Comment Par for the course (Score 1) 52
VMware manglement incompetent, film at 11
/ also, the popcorn you are eating has been pissed in
Submission + - Sony PlayStation will stop releasing games on discs in 2028 (bbc.com)
AmiMoJo writes: New PlayStation games will no longer be released on discs from January 2028, the gaming giant has announced. Sony said in a blog post new games would still be able to be bought in shops, but they would come with a digital code. It comes just days after Rockstar announced the hotly-anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI would similarly launch without a physical disc. It marks a significant moment for the gaming industry, which has in recent years begun to rely more and more on digital distribution. Sony said the move came "as consumer preferences and the broader entertainment industry continue to shift away from physical discs to digital". "This is a natural direction for Sony Interactive Entertainment to adapt to consumer trends as the general preference for digital media significantly outpaces physical discs," it added. But it has been met with some pushback online, with gaming journalist Vikki Blake calling it a "body blow to consumer rights".
Comment It's already outdated... (Score 1) 20
Next week, Habanero will be the New Standard
Week after that, Dave's Insanity chips
Comment Re:I'm basically a lead senior ... (Score 2) 30
AI doesn't do away with lawyers. In fact, several have tried submitting hallucinated AI reports to the courts and gotten penalized for it.
Doing your basic due diligence is still a thing. And you can't rely on AI to lawyer you out of a bad situation. IDK how you can pass the bar and then fail so hard, on something so basic, as doing proper research before submitting something important to a judge. That's literally what staff and interns are for.
Comment So far, so what (Score 1) 56
Sounds interesting, but nothing concrete yet.
Wake me up when there's an actual interface that I can ask 3 questions of (like a genie with 3 wishes) and maybe a local instance I can run in virtualization.
Submission + - Cloudflare wants to kill the CAPTCHA and it has browser giants on board (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: Cloudflare has announced a new initiative with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Shopify to develop a privacy-focused protocol called Private Access Control Tokens (PACT). The goal is to help websites distinguish legitimate users and authorized AI agents from abusive automated traffic without relying on CAPTCHAs, invasive tracking, or browser fingerprinting.
PACT would allow trusted services to issue anonymous tokens that browsers can present to other websites as proof that a human is involved, while avoiding the disclosure of personal identity information or browsing history. The companies plan to submit the protocol for standardization.
Cloudflare argues that existing anti-bot tools are becoming less effective as AI-powered agents become more common across the web.
PACT would allow trusted services to issue anonymous tokens that browsers can present to other websites as proof that a human is involved, while avoiding the disclosure of personal identity information or browsing history. The companies plan to submit the protocol for standardization.
Cloudflare argues that existing anti-bot tools are becoming less effective as AI-powered agents become more common across the web.
Submission + - Russian Satellites Cosmos 2546 Have Been Jamming GPS Signals Across Europe (arstechnica.com)
tomatocat writes: In 2024, Dana A. Goward, founder of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation, received a call from an anonymous British researcher, He said that interference from space was more than a possibility — he had observed it. Examining data from terrestrial reference stations operated by the International Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Service, he had noticed instances in which GPS signal strength had decreased markedly. In each case it was for less than ten seconds, but the events had been recorded by stations across a very broad section of northern Europe. The researcher consented to the Foundation sharing these findings.
Todd Humphreys of the University of Texas at Austin and his student Zach Clements analyzed ground station data spanning from January 2019 to April 2026; they identified 75 days with at least one widespread GNSS interference event. The paper mentioned (PDF), "The interference peak is centered at 1577.5 MHz, about 2 MHz above the GPS L1 center frequency of 1575.42 MHz. In addition to tracked GPS L1 C/A signals, tracked Galileo E1 and BeiDou B1C/B1A signals also exhibited a concurrent drop in CNR during interference events." Humphreys and his colleagues calculated that the source had to be at least 1,200 kilometers above the Earth, But they couldn’t go further.
Later, Humphreys received an email stating that radio stations in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Trondheim, Norway, had captured raw interference signal data on February 11, 2026. By examining the difference in timing when that signal arrived at the two different stations, Humphreys and Clements calculated a “quasi-hyperboloid surface”, stretching tens of thousands of kilometers into space where the interference satellite must have been located. The margin of error represented by the thickness of that surface was only five meters.
A comparison of suspect satellite orbits with the quasi-hyperboloid surface showed that only one satellite’s orbit aligned perfectly—the Russian satellite Cosmos 2546, which are designed to provide early warnings when they detect ballistic missile launches. The research paper is published at https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03673.
This discovery has raised concerns regarding Russian electronic warfare capabilities. An EU spokesperson told The New York Times that the EU has launched an investigation into these incidents but that the results remain classified, while The press office for the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. said they don't have a comment on that.
Comment Nostalgia (Score 1) 52
Eagle transporter still looks cool as hell today.
Submission + - Failing CS Grades Soar at UC Berkeley as Professors See Greater AI Usage
theodp writes: "The percentage of failing grades in multiple UC Berkeley computer science classes in spring 2026 is significantly higher than past semesters and marks a departure from the department’s grading guidelines, reports The Daily Californian's Litong Deng. "Instructors point to students’ increased reliance on AI, lack of mathematical preparedness and understaffing as potential contributing factors. According to Berkeleytime, 35.3% of CS 10 students and 10.6% of CS 61A students received F’s in spring 2026. In spring 2025 and spring 2024, the percentage of F’s did not exceed 10% for either class. The electrical engineering and computer sciences department’s grading guidelines state that 7% of students in lower division courses, including CS 10 and CS 61A, should receive D’s and F’s."
"UC Berkeley teaching professor Dan Garcia taught both CS 10, 'The Beauty and Joy of Computing,' and CS 61A, 'The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs,' in spring 2026. Garcia believes the 'primary driver' of these abnormally high failing rates is due to a 'vast increase in academic dishonesty' due to students’ usage of large language models, such as Claude, ChatGPT and Google Gemini."
The report came just a day after tech-backed nonprofit Code.org, which bills itself as "the leading provider of K-12 AI and CS education curriculum across the globe", rebranded itself to CodeAI, solidifying its shift to AI education. "This is the generation that will set the terms for how AI is used," said Code.org CEO Karim Meghji in a press release. "Some are being taught to understand it, direct it, question it, and create with it. Most are not. That's the gap CodeAI exists to close."
"UC Berkeley teaching professor Dan Garcia taught both CS 10, 'The Beauty and Joy of Computing,' and CS 61A, 'The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs,' in spring 2026. Garcia believes the 'primary driver' of these abnormally high failing rates is due to a 'vast increase in academic dishonesty' due to students’ usage of large language models, such as Claude, ChatGPT and Google Gemini."
The report came just a day after tech-backed nonprofit Code.org, which bills itself as "the leading provider of K-12 AI and CS education curriculum across the globe", rebranded itself to CodeAI, solidifying its shift to AI education. "This is the generation that will set the terms for how AI is used," said Code.org CEO Karim Meghji in a press release. "Some are being taught to understand it, direct it, question it, and create with it. Most are not. That's the gap CodeAI exists to close."
Submission + - R.I.P. Code.org (2013–2026)
theodp writes: This week saw tech-backed K-12 CS education nonprofit Code.org rebrand itself as CodeAI (press release), solidifying its shift to AI education more than a decade after it launched in 2013 with the belief "that every student should learn the basics of computer programming." Of the AI rebranding, Code.org Founder and Chairman of The Board Hadi Partovi explained, "We have a responsibility to prepare the next generation for the
biggest change In society since the invention of public education."
Following the announcement, members of the Code.org Advocacy Coalition were informed in a conference call that the nine-year-old coalition was being sunsetted immediately. Members will be asked to decide if they want to join a new CodeAI Advocacy Coalition, which will be "bringing in new AI focused entities that will help us advance this mission", or if they are "not in line with the direction that CodeAI is heading" and are "not going to be part of the new advocacy coalition." Much like their tech giant donors, the message sent was it's the AI way or the highway.
Interestingly, the pivot from CS education to AI literacy comes amid reports that blamed increased reliance on AI for causing more than 35% of UC Berkeley students to fail an entry-level CS course described as "a gentle but thorough introduction to computer science," when previously the failing rate was typically 7%.
Following the announcement, members of the Code.org Advocacy Coalition were informed in a conference call that the nine-year-old coalition was being sunsetted immediately. Members will be asked to decide if they want to join a new CodeAI Advocacy Coalition, which will be "bringing in new AI focused entities that will help us advance this mission", or if they are "not in line with the direction that CodeAI is heading" and are "not going to be part of the new advocacy coalition." Much like their tech giant donors, the message sent was it's the AI way or the highway.
Interestingly, the pivot from CS education to AI literacy comes amid reports that blamed increased reliance on AI for causing more than 35% of UC Berkeley students to fail an entry-level CS course described as "a gentle but thorough introduction to computer science," when previously the failing rate was typically 7%.
Submission + - Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search (404media.co)
alternative_right writes: The moderators of the biohacking subreddit say that peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots. The strategy is an effort to systematically manipulate the answers provided by chatbots by manipulating the underlying source material that those chatbots will scrapeâ"in this case, a popular Reddit community.
Comment We could have had... (Score 1) 22
Oh, we could have had Marcia Lucas and gotten something pretty awesome.
Instead we got farking Jar-Jar.
/ will never forgive you for that, George
Comment Re:Even pirating sucks (Score 1) 50
This was especially noticeable in the recent Red Hulk dvd release. Blurry scenes and meh CGI, likely due to downscaling.
I bought the DVD instead of blu-ray to save a few bucks bc I wasn't really interested in the movie; waste of money.
Comment Re:Not just CEO's (Score 1) 76
If I were you I would immediately begin looking for another job. Your manager is clearly incompetent manglement. The users are going to be pissed with 100% AI generated code and no proper QA process.
Get out to a better place before it gets really bad
Submission + - Researchers identify people through ordinary Wi-Fi with 99 percent-accuracy (tomshardware.com)
Baron_Yam writes: Security researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have published a paper demonstrating that unencrypted beamforming data broadcast by Wi-Fi devices during normal operation can be used to identify individuals walking through a room with 99.5% accuracy, regardless of whether the individuals are carrying Wi-Fi devices. The tactic leverages the router's beamforming tech to identify individuals with up to 99.5% accuracy, and it works with existing routers, too.
The system, called BFId, requires no specialized hardware, no access to the target Wi-Fi network, and works even if the person being tracked isn't carrying a wireless device. The team tested the attack on 197 participants, the largest dataset ever used in Wi-Fi-based identification works, and plans to present its findings at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) in Taipei.
See GitHub — https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVi... — for your own personal implementation requiring a couple of APs and a couple of ESP32 nodes. You can get full-home per-zone motion and occupancy detection fairly reliably, with the potential for pose detection and in optimal areas even respiration rate. With the right hardware and configuration, you can theoretically get heart rate too.
The system, called BFId, requires no specialized hardware, no access to the target Wi-Fi network, and works even if the person being tracked isn't carrying a wireless device. The team tested the attack on 197 participants, the largest dataset ever used in Wi-Fi-based identification works, and plans to present its findings at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) in Taipei.
See GitHub — https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVi... — for your own personal implementation requiring a couple of APs and a couple of ESP32 nodes. You can get full-home per-zone motion and occupancy detection fairly reliably, with the potential for pose detection and in optimal areas even respiration rate. With the right hardware and configuration, you can theoretically get heart rate too.
