This is likely the proceedings with the paper:

https://dlnext.acm.org/doi/epd...

It appears the ACM PDF reader loaded an 850MB PDF into my phone's browser and has been stuck doing a search on "beam steering" for ten minutes.

No joke, I read ACM papers on information retrieval and human computer action three decades ago and this is just hostile design.

I'll try again on my desktop at home tomorrow but maybe somebody can extract the paper before then.

And, yeah, as others have said this is old (November 2025) but it would be handy to have integrated with my Home Assistant. Much better than setting up ESP-32's with 26Ghz radars in each room.

I would bet $5 you are right.

Courts love Parallel Construction.

These missiles are known for evading Patriot PAC-3's with non-ballistic maneuvering.

That's at least part of what needs CPU. However a $6 233MHz ESP-32 could handle those calculations.

Those nVidia boards are often used for home video boxes, including transcoding. It's possible this was just a video uplink component.

Reportedly the Tomahawks used in the Minab Massacre were video-guided and did fly-arounds to time the double-tap and experimental use of thermobaric detonation of unspent fuel to incinerate the surviving girls and responding parents.

We should worry more about bringing those people to Justice than whatever Russia is doing.

Their finances have been widely covered in the news.

Their IT Lead is making ~$180K.

Their interest income alone was $500K.

They didn't have a local copy strategically, not for a lack of $5K.

Cloud backup is just another backup, not primary storage, if you care about your data.

Some of us have online, nearline, offline, offsite, and multiple cloud backups with much smaller budgets.

That's for people who care about their data (including the bean counters).

Many IT folks (most?) have had to "I told you so" after a bean counter said no to a small spend. I wouldn't assume the IT department is incompetent without evidence.

As you increase the size of the bulk licenses' box, the amount of expensive cardboard increases as a square, but the number of licenses that fit inside the box increases as a cube. This results in a reduction of the amortized cardboard cost per license.

If a cost reduction isn't happening, then I would suggest people look into the shape of their bulk licenses. It may be that a same-sized box holds fewer licenses than it did ten years ago, due to the addition of "AI features" being tacked onto everything, resulting in irregular, difficult-to-efficiently-pack licenses.

Seriously, root is needed for software installation and updates (and not always even that) and that should be IT. Done. finito.

Yeah, individuals may have root access (but in corporate situations, even THAT has some limits to it - e.g., I can't see the that the 'spyware' I know is on my work machine actually exists. I know it does (because, for example, it is blocking me from screen-sharing to my AppleTV even off the firewall)).

But on a shared machine like old-school Unix minicomputers, that stuff is off-limits except to admins. This actually proves why that was the case - individual users can't be trusted with 'root'. And now we know that extends to non-sentient 'users'.

So this may prove that the bots are going to abuse their powers and therefore shouldn't be given any...but it also proves that the admins of these boxes that the bots are running on have about as much concern for real security as they ever did...which is to say, next to none until the exploitation is already out there.

This is a task that only required standard 'user' access - get the original software, get the dev tools needed for the new language, and have the tools for running the original to check parity), and that's it. They needed nothing more. They didn't need root, they didn't need email, they didn't need the ability to write commits to the others' repos. They needed the tools to do the job, nothing more.

Just like real users.

Anthropic, kill Gemini.

Gemini, kill Copilot.

Copilot, kill Siri...

Could have sworn I've seen a Slashdot story on this a few months ago.

Jelltifa!

...causing movements of weather systems to become more sluggish, producing more persistent heat waves. In Europe, reduced air pollution could be having a similar effect. Industrial emissions can contain particles called aerosols that reflect sunlight. Curbing aerosols has improved air quality, but it may also have altered the way air moves across the continent.

Don't let MAGAs hear this, they are itchin' for an excuse to pollute and deregulate.

STFU will win

...on 5th Ave. and not lose any investors.

anything that includes me without my direct permission at a dinner party... last time I ever speak to them.

I'd turn their spectacles into suppositories, giving them a free colonoscopy that they'll watch over and over clockwork-orange-style.

But this is a good thing. Meta patenting this means there's only one company we need to worry about pulling this shit.

Read his comment again. His objection has nothing to do with what's being patented; it's just a super-generic anti-recording complaint. This patent does not prohibit anyone else from pissing him off by recording things.

It doesn't help that the Facebook angle (that these are Meta's glasses rather than merely "smart glasses") injects all sorts of weirdness into the imagined application.

Facial recognition to identify people: has applications, such as the obvious "crap, I always forget names. Who is this guy, again?"

Highlight reels: WTF?! You call that an application? Extremely niche at best.

There's useful technology being discussed here, but apparently Meta doesn't want that to be the focus.