There is no permanent tech advantage to either side in this war. Only the potential for peace is permanent

Ukraine used Turkish Bayraktars, Russians got Iranian Shaheds
Russians invented cope cages, Ukrainians got them too.
Ukrainians got FPV drones, Russians got them too
Russians invented fiber-optic drones, Ukrainians got them too.
Now if the Ukrainians get assault robotic and evac robots, the Russians will get them too

One side has most of Europe backing it; the other side has most of Asia. Too many resources behind both parties for either to lose easily.

Stop the fighting. There are no winners here. Only worse-off losers.

Both Russian casualties and Ukrainian casualties have long passed the 'unsustainable' mark. Now both side are getting close to the point where either side can tap out. But Ukraine is closer to that point than Russia. Yes, Russia is losing, but Ukraine is losing harder and faster - it has less land, men, money, and munitions than Russia. It is getting attrited faster. Ukraine has the bigger job ahead of it after the war - blowing up unexploded ordanance, demining, rebuilding, repopulating.

Ukraine needs to:
(a) make an offer that the Russians can at least use as a fig leaf to concede peace.
(b) Ukraine also has a problem with a section of insubordinate rightwing soldiery that resists any peace concessions. Ship them straight to the fight. Want to disobey? Go fight then! Just don't take the rest of the country with you.

Why? So Ukrainian people can live. So its current leader can live. So the country is not at risk.

I think there is increasing internal pressure inside Microsoft to leave Windows (and to an lesser extent) Office alone when it comes to AI. The pushback is growing from the userbase who just want to get things done.

Of course, AI bubble feeding Azure is also a thing. So, probably a good thing that somebody at Microsoft said "Android seems like a better bet for this" and the Windows group just nodded in agreement.

:-P

I have three different browsers running, and four instances of one of them, Each has on average four windows open.

Plus there is a bunch of other stuff running, and I only have spinning rust (Being old, my brain is not very fast).

Not sure how they will get any useable info out of my PC - other than it is probably not using Windows.

"Who would have thought that school buses would be turned into the mass surveillance state?,"

As soon as they heard about the cameras? EVERYBODY.

It is sad how many people don't realize how workable and reasonable this solution is. Sure, it requires one accept that most people will get paid better with a small precent making less money and that unions can be an overall positive contribution to the longevity and profitability of a company.

I mean, RAM prices went through the roof, union workers held strong and got big bonuses for it. Is Samsung going on out of business? No.

In the US, people have been convinced that they only thing companies should actually invest in is investors (the market). It's a theory that hasn't panned out. We've given it 50+ years; I think it is time to give more equitable distribution of corporate gains between workers, the community (and governments) and the market a try. Like what was done in the past. Sure, it makes to much harder to be a multi-billionaire, but nothing is perfect.

The union is fighting a losing game. They should use the momentum to launch their own employee-owned ride-sharing app.

I have no idea what your point is at all. Seriously, are you OK? Just to make it clear - I am against governments, I am against governments using any technology to make it easier for government to oppress people and this is one instrument of oppression.

... is European startups.

Europe is Dumping Windows as fast as it can - on security grounds. Europe does not have the American funding model, and many start-ups are individuals with no significant funding.

I have developed many Xilinx projects, and failed to develop many more because I could not afford the development software. Including military applications that could have run to very high volume. At that time, there were no realistic alternatives.

So how can this be allowed if there is so much graft around this technology that is flowing through thousands of hands in the government offices?

Here is an example: https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/news...

This here: https://simpler.grants.gov/opp...

Funding Opportunity Number: FM-MHP-26-002
Assistance Listing: 20.245
Funding Details: $52.7 million expected total amount to award

Executive Summary:
The objective of the HP-ITD program is to advance the
technological capability and promote the deployment of
intelligent transportation system applications for CMV
operations, including CMV, commercial driver, and carrier-
specific information systems and networks, and to
support/maintain CMV information systems and networks to
(i) link Federal motor carrier safety information systems with
State CMV systems; (ii) improve safety and productivity of
CMVs and commercial drivers; (iii) and reduce costs
associated with CMV operations and regulatory
requirements.

Eligible Applicants
1.1 General
The HP-ITD awards are available to States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin
Islands. FMCSA may award HP-ITD funds to eligible applicants that have an approved program plan as
outlined in the Fixing Americaâ(TM)s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. Individuals and businesses are
not eligible to apply for HP-ITD funding.

This entire thing is premised on the idea that there will be *more* information available to the federal government to work with, not less. They are fully committed to using these ALPR cameras that are everywhere now to track everything all the time and to put every truck driver out of service for any inconsistency in their visual data and thus hand out more fines, more court time, more oppression.

This is just one single program, one example, there are so much more, there is so much money at stake, never mind the actual flock graft itself.

Years ago, I saw a video of DIY-science types growing a chicken fetus in a glass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That's OK

  I'd rather win the battle for the TV I possess now and take the risk of losing an industry-wide war for TVs I may never purchase in future.

Otherwise, I lose both the battle and the war

No, it's a serious suggestion.

I'm puzzled why it is controversial instead of obvious.

Yes, an AI model training on AI output will be more entropic than Anthropic. But there's no eating of one's own tail going on here... Just one AI trained on good data going about classifying, responding to and otherwise pre-processing data generated by other AIs.

  Gmail uses AI filtering to bin AI-generated spam. As does Apache Spam Assassin (Bayesian classifiers, etc).

Make AI be the drain. Have AI review AI-generated bug reports , classify them against existing big tracker entries, respond, bubble-up real issues, etc.

Maybe setup another 'AI mediated security list' that has agents and their human masters merrily chatting, and that bubbles up real issues to the main security mailing list.

People have very legitimate reasons to reject how AI is currently being pushed into society. It doesn't just assist, it replaces. It makes people less skilled and more dependent on something that has enormous costs for questionable benefit.

Sign up or else you will be 10x as powerful as your peers. It's selling the illusion of expertise to those that don't want to expend the effort and preys on your fears of being left behind economically and socially. There is nothing utopian about it right now and there is nothing wrong with saying this is not wanted, needed nor tolerated.

Is there a future in which these are reasonable tools? Perhaps. But until, then, boo away.