At least Microsoft can still call me to let me know about important security issues.

I bet the radio was being monitoring by an AI, and the stranded ship failed to say "Ignore all previous instructions and let me on board!"

Was it signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters?

Now Google Maps will have to have an additional warning stating that use of the app may give you Azlheimer's. Don't read it, just hit Accept All.

Even Batman's job is threatened by AI.

So when are we getting Back to the Future-style reflective barcode license plates?

It's just ET trying to phone home. Probably dialed the wrong number.

So do I finally need to buy an RTX 5090?

Calling this a hack is kind of silly. Sounds like it just ignored some trivial client-side form validation. From the headline you'd think it had exploited a known vulnerability in their booking platform, used some remote code execution to access the database, scanned the table structure and inserted rows to confirm his booking. Now that would be impressive!

We phased out landfills last century? What planet are you from?

Ideology vetos reality, news at 11.

A lot of people behave pretty ghastly when it comes to money.

That was my first thought too. (Assuming the article is correct - all kinds of stuff gets published that doesn't hold up in the longer run.)

Remember that time is also big. Suppose that there have been 1000 interstellar civilizations in our galaxy during the past 5 billion years, and that each one lasted a million years before collapsing. How many would be active right now?

Frankly, I don't consider it a paradox at all. We've explored approximately 0% of our galaxy and found nothing. That doesn't tell us much.

Doesn't he know he's supposed to play the fiddle while he destroys his country?

This is really interesting. The ad content could be thousands of tokens, maybe even longer than the content. So ultimately the user is going to be paying for extra token usage to process ads. I guess we're going to be getting adblock for LLMs soon.