I am glad, that you found a cancel mob's rationale to ditch Proton. Anyone using Proton should take a closer look at the Crypto AG story. If you think, that Swiss companies are neutral, humane and fair, then you will be in for a rude awakening, They're in it for the money, and if you are in the way, you're gone. Or betrayed. Or both.

That's exactly the point. The fake names used were intentionally chosen to not fit the "white old man" template, because anyone questioning these two identities would "obviously be driven by rabid misogyny and unmitigated racism". These fraudsters knew well, how to play that fiddle.

We can point fingers at Wired for this all day long, but unlike other news papers they at least fessed up to it.

Stiff penalties will not prevent sudden acts of stupidity "this dude just beat me in the game so I'll show him" "this woke princess just got someone cancelled so I'll show her", but they will eventually stop people acting in a planned and coordinated way. While initial evidence seems to prove you right - the founder of "Purgatory" just received a 15 year sentence and these arse holes still continue their ways - I am fairly convinced, that as the number of such sentences goes up the number of intelligent perpetrators will go down.

Speeding tickets are an interesting case. They are expensive and unpleasant, but don't really mess with your way of life like a 100k compensation you'd have to pay or a jail sentence. At the same time most speeders know they'll eventually get caught, so most will eventually stop racing their cars when the speeding tickets start adding up. Yes, many communities enjoy the financial benefits from speeding tickets, but this doesn't diminish the social costs from all these needless traffic accidents.

Unlike speeding swatting is not exactly a popular sport, and the penalties are quite stiff, we're talking felonies and multi year prison sentences. It will - over time - decrease in popularity.

Swatting used to be amateur league, done by little brats who couldn't stand losing in a computer game or who had some qualms about your political youtube channel. The way this article sounds swatting has become more professional, with whole teams developing advanced strategies and offering their services for money. Their swat calls become more believable, they play sounds of a real shooting at least credible enough to fool first responders. They know how to contact law enforcement in untraceable yet somehow trusted ways.

I would expect this to get worse and more frequent until a significant number of folks pursuing this as a career path end up with year long prison sentences.

The biggest problems of the FBI right now are not unavailability of cash, but presence of Kash.

This "laziness" did not stop MAGA folks from calling Obama by his full name, when they thought emphasizing his middle name would undermine his position.

Inference may well be a huge market in future, think autonomous cars. Their total compute will quickly outnumber anything we've thrown at training so far. And yes, NVIDIA does provide proper platforms for inference.

The main aim of the Allies was to stop Germany from being a menace to the world and its own population, and they succeeded at this big time. They also succeeded in getting Germans ready and financed to rebuild their country.

Donetsk has been occupied for over ten years now and has turned from a barely working society into a complete shithole of epic proportions - by their own admittance! Nobody asked the Russians to f*ck up the drinking water supply, nobody asked them to drown their garbage collection in corruption, inefficiency and ineffectiveness. Every town they captured since 2022 is now strewn with torture chambers instead of a working administration.

Wow, so much winning in the Russian world! /sarc

What exactly did they win? Donetsk is a broken town with 25% of her original population and no functional garbage disposal or water supply. The towns Russia occupied since 2022 are piles of rubble, and some of them will not even be rebuilt as long has Russia holds on to them. Most Russian propagandists and founders of the "DNR/LNR" are now utterly disappointed what a shithole their Donbass has turned into.

You must have a very depressed world view, if you declare this as "Russian victory".

There was a comparison between hacking strategies some months ago. Russians break and enter a few high value targets, grab the crown jewels and disappear. Chinese typically perform complete raids of everything and simply don't care about the resulting diplomatic rift. That's probably the reason, why this Microsoft Sharepoint hack was quickly attributed to China, and why the assumption exists, that they took everything they got a hold of. Compare the Solarwinds campaign with the Microsoft Outlook campaign to see the difference. Yes, the latter one was indeed reckless, and the Microsoft Sharepoint campaign fits that pattern well.

It's all they will share with the general public. After Chinese companies broke their trust, and that's the core accusation here, they are not exactly eager to reveal how they caught them. We, the public, can't really know what happens, we will not be presented with hard facts or evidence, but this doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's up to anyone here to trust either the US accusations or the inevitable Chinese denials.

Here I agree with you. 60 days to fix such a glaring bug is ridiculous and the main reasons, why exploiters could run wild with this bug. If it took exploiters days to go medieval on Microsoft Sharepoint instances world wide, then it can't take months to fix the actual bug.

Many companies pathetically trust their corporate crown jewels on these awful Sharepoint servers, so "snoop around some random sharepoint servers" is a wild understatement. Yes, you can put some blame on these companies, too, but if the accusation stands, that Chinese companies shared the exploit details with Chinese state security services, then Microsoft's stance is at least understandable. And yes, Microsoft should also finally get their act together 30 years after embracing the internet.

Want to bet, that these layoffs won't affect the decision making chain involved with the hard coded root password in Cisco's professional networking products?

IMHO LLMs go far beyond sponge level intelligence, and probably even beyond random mammals ... LLMs can positively generate something resembling human language with real grammar.

Just look at the random /. first post.

You do realize, that this "original collision was detected below earth's surface level. The particle doesn't seem to interact much, which gives more credence to your first statement, that the particle, while having a lot of energy, typically doesn't transfer much of it on impact.