The whole summary is filled with nonsense. We've known that surface roughness can reduce drag for some time. The could be drastically shorted and be more accurate, something like this:

The picture of their wind tunnel is pretty great. They use magnetism to suspend the object, so the supports don't distort the airflow.

I've got a project I'm curious about. Are any of these scanners A) free; B) have a good S/N; and C) understand Kotlin?

Lots of actions were taken. This just happens to be the first that had a meaningful outcome within the legal framework. The ACM looked at this, the government contracts committee looked at this, it was subject to a legal battle in the courts, and ultimately a mix of this allowed the BTI to claim jurisdiction at which point they could issue a legal recommendation which the government jumped on basically instantly.

The contract with Solvinity would have ended naturally in a couple of week since it was due to expire on the 6th of August. Moving the contract to another provider was one of the things that was investigated by the government and the estimated duration for this was over a year worth of effort - unable to be done in the timeframe required. The government renewed the contract for 2 years on that basis. This was subject to a court case where citizens sued the government for renewing the contract, but the contract was lawful and reasoning behind it valid.

It's the government services. They have the power over you to begin with. Have another think about this and tell us why you think Peter Thiel should be in any way involved as a gatekeeper between you and your government (while of course skimming your tax dollars from the top).

Wait... are you Peter Thiel? Because that's the only reason I could think for your post.

This is true, but in part because a lot of 'security' reports are pretty bogus, even if they get CVEs and 'security researchers' call it a vulnerability, others may be inclined to roll their eyes. For example, the curl project had a write up:
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/20...

So LLM findings I anticipate to be similar, but just a firehose of stuff to dig through to separate the real findings from the innocuous ones.

We likely will never have a grip on that, as it's generally easiest to patch the report and not think about whether it *really* was a security risk. The patch may confirm incorrect behavior being acknowledged, but not whether it was realistically a 'security' risk or not.

I agree with all that. AI can certainly play a role, and that role can be positive. I don't believe the Pope would differ either.

I completely agree with your caveats and nuances. That's why I used the phrase "strikes against" and didn't say I wouldn't consider such people.

BTW it's the Pope's list, not mine, I just rephrased it.

Yes, we should be concerned about people not adapting. I agree with you.
The law does define illegal vice, very explicitly. Coffee isn't on that list of problem vices, so you're good.
Yes, I do believe we should restrain ourselves with respect to weapons and methods of war, even if the other side doesn't agree. Just because the other side tortures people, doesn't mean it's OK for us to do it. That is not the same is just sitting down and letting them run over us. Believe it or not, it is possible to fight a just war, and win. We did it in WWI and WWII.

I wouldn't be in favor of any specific regulation that favors gangs or crooked businesses. That still doesn't mean we shouldn't try to enact regulation that does help the people.

You may recognise them under their previous name: IBM.

They were a major player from the day they existed. They birthed onto the New York Stock exchange as a privileged nepobaby with a birthday present of 75% of the Fortune 100 business as "existing" customers, an 90000 IBM employees..

Not quite. This was more of an intervention. In fact the discussions over the past 6 months have largely been focused on figuring out how to actually block the sale and on what grounds. The final decision may even be questionable. Initially the competition authority wanted to intervene and couldn't. The lower house attempted and failed. There was an attempt to move the contract but time didn't allow so the contract was extended for a short period. That kicked off a legal fight where the courts also ruled that despite how bad of an idea this was there wasn't really anything they could do to stop it.

The final deciding factor came from the BTI - who investigates business dealings with critical infrastructure providers. Solvinity wasn't considered one since all they had was a contract to provide services, but it wasn't really until that contract was extended due to the complexity of moving at short notice that someone convinced them they have jurisdiction to investigate, and now they've issued a legal opinion that caused the government to intervene on national security grounds.

There was no real process in this review. It was more of an "oh FAAAARK how can we stop this?" process.

To be clear there is a legal mandate but that is only to maintain the data within the country. The issue of potential foreign ownership didn't really come into the existing law in any clearly defined way.

The joke?

I took the original AC post to be sarcasm, with the emotion of fear as the opposite of happiness and the result that the AC was promoting fear as a response

Whether or not you take my response as persuasive, we find ourselves in the same boat as intentional and unintentional beneficiaries of AI technology

On a deep note, I have an emotional response to fear-mongering that induces me to use humor and logic as tools to dismantle the goals of fearmongerers

Apologies if this was not funny, have a great day

Foreign takeovers don't inject any capital into the economy, they take capital out of the economy by definition. The GDP attributed to Solvinity's operations would be accounted for by a company based in New York.

To be clear, you think it's less terrifying to have a private for profit company gatekeep your connection to government's digitial services?

Oh, I don't know. An EV version of the Reliant Robin might be just what the world needs right now.