Home users aren't going to move the needle. Corporate users need to switch and it's not going to be to Linux when the vast majority of business software is made for Windows.

I think the real problem here is that Rockstar doesn't seem to know what the term "physical version" means.

No, it's easier to just post a fear-mongering article with no real substance. You can't have people actually *knowing* what tech is compromised or anything.

Good points, but to be fair, ultrasonic is currently used to break up kidney stones because it is safe to use it to do so.

Plenty of trucks and other vehicles have little or any effective view directly out the back. To be blunt: If you need to look through your rear-view mirror to not kill someone, you either need better side mirrors or you need to learn to drive.

They bought a 10PB thumb drive from Aliexpress for $16.

The good news is, because of this it'll probably go very badly for Trump at the midterms.

He's already laying the groundwork to invalidate or take over control of the midterms to ensure that your vote only counts if it's for his toadies.

Get clowns.

"We take user privacy seriously and are committed to protecting user data

LOL, no you don't. Demonstrably so.

It hasn't been "autocomplete" in a long time. Sure, there's a training step based on a corpus of Human language, and the autoregressive process outputs a single token at a time, but reinforcement learning trains specific behaviors beyond merely completing a sentence.

Besides, the best way to write something indistinguishable from what a Human might write is to, well, "think" like a Human.

Are we, as a sapient species facing an uncertain prospect of continuence in a world full of rapidly-advancing bullshit going to learn from this catastrophic and absurdly predictable failure of information security, personal and professional ethics, civilian government, market economics, basic common sense, and consumer psychology?

Eight-Ball-Based-On-Cursory-Reading-Of-Literally-Any-Slice-of-Human-History says "no".

What do you say, and why is it also "no"?

...they don't still have to deal with those jerks in Pod 6.

I'm not going back to Mr Pepper! I CAN'T DO IT, MAN!

"My laptop battery only lasts like an hour. Can you order me a new laptop?"

    -Every helpdesk ticket from someone who enables this

But that's not what happened. They posted the doctored image on Facebook and hundreds of people called them out on it. Then, without investigating, their response was to gaslight people, saying "The packaging is most likely foreign, and it is possible that whoever made the packaging used AI to make a clearly knock-off package" (they denied it in two separate posts). For an organization that supposedly specializes in investigations and relies on the public trust, AT THE VERY LEAST it makes them look wildly incompetent. So, either they fabricated evidence, or they're incompetent. This is not an "oopsie, our bad!"

The issue is not that an office screwed up trying to add a logo. The issue is that the department's response was to gaslight the public about it.