BOTH of them? :-)

No, it definitely isn't. Between the radiation, tendency to accumulate in bone, and shedding pyrophoric flakes, it's really not safe to handle.

Without doubt, some Trump flunky will sell a hundred kilos to IBM.

Only to find out it's not the business machine people, it's Iranian Boom Makers.

The exact scenario we warned about when the discussions about this "responsible disclosure" nonsense started. Someone needs a reminder that letting you know your software sucks is a courtesy, not something you can demand.

Is Twitter operating just as well?

The gutted moderation lead to a lot less advertisers bidding on views.

The unreliability of the service during the transition to being so far reduced dramatically reduced the number of daily users.

The company isn't public, so we don't know if it's making more/losing less money than it was. But we can be pretty certain that the operations are not the same (reduced users less money per user).

They probably didn't want to do a large build if it's 30% price increase on a years old device.

You need to dock it to do work.

But a sub $50 dongle on a desk with a monitor, mouse, and keyboard you're good to go.

In that sense it's sort of less portable than a laptop (need the work desk reserved for it), but in other ways it's more portable (smaller and lighter). The same device can dock at a TV and be a console, or dock at a desk and be an office PC. It's pretty convenient if you have multiple use spaces that are fixed. It's very inconvenient to take to the cafe and work.

and yet the only photo is clearly not a steam deck.

Seems as likely planted misinformation as real.

Bezos suffers Projectile Dysfunction.

Thing is, fingerprinting in general is not a new field, and people have been throwing neural nets at it for a long time. It has always been a pretty sketchy technique and sensitive to overfitting. You don't need people trying to shield themselves, things just change in ways that screw up fingerprints. They are notoriously difficult to keep up to date and mostly seem to survive as part of packages sold to big IT departments as 'this will detect things!', .

If you alter the code and distribute a binary, you are required to distribute the code too. You can only get around distribution if you only use the code internally, which is how so many 'internet' companies get around GPL since they keep everything server side.

These companies just love 'move fast and break things', unless the moving fast might break their things.
 
By their own logic, we should regulate now and work out problems later.

I was going to say that I never thought the day would come when anti-intellectualism when come to slashdot, "news for nerds, stuff that matters." And then I noticed your slashdot id is even lower than mine, so you've been here a while.

A stark reminder that things aren't actually getting worse, the idiots have always been among us.

Which we probably get for free with simple network behavior.

I am not sure which side would really be 'always one step ahead' here. In order for this to work they would need to constantly retrain their CNN since any change in any application or websites's data usage pattern would throw it off. OS updates would also require retraining.
Boiler plate code would also throw it off, and I imagine the majority of websites would be indistinguishable. Things like user settings or adblockers would also throw it off.