Comcast WANTS to make the internet suck so that you are more likely to buy cable TV.

The Open-BFME project (an AI-assisted project to reverse engineer the Battle for Middle Earth games) is in the process of producing not just source code that (when compiled with the right compiler) matches the binaries but source code that is good enough and readable enough to actually maintain and improve upon going forward.

I have been doing reverse engineering (including binary-matching reverse engineering) for a long time now and the stuff these guys are doing is amazing (the secret is to have the right prompts and instructions for the AIs and good solid verification to make sure that what the AI has generated for a given piece of code does in fact compile to identical machine code as the original)

Once the PC version is released, how long before we see modding start to happen? (and how long after that before Take-Two files lawsuits to take it all down...)

Have they found a solution to the problem where a rouge CA (e.g. one controlled by a bad actor nation-state) can generate a bogus certificate for a major site and use that to man-in-the-middle traffic to that site?

Oh and no matter which side of politics you support, anyone who wants elections in the US to be free, fair and democratic should be opposed to foreign governments and entities using social media bots to influence the outcome of those elections.

This is a good thing for the US since it seems that these data centers hosted bot farms spreading all kinds of lies in an attempt to influence the upcoming US elections.

Companies like Toyota and Subaru are doubling down on hybrids because hybrids are the only way they can meet the ever stricter emissions and fuel economy standards found in a large chunk of the world.

What bizarre world is it that I actually want Comcast (of all companies) to WIN in a lawsuit.

It was the funniest film I have seen in a long time and (IMO) the best animated film of 2026 (yes I know about those other lesser films starring plumbers, cowboys, puppies, beavers, sheep etc)

Not surprised the sheriff and law enforcement would be against the promotion of a video game where the objective is to do illegal things.

Will it be cheaper to ride in a no-driver vehicle than in a regular old taxi or Uber? Because if it is (and the programming was such that I could put luggage or some other item on there and not have to worry about the vehicle disappearing with my stuff) I would absolutely want to use it when I need to move something too big for the bus or train.

I have seen at least one post online that claims Gamescom has told exhibitors not to report thefts to the police because it "makes Gamescom and the city look bad". If they don't want police reports, could there be something dodgy going on?

Does all this open source stuff include enough information to know how X decides which ads to show you?

There is a motorway junction where I am where its not possible to use the junction to cross the motorway on foot and you instead need to use a footbridge 500m to the south that you need to use instead. But Google Maps continues to suggest walking directions that involve the motorway junction instead of the footbridge.

And it seems there is no way to report problems like this to Google to get them to correct it and mark that bit of road as "pedestrians can't use this"

I want someone to turn the whole "president Jack Ryan" stuff into movies/TV. Although considering that it all starts with a Japanese kamikaze pilot crashing a fully loaded passenger jet into the US Capitol and killing most of the government in one fell swoop, its probably not something Hollywood is going to want to put on screen...