I miss Cowboy Neal

It wonâ(TM)t take long for these cars to be exported. When it does, expect them to absolutely destroy the automotive markets of whatever country allows them in

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What this article says while trying not to say it: Chrome and friends wield an unhealthy monopoly over the browser world, and a single bug can wipe most WWW users off the map.

This is not hyperbole, but a true statement of fact, and it's not good.

No such data is given, instead the article provides "CFOs think this and that" and "Financial professionals see an increase". The most credible number is "14% of all fakes have been created with AI tools", but it's still not mentioned, which percentage is seen as fake overall. As expected it also advertises ways for companies to make that problem go away by spending money on software.

If you don't believe my words, read for yourself here

I have as much concern for job stability as anyone else, but as one, who has suffered through educational software that long I can only say: it couldn't have hit a more deserving target. I really wish, that all companies in this same business environment go extinct soon. They really have it coming.

You can call AI output degenerative all day long, but it's still miles ahead of what I have seen in educational software products: English language testing requiring exactly the expected wording of the answer, endless delays and hangs when uploading homework assignments, ridiculously bad UI, anything non-Windows completely unsupported. It ranks in the same league as software for medical doctors and corporate software for time booking.

If you want to shed honest and deserved tears for tech workers losing their jobs due to AI, then please look elsewhere.

Except their jobs

Sure the speed limit is 30, but we have tons of kids in the neighborhood and narrow streets due to parked cars (we are still in the heart of the coty). Everyone else travels at 20. Waymo regularly travels at 30mph. Maybe its lidar is detecting pedestrians and thinks it is safe, but just the other day I watched a kid run out from behind a parked car to catch a ball. No amount of lidar would catch that at the last minute.

Of course itâ(TM)s play fast, fail hard.. so change will not happen until a kid dies. Just hope it is not mine!

I know (or at least hope), that you meant this in jest, but hear me out anyway: there is this common perception, that war clears out the deadwood, burns away the dry shrubbery, and after all the killing has been done and done to, fresh minds will spring to life and reinvigorate society. Reality shows a very different pattern, though. Russia tried to bring this concept to life in the last almost four years, lost over a million convicts, misfits and whatnots, and total alcohol consumption went up, not down.

If you send all these "less than average" people to slaughter, you leave behind a lot of misery, which bogs down the rest of society. This "cleaning steel bath" is a dangerous myth mostly spread by people, who think themselves so far above average, that they don't expect to get sacrificed in this madness..

For over a decade I have heard these lame stories by American phone companies, that it is completely impossible to block calls/messages with obvious fake displayed numbers. Hand wringing stories are being told about something, which every half-competent router admin considers a 101 level skill.

Then you have the Chinese government, which is very strict on perpetrators against their own people. They handed out 11 death sentences, 2 suspended death sentences and multiple life terms against one of their crime families running scam centers in Myanmar targeting Chinese people.

At the same time they are extremely lax against their own perpetrators, who facilitate crimes against westerners. British stolen/robbed cell phones end up there, they are on lists of stolen phones and still operate without problems inside China. They just don't care. Now you have these scam messages and there will be, again, no reaction from Chinese government.

I am not very optimistic about this, neither about US phone companies clearing up the mess, nor about the Chinese government doing anything about it.

My old, grumpy and cynical interpretation of this garbled sentence is: "These are the files of those 6 companies, who did not pay the ransom."

No legislation is needed.
#1 STOP BUYING THINGS THAT ARE CLOUD CONNECTED. If enough people did that, it would change. But it won't, because people like expensive things.
#2 STOP TRYING TO INCREASE PRICES OF THINGS BY MANDATING VARIOUS THINGS LIKE requiring companies to open source/whatever. It /will/ add a lot of cost due to dumb decisions most companies make in design. Even if it doesn't, or to you it is "worth it", it is also a vector for many other bad things due to the decision on what/how to do things being written in the law.

Unless the company lied or changed the product after the fact (Linux on playstation 3 as an example), it is a clear case of caveat emptor.

Also, while I'm at it: STOP BUYING THINGS THAT ARE SUBSCRIPTION BASED!!!

All these "revolutionaries", who'd like to "stick it to the man" and communicate their schemes through smart phone based means, are not going to be protected by any app's design or technology, and whether Signal changes encryption algo or not will not make much of a difference. Anyone decrying this as tinfoil hattery or conspiracy theory driven nuttery shall reread the serious reporting about the US gov't communicating over Signal.

The main criticism was not directed at Signal's encryption standards, and the fact, that a journalist was carelessly added to the conversation was only a side act. The real criticism came about, because they hosted their app on private, i.e. insecure, phones. Signal can use whatever encryption they want, they have no control over the platforms their software is run on.

A few months ago top US officials discussed secret stuff over Signal, and the outrage over this was heard world wide. So much for the trustworthiness of Signal. Pepperidge Farm remembers ...