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Comment No good outcomes for Chrome here. (Score 5, Insightful) 28

Let's just game out how divesting would go.
1. Chrome is bought by another megacorp (e.g. Microsoft) and is then equally used to screw over users.
2. Chrome is bought by a medium-sized company that fails to recognize the level investment it requires and they make bad choices or sell it to someone else.
3. Chrome is bought by a small company that MUST make money from Chrome and adds a bunch of shitty stuff to it and Chrome starts dying.

The best outcome you are going to get is Chrome dying a slow death and most people fleeing to other chromium forks which likely mean Microsoft absorbing most users. Given what they have written about why to divest, it seems they are hoping for a nonexistent possibility where greed is not the driving factor.

Comment Re:Wait what? (Score 1) 124

Yes, time matters, you can't blame an event for a result when the result came before the event.

That's not time, that is sequence.

16-ish years ago congress changed a different law, one granting this power to the fcc.

Doesn't matter. If they didn't repeal the earlier law then the law remains a limitation.

If you don't remember, their authority to make such decisions was given by congress in the fight over net neutrality.

Congress can give the FCC 100% authority over everything and when congress then passes a law, despite their authority, the FCC must follow that law.

You need to learn the basics about how the legal system works.

Comment Re:Could we be any more stupid? (Score 2) 77

and the resulting operating method might be straightforward, or a subtle trick at the edge of some math on the energy level required for some chemical reaction.

Except it is not. Multicellular life had to evolve increasingly robust cell walls partially due to the fact that bacteriophages are most prolific things on the planet.

You need to need to dig a little deeper into precisely why bacteriophages are limited to bacterium. What you are arguing is similar to the argument that being capable of picking mechanical locks means you can pick a cryptographic lock. Despite being conceptually similar, the approach needs to be overhauled. In this case, it would mean designing something that would never be considered a bacteriophage because it would be entirely different in both form and function.

Comment Re:Could we be any more stupid? (Score 2) 77

its a pretty small jump to create something that gets rid of those pesky meatbags that are competing for compute and energy resources.

If only! The problem is that bacteriophages work on bacterium and not multicellular things because bacterium have trivial cell walls. You call it a small jump but that's like saying it's a small jump between making a rocket and starting a colony on another planet. To the layman, this is true but anyone who actually knows about the challenges in involved in interplanetary exploration will understand that such a claim is far from the truth.

Comment Wait what? (Score 5, Interesting) 124

When congress passes a law, it can only be changed by congress. It can interpreted as unconstitutional or it can be unenforced but it remains the law. Nothing about "it was made 20 years ago" changes the fact that congress set a limit.

This should be an open an shut court case to prevent any merger violating that limit and a total slam dunk at that. However, we live in strange days.

Comment Re:Sandbox, NOT an operating system. (Score 1) 19

Wikipedia for "Operating system"

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.[1]

Seeing as how it doesn't even resemble an OS, it's not a nitpick, it is pointing out a misnomer. Everything beyond that point is not my concern.

Comment Not a rogue attack, unauthorized attack (Score 4, Insightful) 48

Rogue attack makes it seem as if the AI was acting of it's own volition when we know it was only executing it's instructions. What's true here is that nobody authorized the attack.

Stop carrying water for AI companies. The truth of the matter is that Anthropic inadvertently launched a highly sophisticated cyber attack on HuggingFace due to their own negligence that would land anyone who isn't a billionaire in jail.

Submission + - New Images of the Sun Show Its Surface In the Finest Detail Yet (apnews.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Scientists have captured images of the sun’s surface in the finest detail yet, revealing a strange and dynamic facade. It’s dangerous to look directly at the sun without proper eye protection. But researchers were able to peek at its scorching surface with the help of the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, located on the island of Maui in Hawaii.

Scientists originally took the images for a different reason: to fine-tune and test the limits of the telescope. But when they looked at the results, they realized they’d photographed the sun’s bright outer shell at higher resolution than ever before. What’s more, they saw strange feathery patterns rippling across the surface. “That reminds me of famous paintings, like the swirling skies in Van Gogh’s Starry Night,” said solar physicist Ruizhu Chen with Stanford University, who was not involved with the new research.

Researchers saw ripples of instability on the sun’s surface caused by bits of magnetized plasma moving past each other at different speeds — similar to waves that stir when a gust of wind blows over water. It’s a well-known phenomenon that guides how fluids move. This has been glimpsed on Earth and other planets like Jupiter and Saturn, but “it has not been observed ever at that level on the solar surface,” according to study co-author Friedrich Woger with the National Solar Observatory.

Comment Sandbox, NOT an operating system. (Score 4, Insightful) 19

From the repo README

This is not a traditional computer operating system. We use the term "operating system" in two senses:

* An operating system for the company to be productive with AI, in a way that is safe, so that the security team can sleep at night.
* An operating system for AI workloads, analogous to the sense in which a traditional operating system manages compute workloads.

It's an AI sandbox.

I absolutely object to their misuse of existing terminology.

Submission + - EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law (gamedeveloper.com)

neoRUR writes: EA Sports FC and Battlefield publisher EA has been taken private The move means the U.S. juggernaut is no longer a publicly-traded entity and is now majority owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through its PIF investment arm. Other investors include Silver Lake and Affinity Partners, the latter of which was established by U.S. president Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. The $55 billion transaction was financed via a combination of cash from PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners as well as roll-over of PIF's existing stake in EA—constituting an equity investment of approximately $36 billion. Notably, $20 billion of debt financing was provided by JPMorgan Chase Bank.

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