You get paid based more on how hard it is to replace you than any notion of the value of your work.

The video systems are typically like this, they aren't run by your average good looking, hyper smart information security professionals, they are run by physical security which is a whole different kettle of fish. I once worked at an org where there was NO password on the video surveillance, and they refused to set up one. So I went and showed the Windows server admins, who were well known scamps, how to access it and pan/tilt the cameras and left it at that. I don't know what those Windows admins were doing with the cameras, but soon there was at least a decent password on the thing.

I doubt there is any catching up possible. We will need some way to leapfrog their dominance in this space with some whole new approach. Personal jetpacks or whatever. They never caught up to the US in terms of ICE car production, they just leapfrogged to the new product type.

I would look very carefully at WPS for backdoors, infostealers, etc. This would be a classic watering hole trick since they know a lot of government types will all be rushing to download WPS. Or the auto-update mechanism.

I put it this way: if work was fun they wouldn't have to pay you to do it.

The slackers are just participating in ./ discussions instead of working.

You forgot

Jan 25, Profit!

Here is the actual source since BleepingComputer can't bleeping be bothered to link to it.

Copilot didn't have any trouble with any of these. Well except the ten book series one, I didn't try that. Most of the answers were along the lines of 'i didn't find that but you might be thinking of this vaguely similar thing." Did you use an LLM to generate this list of questions?

Phones made in China will have this control stripped out of the Android image, and most likely other major phone makers will do the same. This will end up hurting sales of Google branded phones

When the result is rental housing is significantly harder to find, and harder to get into, is that worth it?

This is exactly the kind of thing an LLM can't answer reliably. It isn't actually counting the letters like you or I would. If someone had written a blog about the number of letters in NFL team names, and that blog was in the training data, you might have a better chance.

I read this just now from the office instead of doing any real work.

The CEO's comment is for people who don't immediately recognize what the word 'reduced' means, and also don't realize that 5,000 is less than 9,000. Those people likely do not understand a fancy word like 'fewer'.

And the reverse centaur apocalypse proceeds apace. ref: Cory Doctorow