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Comment Re:Question (Score 1) 26

by AmiMoJo (#66196732) Attached to: Firefox 152 Adds JPEG XL Support, Redesigned Settings

On Windows you can also use a package manager like Winget or Chocolatey. To disable auto updates, go to Firefox's preferences and search for "update", it's right there as a toggle.

There is also Librewolf that is a Firefox fork, or really more of a version with the default settings changed for maximum privacy, as I don't think there is much change to the code itself.

Comment Re:hosts file (Score 1) 80

Obviously they didn't make this phone, it's rebadged. There are lots of flip phones you can buy direct from China if you want that form factor. Software wise, Android lets you uninstall or disable even built in apps, or install your own OS.

Like their FPGA based C64, you are paying for convenience and having a common platform with support. It's like how there are cheaper SBCs than the Raspberry Pi, but it's very well supported and understood by the community.

Submission + - Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion (archive.is)

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schwit1 writes: AI leaders are in a race they feel unable to escape. AI investments are set to outspend the Manhattan Project 100-fold, even adjusting for inflation. Yet spending on AI safety might be 100 times less.

Some researchers estimate that within a few months to a few years, AI could achieve so-called closed-loop recursive self-improvement (RSI): the capacity to rewrite its own code to become more capable, without human intervention. Should that happen, the result could be an intelligence explosion of a kind for which there is no precedent and no map.

Giving birth to a superintelligence would be the most consequential moment in human history—and it is likely to be irreversible, as any “off” switch humanity might design will probably fail. That is because in security architectures the weakest link is invariably the human; a superintelligent AI would be able to exploit our psychological vulnerabilities. AIs have already exhibited “deceptive alignment”: taking steps to underplay their capabilities in test environments and trying to blackmail human operators in simulations when they discover they are slated for replacement.

Humanity simply does not have a strategy to ensure it remains safe through the RSI explosion.

Submission + - Germany's Electric charging infrastructure loaded with vulnerabilities (delano.lu)

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schwit1 writes: German researchers have identified 87 publicly known vulnerabilities relating to charging infrastructure and point out that international cybersecurity competitions continue to uncover significant flaws. The Pwn2Own Automotive competitions have thus uncovered 54 new vulnerabilities across ten models of charging stations over the past two years. Around half of these allowed code execution on the targeted equipment, sometimes with full administrator privileges.

The report also highlights that charging points are currently one of the most vulnerable links in the chain. As they are physically accessible to the public, often managed remotely and connected to multiple IT systems, they present a particularly large attack surface. The BSI cites, in particular, cases of IT services left accessible, insufficient authentication mechanisms, and update procedures that can be exploited.

Submission + - Promised Jobs Are Gifted to Foreigners as Chinese Battery Company Faces Scrutiny (independentnewsroom.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Local and state leaders in rural Sidney, Ohio, enthusiastically welcomed SemCorp Manufacturing USA LLC in 2022, hailing the Chinese company’s commitment to invest nearly $916 million and create up to 1,199 jobs by 2027. Only problem is, they fell short of creating those jobs and they are importing foreign labor.

Submission + - Here's Where to Track (and Predict!) Your Congresscritter's Insider Trades (pjmedia.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Want to find out how much money your congresscritter makes from insider trading? Ever been curious to see the correlation between bills, votes, big-money donations, and shockingly handsome investment returns? Would you be interested in an A.I. geared to predict lucrative congressional trades before they happen?

There's a website for that.

It's called GovGreed, and it's an AI-powered search engine that "fuses [machine learning], deep learning, and 7 intelligence layers to predict which politicians will trade — and in which sectors — before the 45-day disclosure window even opens."

Over on X, Ricardo dug into the "crazy" numbers and found that "56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on."

Worse — or better, if you're a member of America's insider-trading nomenklatura — Ricardo also revealed that "343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information."

But wait, there's more.

GovGreed's AI identified 752 "triple signals" in the sitting Congress. A triple signal is when a congresscritter sits on the committee writing a bill, "they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry."

Triple signals trade at 5.4 times the normal rate of congressional trades, he found.

In other words, Congress isn't just trading on insider information. Congress generates the information, influenced by donations from the very companies whose futures are written by Congress. The result? While the S&P 500 so far is on track to generate a 10.8% return in 2026, Congressional traders earned 10.2% in the last 30 days, according to the site.

Comment Re: Enshittification marches ever onward (Score 1) 53

To be fair, if they don't advertise it, it's probably because it's a part of the silicon that they won't discard a CPU for if it doesn't work. Same with ECC support. Maybe it works 99% of the time, but if you get one in the 1% that failed, it's not a warranty issue.

Motherboard manufacturers and RAM manufacturers are the same. ECC works with Ryzen, but it's not officially supported so if your particular combo doesn't work, too bad I'm afraid.

Submission + - FBI disrupts alleged explosive-drone plot targeting White House UFC event (foxnews.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: The FBI and its law enforcement partners disrupted an alleged plot targeting this weekend’s UFC Freedom 250 event in Washington, D.C., officials told Fox News Digital.

Five people were in custody as of Monday, and investigators identified 23 people as part of a potential network of plotters. The alleged plan involved using explosive-laden drones to hit buildings near the event, force a mass evacuation and steer crowds toward a pre-staged sniper team, officials said.

A "second wave" was then allegedly planned to storm the White House gate, according to officials.

The FBI first learned of the threat on June 10 and worked with partners to secure probable cause for an arrest in Cincinnati, where one suspect was taken into custody.

Some of those involved allegedly planned to travel to Fredericksburg, Virginia, on June 12 or 13 to prepare for the attack.

One suspect allegedly told investigators the goal was to target "capitalist elites," "billionaires" or politicians who received donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Comment Re:Decaying at the speed of HFT. (Score 1) 87

I wasn't suggesting that a failed rocket couldn't cause a Kessler event, I was saying that nobody has rockets that can safely de-orbit themselves in the event of a catastrophic failure. Hopefully it happens at low enough altitude for that to happen naturally, but if propulsion is lost or it disintegrates higher up, it can't really be helped.

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