Comment Might be time for more drastic action (Score 1) 153
Banning parents from having teenagers.
Comment How many can IBM fit on a chip today? (Score 1) 111
Answer: Zero, they don't have a semiconductor business anymore. I'm much more impressed by what TSMC can do today than what a research group says they can do five years from now.
Comment But it still snows in France (Score 1, Funny) 163
Which means climate change aka global warming isn't real, amirite?
Comment Time for Microsoft to do a Coca Cola (Score 4, Funny) 122
And admit their mistake by releasing "Windows 10 Classic'"
Comment "Emergency Airworthiness Directive" (Score 4, Insightful) 61
"...while the second group of 11 aircraft can be inspected later but within 25 flight cycles"
It's an emergency but we'll get to it when we get to it...
It's an emergency but we'll get to it when we get to it...
Comment You're having sex with every LastPass partner (Score 4, Insightful) 22
Password manager maker LastPass is notifying customers that their personal information and customer support case records were stolen during a recent hack at one of its technology partners, marking the company's latest data breach in recent years.
The expression "when you have sex with someone, you're having sex with every one of their partners as well" appears to apply to security software providers as well.
The expression "when you have sex with someone, you're having sex with every one of their partners as well" appears to apply to security software providers as well.
Comment Re:What Line of Work Is He In? (Score 1) 79
His line of work was in the ALS AI-to-brain speech interface test industry.
Comment Re:Even a trillion dollars can't buy self esteem (Score 1) 315
What does me being a bitter, resentful hater have to do with Musk's low self esteem?
Comment Even a trillion dollars can't buy self esteem (Score 1, Troll) 315
We certainly know $44B can't buy it, the price Musk paid for Twitter to prioritize his thirsty tweets. He's still the same awkward, bald kid looking for validation.
Comment Opendoor likely trained LLMs off Indian employees (Score 2) 29
Which means we've come full circle - Indians training their American replacements instead of the other way around.
Comment Well that practical joke bombed (Score 1) 164
It also failed to get a rise out of the aircraft.
Submission + - Wi-Fi Routers Can Scan Your Body to Identify Exactly Who You Are (futurism.com) 1
JoeyRox writes: New research out of Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology found that the types of Wi-Fi routers we all have in our homes come with a major privacy vulnerability that can be used to identify any human body that comes within their range.
The study, flagged by Gizmodo, used machine learning systems to identify individuals with an accuracy rate of 99.5 percent. To do so, the researchers exploited a vulnerability in a process known as beamforming feedback information (BFI), which was introduced to allow routers to focus Wi-Fi signals on connected devices, as opposed to the older approach, which is to blanket an entire area in coverage.
While BFI is great for network connectivity, it has a major downsides for privacy. For starters, devices connected to a router using beamforming need to send constant feedback in order to be found. As routers send out and receive network feedback, the signal is inevitably impacted by real world factors like pets, walls, and people.
Making matters worse is the fact that this data is basically wide open for anyone to grab — not only is that feedback data unencrypted, it can also be accessed without ever connecting directly to the router.
The study, flagged by Gizmodo, used machine learning systems to identify individuals with an accuracy rate of 99.5 percent. To do so, the researchers exploited a vulnerability in a process known as beamforming feedback information (BFI), which was introduced to allow routers to focus Wi-Fi signals on connected devices, as opposed to the older approach, which is to blanket an entire area in coverage.
While BFI is great for network connectivity, it has a major downsides for privacy. For starters, devices connected to a router using beamforming need to send constant feedback in order to be found. As routers send out and receive network feedback, the signal is inevitably impacted by real world factors like pets, walls, and people.
Making matters worse is the fact that this data is basically wide open for anyone to grab — not only is that feedback data unencrypted, it can also be accessed without ever connecting directly to the router.
Comment Can't have it both ways (Score 1) 12
AI can't make software development so much more productive that any upstart can quickly code a challenger to an entrenched offering (including customers developing their own solutions with AI), at the same time the software companies challenged by that upheaval don't see their enterprise value go down.
Comment Corrected article link (Score 1) 1
Submission + - Pentagon says US military personnel targeted using commercial location data (msn.com) 1
JoeyRox writes: U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data, according to reports fielded by military officials, an illustration of how the global surveillance economy is shaping the battlefield.
In a letter shared with Reuters by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, U.S. Central Command said it had "received multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data to target or surveil U.S. personnel in theater." The message, sent on April 14, offered no further specifics, but Centcom's area of responsibility includes the Gulf, where U.S. forces are facing off against the Iranian military over the Strait of Hormuz.
In a letter shared with Reuters by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, U.S. Central Command said it had "received multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data to target or surveil U.S. personnel in theater." The message, sent on April 14, offered no further specifics, but Centcom's area of responsibility includes the Gulf, where U.S. forces are facing off against the Iranian military over the Strait of Hormuz.
