As somebody once said, "If I won $30 million, I'd spend half of it on hookers and coke. The rest, I'd just waste".

"We took on this high-risk, high-reward challenge and are proud of the milestones we reached along the way," [Katalyst CEO Ghonhee Lee] said in a statement. "We have already learned a tremendous amount."

I'd be delighted to learn a tremendous amount from NASA, and I'd be prepared to offer them my willingness to learn for maybe 10% of the $30 million they paid Katalyst.

A deal like that...how can NASA say no? I will wait with relaxed confidence by my desktop communications centre for their response to my generous offer.

The flaw here isn't that the software got it wrong, it's that a corporation is allowed to use it at all. What's next, cameras positioned to capture "legal" upskirt video because, of course, that's one of the best places for shoplifters to hide their stolen merchandise?

We need to let governments and corporations know that as citizens of a free country, we will not put up with mass surveillance backed by software that can track every individual person every moment of the time they are outside their homes, and even when they're inside them if somebody's interested enough.

What breaks privacy is the mass surveillance. EVERYBODY has their life recorded in detail. At best, all it takes is a friendly judge, and the police will be sticking their long, flexible noses into your business, and probably the business of your friends and relatives as well. But do you really think a nosy cop needs to run a plate? Existing software can track a car from the moment you park it in your driveway for the first time until the time you have it carted off for scrap.

"Taxi Drivers Rarely Die of Alzheimer's"

"It's usually the illegal left turns what does for 'em, guvnor!"

Except they've already been caught doing exactly this...and at the highest levels. I believe one of the law firms representing Trump (or maybe opposing him...I can't recall) got caught when it turned out the judge realized some of the cases being quoted were made up.

This isn't going to stop at call centres. If not today, then very soon, there will be nothing an experienced legal secretary and AI can't do that a junior lawyer can do...at a fraction of the cost. All that's needed (at least for now) is a mid-level lawyer to scan their output and sign off on it. If I were a couple of years away from a bar exam, I'd be wondering about my career choice.

If Meta is found guilty, a smaller financial penalty, but life in prison for Zuckerberg.

The message is clear. If you find a vulnerability, don't go to a tech bro, hat in hand, hoping for a reward. Flog it on the dark web to the highest bidder.

You sound like a typical blowboy for Corporate Socialism. Social Darwinism for the masses, welfare handouts for the corporations.

The irony is that before the internet, it was a lot more difficult to find plans for building a guillotine.

I loved that show!

A person with hacking experience and an appalling sense of humour could modify the speech output into something like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grA5XmBRC6g

I'm not sure why Americans are upset. You got what you voted for.

American exceptionalism is such fun to watch. One cannot help but be amused by the irony of a country full of people who believe a 120 hour work week leads to innovation, but who have somehow managed to forget that European and Japanese auto manufacturers have been eating the lunch of their US counterparts for decades. Ralph Nader wrote "Unsafe At Any Speed" back in the 60s, fer crapsake, but most of the improvements in US automobiles came about only because of pressure from technologically superior imports.