AI 'Business Agents' Will Kill SaaS by 2030, Says Microsoft

(how very excellent AI is going to replace custom built applications that solve actual problems)

followed by

Linkedin is the Fakest Platform of Them All

(basically says MicroSoft's LinkedIn which is replacing custom built features with AI generated content really sucks)

kinda writes the posting all by itself!

"Was" one of the most efficient systems, before DOGE's chainsaw

Grassly saw the light. https://www.politico.com/live-... 13 to go

&^%&^$, I was born too early...

Perhaps they cancelled it because they didn't know what it was either.
Chang Kim: Hey Will, do you know what XR is?
William Cho: No idea
Chang Kim: OK if I cancel it?
William Cho: Sure, but you have to write the press release!
Chang Kim: Hah! I will use AI to do that!

We read the news to (try) to get an unbiased view of events (the baseball game, the hurricane, the battle, ...). Bias exists, so we read multiple view points to get perspetive from many positions; and weigh their thoughts and ideas to form our own consensus (influenced by our bias, naturally) on the issue. If the WaPo's editorial board endorsed Trump, it would be a significant event, quite inconsistent with their reporting, and their editorials, which would cause many to read the body of the endorsement to see the basis for the change; if compelling, and cause some to re-think the election. WaPo endorsing Harris would be consistent with the body of their reporting and their editorials. Announcing "No Endorsement Policy" this close to the election would be like MLB announcing "No World Series Winner in 2024" with the Dodgers up 3 to 0 in the series, right after Hal Steinbrenner met with the commissioner...

Well said - I always cringe when I hear "Today's change in the market's index is its response to (some minor event)..."

Really? When did they meet and talk about this? Did they take a vote? Were there minutes?

"The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements." — Brian Kernighan, "Unix for Beginners" (1979)

And he was reacting to the "fancy" command line debuggers like adb and crash; and describing the old techniques which were called Trace Debugging in the 1960's (and output to paper sheets)...

History aside, print debugging is often the only method available for real time code once it is loaded on the embedded device (we do try to find every bug we can on the emulator!)

And quite frequently the only "print" function available on an embedded device is an led that you can blink for a certain number of times or flash in a different colors...

So I concur that it was quite right to delay RTL until print_k was working adequately!

Perhaps one of the problems is some in the market think Intel is a software company...

• Shares plunged as much as 30% on Friday, its biggest single-day drop since at least 1982, according to Bloomberg data.

• The decline comes after the software company announced quarterly revenue of $12.83 billion, down 1% from the previous year and missing analyst expectations of $12.94 billion, according to LSEG estimates.

The actual story is that scientists just recently realized the likelyhood that the nitrogen fixing ability of certain bacteria was due to a merger of one cell into another, 91 million years ago. And they hint, contrary to the headline (Only the third time!), that the nitrogen fixing capability of certain marine plankton and terrestrial plants (which host nitrogen fixing bacteria in specialized organs) may well be additional "Life form mergers."

Inspector Clouseau would be dismayed at how long this investigation required... smile

Ref:

Accordingly, not only did the B. bigelowii/UCYN-A symbiosis originate ca. 91 mya, i.e., in the late Cretaceous, but also the origin of other marine (e.g., marine planktonic diatomdiazotroph associations) and non-marine (e.g., plants with specialized root organs [nodules] where N2-fixing bacteria are hosted) N2-fixing symbioses have been dated to the Cretaceous period.

Likely the moderately intelligent war machine is more dangerous than the Super Intelligent one envisioned - it may well be explicitly designed to lack any sort of off switch, so as to prevent its targets from disabling it (a land mine is the root example of this - it will kill anything, friend, foe or merely unlucky that triggers it; and is primed to attack for many years )

Too fun to be true

A party seeking remedy must show they have been harmed. (locus standi)

1. NY Times doesn't charge extra money for subscribers to the paper for playing Wordle, so they can't claim they are losing sales.
2. Folks writing instructions on how to construct a similar game to what is a free game are not making any money.

Wordle was totally free to use (no subscription required) before the NYTimes bought the website (why did they buy it??), so defense would simply argue they showed people how to copy the look and feel of the free game; and publishing such instruction is protected under the first amendment.

Microsoft figured that out about Linux 25 years ago - there is no point in suing free.

Reads to me like it is a bug in VMware's implementation of the virtualized UHCI USB controller:

• CVE-2024-22253: a use-after-free vulnerability in UHCI USB controller with a maximum severity rating of 9.3 for Workstation/Fusion and a base score of 8.4 for ESXi. Exploitation requirements and outcomes are the same as for CVE-2024-22252.
• CVE-2024-22254: an out-of-bounds write vulnerability with a maximum severity base score of 7.9. This vulnerability makes it possible for someone with privileges within the VMX process to trigger an out-of-bounds write, leading to a sandbox escape.
• CVE-2024-22255: an information disclosure vulnerability in the UHCI USB controller with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 7.1. Someone with administrative access to a virtual machine can exploit it to leak memory from the vmx process.

And the "workaround" suggested is to remove USB functionality for all of your VMs

On the original Ars Tecnica article, an early comment was:

gballard Wise, Aged Ars Veteran writes:
I think the patch that my org will be deploying is called Proxmox.

Just another victim in what Sarwant Singh of Forbes called in 2016, "The Platform of Things: The Mega IoT Platforms Land Grab"

(ref: https://www.forbes.com/sites/s...)

Microsoft bought the underpinnings of this Azure IoT Suite by acquiring Solair in May of 2016 (terms not announced)

https://imageio.forbes.com/blo...

Maybe there is no new IoT continent, just many very functional islands? The journey continues.