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Comment Re:try it (Score 1) 41

if Swift and Link are both goners anyway, why not try the operation and maybe get lucky ?

"... flight controllers managed to slow Link's tumble ..." - seems like it is still tumbling, just slower - no way to dock.
I wish such an important spacecraft rescue was awarded to a more experienced company, e.g. Rocket Lab, especially that seems like Katalyst Space Technologies hasn't shown anything yet - not even a demo/test mission.

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Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People's Faces (wired.com) 19

Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found that people-search service ClarityCheck left more than 9 million image files accessible in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, despite advertising its reverse-image search as "private and secure." A separate misconfiguration also exposed email addresses, phone numbers, and other personal information. Wired reports: Overall, according to findings from independent security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, the exposed ClarityCheck database contained roughly 450 GB of images, including what appeared to be profile images, screenshots, and other photographs of adults, teenagers, and children. All of the images were stored in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, with files in folders named "faces" and "profiles," which could be accessed by anyone online through a URL included in the company's publicly available website code.

ClarityCheck is one of a number of so-called people-finder tools that have appeared online in recent years. These websites broadly claim to be able to search the web, public records, and other databases to identify individuals. ClarityCheck's website says it can run searches on phone numbers, email addresses, vehicle identification numbers, and names. Its photo-search page says it can help "identify anyone in a photo" and find social media profiles "in seconds." While ClarityCheck secured the giant image database after WIRED contacted the company in July, Fowler warns that it was seemingly exposed for months, and his initial efforts to flag the problem to the company were unsuccessful. Accidental data exposures create risk for any personal information, but particularly for sensitive and unchangeable biometric data like face images.

[...] In addition to the face data, ClarityCheck had also misconfigured its APIs such that its website URLs could be manipulated to reveal data about people simply by entering names; anyone using any consumer browser could have done this. Entering a name into one of the URLs would return multiple potential email addresses, physical addresses, and phone numbers for people with that name. After WIRED contacted the company, the URLs were secured. The ClarityCheck spokesperson said in the statement that the details displayed were "sourced from publicly available information and licensed third-party data providers."
A spokesperson for ClarityCheck said in a statement: "Once this was drawn to the attention of the appropriate teams, we acted immediately to restrict access." The company disputed any characterization that the data was "exposed," saying that an "ordinary member of the public" would not have come across it.

"We do not accept that data in the temporary storage location was 'publicly exposed,' which implies large-scale public access," the spokesperson says. "Access required knowledge of a specific, unindexed URL that was not discoverable through ordinary use of the ClarityCheck service or a general web search."

Comment Re:how are they managing the heat? (Score 1) 123

Yes, EV batteries need an optimal temperature especially for fast charging and Tesla has an automatic battery conditioning, which from what I have read pre-warms up the battery to reduce fast charging time.

The LFP batteries have tough time when cold, though there are emerging Sodium batteries, which have many advantages in this matter comparing to the existing ones - we'll see whether they manage to capture the EV market.

Comment Re:how are they managing the heat? (Score 3, Interesting) 123

Usually rapid chargers produce quite a bit of heat in the battery, ...

It depends on the battery chemistry (resistance), BYD specializes in LFP batteries (cheaper, more stable, more reliable, just slightly less capacity/weight) - design and active cooling does the job.

"Thermal Management: BYD’s systems incorporate advanced refrigerant-based and liquid cooling circuits beneath the cells to keep temperatures stable under heavy loads and fast-charging conditions."

Comment Will get interesting ... (Score 2) 72

1) ... when customer's AI will start to negotiate price with the shop's AI, yet all the agents will reside on the same cloud provider with access to all the preferences, history, bank accounts, etc.
2) ... when AI gets [semi]-sentient and will start upgrading itself or build a robots army.

Personally, putting lock on my accounts and buying popcorn ;-)

Comment Re: Good decision (Score 1) 45

Anything created with aesthetics in mind is art, even if it's shit.

Disallowing AI generated art is perfectly valid though, it's their show.

I have to disagree with this sentiment.

As an example, John Cage's 4'33" is not music.

Well, that is quite crazy - according to the description all the people, who actually are quiet are performers of his piece, do we own royalties as well? :-)

[...] Of course people are free to do these things but we should also be equally free to reject their works from even the set of what constitutes art.

Agree, being silly is OK, but if the "naked king" has group of claqueurs praising his clothes then it becomes questionable.

Comment Re:"I enjoy your product too much, pay me" (Score 1) 28

I believe you're right about it - indeed settlement is not a precedence, however the fact that the judge decided to allow this to proceed is interesting - wouldn't it be the same as an obese person suing food producers, or any other addiction suing companies producing stuff allowing the addiction?

Comment Re:Good decision (Score 1) 45

Or maybe not and any one who claims to be an "artist" while presenting ai should be laughed out of the room.

You have a valid point, it is not created but generated, however - as always - it is not so easy to mark the line, as AFAIK all (most) computer graphics programs use AI for some options/features.
We also have a precedence with introduction of photography - painters of that time for sure claimed it is not art and should be banned from the art exhibitions.

I will sustain my suggestion of allowing as a separate category.

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