Didn't Colossus demand that Dr Forbin be placed under video surveillance as well?

Actually, getting the CO2 out of the atmosphere is easy. Just grow stuff faster than you dump it in. The Keeling Curve slope goes negative every year due to uptake by vegitation.

Problem: To grow stuff, you need more than just the CO2. Plant growth will hit a limit when any one of the necessary nutrients is consumed Right now, we need to introduce more fixed nitrogen (NOx) into the cycle.

.. when making presentations to management:

• No more that three bullet points per slide.
• No more than three slides.
• Treat them like three-year-olds.

According to the memo, metrics such as AI adoption rates, token consumption, code changes, and code reviews become "deeply flawed" when they are disconnected from actual results. Turning them into targets, Amazon says, encourages wasteful behavior that clashes with its emphasis on "frugality and simplicity" and can raise both compute bills and software complexity.

It's almost as if they're just now realizing Goodhart's Law exists.

You just have to keep upping the dosage to get an effect.

echo "#include <stdio.h>" >> Hello.c

How many tons of CO2 were produced by AI answering your questions?

Wait! What?

My phone boots just fine. And I have no network here (unless I want to stand in that "special spot" in my front yard to get a weak 5G bar).

Distortion was invented (discovered) by a touring blues bass guitarist who knocked an output tube loose. One half of a push-pull amp stage.

Didn't see an y support for this in the linked report.

A valid point. But it works to make the cost per officer higher. Reducing the number a given budget will support. The current emphasis is now on "more cops". I'm not certain this is the right way to go, given the population density of the USA (lower) compared to that of European countries. "A cop on every corner" when corners might be miles apart just won't cut it here. So John Q. Public will have to take responsibility for his own defense. Same holds true of "no go" neighborhoods in urban areas here. Smart cops is what we need. But part of "smart" includes technology. Like Flock.

Now, if he had any smarts, he'd let it be known that a "failure to deliver decrypted files" would be met by the same Mossad group that knocked on Gerald Bull's door. Forget about repairing file systems. This is a well demonstrated skill set.

From TFS:

Sounds like Pinhasi was just playing negotiator between the ransomers and the victim. And may not have had a data recovery capability himself. So the end result would have been the same: No data recovered. Ransomers take the (smaller) money and run. Does Pinhasi warrant his service? Get your data or your money back?

There ARE legit services that will negotiate with ransomers. But the ransomers don't like working through them. To the point that they will do checks on people who present themselves as IT from the victim company. But are in fact professional negotiators.

No. They spent some millions of dollars to re-release all the engineering. And then discovered that VB and other stuff wasn't up to the job of doing natural language processing and generating source. They re-re-released the engineering documents and hired a warehouse full of coders to translate English requirements into C source.

Some decades ago, I worked on an automated testing and manufacturing system. All of the engineering source was produced in plain old ASCII. It worked well, until the Microsoft consultants started showing up* and rewriting our requirements documents. In the end, they had convinced management to use Excel for the generation of what was essentially source code. Talk about the wrong tool.

*This was when I asked my boss how they even got in the front door. Seeing as how we had armed guards for the facility.

In June, over $500,000 worth of bourbon was stolen out from under the nose of a warehouse in Phildelphia. The first paragraph:

Later in the story, the explanation for how this happened is nearly identical to these tech thefts:

Newman said investigators believe the theft may be tied to a "complex ring" targeting high-value consumer products. The perpetrators appeared to impersonate an existing trucking company, using a company name, phone number and other details to gain trust and secure the load, he said.

"They basically try and look like, sound like ⦠a legitimate trucking company," Newman said. "They spoof the company name, they spoof the trucking dispatcher."

In the company's news release, it said the theft appeared to have been carried out with knowledge of "logistics operations and product movement schedules," suggesting planning and coordination.