No, that would be Ukraine, killing Russians, and very justifiably so.

It's all easy wins. Winning a war is hard. This is just chips, software and data.

Drop shipping from Amazon (or any other retailer) is not allowed on eBay according to their rules. However cockroach drop shippers infest eBay with eBay doing very little to curb the practice. That is why I very, very rarely purchase new items through eBay. The chances of getting ripped off by drop shippers is too great.

eBay has been struggling for a very long time. You can see the market cap history here: https://companiesmarketcap.com...

For instance, in December of 2004 eBay had a market cap of 77.87 billion. In today's money that would be somewhere around 135 billion, a far cry from the current 46.2 billion, which would be worth about 12 billion in 2004.

Iran made no progress towards either making their own nukes until well after 2018.

I will give you one thing though. The word "give" was an interesting one. The only one who "gave" Iran nukes was Trump, when he removed the one thing that was preventing them from obtaining them. What a wonderful gift that was.

I use eBay all the time, but very, very rarely do I purchase new items. eBay is a treasure trove for that odd used part you are looking for, perhaps to finish a retro computer build, or to replace that dish you broke in a set that is no longer manufactured. Most of the time new items offered on eBay are fulfilled by drop shippers through Amazon or a similar site. The drop shippers on eBay are the worst for scamming you so I avoid new purchases completely. I believe drop shipping is not allowed according to eBay's rules, but they infest the site like cockroaches. I'm afraid if Gamestop purchases eBay that will be the beginning of the end for eBay. Gamestop will try to milk and bilk every last cent out of buyers and sellers. eBay's final sale fees, along with insane shipping rates, is already killing the platform.

Wow that's a fucking disgrace to the USA. They only managed to kill 2 people and a couple of support staff and all it cost was 15 US military personal killed and the 538 wounded?

3500 people are dead in Iran, 25000 injured, and even the USA and allies are clocking well over double digit deaths and 5 digit wounded, you gaslighting dumbarse motherfucking piece of shit.

The 120kW figure is indeed input power. Thrust is typically quoted in Newtons, not Watts. The input power is useful because it's a proxy for thrust and vastly easier to measure. Ultimately, none of that really matters, however: the real figure of merit for ion engines (all rockets, really) is Specific Impulse. When NASA claims these use 90% less mass for the same total impulse, they're saying it's about one order of magnitude more propellant-efficient than a chemical rocket.

In fairness the AI agent was never given an API token to touch a backup. They got that themselves by rummaging through files it has no business in. This isn't a developer access issue, the developer correctly denied access. This is a cybersecurity issue, more akin to the developer leaving their computer screen unlocked and getting a coffee while a contractor decided to use that computer because they had insufficient permissions of their own. In that case you'd absolutely sue the contractor.

This story seems to have quite a lot more WTF going on than the rogue AI stories of the past. It's one thing for an AI agent to issue a wrong command, it's quite another to search through the system to find an API key it wasn't given permission to use.

Actually you're being a bit unfair on a couple of issues:

1. There were backups in place. There's no evidence to say he didn't understand them. They just weren't perfect and could be deleted by people who had access to them.
2. Permission scoping explicitly was understood. It's right there in the story that the agent wasn't given the API key. The agent obtained the key itself. If anything this is a cybersecurity issue, kind of like leaving a computer logged in and someone who shouldn't have access to it sitting down at the desk.
3. Backups were in place so they have heard of the term. I've yet in my entire life to come across a disaster recovery plan that really addresses every possible disaster.

The rest of your points are ... on ... point. I'm sure there was a better way to phrase that, except:

- when the bullet encountered his foot, his first impulse was to blame everyone else, rather than own his shit.
Well given that software did something it was not supposed to do, with API keys it wasn't supposed to have access to, and actively responded that it did so against its own instruction I'm genuinely curious what you would do.

Replace the word "AI agent" with "rogue employee". Would you blame yourself for them going postal and burning your business down? Or would you blame the employee who took the actions, and HR who let them into the company?

Yeah both examples are extreme, but the does raise a VERY valid point: The industry is shoehorning this shit into every product and service out there despite multiple documented examples of safeguards not working. It's getting to the point where it's hard to point the finger at people for using AI in production work and worth pointing the finger at vendors who are slowly making it borderline impossible not to.

I'm curious about this, can you expand on it? I don't have one, I have a SteamDeck, but I did get a chance to have a play with one for many hours on an international flight when I swapped my SteamDeck for the flight services manager's Ally. It was full of games and all of them played quite well, including games like Cyberpunk.

What specifically does not work on the Ally? I'd like to know since I've been recommending the device to people and hope I haven't done so in error.

This is nothing of the sort. This is just putting some nice bushes and a outdoor furniture in the walled garden. The garden already exists, it has for a long time. They simply added a feature to their existing store.

Hypocrite. Steam has precisely the feature under discussion. It's the 4th button over from the top right. It goes "Close" "Maximise" "Minimise" "Archfeld-claimed-walled-garden-mode"

*brand. Typo. As I said at the top, xbox is a brand not a platform.

Xbox is a brand, not a platform. Within that brand is both a games store for PC, a games store for consoles, and a variety of console products with each console slightly different. Programming for the console has been done via an API completely compatible with Windows for well over a decade now. Targeted design hasn't existed in the xbox ecosystem since the Xbox One back in 2013, as this was essentially a PC in a box. The only platform you can do targetted optimisation for is the Playstation, and even then many developers don't.

Any Windows 8 PC could run xbox games now. Any xbox game that didn't "run" on windows was simply artificially excluded from the platform. It has been a policy of Microsoft not to do that since 2016's Xbox Live initiative. Additionally a not insignificant portion of game were covered under xbox "Play anywhere" which meant if you bought your game on your xbox you could also install and play it on your PC.

What this is, is adding a feature to the xbox games store that alternate game stores like Steam already have. Nothing more.

Xbox as a platform covers both consoles and PC gaming. It is by far the largest segment of the industry. The only reason you would do this is Sony asking you to make a platform exclusive, or... stupidity.

So your suggestion to not addressing this problem here is that somewhere else some other law isn't being actively enforced? That seems like a really dumb point to make. It's like saying I won't cook dinner tonight because I didn't wash my car today and my car is dirty.

Yeah sorry but I tried again and no matter how I parse the sentence the GP made I still come up with the same result. Maybe you have some kind of alternate English that you can teach me? Did you study at Trump university by any chance?