Ooh, you are going to love 'qualified immunity'. Invented more or less out of whole cloth to protect our brave boys in blue from the terrors of the (checks notes) civil rights movement.

This guy sounds like an unsympathetic defendant; but "allowed the evidence to be used because the officer who applied for the warrant reasonably believed he was acting properly." is basically a "your rights are whatever the dumbest cop you know has an incentive to guess they are based on convenience and a half-remembered training powerpoint that needn't be correct" standard of evidence; which requires little imagination to see going dubious places fast. Along with some third party doctrine, for flavor.

You'd think a company in the adtech business would be more...polite...about what are basically just banner ads for bots.

There are obviously other reasons why some people want unix or unix-like OSes; and some environments where the benefits can show up on fairly constrained hardware; but it can't have helped that the matchup was against microcomputer OSes on what were still very micro-computers.

A lot of the compromises that put microcomputer OSes on the 'how about you get a real computer?' list just don't hit as hard on very small systems. Oh boy; the multitasking is nonexistent or one of the nasty kludges like TSR or 'cooperative'. And there's no user separation or meaningful filesystem permissions. And the lack of memory protection means anything that goes bad can take the whole system down in a screaming heap. Well. I guess all of those things would be really bad if I could afford enough RAM to actually run multiple programs at once pleasantly. Or if the bulk of the system's state weren't stored on a removable disk whose permissions become irrelevant if you move it to a different system. Or I could afford enough networking hardware for any of this to be dangerous.

In specific environments all that and more would have been true and relevant by 1984; and it's notable how long the microcomputer OSes continued paying for their compromises (ignoring the ones that died; it basically took both MS and Apple 15 years to bolt their respective options onto a real operating system, longer for the result to become the default; and at this rate Windows seems closer to being on track to just ignoring both in favor of 'web' auth flavors than it does to finally shaking all the weird crevices where things depend on NTLM); but in 1984 you could more or less fit an application you might want to use or an OS that didn't suck at it's job onto a computer you could afford; but much less frequently both at the same time.

Obviously we aren't expecting a merit hire from the current administration; but this seems like a weird move even by their low standards of thuggish demands for compliance and sniveling loyalists. Hegseth is having a tantrum over anthropic allegedly getting in the way of the DoD fulfiling his fantasies of masculine adequacy; so you fire the guy who left anthropic to work for you?

Isn't the whole point of treating any differences of opinion as personal insults to be dealt with regardless of their legality, while coddling loyalists regardless of their actions, to encourage people to obey you rather than others? Especially if this guy wasn't in a position to personally change Anthropic's contract with the DoD what lesson are you conveying by punishing him anyway? "We might just fuck you over because we don't like your old boss" seems like an actively counterproductive line because it essentially tells a nontrivial number of people that compliance isn't worth it because they'll be punished anyway; rather than encouraging them to turn on whoever your enemies are in order to be rewarded.

I suspect it's more hubris than outright stupidity: he's capricious; but Trump sometimes permits others to feast on the little people as well, when it suits him. I suspect that our gentleman here had no expectation that the dealings would be honest; but was hoping that they would be partners in crime against people who don't matter.

It will be morbidly interesting to see how his 'attempt to seek justice through the courts against someone whose lawlessness he has bene abetting' plan will work out for him.

I suspect that he's neither the first nor the last who are genuinely quite eager to see more 'equity participation' in some of the big bot shops; given that they've burned through all the VC they can get and even the dumb money is starting to get nervous. Retail bagholders and state investment under the guise of benevolence would be just the thing.

What is much less clear is whether the same amount of interest will be present once current investors take enough of a haircut that the remainder is actually worth something, or one or more of them actually start turning a profit.

Yes. This is a pretty straightforward "Guy demands that sellers of complimentary goods accept smaller margins in way that sounds like he cares about user experience".

It may be true that studios and theatres have fallen into a counterproductive trap: there's an obviously self defeating race to the bottom if theatres keep getting squeezed and responding by making the theatre experience worse which then reduces ticket sales and makes their fixed costs even less supportable so they make the experience yet worse; but the studios hold far more of the cards than the theatres do here.

In an unhelpful sense we know that advertising works by how much is spent on it. What we do not know is whether advertisers justify their cost by influencing consumer behavior as they allege they do; or whether they are exceptionally effective at targeting the people who set ad budgets. Or potentially a mix of the two. Someone is definitely having their behavior influenced in a big way though.

Given how tightly a lot of meetings are really wrapped up in power (all the ones that could have been an email but are about who you an force to show up and all the ones that could have been an email but are about cutting someone out of the loop in a visible way) it tracks that the desire to be in your meeting while skipping your meeting would come from the top; probably accompanied by some questionable theories about how your management is so valuable that even a mechanized distillation of it will better the minions exposed to it.

Are they going to try to avoid it preying on younger LLMs, or is that seen as a benefit when dealing with the emergence of potential competitors?

I didn't know that there was a class of ads that facebook wouldn't touch; they are legendarily flexible so long as the advertiser is paying.

Back when "Broadcom" meant "Henry Nicholas doing all the drugs" it was at least crooked in an entertaining sort of way.

After Avago took over and used them as a namesake and skin suit it was all downhill.

Is there some aspect of this grinder that anyone thinks is actually encouraging us to toss more meat into it?

According to the writeup; there are two methods: it is possible for an extension to mark some parts of itself as 'web accessible'; and linkedin has assembled at least one characteristic file for 6,1000-odd extension IDs and attempts to fetch it to confirm/deny the extension's presence.

The other is based on the fact that the whole point of many extensions is to modify the site in some way; but the site normally has largely unfettered access to inspect itself, so they have theirs set up to walk the entire DOM looking for any references to "chrome-extension://" and snagging the IDs if found.

Not exactly a 'declare installed extensions'; but it looks like, out of some combination of supporting the use cases where an extension and page actively interact by design and either not wanting the possibility or not wanting the complexity of trying to enable 'invisible' edits(presumably some sort of 'shadow' DOM mechanism where as far as the site and everything delivered with it knows only its unedited DOM and resources exist; but the one the user sees is an extension-modified copy of that one, which sounds like it could get messy), inferential attacks are fairly easy and powerful.