I bet it was less than 3 minutes from the time I saw this slashdot article to the time I had clicked on the details link downloaded compiled and ran the exploit to root this Fedora system I'm on. That is freakin' scary. I'm glad I'm not a Linux Admin anymore.

no, i did not read the article or even the summary

Being opposed to domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing machines makes you a woke nutjob?

In my estimation only nutjobs who are in favor of those things.

$146 billion divided by 350 million population is $417 per citizen. Just send every household a check for that amount per person and be done with it.

From the article.. "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week that he would not allow Claude to be used to surveil American citizens or empower autonomous weapons."

That once sentence is what this is all about. Hegseth wants the ability to spy on us without restriction and the ability to kill without human intervention. Anthropic won't agree to those terms and so as punishment they are being labeled a supply chain risk by the government.

I bet the the insurance companies lobbyists had a lot to do with this. No, I did not read the fine article.

The only thing that could possibly turn back all your data are belong to us is government legislation. But the tech bros are in bed with trump so that is not going to happen.

Of course they aren't going to bite the hand that feeds them. That said, I do think Microsoft owns at least a hefty share of the blame

TOTALLY SUBSTANTIATED. Who other than "raving fucking lunatics" would propose criminalizing vaccines that saved millions of our lives?

So if want to publish hate speech online that by law can't be removed I simply run for an office. Great.

It's a 100% true. I have two teenage daughters who have iphones and they've told me all about it. The kids with Androids are kind of looked at as second class citizens and very often get left out of many of the group chats all because of the blue bubbles. Stupid as it may seem its a very big deal amongst high school kids.

After posting first and then clicking on the link to the article (I'm probably the first guy to ever do that) I see the article actually does link to another article which explains the math. The math is all predicated on bitflips occurring at an average value of "1.3e-12 upsets/bit/hour" and the math article provides a link to yet another article which supposedly shows how the frequency of bitflips was derived but it's a broken link.

"Research from 2010 estimated that a computer with 4GB of commodity RAM has a 96 percent chance of experiencing a bitflip within three days" If that were true I think computers would be far less stable than they are. Would be nice if they linked to the research so we could read for ourselves how the numbers were "estimated".

Exactly. This video convinced me to never buy Apple products.. https://youtu.be/FY7DtKMBxBw

Good on MediaCom?? Their committing fraud.