Comment Yeah but (Score 1) 173
"Sam Altman Thinks Your PC Is Wasting Precious RAM "
Yeah but Sam Altman is a mercenary cunt who would throw your grandma into the shredder for a 32Gb memory stick, so who gives a fuck what he says?
Submission + - Tech-Brah Sam Altman Wants All RAM For AI (tomshardware.com)
Gilmoure writes: Looks like OpenAI CEO wants to own all the computing resources and rent out terminals to the world, as a way of propping up his business plan now that debt ridden AI companies are teetering on the edge.
Altman's talk suggests that the company would prefer that more RAM go to OpenAI's data centers rather than home computers, which also sparks enthusiast fears of not being able to own your own hardware or software, but rather rent an agent and a computer in the cloud.
Submission + - Candy Corn Is Made of Bug Secretions (archive.is)
know-nothing cunt writes: The Atlantic reports:
Here's a tip if you ever want to ruin a Halloween party. Seek out the most squeamish-seeming adult or child you can find in the act of consuming candy corn. Then tell them they just filled their mouth with bug secretions. If this fact alarms you — or if you’re an inveterate hater of candy corn and thus think that you have been spared — I regret to inform you that by eating many classic Halloween candies, you are, to some extent, eating bugs. More precisely, you are eating a bug by-product that is in many cases listed on the package as "confectioner’s glaze." This glaze is used on jelly beans, Milk Duds, Junior Mints, Whoppers, Lemonheads, and Sugar Babies, to name a few.
Submission + - Persisent SSH Backdoor found in Claude Code VS Extension (phorion.io)
2phar writes: Phorion has detected a backdoor in the official Claude Code for VS Code extension bundle on the Cursor Marketplace that drops a persistent SSH backdoor across macOS, Linux, and Windows. It's a bad one, folks..
Submission + - Pope Leo XIV Calls for Autonomous Weapons Ban and Warns Against AI Personhood (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: Pope Leo XIV is calling for concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons and warning that granting AI systems legal personhood could obscure human responsibility. In a thread on X, he says decisions affecting human life, freedom, and the use of force must remain under effective, informed human oversight. NERDS.xyz examines his demands for shared standards, independent oversight, and remedies for people harmed by AI.
The pope describes machines as tools rather than people, warning that AI personhood could leave victims confronting a faceless entity. He argues that a reliable system serving people is more valuable than an exceptionally powerful one whose consequences cannot be adequately predicted or controlled. The accountability question extends beyond weapons: when an AI system causes harm, how do we ensure the people behind it remain answerable?
The pope describes machines as tools rather than people, warning that AI personhood could leave victims confronting a faceless entity. He argues that a reliable system serving people is more valuable than an exceptionally powerful one whose consequences cannot be adequately predicted or controlled. The accountability question extends beyond weapons: when an AI system causes harm, how do we ensure the people behind it remain answerable?
Submission + - Meta Staff Notes Discussed a 'Whisper Strategy' Against Jonathan Haidt
An anonymous reader writes: Meta Staff Notes Discussed a ‘Whisper Strategy’ Against Jonathan Haidt
“Notes from Meta meetings in March 2023 show staff discussing how to “turn academics against Haidt”, meaning Jonathan Haidt, the social psychologist who blames social media for rising anxiety and depression among teenagers.”
‘The notes, headed “Well-being Meeting Sound-check Notes”, were filed in public on 23 October as Exhibit E in the large US federal case over social media and young people’s mental health. ’
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"How do we get the academic community to disavow Haidt?"
"Can't co-opt them, so how do we enrage them... So the media finds him not credible."
"Whisper strategy – turn academics against Haidt."
“Notes from Meta meetings in March 2023 show staff discussing how to “turn academics against Haidt”, meaning Jonathan Haidt, the social psychologist who blames social media for rising anxiety and depression among teenagers.”
‘The notes, headed “Well-being Meeting Sound-check Notes”, were filed in public on 23 October as Exhibit E in the large US federal case over social media and young people’s mental health. ’
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"How do we get the academic community to disavow Haidt?"
"Can't co-opt them, so how do we enrage them... So the media finds him not credible."
"Whisper strategy – turn academics against Haidt."
Submission + - The AI bubble is bursting. Long live the king.
butt0nm4n writes: BBC reports Google value plunges by $500bn as AI fears rattle Wall Street
But we’ll be alright. AI helps me with coding, will help researchers research, scientists. science? But as a prospect for Google, how could they make it work alongside their other offerings reliant on Ads?
Intelligence doesn’t have a commercial sponsor and nor should it, intelligence needs to be objective and right. AI/LLM already has a problem with not knowing if it’s wrong, same problem we have as humans, so at best we are getting like for like at greater convenience. If you were to weight it with sponsored content or ads, the value and quality of the original premise drifts.
Becoming dependent upon something for intelligence is a step backward for human development, what has got us this far is not a crutch, it’s chucking the crutch and running with it anyway. Growth mindset has pushed us forward, developing our own intelligence and knowledge.
LLMs can support that, but to replace it, no, we’d give up something that is fundamentally our selves.
I would have been better to call AI, cognitive support or search and summary, but AI was a more marketable term out of Science Fiction and perhaps the Wizard of Oz, a totalitarian pipe dream to invent a god, an authority of knowledge, a source of truth.
There is value in AI, but it has been vastly over valued and hyped. It’s more a story about marketing, creating a sense of value, rather than substance.
Let’s move onto the next innovation, live and learn, divest the AI investments into something more obviously useful and use “AI” as another tool in the box to help us.
The king is dead. Long live the next one.
But we’ll be alright. AI helps me with coding, will help researchers research, scientists. science? But as a prospect for Google, how could they make it work alongside their other offerings reliant on Ads?
Intelligence doesn’t have a commercial sponsor and nor should it, intelligence needs to be objective and right. AI/LLM already has a problem with not knowing if it’s wrong, same problem we have as humans, so at best we are getting like for like at greater convenience. If you were to weight it with sponsored content or ads, the value and quality of the original premise drifts.
Becoming dependent upon something for intelligence is a step backward for human development, what has got us this far is not a crutch, it’s chucking the crutch and running with it anyway. Growth mindset has pushed us forward, developing our own intelligence and knowledge.
LLMs can support that, but to replace it, no, we’d give up something that is fundamentally our selves.
I would have been better to call AI, cognitive support or search and summary, but AI was a more marketable term out of Science Fiction and perhaps the Wizard of Oz, a totalitarian pipe dream to invent a god, an authority of knowledge, a source of truth.
There is value in AI, but it has been vastly over valued and hyped. It’s more a story about marketing, creating a sense of value, rather than substance.
Let’s move onto the next innovation, live and learn, divest the AI investments into something more obviously useful and use “AI” as another tool in the box to help us.
The king is dead. Long live the next one.
Submission + - The Tragedy of Losing Your Wikipedia Page (wired.com)
An anonymous reader writes: What do you need to know—need to know—about Xavier Trudeau? The eldest son of former Canadian prime minister Justin, the teenage Trudeau has recently begun performing R&B under the mononym Xav. But, with all due respect to Xav, do those facts make him a person of note? Should you expect to be able to read about him on Wikipedia? What about Evanescence guitarist Tim McCord, or 2012 Yachtmaster of the Year Rainer Holtorff? All three have had a biography on Wikipedia; all three of those biographies were considered for deletion this year on the grounds that the subjects were not notable enough to warrant a biography at all. Every day, dozens, sometimes hundreds, of Wikipedia biographies—of child actors turned LA realtors, retired ambassadors, soccer players who have played less than 10 minutes of professional soccer—are purged from the world’s free encyclopedia.
It’s not as though Wikipedia, which hosts over 7 million articles in the English language, doesn’t have the space. But Wikipedia has only so many volunteers to monitor its contents. To this day, Wikipedia editors are discovering hoaxes that have gone undetected for decades. The time it takes to verify the release dates of Xav’s three singles is better spent—the logic goes—by asking whether the American Civil War officer Nathaniel Lyon really drank mustard during battle, as was claimed in his Wikipedia biography for 17 years. Wikipedia removed the mustard claim, not because it was proven wrong, but because there was no reliable evidence for it. “We’re not really looking for what’s true,” Britta Gustafson, who has been editing Wikipedia since 2001, told me. “We’re looking for what’s verifiable.” Wikipedia editors do not themselves decide that a person is not notable, only that there is a lack of reliable evidence to support the claim...
It’s not as though Wikipedia, which hosts over 7 million articles in the English language, doesn’t have the space. But Wikipedia has only so many volunteers to monitor its contents. To this day, Wikipedia editors are discovering hoaxes that have gone undetected for decades. The time it takes to verify the release dates of Xav’s three singles is better spent—the logic goes—by asking whether the American Civil War officer Nathaniel Lyon really drank mustard during battle, as was claimed in his Wikipedia biography for 17 years. Wikipedia removed the mustard claim, not because it was proven wrong, but because there was no reliable evidence for it. “We’re not really looking for what’s true,” Britta Gustafson, who has been editing Wikipedia since 2001, told me. “We’re looking for what’s verifiable.” Wikipedia editors do not themselves decide that a person is not notable, only that there is a lack of reliable evidence to support the claim...
Submission + - Proton CEO in full AI psychosis (404media.co) 1
devnulljapan writes: Andy Yen, the CEO of Proton, and other company executives are aggressively pushing Proton towards AI. Engineers at Proton, which makes the encrypted email service Proton Mail and a suite of privacy and security-focused products, including an encrypted drive service, an authenticator app, a password manager, are being pushed to âoestop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.â
Workers describe an environment where employees have genuine concerns about security or being asked to develop security products with AI, but feel unable to voice them, lest Yen berates them in front of everyone or threatens their employment at the company.
âoeThe CEO is in full AI psychosis and has been for a while now.â
Workers describe an environment where employees have genuine concerns about security or being asked to develop security products with AI, but feel unable to voice them, lest Yen berates them in front of everyone or threatens their employment at the company.
âoeThe CEO is in full AI psychosis and has been for a while now.â
Submission + - Polymarket Halted International Trading After Hackers Drained Accounts (wired.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Trading has resumed on Polymarket’s flagship international platform after a hack that drained money from the wallets of some traders. A third-party vendor based in the United Kingdom was breached, not the prediction market’s website itself. Law enforcement in the UK have been notified of the incident, the company said. Trading was initially paused while the company investigated for several hours.
On X, prominent traders complained that they had lost money; Blockchain analytics firm Bubblemaps reported that around 700 users appear affected, with approximately $2.7 million stolen. Polymarket declined to comment when WIRED asked how many traders were impacted by the breach and how much money was lost, but said it will refund impacted traders.
The hack did not impact users on Polymarket US, the company’s newer platform for people within the United States. Polymarket runs two separate prediction markets; Polymarket US operates as a federally regulated financial exchange within the country, while the flagship Polymarket is a cryptocurrency-based platform that is banned in the United States and a number of other countries.
On X, prominent traders complained that they had lost money; Blockchain analytics firm Bubblemaps reported that around 700 users appear affected, with approximately $2.7 million stolen. Polymarket declined to comment when WIRED asked how many traders were impacted by the breach and how much money was lost, but said it will refund impacted traders.
The hack did not impact users on Polymarket US, the company’s newer platform for people within the United States. Polymarket runs two separate prediction markets; Polymarket US operates as a federally regulated financial exchange within the country, while the flagship Polymarket is a cryptocurrency-based platform that is banned in the United States and a number of other countries.
Submission + - OpenVeils Releases Uncensored, Analytical LLM Designed To Escape Consensus (openveils.com) 1
alternative_right writes: Today's top search and AI engines ask, "What do the most authoritative and widely accepted sources currently support?" rather than "What conclusion emerges if we examine the full body of available evidence — including controversial, obscure, or dissenting sources — and weigh each on its merits?"
That distinction matters. Systems optimized around authority, consensus, popularity, and established-source credibility can systematically deprioritize evidence that sits outside the mainstream — even when individual sources may be credible, documented, or independently verifiable.
The result can become a self-reinforcing information loop: mainstream sources rank highest because they are considered authoritative, AI relies disproportionately on those sources, and their conclusions are then repeated and amplified as the prevailing consensus.
That distinction matters. Systems optimized around authority, consensus, popularity, and established-source credibility can systematically deprioritize evidence that sits outside the mainstream — even when individual sources may be credible, documented, or independently verifiable.
The result can become a self-reinforcing information loop: mainstream sources rank highest because they are considered authoritative, AI relies disproportionately on those sources, and their conclusions are then repeated and amplified as the prevailing consensus.
Submission + - JerryRigEverything Tears Down Trump Phone, Claims Likely Made by HTC (youtube.com)
An anonymous reader writes: JerryRigEverything even swaps the HTC U24-Pro main-board into the Trump Phone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Submission + - Canada facing carbon tariff threat from European Union (www.cbc.ca)
An anonymous reader writes: The EU is imposing carbon border charges on Canadian steel, iron, and aluminum starting 2027.
-$2.8 billion in exports exposed — no exemption for Canada despite its own carbon price.
-Internal docs call it “effectively a carbon tariff.” Quebec and Newfoundland hardest hit as Ottawa pushes EU trade diversification.
-Canadian producers face new compliance costs and higher prices on metals already slammed by U.S. tariffs.
-The EU is weaponizing climate policy into a direct trade hit on Canada.
The EU is applying its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) to Canadian steel, iron and aluminum to stop “carbon leakage”.
Canada's new best friends don't even want our stuff! How brutal is this?
Remember, Carney and the Liberals walked away from a tariff-free deal with Trump.
-$2.8 billion in exports exposed — no exemption for Canada despite its own carbon price.
-Internal docs call it “effectively a carbon tariff.” Quebec and Newfoundland hardest hit as Ottawa pushes EU trade diversification.
-Canadian producers face new compliance costs and higher prices on metals already slammed by U.S. tariffs.
-The EU is weaponizing climate policy into a direct trade hit on Canada.
The EU is applying its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) to Canadian steel, iron and aluminum to stop “carbon leakage”.
Canada's new best friends don't even want our stuff! How brutal is this?
Remember, Carney and the Liberals walked away from a tariff-free deal with Trump.
Comment Yes (Score 1) 76
"Are AI Execs Too Out of Touch To Build For the General Public?"
"Yes"
Next dumb question please...
Comment CORRECTION (Score 2) 30
"A dedicated button turns off the microphones and any camera"
CORRECTION: "A dedicated button CLAIMS to turn off the microphones and any camera"
And if you believe that horseshit, come on over and I'll sell you the Golden Gate Bridge at a super-cheap price.
