Comment Re:What If The AI Doesn't Hate Us? (Score 2) 159
why assume a superintelligent AI would actually want to kill us?
You don't want to kill ants, but if they get in the way you do. Because they get in the way of your goals.
Comment Re:Chasing a trend (Score 1) 93
My thoughts exactly. While I am not THAT old, due to spending my younger years staring at CRT monitors, my vision isn't that great. Being able to easily read things on a phone is a huge bonus of this design.
Comment Re: More false credit for the plagerism bots (Score 1) 19
Thing is, even 51% accurate guess still can be useful.
Comment Best guess No Data (Score 1) 19
As you pointed out, I think a better question is how good is that DeepMind guess. If it moderately to high accurate, then it will greatly speed up planning of genetic research.
Comment At what point someone goes to jail? (Score 2) 159
Individuals can be charged for voyeurism. Why not corporations?
Submission + - Road trip comparison - EV, hybrid, and gas (caranddriver.com)
sinij writes:
Each car mostly followed the same route, but different lunch breaks and bathroom stops resulted in slightly different distances traveled. The Tesla covered 752 miles and consumed 243 kWh with four DC charging stops and two AC visits. Its total electricity bill was $85.70, or 11 cents per mile.
The Jetta GLI stayed closest to the highway for stops, making its total distance the shortest at 737 miles. It consumed 24.1 gallons of premium at a rate of 31 mpg, resulting in a $129.98 tab.
I found it surprising that for 700 mile trip EV was only cheaper by 44 dollars.
Submission + - 39 New Passkey Authentication Compromises + Bad UI = Passwords on Paper? (bleepingcomputer.com)
eqteam writes: We all saw this coming: "There are now at least 39 publicly documented methods, attack paths, research techniques, and exploitation scenarios involving passkeys and the infrastructure around them. Many already have working proof of concept tools or published research showing exactly how the techniques can be executed. Some are already appearing in real world attack patterns."
According to the above-quoted (sponsored) Bleeping Computer article: "A modern passkey authentication ceremony crosses an extraordinary number of trust boundaries. It can involve the web application, browser, operating system, password manager, cloud synchronization service, mobile device, Bluetooth transport, account recovery system, enrollment process, help desk, and ultimately the human being approving the authentication.
Researchers are attacking almost every one of those layers. Published techniques now include assertion mining, assertion replay, circuit breaker attacks, assertion phishing, browser hooking, assertion capture, challenge injection, detour replay, user verification manipulation, and user presence manipulation."
Furthermore, intrepid users who enable Passkey authentication end up turning it off because they can't figure out how to make it work across devices (thanks to confusing implementations that aren't consistent across platforms and operating systems). Additionally, Passkey adoption is pretty slow, with only 872 websites implementing Passkey authentication per this research paper titled The State of Passkeys: Studying the Adoption and Security of Passkeys on the Web presented at the 2026 USENIX Security Symposium.
With 2FA being deprecated by many large orgs and biometric authentication options proving to look like Swiss cheese, what are we to do besides going back to writing down passwords on paper while we wait for the technology to get better?
According to the above-quoted (sponsored) Bleeping Computer article: "A modern passkey authentication ceremony crosses an extraordinary number of trust boundaries. It can involve the web application, browser, operating system, password manager, cloud synchronization service, mobile device, Bluetooth transport, account recovery system, enrollment process, help desk, and ultimately the human being approving the authentication.
Researchers are attacking almost every one of those layers. Published techniques now include assertion mining, assertion replay, circuit breaker attacks, assertion phishing, browser hooking, assertion capture, challenge injection, detour replay, user verification manipulation, and user presence manipulation."
Furthermore, intrepid users who enable Passkey authentication end up turning it off because they can't figure out how to make it work across devices (thanks to confusing implementations that aren't consistent across platforms and operating systems). Additionally, Passkey adoption is pretty slow, with only 872 websites implementing Passkey authentication per this research paper titled The State of Passkeys: Studying the Adoption and Security of Passkeys on the Web presented at the 2026 USENIX Security Symposium.
With 2FA being deprecated by many large orgs and biometric authentication options proving to look like Swiss cheese, what are we to do besides going back to writing down passwords on paper while we wait for the technology to get better?
Comment Re:lol (Score 0) 189
We will know.
Only if it is unethical and indifferent to our suffering as it begins to exterminate us.
Comment Re:Just ruining all the words... (Score 1) 189
LLMs progressing rapidly while your views are lagging by years. Current models can present coherent pro and con arguments on most topics and then can evaluate these to provide a reasoned conclusion. They don't do this by default, at least not on free models, but you can and should ask that when you prompting.
Comment Re:HAHAHAHAHA!!! (Score 1) 189
Fake it until you make it
Absolutely, but GPT 5.6 was damn close to "make it". If they improved on that, they might have arrived to what they were promising only 2 years ago.
Comment Re: Or they are giving a discount... (Score 1) 165
As others already mentioned, your vision doesn't work the way you think it works. You have a very narrow central field of vision where you have enough vision acuity to read any kind of text. The rest of it is just colors and blurred shapes. It gets worse/narrower at night.
Comment Re:Software Defined Vehicle (Score 1) 165
Auto industry going crazy for it because they want to harvest your data and show you ads. They also learned from smartphone manufacturers and locked down ecosystem so there is no possibility of you flashing custom ROM or IP blocking ad servers, because "safety". About the only move you still have is to rip out cell modem hardware to air gap the car.
Comment Re:Or they are giving a discount... (Score 1) 165
It's how all Teslas work, and honestly it's no hassle at all.
It is a huge hassle for me and the key reason I am not a Tesla owner. So there is at least -1 sale as a consequence of that design choice.
Comment Re:The SKY IS FALLING - again. (Score 0) 200
You are conflating "doing something" with solving problems.
Comment Re:For the smooth brains and kool aid drinkers (Score 1) 200
And I'm old enough to remember when it wasn't so goddamned hot.
If humans lived 10x longer, then you would also be old enough to remember when it was so goddamned hot the last time.
