If you do the numbers, you see that with the new method you'd need about 80% as many attempts as before. That's still much.

... But it is for surveillance of the population, so it does not rise up.

When the official current AI business model fails, what else would the infrastructure be useful for?

It is already being done. Anthr*pic is already being used to spy on protestors.

That statement is idiotic.

Touch screen interfaces tend to be modal dialogs: one dialog at a time.
If the controls instead are available all the time (in the physical world), then it becomes easier to multitask.

If Russia wasn't such a hostile country, flights would have been able to go over Russia instead of the North Pole and flight crew and passengers wouldn't have needed to be as much exposed to cosmic radiation.

I have been told that a flight across the North Pole would expose you to about the same amount of radiation as a CT scan, but I haven't checked the figures.

BTW. I'm planning to fly over the North pole twice next month anyway, because I have chronic latent blood cancer and I'm not going to live forever.

In this case, however, the border crossing officers hadn't been looking for evidence of criminal activity.

They had been looking for names and contact information of anti-government protesters.

The motive for the search was for conducting unconstitutional activities. By giving them a duress password, the owner of the phone was protecting people from being victim of potential crimes.

I wish I could afford a shovel. I have a hole to dig.

That robot reminds me of a RealDoll.

Perhaps they were already building sexbots and are diversifying into new markets.

OpenAI already logs everything you do with their service, and this keypad can only be used with OpenAI.

We all know that a mouse moving in a perfectly straight line means a machine is controlling it [...]

Unless your mouse has angle snapping or is a wireless mouse and there is movement lag because of interference.

You should do it the other way around.

Running Windows directly on hardware is not viable in 2026. You should only run it in a virtual machine under Linux.
Then you would be able to roll back from buggy Windows updates and malware outbreaks.

How about a drone with a powerful laser?

Don't forget to write "Seabass" on the side of it.

In Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash -- which introduced the word Metaverse from which Meta got its name -- the people wearing connected, cameras, sensors and AR-goggles on their heads were the ones who got paid for spying on people left and right.

So, does Sony think that SSDs will be affordable again in 2028?

Read-only optical disc media still haven't been hit by an AI-boom induced price hike RAM and NAND Flash has, AFAIK.

This. And configure the containers so that it takes regular snapshots, so that you either always start from the same snapshot, or are able to roll back after a crippling Window update or malware outbreak.

I would say that recent developments have made Godwin's Law obsolete.