"In its most recent Q1 2026 earnings report, Meta’s Reality Labs division posted an operating loss of $4.03 billion on $402 million in revenue.Since late 2020, the unit—which develops VR headsets, AR smart glasses, and metaverse software—has accumulated over $80 billion in total operating losses."

Does that make you feel any better? Zuck renamed to company for something that has cost them $80 billion in losses... so far.

The fact that the algorithm harms people is an inconsequential side effect.

They think center-left is ultra right-wing.

Some mostly sensible people consider themselves center-left and feel hurt that the he Valley types are calling them fascists.

It's all complicated by the 1D spectrum model of the French Parliament being applied to politics broadly.

The Left Authoritarians really hate the Right Authoritarians while the Left Libertarians and the Right Libertarians mostly get along.

It sort of makes sense becauae violence is inherent in the former while cooperation is inherent in the latter.

But the angry aren't usually educated im polisci at all and just operate on the Friend/Eny distinction of their tribe's momentary collective preferences, which can turn on a dime.

The Valley oligarchs will also switch allegiances instantaneously if they perceive advantage in profit or control with shifting winds.

"Leaked"

*wink* *wink*

They keep adding timing noise to these API's as attacks show up but this really speaks to the need to have the noise in the core I/O libraries, not inside each new API.

If it's writing to disk in any way it should go through a code path with timing noise.

It would be easier on the feature developers too.

Probably in the network API's too. Have a turbo mode in preferences at one end of a privacy slider, maybe. Default should be safe but the browser benchmark people incentivize the wrong thing. "You get what you measure" and stuff.

It's an overseas market too.

Lots of defects in the case.

Somebody said his legal defense is that if Congress can do it he can. If true it could be an impactful case.

While the law is still respected, they literally can not install their own. This mass surveillance is an end-run around the Constitution and everyone involved is treasonous.

Unfortunately, the law is not very respected anymore, so these things will continue growing.

The need for power and control. Everyone is born with it, many never grow out of it.

Apparently the AI bubble is so well insulated that several college commencement speakers never anticapated how loudly they would get booed for lavishing praise on AI in their speeches. There is a self-reinforcing echo chamber in place, and all the corporate officers have fallen for it, to the point where they now judge employees based on how much elecriticity they waste processing AI prompts.

The AI arms race, begun it has.

A contest between AI video creators and people using AI to detect AI was inevitable.

It's a concept called defense in depth, and perhaps also defensive programming. It's good practice. You do not want to hold things off at the gate exclusively, because that relies entirely on your gate defense. This shouldn't be a difficult concept to understand.

Yes, it's potentially more difficult to exploit, but if it's known, a clever exploit can still be fashioned to expose it. This is being seen increasingly with AI driven exploits. You don't need a kernel RCE to gain full system access - you need 3 or 4 small privilege escalation bugs (theoretical problems) in different packages that are commonly used.

You're viewing the waves for the ocean.

There's also been recent research that shows that plasma actuators or electrohydrodynamic (EHD) flow control effectively eliminate drag. I'm not sure why this specific TFA gained publication but the ionic charge did not.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40430-026-06357-y

"the people who have to review code"

That doesn't exist as a meaningful or useful discipline anymore, except in niche development roles.

Sorry, no. Your code review isn't useful. It's probably not even thorough.

We're well into the "code review should be done by agents" phase of things.

This has always been near the heart of the debate. Is it better to keep our code out in the open or to keep it hidden? The 'Many Eyes' theory is basically a psychology test. Do you believe there are more white hats than black hats? The price of security has always been eternal vigilance. This isn't the death of security. It's LLM over hyped marketing. And security remains as it always has been.

By turning programming into an actual engineering discipline? I dunno. Might be more effective than seat of the pants programming that we encourage now. But wait, yet another language will make it easy to program again.

Lazy and undisciplined. What do you think will happen? Exactly what we are seeing?