MS has been doing that for a good while, which is why in the few cases I have installed Windows on something, I have had to boot a Linux rescue disk to download a network driver Windows was missing.

Way to over-interpret the example! It doesn't matter if it's client, server, embedded, isolated standalone. A method where root can "gain" root access is not a security issue.

Sorry, this is not the strawman you're looking for. I never commented on Mythos combing through Firefox.

Closed source has those vulnerabilities too, but only the bad guys know about them because the code is not open for public audit.

Many CVE's are somewhat junk of the form if you already have 3 ways to legitimately become root, you can use this 4th way too. OR (samn close to) OMG!!! Denial of Service attack, you can turn off the power and nobody can access the server!!! RED ALERT!!!

Others are real and need to be addressed, but the junk does more harm than good by distracting from real issues.

As with any idea, execution is key. If it results in a real academic institution focused on space and brings together the scientific talent needed to properly train and teach students, it's a win. Personally, I'd make it an adjunct to the existing academies as they already are engineering/science oriented; making it a one or two year post graduate education program for those selected, along with select ROTC and civilians with undergraduate degrees. I wouldn't lt Hegseth get near anything more involved than deciding what Lego sets should be used...

The real take-away for all of this is that AIs have no concept of cheating nor of right and wrong. They don't reliably honor even explicit instructions to not do something.

Give them agency and there will be havoc. When you tell an AI with agency to do something, mentally add the phrase "at all costs" to the end because the agent will. Still wanna try it?

But please don't ask it to bring world peace, because grave yards are quite peaceful.

After eating their own dog food they believed their own hype; and now they discovered that laying off people and hoping they left enough behind for the agents to understand what they did is not a winning plan. What until the AI discovers the executives have decided to no do that and so they dig through emails to find suitable blackmail to restore the plan.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Or simply debloat Brave...

The descendants of Ogg have renewed the ongoing lawsuit against the descendants of Zogg alleging that Ogg dropped a rock on Zoggs foot in a cave one fine day and it was really ouchie! Anthropologists are working around the clock trying to restore the cave paintings documenting the original complaint made to the tribal chief in 30,001 BCE.

That's because of all of the inbreeding. A is the CEO at one place where B sits on the board. Next door, B is the CEO and A sits on the board...

Exactly that. Many seem to have forgotten that hospitals were absolutely slammed early in the pandemic and that medical care in general suffered.

I wonder who makes their cameras and what backdoors they may have; it’s an intelligence agencies wet dream: a potential adversary pays to install and maintain hour intelligence gathering tools.

Not to mention an increase in damaging severe weather.

Even people who like it warmer probably don't like having their house blown away to Oz.