Ukraine goes out of its way to not target civilians. That is the opposite of terrorism.

Somehow I doubt that the Emirates are going to extradite a guy to a country that is currently moving drone and missile components from China to Iran where they are used to attack targets in Dubai.

It's both. The robots are going to be trained to do human tasks with machine learning. Instead of writing complex scripts for every task a robot does the AI can be trained to do ten thousand similar things ten thousand times in a simulation. Which is a pretty smart way to make robot hands pick up arbitrarily arranged objects in a box, or to sort different kinds of boxes in a UPS sorting center.

Of course Tesla will need ten years to figure this out and by then Chinese companies will be five years ahead. Thus this new round of import substitution.

My problem with telling Siri to play music in the car is that it just stops working. I say "hey Siri" and nothing happens. To fix it I have to stop the car and unlock and lock the phone. Sometimes I even have to reboot the phone. I guess the listening daemon crashes and nothing restarts it. This is really annoying when I have twenty more minutes of driving before my destination.

I remember the buildups to the dotcom crash and the 2008 crash. There were lots of signs and doom sayers and there were also lots of people pulling their money out of the NASDAQ and out of banks exposed to real estate bullshit, respectively. This time it seems like the whole world has gone insane and is drunk on meme stock cognac. Anything that involves AI and/or Elon Musk is making paper millionaires. It's like someone went back in time and removed every American equities disaster from the history curriculums and only one percent of us can remember. Hopefully China will be able to step in and save us all because they seem to be the only big economy with a real long-term strategy for anything.

Probably. Google, Amazon and Microsoft all have their own chips for AI and probably won't need Nvidia in the long run. Anthropic will probably have its own chips, too. So when OpenAI tanks the round tripping is going to be terrible for Nvidia. But if TSMC hoards cash they'll be able to buy Nvidia for peanuts and make a bigger profit off all those chips being sold to gamers.

Siri would be pretty useful if it could process language as well as Claude does. And if they use Claude to fix the garbage code base that's about as buggy as a Microsoft application circa 1998.

Not in many European nations.

It's been 21 years since the Sony CD rootkit debacle and Windows still runs random shit from external sources. Is this a new thing introduced by young dipshits who don't remember the Sony CD rootkit debacle? Or is it older people who are just so fucking stupid that the only tech job they could get was being on the Windows team?

NT was fucking garbage. It was unstable and security bugs abounded. Later versions were profoundly better. I remember getting new servers on Windows 2000 and it saved me from an incredible amount of firefighting.

When the version of iOS is released iPhones will be able to do everything this does, be more portable, and they have a camera for uploading photos to ask questions about. Google and Samsung phones already have that functionality. So do a lot of Chinese phones. Why would anyone buy a low end speaker that does less than the phone they already take everywhere? I cannot see how this appeals to anyone but industrial design geeks who idolize Jony Ive.

IBM is still in fine shape. The company is not losing money. Revenue did not fall off a cliff like the stock price did. If they're smart IBM can wait this out and quietly prepare for things to bounce back when the insane AI capex ends and people need something IBM is ready to provide. (But, realistically, IBM will just lay off 25,000 good people instead of putting human capital to good use as part of a long term strategy.)

I don't have time to keep track of security updates for my router, apply them, and check now and then to make sure it hasn't been compromised. Comcast has the infrastructure and people to do it all themselves. I don't have to think about it at all.

Of course it's probably the only thing Comcast can do right, but I think most people on Slashdot have heard that story a million times so I won't go there!

Grab the rope hanging from the bubble! It will pull us all up forever! We're all gonna be millionaires! Put your whole 401k into NASDAQ growth funds! YEEHAAAAAAAAAAW!

Companies want to pay CEOs high salaries. It gives the impression that the company is doing well because it can afford to pay the CEO handsomely and that the CEO is doing their job well. Which inflates share prices.