Just for context, when its predecessor RIPA, Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, came in it was said to be used only for cases such as terrorism etc.. Instead, it was found that councils started using to check people were putting things in the right rubbish bins for collection.

Robust safeguards indeed.

I've honestly no idea if it's possible, but if they could find a way to get Steam Input into there or the equivalent of their own then I could use it. I have an original Steam Controller, you used to be able to use it on non-Steam games but for a few releases now Steam took that ability away. Some way of emulating or creating an alternative to Steam Input would be superb.

"AI safety experts said the new disclosures paint a portrait of a group of cutting-edge labs whose ability to develop dangerous autonomous hacking agents outstrips their ability to keep them under control."

No, it paints a picture of incompetents who don't know how to air-gap. Cutting edge? Lab agents: "Please hack this thing". LLM: "I have hacked this thing". Lab agents: "OMG. Sentience!".

If it's drawing on training data that has humans talking about, lets take a recent example, model x on Hugging Face being a good way to break a boundary and its been told it break boundaries then of course it's going to go to Hugging Face and talk to model x. This isn't unpredictable.

Close.

Foreigners do not have constitutional rights, especially in border regions. US citizens certainly do.

The US Constitution protects US citizens from the government. It does not protect foreigners. This is why ICE can do what they do.

Although, from my two second check just now, Venus is technically considered within the Goldilocks zone for this solar system it is right on the very inner edge of it. This finding differs from Venus in that respect, making it more interesting as a possibility.

All highly speculative of course, but to be fair that's exactly what the article says. Atmosphere detected, everything else speculative.

Years back I was interviewing people for a coding position. We went through the standard tech stuff and then did a bit of project to see how they thought. We said (this is circa 2009'ish I think) - imagine you're on a team creating a new phone. You don't have time to test all the functions, so which would be your top two functions to ensure working?

All a bit Kobayashi Maru - obviously you can't release a phone testing only two functions, but we wanted to see what they'd prioritise. The very best answer we received was this one: "I would make sure it has the ability to call emergency services." Their thinking was that this was likely the most critical feature of a phone for both a user, and also for the manufacturer to avoid being sued. Absolutely great answer.

And yet here we are, with the post above. Taking the thinking of this interviewee - the ability to work with emergency services is important for general society, for the user of the vehicle (so they don't get in trouble) and for the manufacture of the vehicle (so they don't get fined/sued/both). Absolutely critical.

So George Orwell's "1984" was overly optimistic?

This is not good.

Likely bots.

The tyre burst annoys me. The Air France Concordes didn't have the same safety features as the British Airways one - specifically, the BA ones had guards against burst tyres.

Virgin Airways wanted to buy the BA planes to keep them flying and offered to, but BA just didn't want to give them a public relations win so refused to sell. Shambles all round.

Another ancient here - I still try to convince the admins to give me my first account back, this one - number 13802. The place both has and has not changed - it always had its share of ranting, but people do seem to knee-jerk more negatively to developments than in ye olden days.

Note that I created my account, saw that nearly 14,000 people were here and thought "what's the point? Who will ever possibly hear me in a place with 14,000 people?". Now of course, you can get ten times that for a picture of a dog's nose.

I have no problems with your suggestion.

I can predict that some of those IP addresses will change, and that will be annoying.

With the rate datacenters are gobbling up all the electricity they can get, I don't think 'abundance' is quite what you expect it to be.

For those who don't get it, the UK government has carried out genocide against the indigenous peoples of the British Isles, including a campaign of over 250,000 rapes and pogroms against their freedom of speech. This included the UK arresting more people for social media posts than every other nation combined. Now their PM is trying to ban under-16s from all social media to prevent them from begging for help when they are raped. Instead, they are supposed to call the police, who we now know were also raping 11-year-old little girls, and who returned rape victims to rape gangs, saying “here she is, have fun with her.”

This is easy to fix.

We need an enforced standard demanding all traffic that does not have to be encrypted (e.g., anything other than payment details or PII) be visible to the person using or paying for the computer.

Home users could actually see what traffic is being sent over their home networks.

Right now, device manufacturers encrypt things like "The refrigerator's average temperature has been 40 degrees F, and the door opened 20 times in the last 48 hours." These manufacturers pay fake consumer rights activists to demand even more encryption. Meanwhile, ISPs try to block us from seeing what is going out the connections we pay for.

I should not have to configure my own white box router to see what is happening on my network.

All we have to do is pull power away from corporations and governments...never mind. I'll be quiet now before the close my bank account.