"potentially enabling instantaneous exchanges of information across vast distances"

NO this has nothing to do with that. This is the first slashdot post in memory that should be fucking deleted. Disgraceful.

We now have a NUMBER for the value of these data breaches. Time for the Lawyers to use this metric to go after every single data breach.

A used disc sits in inventory incurring a small but real cost each month. Your calculus to set price considers this. Something that incurs no cost does not experience this cost pressure.

The existence of used physical games is a huge help for consumers. Digital only isn't good.

I would imagine they decay into something else in like 10e-15 seconds.

Its not racism or prejudice in the sense of judging people by immaterial qualities (skin color, sex/gender/ethnicity/etc) , it is the prejudice of Elitism. They think ONLY their elite compatriots are or should be eligible to doing the six figure job. There was a cute 80s movie that took this Elitism to task, The Last Starfighter.

It fits this pretty well.

The very same people who told right wingers to "go start your own" social media, when the whole big tech cabal collectively went after various people, are the same ones now complaining that they were banned without cause for posting on a Tuesday.

This isn't a pro or con right wing post, this is a "you made your bed now lie in it" post.

I'm not a fan of the bigoted posts from any side. People love the powers that be right up to and until they are on the wrong side of those powers. Take a moment and think things through, and lets stop being so damn tribal, and maybe, just maybe Liberty will survive.

Those were human made bugs. The point of the article is that AI is finding real actual bugs at a high rate.

Can we finally know whether or not there is beer on the sun?!

Same.

I'm almost hopeful that in a few years, Starlink Mobile will be the push I need to change. I'm waiting until then, or it gets even worse with T-Maybe

I have such fond memories of EA from the '80s, but as far as I'm concerned, that's a completely different and unrelated entity.

That mentality never left Microsoft. They just to have work harder to maintain plausible deniability. Plausible, that is, to the anti-trust courts and politicians, none of whom know anything about technology.

I don't think that's likely. GOG has been around for almost 20 years. If they were to renege on providing offline installers, what could that possibly gain them? That only makes sense if they are planning to reimplement DRM, and that would immediately kill the company.

Check your player's handbook, it's definitely an upgrade from studded leather.

Are you nuts? This is the most interesting news in quite some time, at least from a nerd perspective.
This story has everything you'd want- an insufficient randomization problem, a software bug that makes it subtlety fail and take the wrong path that makes a lot of keys guessable, and then, years later, an eventual exploit where someone, offline, reproduced a ton of these failed key creations, checked the blockchain to see which ones had stuff, set up a burst of activity that would move all the bitcoin at essentially the same time.

It has all kinds of interesting angles- for instance, you can ask if the writers of the software actually were the same as the eventual hackers years later. It's possible that this bug was deliberate, and plenty of cryptocrimes are actually inside jobs. You can also ask why people are so into the idea of hardware wallets in the first place, as using the reference wallet produces a wallet.dat that can be encrypted with veracrypt and stored in a zillion places (and so can the password), and why is that not the first order of business for people looking to store assets with big numbers? Or someone could come in and advertise their own favorite cold wallet instead.

This is a very solid and interesting news story.

For several years now, any reasonable simple question has had Search-Engine-Optimized useless shit at the top of google- these days it generally can be counted on to fill the entire first page. Google helpfully highlights the relevant text by default so they spend money making sure google can't displau that text but instead displays an ad.

I just googled:
odds of rolling three sixes on three dice

The AI has the 1/216 answer and the reasoning and the math and the links to the people on forums explaining all that. That is actually the search engine right there; it actually links me to people who have explained this to each other over the years.

The top link is to reddit and claims the odds are "180 to where", and eventually has a bunch of links (reddit and google signed an agreement to stop other search engines from reading reddit well). If I click in there I will find the answer. But what if it wasn't?

Under that is stackexchange, and all the wording is chosen so I can't see the answer. Clicking through the answer is present at least. Below that is a dice probability calculator that can make the answer, and something called thoughtco which has the answer in the summary. This is the first non-AI spot on the page with the answer.

Overall the AI summary has been godsent, but if more time has been spent fighting SEO it would not be so needed.