The available information isn't terribly specific; but on the surface it doesn't sound any deeper into application internals than it already does.

You can certainly go deeper into etw trace hell; but Task Manager knows how much CPU time you are eating, your memory consumption metrics, your network traffic, and has a (currently less granular) look at your consumption of GPU time. It also having a view of consumed NPU time seems totally analogous for a new flavor of coprocessor. Only one that might involve gory poking at the application(though I'd assume would be more logically pulled from the GPU driver) would be distinguishing "GPU Neural Engine" from GPU utilization generally.

If you are treating Windows devices as much like chromebooks as possible (autopilot deploy into S-mode; fairly draconian setup) you can get away with not too much IT; but at that point you really have to ask yourself why you are using Windows devices.

Most of the things you actually need windows for don't play all that well with that level of lockdown; and between chromebooks being cheap and defaulting to that level of lockdown without additional effort and the low end Apple stuff being nicer than wintel hardware that costs the same it's a bit tricky to make a strong case for running Windows systems as 'edgebooks'. You can; but it's not a super compelling option.

That's exactly why it's sort of disappointing to see him promoted away from actually doing stuff; and showing off a one of the less interesting "do Doom in a technically weird way" demos around.

Plenty of c-suite are just "meh, nothing of value was lost" when the suit fully engulfs the human; either they never seem to have done anything of interest or were popped directly out of some viscous spawning pool at McKinsey or whatever; but Russinovich was really good for nasty NT crevices work, so it seems a real shame for him to be vague CTO of cloud stuff. I don't begrudge him the money the promotion presumably involved; but going from actually interesting things to sending copilot to double booked meetings is kind of grim.

When encryption is outlawed, only the outlaws use encryption.

It would be interesting to know what the numbers look like in terms of schools that are actually doing something at least modestly Apple-specific vs. ones basically reusing chromebook-focused plans on Apple hardware.

Anything you hand out is going to be 'a platform' and normalize it for the students(not necessarily a point in its favor; people tend to resent the deliberate limitations of hardware that IT has been told to at least try to make less useful for porn and cheating); but there is a potential difference in versatility and vendor flexibility between people actually adopting some macOS stuff and people concluding that chromebooks have been getting more expensive at an alarming clip, without feeling any less cheap, so Apple is now genuinely competitive even if you are just going to slap managed chrome on there and reuse your existing, chromebook focused, IT and curriculum stuff.

Might be even better if like a chameleon it had some lcd panels that could give off the average color of whatever it's trying to blend with. In the video, it looks extremely invisible against a gray background, because the drone is grayish. But it's not that great against a green background. If it could change to green, or to white, or to black, depending on the background, it would be excellent.

Also, we already a form of invisibility. It's called cover of darkness, and operating at night. Most stealth ops prefer the night for that reason. But it's not always feasible, because while you're more invisible at night, so too are all your enemies. Daytime lets you see your enemies, which is good, and this motion blur effect provides a good asymmetry where you can stay invisible while the enemy is not. They'll just have an ambient some of hundreds of whirling motors, but can't pinpoint any in the cacophony.

I hate to say it, but Microsoft has a reasonable approach with their planned disc-to-digital system. All the benefits of physical discs: visiting a friend's house with the disc, selling the disc, plus all the benefits of a digital license: can run on a handled and other diskless systems. The idea that "the last account where the disc was used" would be the licensed owner gives a lot of flexibility, and the 2 biggest are going to a friend's house or traveling with a handheld.

Of course, the devil's in the fine print. Let's see how their revocation system works for games using a 7-year music license. Steam has a good policy that if you own the game, they won't revoke it due to license lapses; but Steam also sucks in that you can't just take a disc to a friend's house -- they have to log into your steam account (which isn't the end of the world). But Steam won't sell the game once its licenses to content expire. And *many* games these days are cutting costs by licensing music for only a few years instead of in perpetuity. I don't know, yet, how Microsoft will deal with that. If they revoke your game once it's infringing on IP due to a lapsed music license, then it's crap.

Humidity is currently 91% in Yangsan.

I suspect that Microsoft, not unreasonably, thinks that the value of their AI slop will be enhanced if they can use an existing property to get people to classify particularly grating AI slop so that they can tune their copilot-related stuff to produce less grating or less obvious slop in the future.

Maybe someone in the org actually cares about linkedin's reputation as a hellscape for aura-farming lunatics; but I'd be shocked if the incentive that MS is actually motivated by is anything but the chance to get a dataset of text ranked by how unpleasantly bot-like it is to try to make their bots less visible.

Looks like Microsoft is trying to convince people to classify more and less distasteful bot slop for them so they can tune copilot outputs in the future.

The winning move is not to play.

I think folks with multiple personalities or talking voices / thoughts are basically multitasking. Their brain is acting like multiple independent mini-brains.

City Council member of a non-listed Twin Cities suburb I know:

FBI is involved. Most water systems use one of two control/alert systems that are old and make them easy targets.

All they did was shut down components of the systems e.g., wells/sewer lift stations. Most cities were able to cycle manually to get back up and running. There was not messages warning or ransom of which I am aware.

They could have done a lot more damage if they wanted to, rather than just shutting things down.

I live in Plymouth; there was no city communications about this nor did I see any issues. So, I assume there were no physical disruptions to service.

Once the supply of customers flush enough to buy under more standard arrangements is saturated you are basically left between ignoring the demand for growth forever or deciding between handling...subprime...customers yourself or keeping the arrangement at arm's length.

This 'restricted mode' that Apple is vigorously denying will be used for lease enforcement suggests that the metaphorical arm is not that long and that Apple seems to be doing more than merely being willing to sell devices to whatever resellers; but it's not a huge surprise that they'd want the risk related to the debt and any shaking down handled by someone who isn't them.

It's entirely possible that they didn't actually care that much. It seems at least as plausible that the sort of people who would risk this sort of legal exposure over a non-issue were more motivated by an excuse to throw weight around and talk like a mob boss than actual concern. Nice to be able to put a hobby project on the company card.