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Comment Re:The purpose of a factory is not to provide jobs (Score 1) 110

That's OK but the only reason many people buy American cars and trucks is to support American jobs.

While a few people do care about others jobs, most purchase their vehicle based on price vs features/functionality, and not how many jobs those vehicles support.

Comment Assembly line is robotic (Score 2) 110

Since the beginning of the assembly line, the expected result was for repetitive, repeatable actions. Robots got good at that, and have been replacing humans for decades (GM has been a leader, but not the only one), but the special cases (something misaligned, etc.) still had a human advantage. With advances in vision and learning, and AI, the advantages now are for the robots, who, on a cost basis, are cheaper than what the humans expect to earn (and GM, and the others, care about the costs).

Comment Re:$6 Million Damages is a Mosquito Bite (Score 1) 106

You think that paltry sum is going to change the ways of a big-tech company?

If it was one-and-done, the tech companies would, indeed, look at as a cost of doing business and move on. But there are potentially a huge number of these lawsuits pending, and a few million here, and a few million there, and soon it is real money.

Comment Re:Wow, a high quality security update (Score 2) 30

In Microsoft's case, yes, definitely.

While it is fashionable to pick on Microsoft (and they do deserve some shame), the Linux Kernel had many failures to fix the various copy-fail/dirty-fail variant vulnerabilities (a new fix once a day for a period of time) just a couple of weeks ago. No OS is immune from fixes that are not complete.

Comment Re:I just had to replace a phone for a family memb (Score 2) 55

And I bought more or less the same phone I bought last year but it was $200 more. So yeah. Nobody is going to be looking to upgrade they're going to hang on to what they've got unless it breaks.

There is a group of people who believe their self worth is based upon owning the newest greatest shiny thing every year. Sales to that group are mostly price insensitive, and they will pay whatever it costs.

Comment Re:They know something (Score 4, Insightful) 35

but they aren't telling.

A number of larger organizations have conjectured based on current progress that Q-Day (when quantum computers will be sufficiently capable of breaking classic encryption) may be as close as 2029. Due to the "harvest now, decrypt later" issue, stopping certification of new products that do not have PQC capability a few years earlier (given the time frames for acquisition, testing, and deployments) makes some sense. It is possible that the engineering challenge of building a sufficiently capable quantum computer will not be overcome, but it is just an engineering challenge, and the engineering tends to only get better over time.

Comment Probably an accident (we shall see) (Score 5, Interesting) 74

I doubt Apple engineers try booting Asahi linux as part of their testing. In the past Apple has also managed to break Asahi boot and Apple engineers have adjusted the bootloader once the issue was identified. That seems like the most likely scenario (this is a beta release, after all).

Comment Re:Are they using Myhos? (Score 2) 51

Microsoft did not share the specific tools they are using (and no single tool is great at everything), but it seems likely Anthropic's Mythos was among the tools used at least by some of the teams for some of the code base. Microsoft already offers the Mythos model on their Azure platform to Project Glasswing member organizations.

Comment Re:How stupid (Score 1) 120

Just mandate that phones used by minors do not include a camera. You know, dumb phones without cameras.

And also without a display (but can show sms texts, to address the viewing part of the directive)? In other words, a dumb (flip) phone. Perhaps Motorola can re-introduce the zombie apocalypse phone (the MotoFone F3).

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