A "decision science partner" at a seed-stage venture fund (who is also a cognitive-behavioral decision science author and professional poker player). I can't stop chuckling everytime I read it. It's just a perfect dumpster fire of BS credentials and then prof poker player....too funny.

and leave it at that. I could forgive them if their data store / query language wasn't built to handle querying across special characters. A lowly injection concern? Naw, parametrization has been around since the stone age.

The fact that they did it during a major event and did it in a very blatant / viral manner tells me that the hackers are probably looking for widespread exposure of the risk / issues of kernel level AC. They could've done much worse and never popped their head up.

Once I heard how they treated many of the VMware staff post merger I was done with Broadcom. VMware offered severance packages to many employees. About a week or two later Broadcom swooped in and cancelled the severance packages even those signed already and instead told people they had to work another X months to get any kind of severance. If they didn't work X months they forfeit any severance and can take a walk immediately with nothing.

Lol, not a bad idea. Then we could have a BNS the Bird Name Server so that all the name variations can be resolved to a single unique identifier. We could go further and make a UNS: the Universal Name Server. But we should probably give the BNS 20-30 years before we have people start implementing the UNS. We may have to also consider creating some temporary transition technologies to help BNS-enabled systems interop with UNS-enabled systems.

You could argue such phrases have no place in life considering any action has risk and could lead to injury or death. There are plenty of risky activities that people do everyday and don't so much as bat an eyelash: drive, eat, use the restroom. It is unfortunate that some people have complications to vaccinations, but it's the reality of living in this world with viruses. I don't blame parents and sufferers for seeking comfort amongst others with similar afflictions. Such groups are easily manipulated and radicalized towards the agenda of a few outliers. It's alot easier to be angry and vengeful towards something very much out of your control. The power and lie of the anti-vaxxer campaign is that you have control over the situation. You only control the decision of getting vaccinated and everything else is up to probability, nature, and time. But getting vaccinated means improving your modifiers overall v. not.

Nah, we can do so much better then just auto incremented numbers. Plus what happens when two birds get discovered at the same time? Someone will have to agree to come after 65536. That would cause a ton of unnecessary conflict. Just issue all living things, places, atoms, rocks, everything that needs a name a new UUID and problem solved. Forget Latin a language used by many many evil people of the past.

I mean might as well right? In for a penny in for a pound? This way when kids hear it's call for the first time they'll think twice before uttering its "obviously" racially charged previous name.

professional complainers try to be warriors of justice in the fight for intellectual property they don't own.

Meanwhile FTC and SEC standing there looking at each other thinking, "took'em long enough."

Garbage in, garbage out plain and simple. It's a cancer. Biased conclusions building upon each other with each new generation. Oftentimes, through no fault if their own, those conclusions were/are ignorant to the bias of the previous result. ML training has been an interesting way to reveal a lot of these disparities. Companies try to keep it unbiased by putting in guard rails but there's only so much you can do when your model has been drinking from a well poisoned sometimes hundreds of years in the making.

Good lesson for all you folks working at companies that keep real PII in test regions. Either mock the data in your test region or have a one way scramble / obfuscation of PII / sensitive data before bringing data down to a test region. Not a difficult thing to implement and plan for throughout the year once you get your company in the habit.

Moratoriums and laws limiting machine learning and what we are improperly naming "artificial intelligence" are a joke. Not everyone can make an "a bomb" because it requires materials that can be regulated worldwide. A smart enough individual has all l they would ever need in the Internet to make an "AI bomb".

I am proud my country is now protecting our skies from balloons that children "accidently" release at the carnival. I bet those balloons were made in China too! /sarcasm

Why does everyone think that because "right-to-repair" laws get written that they suddenly cause an entire service industry to crumble? Not every farmer is going to DIY, in fact probably most won't. RTR simply makes it illegal for companies to sell a product that only they can service and repair. That's all. JD and other companies would still have service techs on their payroll and yes there would prevent be fewer. But those that don't stay on can open local repair shops and contribute to local community rather than funneling all that money to a large corporation that won't reinvest locally.