Comment Re: such a tax could generate (Score 3, Insightful) 191
Put the tax on the ad providers since they generate most of the junk traffic.
Comment Re: I don't care (Score 1) 181
Sam Altman wastes my precious ram
Submission + - Proton CEO in full AI psychosis (404media.co) 1
devnulljapan writes: Andy Yen, the CEO of Proton, and other company executives are aggressively pushing Proton towards AI. Engineers at Proton, which makes the encrypted email service Proton Mail and a suite of privacy and security-focused products, including an encrypted drive service, an authenticator app, a password manager, are being pushed to âoestop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.â
Workers describe an environment where employees have genuine concerns about security or being asked to develop security products with AI, but feel unable to voice them, lest Yen berates them in front of everyone or threatens their employment at the company.
âoeThe CEO is in full AI psychosis and has been for a while now.â
Workers describe an environment where employees have genuine concerns about security or being asked to develop security products with AI, but feel unable to voice them, lest Yen berates them in front of everyone or threatens their employment at the company.
âoeThe CEO is in full AI psychosis and has been for a while now.â
Comment Re: So what you are saying is ... (Score 2) 152
Which is based on Minix.
Submission + - New Operating System Uses Hardware-Based Memory Protection Model (frute.net)
alternative_right writes: FRUTE asks what an operating system looks like when the CPU, language runtime, garbage collector, compiler, and authority model are designed together instead of bolted together after the fact.
Conventional systems make language runtimes recover structure from untyped words, make security policy chase ambient names, and make garbage collectors infer which machine values are pointers. FRUTE moves those facts into the architecture: values are tagged, authority is explicit, and Scheme is treated as a first-class systems language.
Most CPUs treat memory as undifferentiated bits, then ask every compiler, runtime, kernel, and debugger to remember what those bits mean. FRUTE values carry architectural tags, so the machine can distinguish pointers, fixnums, characters, capabilities, bitmaps, and runtime objects directly.
Conventional systems make language runtimes recover structure from untyped words, make security policy chase ambient names, and make garbage collectors infer which machine values are pointers. FRUTE moves those facts into the architecture: values are tagged, authority is explicit, and Scheme is treated as a first-class systems language.
Most CPUs treat memory as undifferentiated bits, then ask every compiler, runtime, kernel, and debugger to remember what those bits mean. FRUTE values carry architectural tags, so the machine can distinguish pointers, fixnums, characters, capabilities, bitmaps, and runtime objects directly.
Comment Re:DALL-E? (Score 2) 34
I agree, DALL-E variants went offline a few months ago. Now it's GPT, Muse, Grok and Flux that have taken over.
Not that DALL-E was bad, it was pretty nice in its own way, but couldn't really compete with quality stock images.
That said - many AI generated images still have flaws, and are often just useful for illustrative purposes and memes. Many pulp-level sensationalist magazines are probably using them now to make it look like Prince Harry and Marilyn Monroe had an affair.
Submission + - Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of trees (futurism.com)
fjo3 writes: Earlier in October, Finnish authorities ordered Google’s affiliate data center developer Tuike Finland Oy to immediately suspend the illegal cutting of some 1,300 acres of forest. The tech giant was given a week to draft a report explaining its actions, which soon became a flashpoint for Europe’s growing outrage over the data center boom.
As the anger grew, reporters descended on the scene — and what they found is a clear-cut example of the AI revolution’s impact on the environment.
New reporting by the Guardian shed fresh light on the impacts of Google’s deforestation. After the 1,300 acres of pristine boreal forests were reduced to tracts of mud and stumps, fauna which once called the woods home has been forced to vacate.
As the anger grew, reporters descended on the scene — and what they found is a clear-cut example of the AI revolution’s impact on the environment.
New reporting by the Guardian shed fresh light on the impacts of Google’s deforestation. After the 1,300 acres of pristine boreal forests were reduced to tracts of mud and stumps, fauna which once called the woods home has been forced to vacate.
Comment Re: Bose (Score 1) 41
Today I'd say that you'd probably need to put up some $50k USD. Original price was $16k USD, but they are a collectors item. Their successor HE-1 are in the same price range.
I have listened to them and the worst thing is that they actually sound so good that they'd be worth the price. But I'm not a headphone user so if I had them they'd be a dust collector.
Submission + - How we're Strengthening PHP Security
Mirnotoriety writes: Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security
“Earlier today, the PHP project released PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35. These releases fix two critical vulnerabilities that, under the right conditions, allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute code on servers running PHP.”
CVE-2026-109618 / GHSA-w8hw-w9fx-j79w: RCE via OOM corruption (out-of-memory): If a request reached PHP's memory_limit at exactly the wrong moment, PHP could leave partially initialized internal data behind and later treat it as valid, corrupting memory.
CVE-2026-109619 / GHSA-6wmf-4rv5-p3rp: RCE via stale global state: A fatal error at the wrong point could leave internal state pointing to memory that belonged to a previous request ..
“Earlier today, the PHP project released PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35. These releases fix two critical vulnerabilities that, under the right conditions, allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute code on servers running PHP.”
CVE-2026-109618 / GHSA-w8hw-w9fx-j79w: RCE via OOM corruption (out-of-memory): If a request reached PHP's memory_limit at exactly the wrong moment, PHP could leave partially initialized internal data behind and later treat it as valid, corrupting memory.
CVE-2026-109619 / GHSA-6wmf-4rv5-p3rp: RCE via stale global state: A fatal error at the wrong point could leave internal state pointing to memory that belonged to a previous request
Comment Re: Bose (Score 1) 41
Sennheiser Orpheus please
Comment Re:Bose (Score 1) 41
And skullcandy hasn't been anything to care about either.
Submission + - Man Apparently Killed by Tesla in Autonomous Mode (nbcbayarea.com)
BrendaEM writes: "A 71-year-old man was killed early Thursday morning after he was struck by a self-driving car as he was crossing Interstate 80 in Vallejo, the California Highway Patrol said."
Submission + - Physicists Trapped a Particle of Antimatter And Kept It Caged For Months (sciencealert.com)
alternative_right writes: Theoretically, the birth of the Universe should have produced equal quantities of particles and antiparticles.
Why the current Universe is so heavily skewed in particles' favor is an enduring mystery – one whose solution remains all the harder to find because of antiparticles' tendency to go and collide with particles.
But an extraordinary effort may have finally tamed one of the biggest tricksters of the antiparticle milieu – the positron, the antimatter counterpart to the ubiquitous electron.
In a cryogenic, superconducting vacuum trap, physicists at Northwestern University in the US successfully kept a single positron for months – a breakthrough that, they say, paves the way to the most rigorous probes yet of particle physics.
Why the current Universe is so heavily skewed in particles' favor is an enduring mystery – one whose solution remains all the harder to find because of antiparticles' tendency to go and collide with particles.
But an extraordinary effort may have finally tamed one of the biggest tricksters of the antiparticle milieu – the positron, the antimatter counterpart to the ubiquitous electron.
In a cryogenic, superconducting vacuum trap, physicists at Northwestern University in the US successfully kept a single positron for months – a breakthrough that, they say, paves the way to the most rigorous probes yet of particle physics.
Comment Re: Multiplier effect to wages paid to a worker. (Score 1) 114
If said factory assembles the units from imported components using robots and are loaded with software made by AI and offshore workers then the few workers that will be employed won't make much difference.
What a brave new world.
Comment Re: Yes (Score 5, Insightful) 202
Short term profits have been rewarded over long term sustainability of businesses. That's the reason for enshittification.
