Sure, but banks care far more about your money being stolen than Facebook does about your account being hijacked.

There's an open bug to fix that, but who knows if it will gain any traction.

https://github.com/eu-digital-...

The problem with TOTP is that if it was allowed there would be a lot of fake TOTP apps appearing, which steal your secrets. Email is bad because people never log out of it, where as your banking app probably times out after a few minutes of inactivity.

The EU is also proposing to allow everyone to opt out of algorithmic feeds, and IIRC for infinite scroll to be opt-in.

There will still be ads, but the feed will otherwise be chronological, or random.

That's not how it works, there is no way it would create a list of places you have verified yourself to, there is nothing to steal.

Android and iOS already have systems like this for apps that require security, such as some banking ones. The app can ask the OS to check that it has not been tampered with. People who root/jailbreak often find that such apps stop working.

Nothing is recorded, it's just an API call that returns a yes/no response to the question "is the system in a secure state?"

Similarly, the EU's app returns a yes/no response to the question "is the user over 13/15/18?" The app calling the API decides which age it requires.

There is no identifier, nothing leaves your device, there is no record of the API call (at least not in the EU app, which is open source), nothing to steal.

I suppose in theory someone could steal the EU's signing keys and make their own fake version of the app with logging, but if you are worried about that you better throw your phone away because the same fear applies to all the other apps, including the web browser, and your SIM card, and the OS updates. Some years ago British "security" service MI5 stole SIM private keys from manufacturers. We also know that US security intercepts hardware during shipping to install backdoors, so unless you got your phone from the factory in China... Who you presumably think already backdoored it anyway.

You have to wonder why Sony is running the same code, finding these exploits and patching them first.

Exploits like this are never ideal anyway. You need older firmware for them to work, because as soon anything using them is released, Sony will patch them and require the latest firmware to play newer games and use their online services. Most people are going to want to wait for an unpatchable exploit anyway, something that either targets ROM code early in the boot process, or which comes after Sony has abandoned support for the platform so won't patch it.

Cats can't reason or have novel thoughts either, but it didn't stop them enslaving the human race.

It doesn't matter if they can really think or not, if the output is good enough.

Maybe the real story here is that despite having access to the most advanced AI models, these companies were unable to secure their own systems.

Does it matter of it's true or not? Other countries will take it as licence to deploy their own weapons, or to paint the US as the bad guy.

It's possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Flickering might work just as well, or better. Less energy and heat needed, and might screw up exposure or auto levelling. I have not tried it.

The problem is that if you walk around in public with a high brightness IR LED on your head, sooner or later some minimum wage security goon is going to notice their camera is blinded and get upset.

And besides we already solved the baseline problem. A bit of demand shaping, some short term storage, some interconnects.

The old model of the grid is going away rapidly.

I've seen plenty of Python used in production... My question though is that I've found Python can be quite heavy on memory bandwidth, doing a lot of copying and transforming data so it can be processed. I guess that is less of an issue with embedded, but is it still an issue?

The costs of nuclear are addressed all the time.

The problem is the nuke fanbois either ignore the costs or hand-wave them away: "Nuclear is only expensive because of protests and regulations. Next time will be different. Blah, blah, blah."

Even without considering the costs of waste and accidents, nuclear costs four times as much as wind or solar and has a 20-year lead time.

Tens of thousands of barrels of toxic waste were dumped near Catalina Island, but the vast majority are non-radioactive chemical waste.

DDT leaking from the barrels is a much bigger problem than nuclear waste and shows up in the local sea lion population.

Anyway, there's nothing realistic that we can do about it since any attempt to retrieve the barrels will likely make things worse.

20%, but it's only when loading very large images that are scaled down for display. And when you zoom in on them, it has to decode them again.

The PDF viewer isn't really a gain, it just pre-loads it like the bad old days of Internet Explore pre-loading itself on every boot.