I'm not familiar with the support the NYT gave the Nazis, but there's always the Daily Mail.

Why would a manufacturer's device need a trusted introducer to communicate with that same manufacturer? Vizio can be its own CA. There's no intermediary between themself and themself.

Given the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, I usually assume incompetence.
Someone put that far more eloquently several years ago, but I forgot their words.

Good thing they don't do anything complicated up there like scheduling trains. Or airplanes.

Good job that the computers they use when scheduling trains or aircraft are using some form of Unix (or IBM big iron).

Youtube is full of 10's of thousands of videos of very confidently wrong cops

Some of which are marked as AI generated, and some which are not marked as such. I've seen some very plausible YouTube videos which then failed simple fact checking.
In this case though, a policeman simply decided that Ms. Crump's car was "the one" and ignored evidence to the contrary, maybe demoting him would be sufficient punishment. I do agree with King_TJ in the comment above though, there's a good chance that the vehicle owner is milking this incident in order to get that vehicle replaced (and serves the police right for supplying her with possible cause).

It's funny to see political ads by people running against data centers in this election cycle.

Would you believe, so they can be used as an energy storage system?

It's actually a pretty good idea, but only if you can keep the command-and-control system secure.

Alas, it's historically been easy for people to slip into a mindset of "no hacker would ever know or care about OUR little system, because [reasons]", and use that as a justification for ignoring security concerns altogether.

Of course that's never really been the case, but now that any bozo with $200 in their pocket can just pay an AI to find every possible security hole and report back, it's REALLY not the case.

Given the way big publishers have already made games a cesspool of microtransactions, online-only operation even for single player experience.... Retro game interest is *long* overdue.

AI slop is merely the latest 'slop' in an industry long rotting.

Outright hostility, you say? I can't imagine how that came about.

Well, Debian has signed updates. I assume most other distros do. I'm not clear what the benefit of this is. Who are you going to trust to do the signing? Does the entire system need to be resigned after every update? At first glance this only works if your entire system is in one "file", and you sign that file with a unique signature. But who's going to know what the proper signature is?

Signing individual packages seems much more reasonable. Then two people can compare the signatures on a particular piece of software to determine that they are the same. (But for that, why rely on signatures when things like sha256 exist...unless that what they mean by signature, in which case the prior caveats still apply.)

I'm waiting for Super Intelligence II Turbo: Hyper Fighting Championship Edition.

"They have an elaborate arsenal in place of high-tech surveillance equipment that really seems overpowered for what their day-to-day needs are, and also incredibly expensive."

Someone had to sign off on this, presumably someone accountable. Who? As far as the police are concerned it's "boys and their toys" but they are not the ones footing the bill (unless they use this to stalk their ex-wives, but that's a different matter).

*You* may know that, but that doesn't make it true. It *may* be true. At this stage I expect most attempts to use AI to fail. The same thing happened when computers came out. And again when personal computers came out.

Power new tools have a learning curve. AI is definitely a powerful new tool, but it's currently changing so rapidly that we haven't really started learning how it should not be used.

Well, the first computer game I found really attractive was Orbquest, a text game on a Unix system. No graphics at all.

Obsessing over graphic is at right angles to the quality of the game.