Oh ok, so this is just sending files over a temporary adhoc wifi network. Entirely application level. Who cares.

No, but it's common practice to tie arbitrary software features to hardware revisions in order to sell more upgrades. There's no technical reason.

This guy's completely delusional. Got it.

Reminds me of the old adage that a salesman is the most likely to get duped by another salesman. He's just buying into his own bullshit.

Forget cookie consent, now they will just force sites to verify your identity and record your explicit consent to be tracked, while also tying this to your national identification number and keeping these records for 7 years.

Is anyone else suspicious that this generic label of "Ultra-Processed Food" is being applied broadly without really bothering to address actual causes? For example, is it high sodium, high saturated fats, or just high caloric content in general that's the issue? All of the above and in combination, I'm sure, but this seems like a condescending and misleadingly simplistic way of communicating that. Further, it reeks of the naturalistic fallacy... It's not the fact that it's "ultra-processed" that makes it unhealthy to consume, but the ingredients... right? Surely a food can be ultra-processed and also healthy?

It did make me very worried about the security of my fan.

There's no other option. Very few providers can withstand a multi-Tbps DDoS attack without huge expense. In this case it's an umbrella we all need to huddle under, for better or worse. Any business of sufficient size not using Cloudflare or some other cloud provider's DDoS protection offering is vulnerable.

It was never even about cookies to begin with, it was about preventing tracking without consent. So they just incentivized big tech to switch to a different tracking technology and didn't address the real problem. Go figure.

This is the case of security through "come on, nobody would ever waste their time doing that."

That said, remember phone books?

In my experience Home Depot has some pretty primitive security. I'm not sure what troglodyte is running their ecommerce but it's kind of embarassing. I've had experiences where they just block certain useragents, and if you try to access it via a VPN you just get a 403... no messaging, no throttling, no challenges... just blocked. Sometimes it goes away after a while. I have a suspicion their network security team doesn't really know what they're doing.

The Future is Fuzzy

Consoles have been PCs for a while now, just locked down, so I'm not sure what this will really mean. Will they try to lock down PCs even further, with more devious rootkits now that Windows 10 is dead and TPM2.0 is mandatory? Or will they embrace Linux and follow Valve's lead by giving players the freedom to actually play the games they paid for? I'm not sure this guy has the answers, but I guess we'll see.

"Stupid Woman Wins Lottery By Accident"

This is no different from using the numbers printed in a fortune cookie.

The article states: "Anthropic said it was confident, based on the digital infrastructure the hackers used as well as other clues, that the attacks were run by Chinese state-backed hackers."

They freak out when they realize they're not human, then start shooting up the place.