been written by LLMs. I believe that a giant volume of it has been *generated*, reviewed, found not usable, and discarded.

I wish some less credulous tech press person would actually press CEOs on idiotic claims like this.

Comment yet another AI lie (Score 5, Informative) 48

https://www.newscientist.com/a...

> “We were shocked,” says Penadés. “I sent an email to Google saying, you have access to my computer. Is that right? Because otherwise I can’t believe what I’m reading here.”
> However, the team did publish a paper in 2023 – which was fed to the system – about how this family of mobile genetic elements “steals bacteriophage tails to spread in nature”. At the time, the researchers thought the elements were limited to acquiring tails from phages infecting the same cell. Only later did they discover the elements can pick up tails floating around outside cells, too.

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