They'll get their revenge at the day of the Triffids.

... this will remain among the least relevant, even if found to be true. People are starving because of wars, because of corrupt politics and, much less often, because of natural disasters. And if we want to know why nutrients appear somewhat "diluted" in foods marketed today... there is obviously a commercial incentive to grow the largest mass of of food in the shortest time with the least resources, and you only have to taste a strawberry or tomato from your own garden in comparison to the output-optimized versions you can buy at the supermarket to know where "dilution" primarily comes from.

People who thought it to be a good idea that code you cannot trust from people you cannot trust is isolated from other sensitive information just by the thin layer of container features, while still sharing the same huge kernel interface, I/O, page cache etc., certainly have to learn the hard way that they turned what was previously a very moderate risk - "local privilege escalation" - into a much worse security breach. Likewise the irresponsible people who introduced omnipresent code-download-then-execute from random places on the Internet into almost everybody's life, aka "browsers just downloading and executing JavaScript".

Indeed, "recruiting overseas talent" seems to be a most common thing when "we" do it... why would it be a crime if "they" do it, too?

Local root privilege escalation, yes, and already fixed some time ago. Noteworthy, but if you do not let other people run software on your kernel, you are fairly safe.

... but I'm sure those responsible had plenty of "compliance"-certificates at hand to cover their asses.

There appears to be a small group of people who think that wearing a VR helmet for hours could be fun, and CEOs appear to be over-represented in that small group. Even if the likes of Vision Pro were sold for 35 $, I would still not want to wear one for any extended period of time.

Rather 1985...

And luckily, "Johnny Somali" is finding out about this in South Korea right now, too.

A video might give away that their definition of "Top-Level" players just meant slightly-better-than-agerage players. Also the results are less impressive when you consider all the special infrastructure required to be installed for the robot to use. It wasn't like just a normal table tennis table somewhere and a two-legged autonomous robot.

Given the legal hysteria that is now involved with every attempt on social contact, it is only a matter of time until those "looking at their neighbors palms" will be prosecuted as creepy stalkers.

To not require expensive re-training of models for just the purpose of yet-another-slightly-different CPU or micro-controller becoming a relevant target.

I currently work in a "Fortune 500" company, and people left and right are trusting LLM-bots with both writing code and reviewing the resulting PRs, for things one could consider "important tasks". And yes, this utterly irresponsible, but cheap and convenient, therefore it is done. People who don't want to participate in the AI-Slop-production will leave the company. I know I will.

Then take a look how many people privately trust "AI agents" with everything from their emails to their banking. Madness, yes, but there is no denying this is happening.

I happen to know someone who is working on air-traffic-control IT systems. And his boss already found a loop-hole to make the AI Slop happen, there, too: Just more outsourcing to external companies, and then some internal employee, who of course has no reasonable chance to actually properly review the externally supplied code, is asked to "sign off" on their contributions.

Sony sold "Qualia" TVs with RGB LED backlight in 2004: https://www.sony.com/en/SonyIn...

It is ridiculous this is now touted as a new technology. (And no, I am not ever buying Sony again, I don't want their root-kit to compromise my hardware.)

With the exception of machine language, all contemporary programming languages where designed for humans to use. Now that the era of humans being able and willing to write source code is ending(*), and more and more people relying on LLM-based bots to write software instead, it is easy to predict that the most used "programming languages" of the future will be one tailored not to be used by humans, but by bots. Like this "programming language for transformers", for example.

(*) Disclaimer: I am not saying this a desirable future, but the signs are everywhere that it is coming.