Comment Re:Heh (Score 1) 95
"Capitalism" is a derogatory Marxist term for a free society, see here https://dagens-fel.livejournal...
Don't use it, it corrupts your thinking. It is not an ideology. It actually doesn't exist.
Comment Re:Heh (Score 1) 95
"Capitalism" is a derogatory Marxist term for a free society, see here https://dagens-fel.livejournal...
Don't use it, it corrupts your thinking.
Submission + - AWS crash causes smart beds to malfunction (dexerto.com)
Kludge writes: Dextero has an article about Eight Sleep’s $2,000 "smart beds" overheating and getting stuck upright because Amazon cloud services went down. This outage likely affected many /. readers who are tech savvy and love their unnecessarily cloud-connected products ;).
Submission + - How the US Military Exposed the Tools That Let Authorities Break Into Phones (reason.com)
SonicSpike writes: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) really doesn't want the public to know what it's doing with Cellebrite devices, a company that helps law enforcement break into a locked phone. When it announced an $11 million contract with Cellebrite last month, ICE completely redacted the justification for the purchase.
The U.S. Marine Corps has now done the opposite. It published a justification to a public contracting platform, apparently by mistake, for a no-bid contract to continue putting Cellebrite's UFED/InsEYEts system in the hands of military police. The document is marked "controlled unclassified information" with clear instructions not to distribute it publicly. UFED/InsEYEts "includes capabilities exclusive to Cellebrite and not available from any other company or vendor," the document claims, before going on to list specific capabilities for breaking into specific devices.
Reason is posting the document below, with phone numbers redacted.
The U.S. Marine Corps has now done the opposite. It published a justification to a public contracting platform, apparently by mistake, for a no-bid contract to continue putting Cellebrite's UFED/InsEYEts system in the hands of military police. The document is marked "controlled unclassified information" with clear instructions not to distribute it publicly. UFED/InsEYEts "includes capabilities exclusive to Cellebrite and not available from any other company or vendor," the document claims, before going on to list specific capabilities for breaking into specific devices.
Reason is posting the document below, with phone numbers redacted.
Submission + - Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived (archive.org)
alternative_right writes: This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived. That’s one trillion memories, moments, and movements—preserved for the public and available to access via the Wayback Machine.
We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22, 2025, with a global event: a party at our San Francisco headquarters and a livestream for friends and supporters around the world. More than a celebration, it’s a tribute to what we’ve built together: a free and open digital library of the web.
Join us in marking this incredible milestone. Together, we’ve built the largest archive of web history ever assembled. Let’s celebrate this achievement—in San Francisco and around the world—on October 22.
We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22, 2025, with a global event: a party at our San Francisco headquarters and a livestream for friends and supporters around the world. More than a celebration, it’s a tribute to what we’ve built together: a free and open digital library of the web.
Join us in marking this incredible milestone. Together, we’ve built the largest archive of web history ever assembled. Let’s celebrate this achievement—in San Francisco and around the world—on October 22.
Comment Re:In the USA, yes (Score 1) 183
And the reasons for that are twofold:
The influence of the Democratic party on the school system. Now they reap what they sow (that is, Trump).
The femininisation of society in general and the schools in particular. This article is food for thought https://www.compactmag.com/art...
"Women can sue their bosses for running a workplace that feels like a fraternity house, but men can’t sue when their workplace feels like a Montessori kindergarten."
Submission + - Einstein's overlooked idea could explain how the Universe really began (sciencedaily.com)
alternative_right writes: [A newly proposed model] suggests that gravitational waves — predicted by general relativity — may be the true driving force behind the universe's formation, giving rise to galaxies, stars, planets, and ultimately life on Earth. The researchers link this idea to a mathematical construct known as De Sitter space, named for Dutch mathematician Willem De Sitter, who collaborated with Albert Einstein in the 1920s on understanding the structure of the cosmos.
The concept of gravitational waves dates back to 1893 and 1905, when Oliver Heaviside and Henri Poincaré first proposed related ideas. Albert Einstein expanded on this in 1916, describing gravitational waves as ripples in the fabric of space-time in his general theory of relativity. These waves can originate from powerful cosmic events such as supernovae, merging black holes, and colliding neutron stars. Because they are incredibly faint, detecting them requires highly sensitive instruments
The concept of gravitational waves dates back to 1893 and 1905, when Oliver Heaviside and Henri Poincaré first proposed related ideas. Albert Einstein expanded on this in 1916, describing gravitational waves as ripples in the fabric of space-time in his general theory of relativity. These waves can originate from powerful cosmic events such as supernovae, merging black holes, and colliding neutron stars. Because they are incredibly faint, detecting them requires highly sensitive instruments
Submission + - Why Signal's post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement (arstechnica.com)
mspohr writes: One exception to the industry-wide lethargy is the engineering team that designs the Signal Protocol, the open source engine that powers the world’s most robust and resilient form of end-to-end encryption for multiple private chat apps, most notably the Signal Messenger. Eleven days ago, the nonprofit entity that develops the protocol, Signal Messenger LLC, published a 5,900-word write-up describing its latest updates that bring Signal a significant step toward being fully quantum-resistant.
The complexity and problem-solving required for making the Signal Protocol quantum safe are as daunting as just about any in modern-day engineering. The original Signal Protocol already resembled the inside of a fine Swiss timepiece, with countless gears, wheels, springs, hands, and other parts all interoperating in an intricate way. In less adept hands, mucking about with an instrument as complex as the Signal protocol could have led to shortcuts or unintended consequences that hurt performance, undoing what would otherwise be a perfectly running watch. Yet this latest post-quantum upgrade (the first one came in 2023) is nothing short of a triumph
Outside researchers are applauding the work.
“If the normal encrypted messages we use are cats, then post-quantum ciphertexts are elephants,” Matt Green, a cryptography expert at Johns Hopkins University, wrote in an interview. “So the problem here is to sneak an elephant through a tunnel designed for cats. And that’s an amazing engineering achievement. But it also makes me wish we didn’t have to deal with elephants.”
The complexity and problem-solving required for making the Signal Protocol quantum safe are as daunting as just about any in modern-day engineering. The original Signal Protocol already resembled the inside of a fine Swiss timepiece, with countless gears, wheels, springs, hands, and other parts all interoperating in an intricate way. In less adept hands, mucking about with an instrument as complex as the Signal protocol could have led to shortcuts or unintended consequences that hurt performance, undoing what would otherwise be a perfectly running watch. Yet this latest post-quantum upgrade (the first one came in 2023) is nothing short of a triumph
Outside researchers are applauding the work.
“If the normal encrypted messages we use are cats, then post-quantum ciphertexts are elephants,” Matt Green, a cryptography expert at Johns Hopkins University, wrote in an interview. “So the problem here is to sneak an elephant through a tunnel designed for cats. And that’s an amazing engineering achievement. But it also makes me wish we didn’t have to deal with elephants.”
Comment Re:End driving (Score 1) 131
"LOL, I live in fucking New Orleans....we have wine....beer and hard liquor cocktails anywhere here you want, 24/7.....no open container laws either."
That is basically Europe you describe. I guess you never owned a passport.
Comment Re:End driving (Score 1) 131
What are the most expensive cities in the US when talking about accommodation? New York? Boston? Two of the few American cities where you can walk/don't need a car. Obviously even Americans prefer walkable cities. If you want space, get a summer house for that. The rest of the year you can live in something urban, really urban, now sprawl, and enjoy the day to day offering of culture, people, food, entertainment etc. I have never had a Netflix or Spotify (or similar) subscription because I go to the theatre or cinema (9 out 10 times, not a blockbuster cinema, but an "art cinema") or concerts more than once a week.
Yesterday I saw collection of short films, this Tuesday I listened to a Steinway (the piano manufacturer) and Howard Jones cooperation. This Sunday I listened to Antonín Dvoák - Mass in D major. Try that in your suburb. And guess what - they serve wine on all those occasions.
There is no shoehorning here, public transport usually departs every 5 minutes or so (more often in rush hours, down to maybe every 15 minutes late evening or early mornings). It takes longer to find a parking spot than waiting for the underground or a bus. I know, because I have two cars - which I only use when I go out on the countryside or so. Biking or e-scooter are also options. Or I just take my dog along and walk a couple of km. It is not like modern lifestyle is exhausting, you are never gonna OD walking.
Ignorant Americans like you should move abroad for a year and try another way of life that you clearly have no clue about.
Comment Re:CHICKEN JOCKEY!!!!! (Score 1) 164
Submission + - PayPal's crypto partner mints $300T worth of stablecoins in 'technical error' (cnbc.com)
schwit1 writes: Paxos mistakenly minted the stablecoins as part of an internal transfer, before it "immediately identified the error and burned the excess PYUSD," the company said in a social media statement.
There aren't enough dollars in global circulation to back $300 trillion PYUSD, which would theoretically require more than double the world's estimated total GDP.
There aren't enough dollars in global circulation to back $300 trillion PYUSD, which would theoretically require more than double the world's estimated total GDP.
Submission + - PHEVs look great on paper, but real world data says otherwise (theguardian.com)
shilly writes: PHEV manufacturers and advocates claim it’s easy to drive mainly using the cars’ batteries, keeping gas in reserve for long trips. That may be true in theory, but in practice, data from 800,000 PHEVs in Europe shows that between 2021 and 2023, these vehicles were driven using their batteries for just 27% of the time, instead of the 84% figure used in official estimates. It turns out that merely providing the option for driving on batteries in a car isn’t enough to persuade people to plug in, and that EV proponents, who have long argued that PHEVs are not a viable solution, have a point after all.
Submission + - Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified (archive.is) 2
alternative_right writes: “I can take you to factories [in China] now, where you’ll basically be alongside a big conveyor and the machines come out of the floor and begin to assemble parts,” he says.
“And you’re walking alongside this conveyor, and after about 800, 900 metres, a truck drives out. There are no people – everything is robotic.”
“And you’re walking alongside this conveyor, and after about 800, 900 metres, a truck drives out. There are no people – everything is robotic.”
Submission + - Schneier and Raghavan: AI Agents Are Compromised by Design
Gadi Evron writes: Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan say agentic AI is already broken at the core. In their IEEE Security & Privacy essay (https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/sp/5555/01/11194053/2aB2Rf5nZ0k), they argue that AI agents run on untrusted data, use unverified tools, and make decisions in hostile environments.
Every part of the OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act) is open to attack. Prompt injection, data poisoning, and tool misuse corrupt the system from the inside. The model’s strength, treating all input as equal, also makes it exploitable.
They call this the AI security trilemma: fast, smart, or secure. Pick two. Integrity isn’t a feature you bolt on later. It has to be built in from the start.
Every part of the OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act) is open to attack. Prompt injection, data poisoning, and tool misuse corrupt the system from the inside. The model’s strength, treating all input as equal, also makes it exploitable.
They call this the AI security trilemma: fast, smart, or secure. Pick two. Integrity isn’t a feature you bolt on later. It has to be built in from the start.
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