Highly likely they believe the man is Satoshi Nakamoto.

Not the fact the management tools for Kindle owners looks like something from the 90's.
Not the fact that the various things you need to do with a Kindle are spread over 2~3 different systems/sites.
No. None of those horrible things matter. Only the money matters. Good job Amazon. Not surprised at all.

That entire Kindle thing deserves to die. Shame on Amazon.

That's not the only one either (you're talking about the guy with the blowtorch, right?)

I saw other posts on nextdoor where people reported a homeless looking person lighting crumpled pieces of paper on fire, and throwing them into bushes every few feet, in their neighborhood. They reported it and the Sheriff arrived quickly. I hope an arrest was made, but more than that, I hope we'll actually be told the truth about the various arson attacks.

If you're interested in some cool stories about this and older vulnerabilities/exploits, this is a fun book from the OG, Captain Crunch:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Beyond_The_Little_Blue_Box/IWNmDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

I highly recommend it, those were different times and people don't know how bad the technology was before SS7...

I don't understand why they don't see this as an opportunity. Offer the $15 plan and just throttle it. Should bring in a ton of customers. And an existing customer is more likely to upgrade to a faster plan, vs. someone who is not yet a customer directly jumping to the expensive plan...

This software snobbery is inflicting the world of Crypto as well. And shut up, don't tell me it's easy enough. Shut the hell up and get out of here. Fix the damn thing. Make it EASY. It should get to the point where an idiot who did not finish school can use the damn thing.

I run several email servers all around the world and the .TOP TLD has been blocked for a few years now. We have been receiving literally ZERO legitimate emails from that TLD, so we simply blocked it among a few others.

There's no phone they can't unlock. There's always some trick, some vulnerability, and it's just a matter of having a determined hacker work on the device for long enough. This is just a ruse to give criminals and terrorists a false sense of security.

I'd wager $10 they paid someone 6 BTC for that video proof showing the data being deleted.

As we've all witnessed over the last few years, it's too easy for rogue states to sever underwater fiber optic cables.

I have a feeling Microsoft is reading between the lines of the current geopolitical situation and is worried a foreign sub could take out their underwater data centers.

How do we know Tether didn't use customer funds? After the FTX disaster, I'm automatically suspicious.

It's a bigger achievement than most people think because that was just one on one, but you can deploy a swarm of AI pilots and they would easily overwhelm any human flown squadron. It gets worst too: Training humans to dog fight is a long and expensive process, and humans can not withstand the G forces that AIs can (plus humans are fragile and die). With AI planes, whatever they learn is shared among the swarm instantly. Training data is used to teach newer models. Human fighter pilots are different, and it takes time for human teams to learn to work together, but AI swarms work together in an algorithmic manner. You can add more AI pilots, and it will only make the swarm stronger. All the US has to do now is manufacture as many AI fighter planes as possible to achieve air superiority. Even better if it can create robots that create the AI fighter planes. It should then give them some level of autonomy so they can improve the manufacturing process on their own. Wink wink nudge nudge.

I wish our situation stopped reminding me of the obok "Timescape" by Gregory Benford, published in 1980. "Timescape" is a science fiction novel that deals with the concept of tachyon particles being used for communication between the future and the past. In the novel, the world is facing ecological disaster, and scientists from the future attempt to send messages back in time to warn of the impending catastrophe, hoping to prevent it from happening. The environmental disaster involves widespread pollution and ecological collapse (the ocean suddenly becomes toxic).

When we ingest materials / ideas / concepts, written in someone else's style, those concepts get translated by our brains to our inner perception of the world and of the concepts presented. When we write them back down on paper, we're often going to use a different writing style than the author's. In the process, we also pass the materials through our short term memory, and the translated output (which we would write down, if we needed to), is easier for our brains to associate and remember long term.

In contrast, with computers we are not asked to rewrite the materials, and in addition the materials are pre-compressed to computer medium, and presented in shorter formats (and more compatible for people with short attention spans).

If on the other hand you asked people to read a concept, asked them to summarize it into a text box, then passed it through OpenAI's GPT for example, and asked GPT whether or not the student properly understood the concept (and then helped the student understand their mistake, or expand on things they missed then ask again), then you'd get feature parity between computers and paper.

Being scraped by large companies is a poor excuse. Reddit is publicly accessible, and any junior engineer can write a distributed scraper that uses thousands of proxies around the world to scrape everything that goes on in reddit 24 hours a day. Having the API is obviously a bit easier but it is by no means an obstacle for anyone interested in scraping reddit data.