with all the money thrown around... they could solve the shortage just fine by building out production capacity themselves... and feed into their own machine. A fab is the price of a rounding error on their data center buildout budgets.

Yes, would take a minute to build, but then the "shortage" won't be a shortage and their biggest expense nose dives - the hardware. They could have built the production capacity several times over and used the savings towards their buildouts.

I am guessing they don't have the time to do this before the money runs out and it all implodes. But had they invested in it earlier, they would have had a longer runway to atually make this viable.

wil add to your point- think the issue is also the scope and involvement...

they've (US) had many many clandastine, deniable operations that have slowly leaked, only rumored that the US was already doing this, but on a highly targeted and limited scope... few feared that they'd be victim to any of it because of how targeted and limited those were. (think pallet of gear is divereted, modified, re-sealed and sent to the final party) usually without the vendor/shipper knowing... the TSO did some of these, but not all by any means... and to put it ALL under a single banner, involve US vendors/manufacturers directly, AND confirm it is not only done, but also a GOAL is just plain stupid... this is the quickest way to tell everyone that anything that the US touches can't be trusted, so don't buy it from them, don't develop it with them, don't manufacture with them... the US economy can only take so many cuts... this one will cut deep if they actually go through with it.

considering that msft itself isn't as heavily invested/exposed in the ai buildout so when it bursts, they're more protected than most tech firms these days... financials look good/healthy... stock looks good.... short term projections look good (into 2027)... slashing 25% of the workforce is definitely a choice.

Only thing that makes sense to me is that they're isoalting geographical regions and will operate in a more isolated/segmented geographically manner to comply with laws/regulations and shield from geopilitical political instability. Cutting here and rebuilding elsewhere is a drastic step- short term- painful, costly... but long term? higher payoffs than pushing staff to relocate and hope the right talent does, and those that go quit within a few months as they find it hard to assimilate to new countries. This way they can have a semi clean slate.

wonder if this will push game developers to have pure gameplay and no lobbies, in-game movie clips, etc...

But also, who approved this? This makes it that much closer to being irrelelvent. Not like there aren't other platforms and developers making games one can play without all this BS.

outside of CA's or cert user mistakes... is there a known incident where an SSL was actually compromised?

I know of many cases where the CA's messed up... or a company made the private key public... but i can't find/recall a single case where an SSL was actually compromised.

IS this an actuall issue?

yeah, but it's easy enough to jam their communications.. might cost you a penny... but you can render them useless... and you can always burn down the control stations.

Also, the data centers aren't so easy to torch, same with control stations/com stations... mainly concrete.. hardened perimiter, usually a small onsite security force... first one or two might be easier.. then they'll be on guard and even more secure... better off with an EMP, or substation disrupution... theoretically... but then you'd likely also be charged as a terrorist.

Who pays for the cleanup when these satelites/data centers crash? I'd imagine even google wouldn't have the resources to clean the orbit after effing it up for the globe.

At what point did we start to just make up random valuations with these insanely inflated dollar amounts....

$110 Billion? really? combined these companies made $100 million in profit in 2025... yet they're valued at 1,100% x profit?

they both lost a combined $27Billion in the '22-'24 years

I made a $1K last year... but i'm valued at $1.1 Million...
It's also the first year in 4 that i made a profit... trust me bro... I'm worth it...

Wonder what would happen to these "mergers" and hyper inflated valuations if they taxed them a sales tax? no loop holes... every effin aquisition/merger get's taxed like any purchase you or i would do... can't change states to lower the tax burden... etc to make it easy... no tax on businesses under $1 Million in revenue.

CPU's have serial numbers... considering the anti cheat software has root/kernel level access... it would have access to it that normal software wouldn't be able to read/access.

This would be my guess on the how based on the knowns.

AMD and Intel both have unique identifiers hardcoded in their processors. They implement it differently, but both do it.

there is a department/unit headquartrered in Poland where the best practices and lessons are downlaoded to NATO staff for dissemination from Ukrainians. The problem is the US with it's posturing and short sighted actions have moved some of the resources/staff out of Europe where they were benefiting from all this... not all... but enough to degrade the effectiveness.

Speaking of handbooks.. the last Field Manual with guidance for drone warfare- don't get spotted, if spotted - hide. Otherwise - shoot and pray. Also, have the tank shoot at drones.... (and no, i don't mean the machine gun on the Tank)

this idiocy will cost lives... and they keep acting like they have unlimited time and money to keep making mistakes.

Yup, this is only going to get worse with the surge in local AI and smaller companies coming up... they'll still be scraping the internet. Same with all the search providers... Microsoft was right in their assessmet/prediction years ago that AI will kill the very thing they rely on - the internet and the creators. It's already having a knock on effect affecting the quantity of and quality of training data for them/internet for the rest of us.

The larger/established entities in the field move more into inhouse copies of the web for their training.

*don't know if against the rules on here... but what's your site bud? and if against the rules, what would one search for to find it.

conspiracy theory

The recent Ai breakouts, and them still finding what actually happened... realizing that the ai agents developed persistent communication channels and put code to influence future ai iterations trained on that data...

Can see the Ai companies not trusting the ai itself to help built the next generation of itself. So it presents a fundamental security issue for them. Not sure how they think they can actually prevent it from happening... they've already opened the pandoras box.

They've poisoned the internet for future training without carefully curated data.

find it weird how basics are skipped when building products like this...

Logic would say if you're trying to automate a process... you first learn the process that you're trying to replicate and improve on.

The current process for target packages checks the age and accurancy of the intel that is being used.
  THAT IS WHY THE INTEL GUYS THOUGHT IT WOULD FLAG OLD AS SHIT AND WORTHLESS INTEL. not- "no idea why they would think that". They would have assumed that because it's a basic element of building target packages. To not do it is stupid.. and this was supposed to be INTELLIGENT. It was supposed to automate the work they did manually, so the safe assumption is that it would do thesame work/steps/checks/validations/etc that would be involved in a human centered process... the established SOP. Why an AI would not follow the prescribed SOP that was written over decades in blood is again- idiotic. It's pure hubris that a tech company could improve on it in the dark with no experience.

Palantir saying oops- it was supposed to have accurate data... and Pentagon saying Oops... it was supposed to be smarter- both are incompetent idiots that didn't build the damn thing correctly from day one, both had assumptions based on nothing, and both didn't do propper testing before rolling it out for life and death decissions.... one would think the first while this system is used, that there would be a human vetting process that checked EVERY aspect to ensure the system was working correctly and to build confidence in it... find issues... correct issues. Not build first, trust first, verify never, test never/badly, and only find out how it works and why it f'd up when 150 civilians die.

Don't think they quite get the scope of this f'up. Asside from the loss of lives... The US had a position on the world stage where they could say they take every reasonable measure to prevent civilian deaths and colalteral damage... this thing completely erased decedes of actual effort on the part of the US millitary to build that reputation... a reputation and goal that has cost actual US service member lives.

And now it's an "oopsie"... a war crime is not an "oopsie"... a war crime is still a crime if the cause is incomptence.

Both parties are irresponsible idiots. Unfortunately, they're also rolling out Ai solutions in a similar fashion to most of the industry and corporate out there.

Lesson from all this - when rolling out AI, treat it like a new employee. Train it, test it, validate it, increase it's scope of impact/reponsibility over time as confidance builds.

yay.. one more time the USA is unilaterally jeopardizing the entire world...

If they could be trusted, that's one thing... but they can't and have proven so repeatedly in the last decade.

For anyone saying- but someone else has done it... what's your point? it's almost as if breaking a treaty should have consequences... not a green light for everyone to do it.

it's more costly, more risky, and shittier performance... but what it gains: regulatory freedom

Ironic for a company happy to sell goods known to burn down customer homes (i.e. known bad chargers, batteries, electrical panel fuses, etc...) but restricts the sideloading of any software on their firesticks due to "safety" concerns.

One can also say, users might want to side load fucken security software on their devices too, so they're actively preventing users from actually enhancing their safety. (the options on the app store are a painful joke)

Unfortunately, Amazon sells this shit at too low a price for a boycott to ever work, but it does make one hate them that one little bit more.

They're not even trying to make their case believable, the bullshit is so transparent, it itself is insulting to the user base.