I think you significantly overstate the gravity of their announcement. You can entirely bot the process of finding a flight to suit and handing you a link; open it, pay with stored credit card, and you'll still be entirely within what they explicitly allow.

In practice they don't necessarily have much incentive to do anything about bookings they have some sloppy-implementation reason to suspect are fully botted(in their ideal world comparison searching would presumably be harder; but cat is obviously out of the bag on that one an concealing that almost all of the work was automated will be relatively simple so there's a high false positive risk); but since you were specifically directed to not do that they are better placed to deal with cases where someone's openclaw fiasco buys them a nonsense route and they want to try to make it the airline's problem.

Alleged professionals checking secrets into github and shipping them in retail binaries is at least as old as 'devops' being a thing people say with a straight face; and standards in 'AI' and for amateurs are even lower than in software development generally. There's some diversity in terms of the ignorant vs. the negligent; but in practice egregious mishandling of secrets is to be expected.

Is anyone else surprised that the DoJ ended up asking; rather than Satya just giving Dear Leader the access as part of a lobbying effort?

I don't think linkedin has, or has ever claimed to offer, any sort of protection of user data against administrator access, and the broligarchy has been nothing but eagerly cooperative.

If users can fix things, they won't buy new Apple Xperiences. Report to your nearest Apple store for iReeducation.

This.

Nintendo hasn't suddenly gained an interest in preserving history, they've realised they can sell you the same game over and over again for each different platform.

Also ROMs are technically not illegal already. We really need to stop using the term "illegal" for things certain people don't like.

That's honestly the weird aspect, to me. Infidelity is pretty common and unsurprising, even among people who don't dress like the midlife crisis is hitting pretty hard; but if you've got options why pick the almost comically politically compromising one?

Even if it has to be a workplace thing, and wouldn't be the same with some sort of heavy-mutual-NDA escort, there have to be more than a few AI lunatics who want him to be their accelerationist daddy sprinkled across areas Nvidia can actually export to.

This sounds awfully like a cynical rebadge of the same process termination and endpoint isolation features EDR packages all already have. Yup, 'agentic' is software too; so if you think a process tree looks dodgy you can terminate it or isolate the endpoint; assuming none of the (relatively common) 'EDR-killer' malware flavors are in use; in which case hopefully you have a more network-level isolation plan in mind.

It beats having literally nothing short of calling whoever is closest to the power cable and telling them to pull it; but it's only modestly helpful if determining whether the unpredictable-by-design software is doing wicked unpredictability or virtuous unpredictability to the authorized administrator; especially if it's anything time-sensitive.

I've never used the consumer version; but historically there was a significant amount in common between that and the "user state migration tool" they made available for command line operations or SCCM integration. If 'roaming profiles' had ever found a way to suck less I suspect it would have been a nonissue; but roaming profiles always found a way to suck; so that one was a pretty common IT toolkit item.

With pay, mainly it's because employers don't want current employees to know how much they're being underpaid. British people, unlike Americans consider it vulgar to talk about money and employers love this as their peons won't find out that everyone is being paid less than Jeff.

Employers are still going to try to be bellends about it though. Often I've heard recruiters bemoan that it's hard to find good candidates, I've asked them "did you even put the pay on the job ad" and they said "why would we ever do that" oblivious to the fact anyone who knows what they're worth isn't applying to a job ad with no salary range... even after you tell them that's exactly what's happening.

What kind of free market are we supposed to run with greater access to price signals and less asymmetry of information?

Brutal collectivists in Whitehall will be demanding low barriers to entry next!

How much has your government money grown in that time?

It's certainly more plausible than some cuts we've seen; but it's hard not to still see it as the usual "described as fat-trimming; inevitably ends up reaching bone" exercise just because of how software usually ships. Not everything ships in full abject brokenness; but at least for commercial-grade software (specialty formally verified stuff and projects that have been laser focused on solving a specific problem that bothered an academic computer scientist in 1980 since 1980 can be a different story) you don't generally see software that makes you think "Nope, it's finished, any additional resources allocated would be wasted or actively spoil the product. There are no edge cases that could have used a little more love, nothing interesting but currently too rough or subject-to-change to use".

Even if you go with a fairly optimistic view of productivity effects, 10%-ish gain and no serious side effects, just axing 10% of the employees so you can status-quo the product with lower payroll costs absolutely seems like a chop-shopping move when the status quo for software is so mediocre. As PE cuts go they don't seem to be speedrunning the hollowing-out and immediately going to a skeleton crew of junior vibe coders and a 'support' chatbot; but precious little software ships in a state where "efficiency is up 10%" means that you've already maxed out possible product quality and just need to start cutting people since you no longer have anything for them to do. If the optimistic projections pan out they might be able to approximately maintain their existing level of polish with fewer people; but that level was always a compromise.

It's good to know that this is purely a matter of technological change; no need to look at the classic "get picked up be PE chop shop"/"gradually get stripped for parts" hypothesis. Seems very credible.

I remember this from the Western Australia DST trial, Linux was easy, if there wasn't a patch you could edit the TZ file (cant remember exactly what it was called). MS had a patch for Windows, the problem child was OSX which didn't issue a patch until DST was over. We had to set those to Osaka time to get them to connect to the network. One of the many reasons I have expunged any record of Mac support or knowledge from my resume (and drink heavily to forget).

Yep, and with the amount of WiFi access points doubling as mobile phone repeaters these days it'll be relatively easy to get access to a network by making a deal with telephony providers. No need to hope for an unsecured network.