Ah, I thought they were referring to inclusion of some kind of LLM based tool right in the editor, kinda like how various full IDEs now have one built (or plugged) in.

Ahm.. what are LLMs doing in VIM in the first place? EMACS I can understsand, that always was a kitchen sink, but it feels like a really strange thing to include in VIM itself.

Researchers within the DoE (and pretty much everywhere else) have been using machine learning in their work for decades. This kinda sounds more like a handout to various companies and reducing the number of tools researchers have access to.

The majority of the population is not steeped in tech culture. Knowing about ublock is a bit like knowing which fork you are supposed to use.. a good way of signaling your membership in a particular subculture, but not something most people know since they have their own subcultures to signal.

I sometimes wonder if we are going to see the bottom fall out of the ad industry as a new generation grows up expecting ads to be ignorable garbage.

I do not think they are preying on each other, they are the same group, preying on retail investors and other bagholders.

Judges. Texas is a very 'might makes right' state, judges and other officials are very friendly to corporations and affluent individuals, so people and companies that do not like the legal system protecting other people from them have been flocking there.

Thing is, fingerprinting in general is not a new field, and people have been throwing neural nets at it for a long time. It has always been a pretty sketchy technique and sensitive to overfitting. You don't need people trying to shield themselves, things just change in ways that screw up fingerprints. They are notoriously difficult to keep up to date and mostly seem to survive as part of packages sold to big IT departments as 'this will detect things!', .

If you alter the code and distribute a binary, you are required to distribute the code too. You can only get around distribution if you only use the code internally, which is how so many 'internet' companies get around GPL since they keep everything server side.

These companies just love 'move fast and break things', unless the moving fast might break their things.
 
By their own logic, we should regulate now and work out problems later.

Which we probably get for free with simple network behavior.

I am not sure which side would really be 'always one step ahead' here. In order for this to work they would need to constantly retrain their CNN since any change in any application or websites's data usage pattern would throw it off. OS updates would also require retraining.
Boiler plate code would also throw it off, and I imagine the majority of websites would be indistinguishable. Things like user settings or adblockers would also throw it off.

So.. that sounds more like they developed a way for two isolated browser tabs to communicate with each other, rather than a sandbox sneaky figuring out what is going on outside of it?

So... having anything other than the web browser running?

All I really see there is that closer you are to things where getting the right answer does not matter, the more useful AI is. No the ringing endorsement you think it i .