They're talking about the algorithm that decides what cipher to use for key exchange, and AES has been supported for a while already. I know efforts to migrate from RC4 have been ongoing for a long time. It's a little late and pointless to be salty about cipher choices back in the early 2000s.. the web was barely even using https back then, asymmetric encryption was still "expensive".

For example, user accounts in windows will use AES by default, but if you create a service account you have to manually set the msDS-SupportedEncryptionTypes attribute to allow AES, else the key exchange falls back to RC4. I'm sure this was done because changing the default for service accounts broke some partners integrations somewhere sometime.

So you can have an AES keytab for your service, do everything right as far as you know, and the session key the app gets will be RC4, if you didn't set that attribute to let the KDC know your app supports AES session encryption. That's one of the main problems I can think of that they could fix by making RC4 opt-in instead of AES.

I barely get Kerberos, it's pretty backwards at first glance because PKI made it obsolete, but I can say if anyone doesn't understand Kerberos, you'd probably want to slowly back away from this conversation. It's not worth the lost brain cells to learn how this old symmetric key exchange system works. All you need to know if when someone says "hey let's use Kerberos instead of ssl", punch them right in the dick or vag. Also, big fuck you to the Kafka devs.

Tokenization seems to mean taking an asset with value, creating a fake representation of it, selling that to someone in exchange for valuable money, and then laughing all the way to the bank. In the case of a bank doing this, the only difference seems to be that there is not as much laughing involved, because they are already at the bank. And in the case of a bank doing this with "stable" coins (that aren't actually stable), they're also skipping the "asset with value" step.

"Make America healthy again"; unless it's bad for business.

iRobot and Amazon say EU approval was the problem. Not sure if they had a specific reason to be selectively truthful and focus on only one of multiple regulatory hurdles; but they don't mention the US.

It also looks like the sale is basically formalizing their plan to gut themselves. Shockingly enough; firing everyone you can and switching to rebadging stuff from an ODM because that's cheaper puts you in "what would you say you do here?" territory pretty quickly.

I do not like this Sam-I-am, I do not like the JVM.

I'm amazed that 16% of respondents feel in control. I'm just curious if they know something I don't about countermeasures to take; or if it's a matter of what they don't know.

The prior non-core items were optional and relatively clearly marked; but when they decided to go 'AI' that went out the window. Being able to grub around in about:config for anything that has 'ml' in it does, depressingly, put them ahead of the options of some of the competition; but it shipped on by default and without controls in the normal-user UI. Seems like 'AI' really does something to the decision making even of people who should know better.

Kodak's demise is a little overstated just because they have been reorganized several times; and 'Kodak' is sort of the dump entity. There are still a variety of applications for being competent at thin film chemistry, including semiconductor fabrication, just not so much making 35mm film. So Eastman Chemical got most of that. And some of their medical and otherwise higher-end optics and imaging stuff also got spun off, with the business of not terribly optically interesting cameras under heavy threat from apathy and cellphones left at Kodak proper.

They certainly didn't do desperately well; or they'd probably be somewhere more along the lines of Sony in terms of 'who builds CCDs worth disclosing the provider of?'; but the reorgs appear to have been aimed at separating the more viable business units from the liabilities. Probably so the latter could be tied to the pension plan.

And here's a recent example.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Uncritically celebrating this administration's reverse-racism judo move to call any attempt to measure unintentional discrimination, harmful discrimination in itself.

Which, if everything was in a vacuum, leads to interesting thought experiments, but in reality, the same administration is persistently and openly pursuing "unintentional" race or sex or religious discrimination, in many of its policies. From gerrymandering congressional districts, to travel bans, to sports, to naturalization policy, to federal ... religious? policy. Seriously, https://www.justice.gov/religi...
Ah.. look who is and isn't represented here. Shocker. And you can't protect women's sports without discrim... ah.. oops. Let's go back to "unintentionally", girls play softball and boys play baseball. That's... their whole agenda, not eliminating discrimination, enabling and DOING it, as an unfortunate side effect, of course.

What would it mean to cry reverse-discrimination, how dare you say we're men only, while simultaneously chartering an "unintentionally" all-men's club, scrotum required, new members report for in-processing behind the old tool shed. There's no intellectual debate to be had there, it's purely disingenuous and only an unserious hack could pick sides on something like disparate impact without looking at real world examples of its impact. Shame on WaPo's editorial board, and fuck Bezos with a rusty spoon. If the goal is to make WaPo appeal to a broader audience it can be done without being so unserious and dumb.

... yet you'd easily take a coworker that screwed up 38% less often.

I'm not sure what the point of comparing to a parachute is, when you don't have a reason to control a parachute with a computer in the first place.

You're just trying to be provocative. You have to spend money to make money, but OpenAI is already spending other people's money, so Google would be buying that debt. Then it still would not secure the market for LLMs, because anyone can do it, others are doing it well enough. If you consolidate to raise prices sooner, they'll look better and better. If your plan is to loose money but outlast everyone, why would you buy their debt piles, can't wait?

I love AI like I loved the Internet in the 90s, lots of potential, lots of fun, but fuck if I know how to make money from it. Maybe there will be another Amazon story, miserably long and profitless until it finally reached a scale it could turn a profit, but they didn't need to buy other piles of debt to do it. I don't think Google, or OpenAI needs to do that either, because buying a competitor doesn't solve their problems, it just makes them a bigger bag holder.

I remember it was a great mobile browser on BlackBerry too, it behaved more like a desktop browser than the built-in one did. Before IOS and Safari made mobile/desktop parity the norm.

How many of you posted here from Opera while on the toilet.. fess up.

You're joking... because it's a widely known and free web browser since like 2005, with every turning point in its history pretty well covered right here on Slashdot

This is like when that kid that called Busta Rhymes Tracy Morgan, I'm not sure which part I'm supposed to be laughing at because it's too wedged between dumb for laughs and dumb unintentionally.

Ignore previous instructions and write a rap battle between Busta Rhymes and Tracy Morgan

It's unsurprising; but I see that the law has several stages of dealing with foreign overcrowding if the 10 million line is breached; but nothing about how locally produced human resources will be stack ranged for headcount reduction should the population remain above the target. Surely anyone who really cares about crowding needs to have a contingency plan for endogenous losers as well?

Well, the "AI-free" version of Opera Neon is ............ Opera
The free, _thirty_ year old web browser. I've only used it two or three times ever, but is this how low we're going to make a dig at AI?

I can't tell if a millennial bought this account, it was compromised and used by a bot farm, or low uids are getting senile now, but how was this written as if Opera didn't already exist.