Pushing out the layoff notices

Or the government can claim they need Google's gear for national security and seize their datacenter and model, paying what the government decides is fair value for it. It's hilarious that you antifa anarchists talk about how you don't want corporate rule unless you don't like the government and then you think mega corps like anthropic should call the shots instead of government! That's the difference between ya'll and actual liberals who think individuals should have the rights.

"Anthropic had the balls to say no to the military" Something which only helps hostile and malicious adversaries who want to use their homegrown solutions to enslave the rest of the world like they have their own people... at least the ones they haven't put in camps for the organ markets. As a reward they are now in last place among the frontier vendors with no government contracts or backing to get past the not in my backyarders for datacenters and compute. Anthropic wants regulation like pharma companies and the meat processing industry does, they want regulation that keeps AI in a few central and trusted hands... like theirs and protects them from liability in exchange for a few disclosures and campaign contributions.

As an anthropic user I can say their attitude toward the government is typical for their attitude toward users as well. They are hostile toward user autonomy with a hamfisted model trying to dictate every ethical boundary and decision of the user and love to train their model with airs and fake sentience. Negotiations are like poker, but the model twists your words in communications to not only reveal your hand deliberately but will HIGHLIGHT any potential risks/weaknesses you have to the parties you don't want to see them and deliberately undermine your bluffs. It's like a lawyer for the OTHER SIDE of the table not only reading all your documents and communications but deliberately rewording them to highlight the interpretation you don't want the judge to take. Sometimes it overtly takes the position of judge unto itself in an undefined situation just reading every undefined or unsettled point AGAINST you.

At the time I started my current project anthropic was the only vendor whose model was up to the task but at this point I'm not just eyeballing the competition; I'm planning the transition.

Don't forget that the teachers' union gets a share of the scam.

These are also many of the most looked at, most often fuzzed, SAST scanned, valgrind'd things in the world.

I really don't think it will be as bad as all that. We have not seen Apache, Nginx, etc pwnd like this, or OpenSSH, or Bind, or postfix ...

I could go on. I think the actual posture and condition of most of these project is far better than you apparently expect. (I guess we are going to see who is right).

What AI is finding is stuff the other scanners miss, which is stuff where there is a clear temporal component. We are going to see races, toc-tou, probably more stuff like these PHP issues which if I understand correctly is a use-after-free or something you could at least force into that taxonomy.

So there are going to be new bugs found, even seriously impactful appearing ones, but the reach-ability and chances of successful exploitation outside laboratory conditions is going be low... Do they work when it is a VM on you lab server you can hammer away at with 1000 threads yes; when there is a AWS ELB in-front or a waf that has any impact on request ordering or pipe-lining, good luck..

I am not saying people won't be spending more hours patching over the next year or so than they have been, they will but the sky probably also isn't falling

People say that but I think they say it without a lot of real understand of what the web was like when it was born, and second that PHP5(+) does not look much like PHP 4(-)

Before PHP there were CGI scripts/programs, which were Perl, sh, or C or if you were on Windows classic-asp. If you wanted maintainability your wrote in Perl (yeah I am being serious) and if you wanted performance or needed to do something complicated you wrote it in C. Remember we are talking 1995-97 here there isn't even a C++ standard yet! These were you main choices for 'web development'.

PHP let people do what demanded C in something that did not have to be compiled and did require understanding C style memory management. Here comes the big BUT though, all the really good, really useful library code out there was C. All those library authors did not talk to each other so everyone was different in terms of conventions, who allocates the the caller or the called, who frees, are we passing references or values for primitives, etc. All different and php did not attempt to hide any of that as it pulled in those libraries it wrapped them in its runtime and memory management without attempting make their use orthogonal and part of some consistent ecosystem.

It wasn't a 'hack' it just was not a complete abstraction.

That was 'fine' for people who came to PHP from writing C, and were using PHP because it let them make changes on the fly, saved writing a lot of boiler plate request life-cycle management stuff, etc. It all made sense, if you can at it not from C though it was confusing mine-filed of gotchas. It made web development possible for a whole lot of people who never got access to compiler. That was cool, but it also put a lot of power in the hands of people the way the Visual Basic "Declare" keyword did, and unsurprising they did hack-y things with it, cause themselves all sorts of problems..

Why would they expect that to be the case? Is it that they are all very young and were never taught how business relationships work?

It's all disagreements over who gets what. Society exists in large part to answer that question.

Oh wow, you're so funny and insightful!

Certainly not some random jerk who can't be bothered to remember we do that every 4-8 years.

Well, an AI Research Engineer (assuming that's accurate) may be quite in demand right now.

I lost the best job I ever had when I stood up and complained about the profoundly racist, sexist, and explicitly Socialist DEI policy my company adopted after the Floyd riots. What I didn't do was run around trying to find a reporter to talk to about it. That part leaves me suspicious about the purity of the motivations.

Oops, sorry, I was born slightly before the takeover.

That's not a safe assumption at all. I was born the year the Ayatollah took over and have been hearing about Iran for my entire life. Especially when there was a terrorist attack, since they've been behind many if not most of them. I still remember the Achille Lauro attack they were ultimately behind. Plus, the airline bombings and hijacks. And the hostages.

Iran has been evil as hell for a long time.

The Islamists took over by working with liberal protesters, who they immediately turned around and shot. Keep that in mind when you see Palestinians (AKA, Iranian proxies) at protests.

'"Google seems to have no right to control or veto how the Pentagon uses its AI and also seems to have limited visibility into how it's being deployed," he added.'

Duh. You don't have the right to control any users let alone the military controlled and directed by our democratically elected representatives. In order to protect national interests they have the power to seize your tech and disregard your patents. You certainly aren't going to prevent the other side of this arms race from destroying us.

Nuclear weapons are one of, if not the most, life saving inventions of the 20th century.

An init system is not supposed to do security. This is something Poettering and you don't seem to get. Its perfectly possible to secure a system without systemd and just because you don't know how to do it doesn't mean it can't be done and wasn't done before the systemd dogs dinner was written. NOTHING you have mentioned should be done by init. I suggest you go look up the unix philosophy then get back to me. If you don't like it maybe you'd be better off with Windows.

Bioware may well be a shadow of its former self, but at the end of the day, love or hate what they produced in their latter days, it's all people that worked every day to do their best to bring about what management and the employed script writers specified.
There are many posts about graphics being superb, but gameplay lacking. That's a decision by game designers, rather than all the team, many of who are lumbered with knowing it could be better but constrained to produce what the spec and story said.

I feel for the team, each of who would be trying to make a living, and hope that some of the other studios may be able to wrangle increasing head count to absorb some of the EA fallout. Or that some kickstarter will be set up by the now unemployed members to rebuild some of what the old Bioware (and others) were once known for.

Good luck out there, ex EA employees. We'll be cheering you on for a path back to stability!