Don't forget the costs to examine everything to make sure there weren't any other surprises hidden somewhere else.

Forensic computer analysts aren't cheap.

His script might have just changed passwords, but you don't know if he did anything else.

I would probably say the costs were probably under-reported and just what they could adequately document as damages. Someone who couldn't log in for a day and do useful work might not be reported because there's no direct cost, just an indirect one of having someone sit around twiddling thumbs. And that's assuming they need the computer - maybe they could do work offline or do it on their work laptop not attached to the network. Someone like that you can't add to your claim because they could do useful work and separating the costs gets really hard.

How repulsive.

"No backup" is amateur-level. Also that they did not use n-out-of-k with n k is a pretty basic mistake.

Sounds like there are plants within Mozilla, in addition to all the other problems. So it's effectively as shady as Edge or Chrome now. Having to comb through the menus to turn off anything trying to give me AI or coupons, and still never really being sure.

Don't forget about the ad tracking that's on by default as well. Mozilla bought an ad-tech company founded by Meta ex-employees and enabled ad tracking by default.

... environmentally friendly data centers? Move them to Shivering Moose, Alberta. Easier time cooling them.

... was interdicted and the subject hardware was switched with alternate parts.

Every time any action of mine has led to Google doing any AI "computation" has been unintentional. I never asked for it. Google just chose to bundle it with my search.

I usually use an address bar keyword that uses an URL with &udm=14 to avoid this, but sometimes I slip up.
And I've also noticed that Google have added an AI summary to image search has well... I never asked for a textual description of an image, that contains factual errors or pure guesses half of the time: I have my own eyes, and I'm not blind. And I can make uneducated guesses myself.

Quite true. Unfortunately, MS crap is also a really good example for a market failure.

Indeed. Windows and MS Office are a disgrace to the whole human race. No product on that level should ever have long-term economic success.

Netflix and YouTube both use AV1, which is royalty free.

Yep. As if denial would make their predicament any less bad.

The always have been. Unfortunately, most of their customers are too. It just has gotten more concrete with LLMs now.

I get the driver behind this. Also trade-secrets, etc.

But is this really a local model and is no data transferred? There is some fuzzy language in "use an on-device AI model to power some of its features". What bout other features? What about if it "powers" the features, bit the data is still sent home? The whole thing looks like a lie by misdirection to me.

Difficult to say. I have no idea how much power an "NPU" draws.

I wish them well. And I hope they really clean up in the RPG marketplace.