Comment Why bother then? (Score 1) 31
There are many less precarious ways to make a living.
Comment And they can't even show a picture of it? (Score 1) 158
All they have is what looks like some AI slop video vaguely connecting the concept of this possible truck to whatever you think the American Dream might be.
I predict it will be delayed until 2030, will cost $70k, and will have less cargo capacity and range than some e-bikes.
Submission + - Bank of America kindly asks that you don't share your password with your AI asst (techcrunch.com)
schwit1 writes: In an email blast to customers titled “Protecting your finances in the Al World,” Bank of America urged customers to never share their username and password with another person or an outside service, “including an Al-enabled tool or agent that offers to act on your behalf.”
You can practically sense the frustration in the person sending the email. Still, customers are increasingly handing over their log-ins as personal AI assistants grow more popular. Sharing your banking username and password with an AI assistant runs the risk that it could do something with your finances without your knowledge, or that your bank thinks someone’s raiding your account and locks you out of it. Worse, a security flaw in the AI assistant could result in it leaking your banking credentials elsewhere, giving financially motivated hackers a way into your bank account.
You can practically sense the frustration in the person sending the email. Still, customers are increasingly handing over their log-ins as personal AI assistants grow more popular. Sharing your banking username and password with an AI assistant runs the risk that it could do something with your finances without your knowledge, or that your bank thinks someone’s raiding your account and locks you out of it. Worse, a security flaw in the AI assistant could result in it leaking your banking credentials elsewhere, giving financially motivated hackers a way into your bank account.
Submission + - New Discovery Reveals Shakespeare Co-Wrote Play With His Famous Rival Marlowe (greekreporter.com)
joshuark writes: Nisha Zahid of the Greek Reporter writes that new research has found that William Shakespeare collaborated with Christopher Marlowe on Edward III, a historical play published anonymously in 1596. The findings suggest Shakespeare was the main author, while Marlowe contributed several sections. The discovery challenges the long-held belief that the two playwrights were primarily rivals.
Dr. Rory Loughnane, a Shakespeare scholar at the University of Kent, said the research establishes Shakespeare’s leading role “beyond any reasonable doubt.” The findings could settle a centuries-old debate over the play’s authorship. Scholars had previously linked Shakespeare to several scenes but remained uncertain about how much of the work he wrote.
The researchers used computer-based text analysis to compare Edward III with confirmed works by 10 playwrights active between the late 1580s and mid-1590s.
In one test, the analysis attributed 23 sections of the play to Shakespeare and nine to Marlowe. The results suggest Shakespeare wrote most of the work, with Marlowe contributing a smaller portion. The findings build on earlier research into the play’s disputed authorship.
A 2016 study had already identified Marlowe as a co-author of Shakespeare’s three Henry VI plays. Combined with the new findings, that research suggests Shakespeare and Marlowe maintained a working relationship across several plays during their early careers. Their collaboration on Edward III, believed to have been written around 1592, suggests the two writers worked together while both were in their 20s.
The findings add to scholarly understanding of Shakespeare’s early career and the collaborative nature of Elizabethan theater. The research is expected to appear in the winter issue of the academic journal Shakespeare Quarterly.
Dr. Rory Loughnane, a Shakespeare scholar at the University of Kent, said the research establishes Shakespeare’s leading role “beyond any reasonable doubt.” The findings could settle a centuries-old debate over the play’s authorship. Scholars had previously linked Shakespeare to several scenes but remained uncertain about how much of the work he wrote.
The researchers used computer-based text analysis to compare Edward III with confirmed works by 10 playwrights active between the late 1580s and mid-1590s.
In one test, the analysis attributed 23 sections of the play to Shakespeare and nine to Marlowe. The results suggest Shakespeare wrote most of the work, with Marlowe contributing a smaller portion. The findings build on earlier research into the play’s disputed authorship.
A 2016 study had already identified Marlowe as a co-author of Shakespeare’s three Henry VI plays. Combined with the new findings, that research suggests Shakespeare and Marlowe maintained a working relationship across several plays during their early careers. Their collaboration on Edward III, believed to have been written around 1592, suggests the two writers worked together while both were in their 20s.
The findings add to scholarly understanding of Shakespeare’s early career and the collaborative nature of Elizabethan theater. The research is expected to appear in the winter issue of the academic journal Shakespeare Quarterly.
Submission + - Rubin Telescope discovers a new solar system planet (behindtheblack.com)
schwit1 writes: Using data from the Rubin Telescope in Chile, astronomers have discovered a new planet in the outer solar system beyond Neptune, joining Pluto, Eris, Haumea, and Makemake as the five known large Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNO) so far discovered.
On the evening of 13 October, [Matthew] Holman was running data collected by Rubin earlier in 2026 through a search code he developed with CfA colleague Kevin Napier. The code is built to look at billions of detections of moving objects, compare them, and find the detections that correspond to the same object. Using this method, Holman uncovered ED138, and he immediately noticed that its brightness and distance indicated that it is unusually large. “My first reaction was one of excited disbelief,” says Holman. “Objects like this are very rare, so I immediately started checking whether I or the code had done something wrong.”
To remove any doubt, a detailed search through the data began in the hopes of uncovering more observations of ED138. Juri searched Rubin’s catalogs and images and found 20 more observations, going back to 4 March 2026. In all, Rubin observed ED138 30 times on 20 nights between 4 March and 11 July. Additional archival images from the DOE-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam), and uncovered by the Asteroid Institute’s ADAM Precovery service, provided data going all the way back to 2016. These data allowed the team to trace more than 10 years of ED138's orbit. DECam is mounted on the NSF Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of NSF NOIRLab.
ED138 is currently at a distance of about 46 astronomical units (au), where 1 au is the average distance between the Earth and the Sun. For reference, dwarf planet Pluto has an average distance of 40 au. This classifies ED138 as a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) — objects that orbit the Sun at a distance greater than Neptune’s.
The data suggests this new planet is the largest TNO object so far discovered, though at present the size estimate is very uncertain, from 350 to 1400 miles in diameter.
Comment Re: Misplaced resentment (Score 1) 67
Individual workers make decisions. "Labor" makes decisions on workers' behalf while pocketing a portion of their paychecks. For their own good, of course.
Comment In your best Archie Bunker impression... (Score 1) 123
Oh the way the plugins crash...
Pop-unders and games in Flash...
Those were the days!
Comment Re: Thank goodness (Score 0) 29
Languages are neither safe nor unsafe. Particular implementations of runtimes and libraries, on the other hand, may be full of remote execution holes or so locked down they're unusable. Or something in between.
Comment Re: Misplaced resentment (Score -1, Flamebait) 67
All labor activism is opportunistic Marxist radicalism until proved otherwise.
Comment Re: we respect that (Score 1) 67
Sounds like more fun than retrieving shopping carts. No tax on tips too, so there's that incentive driving people away from fixed hourly to more gig-like service jobs.
Comment Re: Misplaced resentment (Score -1) 67
Powerful...powerless...all meaningless categories in the context of voluntary employment arrangements.
The wife griped and groused about her employer pinching pennies and pawning off more work on her.
You know what she did? Get this: she found another job. Worse commute, more pay, less grunt work of one kind in exchange for more work of a different variety. We'll see how it works out.
You know what she didn't do? Collapse into a pool of self-pity about her own powerlessness or a pool of rage against her supposed oppressor.
Managed to refrain from imploring the workers of the world to unite, eat the rich, or abolish ice. Who knew a satisfying life could be achieved *without* regurgitating stale leftist propaganda as if it were an original thought of your own?
Comment Re: ha (Score -1, Troll) 67
Is anyone forcing anyone to work there? Employing the force of the state to compel labor?
No?
You just want free shit for the lulz? Gotcha.
Comment Stupid is as stupid does (Score 1, Insightful) 67
Went conspicuously overboard on wfh?
Made a point of attaching a class or political valence to it in the process?
Now enjoy the backlash to take it away from the abusers *and* the normies.
Universal answer to why we can't have nice things: morons who abuse it combined with a lack of adults in the room to police it.
Comment He will be missed (Score 5, Insightful) 46
Not that anyone in the TOS cast really deserves much criticism as far as how they manage(d) their celebrity, but Koenig always came off as a class act. In every interview he always seems grateful to just have had the privilege of being part of something big. Really seem to care about the fans and wanted to be entertaining for them at conventions and the like, was willing to participate in some of the fandom projects. Just a good guy.
Comment CIA (Score 1) 100
Nice little supply chain attack.
Hijack of shipment of servers equipped with presently very very expense silicon that nobody will consider just disposing, insert your implants, let some patsys get busted and the kit get returned to the owners.
Bonus points make it seem like a general / widely implemented scheme by hijacking some large liquor shipments and various other goods as well. Pass out the spoils at the field office party or fence them to finance some other activities that need kept well away from oversight.
