Hi. Um, I'm not sure you really need me to weigh in here, but... no. There isn't anybody who's paid to promote Rust or AI at Slashdot. So no one is trying to create "social media buzz."

Rust is being added to lots of major projects in the Linux world, even including the Linux kernel. So that's newsworthy. (And it's definitely not fake.) Maybe some people want to wish that away -- but taking a deep breath and saying "fake news" real loud won't make that happen.

Also, we aren't assholes. And the site is not fucking gay now. (I'm not even sure how you're measuring that...)

Beau will be back on Monday. (Beau has published something like 29,000 Slashdot stories now, so he's earned a few days off.)

But it was funny reading all the "AI bot" speculation. (Jjust for the record, I've been posting my articles at 34 minutes past the hour for the last 10 years...)

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BeauHD is off, but don't worry. Slashdot will resume its normal pace for the last week of September.

I just went into the story and indicated that Felix's last name is Carson. (I actually noticed that as I re-reading the story, and then found your comment after I'd made the change.) This is where people usually say "Great minds think alike," 93 Escort Wagon. :)

Honestly, I thought there was so much more to talk about with this story than just whether or not the worker mentioned in the eighth paragraph had a different last name than the human worker mentioned in the third paragraph. But I'm taking that as a compliment showing that the summary wasn't too long after all -- since you read all the way to the eighth paragraph. :)

Hey, thanks for submitting this. I was interested in doing an "Ask Slashdot" about the Security Singularity -- that's a great phrase. I think Linus Torvalds said there's more bugs than usual being found in Linux, and that Firefox said something similar... But I haven't seen any news articles about Google Account issues in the last few weeks. (Er, and I'm not sure that's going to end up being related in any way to AI-driven patches.)

Slashdot is "powered by your submissions", like it's always been for the past 28 years. So I'm always thrilled when readers share a multi-paragraph discussion idea. Not every submission goes to the heart of a pressing tech news story of the day -- but I'm always glad seeing readers who want to start that discussion!

2019 called... They want their Mashable story back. :)

Heh. I half-considered using that quote from The Orange County Register instead. Then the headline would've been...

"Disneyland Promises New, New, New Tomorrowland"

Apple listed it as "free" with "in-store purchases". But okay, I've updated the headline...

Thanks for spotting that. (I transcribed the video while listening to it. No AI was involved...) There's eight syllables in "Industrial Revolution" -- and by the time you get to the eighth syllable some muscle memory just takes over and keeps typing a longer word.

But at least I didn't type "Madagascar."

I get that half-century-old reference...

I was surprised they were making new James Bond-themed games. IGN's newer article says it's surpassed sales expectations, and it's getting unusually good reviews:

The James Bond adventure is also the highest rated IOI game ever, with an 87 on Metacritic. IGN’s 007 First Light review returned a 9/10. We said: “Demonstrably obsessed with bringing the Bond fantasy to life in a way no one has ever managed before, 007 First Light is the best Bond game I’ve ever played.”

With all the interest in the original Goldeneye: Open Source game (and the James Bond franchise in general), I thought it was worth a story on Slashdot about the new game. (Ironically, I left out any mention of all the positive reviews because I didn't want Slashdot's story to sound...too much like an ad.)

Good catch. I've added that context to the summary. ("Our first target was LibJS , Ladybird’s JavaScript engine...")

Obligatory XKCD (but about the Matrix...) :)

https://xkcd.com/566/

> I have the official developer documentation from NeXT...

This is why I love Slashdot comments. (Thank you Slashdot reader #73,720...)

I've corrected the spelling to NeXTSTEP.

TechRepublic suggested 2016's race just had an anomalously small cluster of a few elite racehorses that were obvious winners. All the oddsmakers picked them, so that year there was lots of "signal" suggesting the racehorses that actually did go on to win.