"According to cybersecurity experts, including the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), one of the most effective ways to mitigate data broker threats is to disable the unique advertising IDs built into smartphones. "

So all they are doing is turning off advertising IDs in the OS? ...eh..... hmm.....

"Another possibility is that disabling the advertising ID is no longer a sufficient defense on its own, as data brokers can still capture, correlate, and monetize unique location data using other information collected from phones. "

Ding ding ding... we have a winner.

I suspect you may have misunderstood the difference between active service and combat ready. Noting statements like "BUT, and big but, note the active in service numbers. Roughly 1/2 the US fleet is in repair." and the 1033/1005 vs 553/233 comparisons. A ship will normally remain in active service while undergoing maintenance unable to fight or away on training missions. For those interested in trivia last I heard the USS Pueblo currently serving as a floating museum operated by the North Koreans is still listed in active service.

It is normal expected state of affairs to have only a third of your fleet combat ready at any given time. This isn't unique to the west and China is no exception. You can compare force strength all you want and draw any conclusions you want from it. Having 30% or more of your fleet under maintenance is the normal state of affairs globally.

It want's its Tivo back.

Who still uses a Tivo? Who even still has a cable service to hook it to?

I've personally seen the video of the Bluetti sodium power station going up in flames before the video was taken down from YouTube. The batteries of power station were intentionally punctured by gunfire .. Initially nothing happened... a while later there was some smoke, deformation of case and venting then noticeable flame... it proceeded to go up in a gnarly firework / flamethrower show shortly after that.

All of your points are wrong. The cost of the sodium is as relevant as the cost of the lithium in an LFP battery. Lithium makes up less than 10% of overall cost of an LFP battery which is less than years of progress on cost curve. Even if lithium were free it would not have a meaningful impact on cost. Sodium is less efficient and suffers from massive voltage swings that have to be made up with either higher string voltages or higher material cost of power electronics to handle 2x current loads to produce the same power at SOCs below 50%.

Sodium batteries have a charge cycle life comparable to LFP. The 100x assertion is completely bonkers with no nexus to reality.

Sodium has a similar safety profile as LFP which in both cases is way better than li-poly cells. They can indeed still ignite I've seen a video of a sodium power station igniting and going up in quite the flame / fireworks show as a result of puncture damage.

Back on planet earth...

"Serious human rights violations have been committed in XUAR in the context of the Government's application of counter-terrorism and counter-"extremism" strategies. The implementation of these strategies, and associated policies in XUAR has led to interlocking patterns of severe and undue restrictions on a wide range of human rights. These patterns of restrictions are characterized by a discriminatory component, as the underlying acts often directly or indirectly affect Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim communities."

"The treatment of persons held in the system of so-called VETC facilities is of equal concern. Allegations of patterns of torture or ill-treatment, including forced medical treatment and adverse conditions of detention, are credible, as are allegations of individual incidents of sexual and gender-based violence. While the available information at this stage does not allow OHCHR to draw firm conclusions regarding the exact extent of such abuses, it is clear that the highly securitised and discriminatory nature of the VETC facilities, coupled with limited access to effective remedies or oversight by the authorities, provide fertile ground for such violations to take place on a broad scale."

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/de...

The last time I looked at polling conducted in peace time less than 8% favor reunification and the overwhelming majority is strongly against it. Once attacked the numbers will only grow worse for China. This surrender narrative is a fever dream.

This is nonsense. Nobody cares about pointless political rhetoric.

The Taiwaneese have no reason to lose a war of necessity against a Chinese war of choice. China will get its ass handed to it if it ever tries with vast majorities of its forces being wrecked long before ever reaching Taiwan. Whatever does make it thru shouldn't expect to ever be resupplied.

Welcome to the real world...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Not surprised the sheriff and law enforcement would be against the promotion of a video game where the objective is to do illegal things.

Tell me you don't know without telling me you don't know. You just did.

Of course it's input and output. So is an operating system, and that doesn't make it a rebranded transistor.

A prompt is one call and a human reads the result.

An agent runs a loop: the model calls a tool, something actually executes, the result comes back as the next input, and the model decides what to do next and when it's done. Nobody types between those steps. Yes, there are still prompts in there. The model itself is writing most of them.

This seems rather fanciful. Taiwan economically is doing great with per-capita economic conditions way better than China. Less than 8% of Taiwanese support unification and blockades are acts of war. Chinese warships conducting them would be sitting ducks to say nothing of attempting to maintain communications lines across 80 miles of ocean.

I doubt Taiwan is counting on the US for anything except weapons procurement. It is obvious to the entire world Trump is an amoral asshat who never met an authoritarian dictator he didn't fall in love with.

I am amazed at how many people on Slashdot are completely out of touch with the progress AI models have made in the last 6 months. This is supposed to be a tech site, where you guys actually use the tech and understand it. But I digress.

Current models do not need any prompting. You can build a plain english (markdown file) describing exactly what the agent's role and purpose is. It will continue to operate agains those instructions autonomously until it is shut down. Other agents can create and spin up new agents, with new instructions to help them complete their tasks.

We are long past the days of type a sentence, get an answer type agents.

All of these points are wrong.

It's already way to late bruh. We don't have the mines anymore, or any of the other infrastructure. Those factories would just sit empty.

What should we call it when one expects other people to entertain possibilities for which no affirmative evidence exists? Inductive inference is not religion.

You keep yelling physicalism at everyone even when it is made explicitly clear to you no such leaps are being made. The question I have is why? Could it be you are the one clinging to religion?

What you are basically saying is because it is impossible to rule out a magic bunny rabbit that installs the carrot of intelligence into special chosen beings other peoples unwillingness to waste their time considering the possibility of such a rabbit constitutes some sort of a religion.