Yeah that comment is not even close. Sure GUIDs are generated on a Linux device. Or any device really, for a number of reasons and uses. But even if the police get one somehow, who will they ask to figure out who it belongs to?

The only exception I can think of is if the police hack into a suspect's PC then they can extract a wealth of information about that person and figure out who they are. But that has no bearing on the OS and how much you trust the entities that created it (except that the police are less likely to be equipped to hack an OS that is not popular).

It was to pay a credit card bill. It was made out to the company, but someone took it and cashed it at a Bank of America, I think using a mobile app. Thankfully my bank was able to take care of everything and my CC company dropped late fees I had accrued due to the theft. Though I did have to get a new bank account as my bank was concerned as the account number is on all checks and a stranger might have read it (this makes little sense to me as the purpose of checks is to hand them to strangers to pay them, but whatever).

It's been obvious nVidia app is the drop-in replacement for Control Panel for YEARS, this was inevitable. This person had years to develop an exit strategy from the clearly doomed Control Panel.

Yup I bet you the system prompt for the AI instructs it to stroke the ego of users. Probably an an attempt to get them to pay for subscriptions to AI-related services.

We have laws against gambling because it exploits human behavior for profit. I won't be surprised if we see laws banning or restricting this sort of behavior in AIs for the same reason, eventually.

I think it's the opposite... Star Trek tried to modernize and got rid of some of its strengths. Strange New Worlds returned to the classic formula and did well because of it. Shorter seasons, movie-budget episodes, and favoring season-long story arcs and abandoning individual episodic storytelling all caused problems. Strange New World did enough of a course correction by bringing back episodic storytelling to be good. It also strikes a good balance with original stories vs notalgis bait (we get a couple episodes, like the Lower Decks crossover and the Balance of Terror retelling, and they lean a lot into Pike knowing his own fate which we see in TOS,,, though that plot thread was started in Discovery).

I do think every modern Trek series has individual good moments but on a whole the abandoning episodic storytelling and shorter seasons (which feeds back into hurting episodic storytelling if you want an overarching story too), really hurt them I think.

I think Microsoft in general does a great job considering they test numerous software packages going back decades, as I understand it.

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The real question is, each time this happens, do they sit down and have a meeting and discuss why the problem happened, what they can do to keep it from happening again, and then implement a solution in their testing? If so then it's fine. It's only if they fail to learn from each emergency that we have a problem.

Same should apply to Oracle.

Also not sure why we're discussing these specific Microsoft and Oracle bugs. The bugs are not similar at all. Microsoft's isn't even a security issue like Oracle's is.

Yes there is definitely a segment of the internet that melts down if they even see the word AI in any context. Makes it difficult to have any sort of objective discussion.

Personally, I am more concerned about the vibe-coded aspect. It's a tool like any other tool. It can be useful, or it can be used poorly. In particular I feel it's critical any "vibed" code be looked over by a developer who can read and understand it and verify it is operating properly, particularly with an eye for user security or privacy issues. Anyone who uses "vibe-coded" software that has not undergone such verification (even if only by its own author) is loading a hand grenade onto their own device.

And that's BEFORE you get into the possibilities of compromised AI agents having been instructed to embed malware into "vibed" code.

I'm a computer programmer, at the very least I will be fixing the bugs in your AI generated software in 18 months I am sure. If white collar jobs are gone the only reason would be the economy is in shambles and there's no point in working them any more.

AI is like any tool. You can use a hammer to hammer in nails, But you can also try to use it to hammer in screws. Close enough, right? Just because a hammer sucks at hammering in screws doesn't mean it's a useless tool.

I've observed high memory usage is always described as "bloat" even if they have no idea how it's actually being used. For example, Chrome/Firefox is going to keep a lot of cache in RAM. And why not? If it's available, use it for something! Unused memory is wasted memory. If there is memory pressure, the memory should be released for use, that is the important part, and Chrome/Firefox should both be doing this AFAIK. Windows itself does this as well, and if you check Task Manager you'll note it describes "Available RAM" probably because of this basic misunderstanding. RAM used for OS cache is included in this number! If you dig into Performance you can find the true Free RAM. But that number doesn't matter.

The problem I have with that idea is that, at least for Americans who allegedly have Free Speech protections, where exactly do they get those protections? IMO if a private forum is used for public discourse, even if it is owned and operated privately, users should have at least some protections against being locked out of that platform for speech the private owner does not like if it would impact their ability to speak publicly.

Yeah I have used Semantic Kernel to code AI in .NET and I did not give it the capability to tell the current date and time but it would be a 5 minute fix to do so since getting the current time is trivial. The bigger problem would be ensuring the offline server the AI runs on has its clock set correctly.

Any modern AI model can be provided "tools" that it can use to perform various tasks or retrieve various information. The current date and time is easy to do. I can't say why the author and/or ChatGPT seems to have trouble but you can easily set up a tool to return the current date and time, instruct the AI "this will return the current date and time" and then if the user asks for it the AI will automatically leverage the tool. It's possible ChatGPT just has a lot of tools at its disposal and is getting confused about which one it should use (for example, searching online for the current date time) or perhaps OpenAI wants ChatGPT to use a less specific online search tool which can also return the current date/time when asked but sometimes ChatGPT doesn't quite search for the right thing. As someone who has leveraged AI you can provide specific tools but I expect OpenAI wants to provide far more scope to tool functionality in ChatGPT, so may provide more general tools like web search, which may cause problems.

This all boils down to a company trying to quash speech they don't like. There's really no other way to interpret this. They posted unlisted but public videos instead of making them private if they really wanted them private. They intentionally posted them on a publicly accessible website intending them for consumption by potential customers. When students started spreading this page and videos to warn about the capabilities of the company's product, the company immediately moved to try to suppress this speech by removing the videos, and then sued when it didn't work. They lied to the judge about the videos being publicly viewable (though Hanlon's Razor suggests this could have been their own incompetence in not understanding YouTube) and then lied about their lying when caught.

The problem is that alternate app stores would have had to verify all their apps with Google which defeats the purpose of being alternate. This move would allow them to actually exist again as they currently do, but it does raise the question of how this will be different from the current method of allowing alternate app stores to install apps, which has already existed in android for quite some time.