Comment Re: Moltbook was a farce and so is this story (Score 2) 62
I believe OP is skeptical that the decision to post reputational harm was fully agentic, or whether it was prompted to do so at the behest of whoever is hosting the agent.
Comment Re: Perfect time to buy stock (Score 1) 133
I do that on the roof of my 2018 Elantra hatchback, just need two 2x4s notched over some crossbars, then strap your sheet goods to it. Granted the roof can only be loaded with two sheets but it's got me through some full bathroom renos.
Comment Re: Smash their Ring cameras? (Score 1) 41
They're cheap AF. After some performative smashing, Amazon backed down, and now you can buy a new one (+1 bonus point for consumerism!)
The system works, people!
Comment Consider the alternative (Score 2) 45
The idea of exporting Western European democracy to cultures
it does not fit was bipartisan, but reducing the odds of nuclear war by giving the CCP economic skin in the game was an improvement over decades of nuclear standoff.
Nixons and millions of other Americans key error was imagining US businesses were capable of patriotism.
Democracy ensured idiocracy so here we are. I can't blame the rich for taking advantage of thoroughly unappealing bipedal bovines.
Comment Welcome to Slashdot (Score 1) 51
It is as its "editors" prefer.
Submission + - iOS Zero-Day Exploited in 'Extremely Sophisticated Attack' (securityweek.com)
wiredmikey writes: Apple has rolled out fixes for iOS and macOS systems to resolve a zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2026-20700, the zero-day flaw is described as a memory corruption issue that could be exploited for arbitrary code execution. “Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 26,” Apple noted in its advisory.
Comment Re:UniFi (Score 5, Insightful) 69
Dude, the discussion is about a commodity product millions of people are buying and using that requires next to zero technical aptitude.
There's always a few adorable lunkheads who chime on these discussions about how responsible and well reasoned their decisions are, but for whatever reason they're unable to spot why that is fully orthogonal to the expressed concern. Unless you actually believe there is some reality in which the solution to the expressed concern is simply that if you just chime in enough, everyone is gunna just switch over to what they're doing?
Like in this case the problem of 10 million Ring Doorbell owners is that 10 million Ring Doorbell owners are just find out about UniFi, buy a NAS, and replace their doorbells with Ubiquiti doorbells or cameras? (At like, generously speaking, 10 times the cost. Have fun running that PoE, grandma!)
Honestly, I'm curious why you think your UniFi/NAS setup is germane to this discussion.
Submission + - Apple rug-pulls security update 18.7.5 to force users onto 26.3 (apple.com)
sinkskinkshrieks writes: In a premature surprise where 2 major versions of OSes were traditionally supported until the autumn refresh, Apple unilaterally, quietly stopped supporting 18.7.4 and later on devices such as iPad Pro (M4) and (M5). This is because users hate macOS/iOS/iPadOS 26 redesign that breaks performance, usability, and functionality and Apple is forcing a Hobson's choice on users to pick between security and usability.
Submission + - Old galaxies in a young universe? (phys.org)
alternative_right writes: The fact that some of these galaxies might be older than the universe within some significant confidence level is even more challenging.
The most extreme case is for the galaxy JADES-1050323 with redshift 6.9, which has, according to my calculation, an age incompatible to be younger than the age of the universe (800 Myr) within 4.7-sigma (that is, a probability that this happens by chance as statistical fluctuation of one in one million).
If this result is confirmed, it would invalidate the standard Lambda-CDM cosmological model. Certainly, such an extraordinary change of paradigm would require further corroboration and other stronger evidence.
The most extreme case is for the galaxy JADES-1050323 with redshift 6.9, which has, according to my calculation, an age incompatible to be younger than the age of the universe (800 Myr) within 4.7-sigma (that is, a probability that this happens by chance as statistical fluctuation of one in one million).
If this result is confirmed, it would invalidate the standard Lambda-CDM cosmological model. Certainly, such an extraordinary change of paradigm would require further corroboration and other stronger evidence.
Submission + - New 'ZeroDayRAT' Enables Total Compromise of iOS, Android Devices (securityweek.com)
wiredmikey writes: Security researchers have discovered ZeroDayRAT, a new commercial mobile spyware toolkit that enables full remote access to Android and iOS devices, with features including live camera feeds, key logging, bank and crypto theft and more. Available via Telegram, researchers from iVerify warn that ZeroDayRAT is a ‘complete mobile compromise toolkit’ comparable to kits normally requiring nation-state resources to develop. This is a worrying new spyware RAT that may be with us for some time.
Submission + - Slackware 15.0 has been officially released (slackware.com)
rastos1 writes: A new release of the oldest actively developed Linux distribution is here.
We adopted PAM (finally) as projects we needed dropped support for pure shadow passwords. We switched from ConsoleKit2 to elogind, making it much easier to support software that targets that Other Init System and bringing us up-to-date with the XDG standards. We added support for PipeWire as an alternate to PulseAudio, and for Wayland sessions in addition to X11. Dropped Qt4 and moved entirely to Qt5. Brought in Rust and Python 3. Added many, many new libraries to the system to help support all the various additions. We've upgraded to two of the finest desktop environments available today: Xfce 4.16, a fast and lightweight but visually appealing and easy to use desktop environment, and the KDE Plasma 5 graphical workspaces environment, version 5.23.5 (the Plasma 25th Anniversary Edition). This also supports running under Wayland or X11.
For the first time ever we have included a "make_world.sh" script that allows automatically rebuilding the entire operating system from source.
We adopted PAM (finally) as projects we needed dropped support for pure shadow passwords. We switched from ConsoleKit2 to elogind, making it much easier to support software that targets that Other Init System and bringing us up-to-date with the XDG standards. We added support for PipeWire as an alternate to PulseAudio, and for Wayland sessions in addition to X11. Dropped Qt4 and moved entirely to Qt5. Brought in Rust and Python 3. Added many, many new libraries to the system to help support all the various additions. We've upgraded to two of the finest desktop environments available today: Xfce 4.16, a fast and lightweight but visually appealing and easy to use desktop environment, and the KDE Plasma 5 graphical workspaces environment, version 5.23.5 (the Plasma 25th Anniversary Edition). This also supports running under Wayland or X11.
For the first time ever we have included a "make_world.sh" script that allows automatically rebuilding the entire operating system from source.
Comment Re:Were they all working the code (Score 1) 160
No orchestration agent directed traffic.
Submission + - Bitcoin ransom in Savannah Guthrie case fuels calls for crypto bans (nerds.xyz) 2
BrianFagioli writes: A reported $6 million bitcoin ransom connected to the alleged kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie’s mother has dragged cryptocurrency back into an uncomfortable spotlight. While the priority should be empathy for a family facing an unthinkable situation, the use of bitcoin once again reinforces public fears about crypto being the payment method of choice for extortion and serious crime.
Supporters argue that bitcoin is traceable and that crime long predates digital currency, but repeated headlines like this keep eroding trust. As crypto continues to appear in ransomware attacks and now alleged kidnapping cases, the debate is shifting from regulation to a more blunt question: whether bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies should be banned or heavily restricted before their downsides outweigh their promised benefits.
Supporters argue that bitcoin is traceable and that crime long predates digital currency, but repeated headlines like this keep eroding trust. As crypto continues to appear in ransomware attacks and now alleged kidnapping cases, the debate is shifting from regulation to a more blunt question: whether bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies should be banned or heavily restricted before their downsides outweigh their promised benefits.
Submission + - 'crazy' dice proof leads to a new understanding of a fundamental law of physics (phys.org)
fahrbot-bot writes: Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, physicists use a law known as the Boltzmann distribution, which, rather than describe exactly where each particle is, describes the chance of finding the system in any of its possible states. This allows them to make predictions about the whole system even though the individual particle motions are random. It's like rolling a single die: Any one roll is unpredictable, but if you keep rolling it again and again, a pattern of probabilities will emerge.
Developed in the latter half of the 19th century by Ludwig Boltzmann, an Austrian physicist and mathematician, this Boltzmann distribution is used widely today to model systems in many fields, ranging from AI to economics, where it is called "multinomial logit."
Now, economists have taken a deeper look at this universal law and come up with a surprising result: The Boltzmann distribution, their mathematical proof shows, is the only law that accurately describes unrelated, or uncoupled, systems.
The research, published in the journal Mathematische Annalen, comes from two economists and mathematicians who both have backgrounds in physics: Omer Tamuz, a professor of economics and mathematics at Caltech, and Fedor Sandomirskiy, a former Caltech postdoc now serving as an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University.
Developed in the latter half of the 19th century by Ludwig Boltzmann, an Austrian physicist and mathematician, this Boltzmann distribution is used widely today to model systems in many fields, ranging from AI to economics, where it is called "multinomial logit."
Now, economists have taken a deeper look at this universal law and come up with a surprising result: The Boltzmann distribution, their mathematical proof shows, is the only law that accurately describes unrelated, or uncoupled, systems.
The research, published in the journal Mathematische Annalen, comes from two economists and mathematicians who both have backgrounds in physics: Omer Tamuz, a professor of economics and mathematics at Caltech, and Fedor Sandomirskiy, a former Caltech postdoc now serving as an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University.
Submission + - Waymo Reveals Remote Workers in Philippines Help Guide Its Driverless Cars (newsweek.com)
sinij writes:
During questioning, Sen. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, asked what happens when a Waymo vehicle encounters a driving situation it cannot independently resolve. "The Waymo phones a human friend for help," Markey explained, adding that the vehicle communicates with a "remote assistance operator."
AI as a tool to outsource jobs is new angle in the AI bubble.
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