The summary says they are going thru a home router. It is one of the reasons I refuse to allow things like TSTat's to get a wifi password. I don't know what the thing is doing, so it doesn't get access. I think you are suggesting these pic frames etc are running thru some secret network, which I don't think is what the article is suggesting. They are saying they are running thru your network by contacting a bot master once connected to the network.

To create those images I think they dig holes and pop dynamite. I don't think sitting in a bath tub with a bunch of low power emitters is going to cut it. In my case, they pushed a moderate sized probe similar to baby ultrasounds hard into my abdomen to get the probe closer to my aorta. Not sure if they push that hard for baby pics, I'd hope not, it was very uncomfortable, very. Perhaps the baby snaps are easier as the baby is closer to the skin. Which is kind of my point. I don't think the ultrasound penetrates well in the body. MRI is like dynamite power when you think about. Those magnets are massive.

I may well be proven wrong, it just feels like another Theranos.

MRI and Ultrasound are used for different stuff. Just like sometimes you can't do an MRI if you need a CT scan. Heck sometimes a plain old X-ray is more useful than an MRI. Ultra sounds are useful don't get me wrong, its the implication when they say "MRI-like images" that I find deceitful. I'm also a bit skeptical of even the ultrasound comparison. The ultrasound I had for blood vessel blockage they jammed that probe pretty hard into me, probably to get the probe closer to the actual vessels and move stuff out of the way.

I think this is the most forgotten thing about fast changing products. One of my cars is a 2011, or now 15 years old. Runs great. Parts if something fails though are now getting into the iffy stage. Fortunately a fairly common model, so they may keep making parts for awhile longer. But if they stop making the ECM or some other module, and it fails, I'm screwed. Imagine having to toss your car in the scrap heap after say 6 years because the dash display is no longer available.

I'm confused, the first trillionaire is in the west. I expect we also have more billionaire's than any other country. And display of wealth, oh my god. Swift is having the wedding of the century, bezos's yacht is so big he can't park it in many places he might want so is selling it, ... Meanwhile, remember when Jack Ma got a little too big for his britches? Yeah, quieted right down. How does one shut musk up?

I'd be cautious on spacex. They were touting their AI in the IPO. spacex is severely over valued at this moment.

It looks a lot like they will require the VMware style Broadcom pricing increase on steroids. Seeing how well the broadcom thing is going down, I can't image how hard to swallow the AI price increase will be.

Ah thanks for the remembrance. It was FDIV.

A German court just did an interesting thing. They ruled google's AI summaries are fair game for incorrect answers. The ruled that it was not a search result, so google bares liability for the answer. Hopefully the beginning of a massive set of rulings that make the ai makers think about where they could end up liability wise. I think interesting, because the ai guys have put themselves in a box. They claim it is not a copy to avoid paying fees to who they scoop up from, and since it is "original" they own the output and if the output is wrong, which it often is, they are liable.

Funny how we worry about tiny errors in sqrt on a computer and yet we rave about hallucinating AI. I think fundamentally the problem with AI is that the common non-techie is believing the answer from AI like they do from a sqrt. I still recall I think it was Intel that had the major flub in some IEEE math result that many wanted to have Intel do a complete recall. I can't remember the details it has been so long and I didn't own the product so it did not affect me. If it was an AI error, no one would even notice it was such a tiny error like microsoft's calculator.

Because the mob wants action now. The news story is about the kid until found, and the arrest makes the headlines, the later determined wrongful arrest is on page 10. As I said, it has happened throughout history, although to me it seems to be getting worse with modern culture. Maybe it is the short attention spans of today. Maybe it is the instant news. Not sure. I agree it is not logical, but it is.

Possibly, many chemical ones are not that hard to produce for a modern society. Ukraine I expect has the ability. But I really don't expect Russia to go that route. As I mentioned somewhere else, in some ways, land mines are just as bad and I thought being deployed by both sides. They are indiscriminate, difficult to remove after the skirmish, and in Ukraine's case, will be on their land and will need careful expensive clearing.

It is the "think of the children" thing. Society will do anything to prevent harm. License plate readers, facial recog, ... It has always been true. Old movies about incorrect identifications that go very wrong with a mob that lynches someone. Even in a crises, it is important to take the right steps, otherwise the crises devolves into multiple disasters, not just the original crime.

It is somewhat similar to landmines, that don't differentiate between friend/foe. Step in the wrong spot, its over. I also thought the NK/SK DMZ was a automated kill zone. I thought both sides used automated firing to kill anything in the area. For SK, Samsung builds it. I didn't read the article, but the summary points out it was a test, 2 years ago and not used. I'm sure someone worried a bit about what if the drones got lost and started killing your soldiers instead of the enemy.

I think depends. If putin openly used chemical weapons in ukraine, well, what if the west (which lets be real has them too) supplied ukraine with bountiful supply of its own. Now ukraine gets to equal (and maybe better) the chemical warfare russia is using against ukraine. I'm not sure putin would want to escalate that. Granted he tosses people into the meat grinder, but those people may rather die in prison than get killed with chemical weapons. Escalation in war today is a weird thing. In prior major wars, all weapons were used that were available. The US used a nuke basically as soon as it was ready. Germany would have too if it had it before the collapse. So far we have not had a major war. The big guys now either use proxies to wage a war or if they are directly involved "special military actions" against weaker states. I would say el dumbo may be pushing the world into a all out major one though. Pissing off friends, attacking countries because he has constipation that day, trade wars. Really the man is an idiot. A moron. Rome is burning and dumbo is building a ballroom.

Except I don't believe "technically" the US has declared war on anyone since WWII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

North Korea was a UN action, Vietnam was a sole US action, and hopefully Iran is not going to turn into a Vietnam length "military action". Iraq was all about Jr being pissed about dad's not killing Sadam the 1st time. I know the Bush Sr action had some other countries involved, not sure who. And at least Sr had a good reason. Saddam was invading Kuwait. And I just don't remember what Jr had in terms of other countries. I knew the whole WMD thing was a liar liar pants on fire thing when shrub decided to go in. As I said, Afghanistan was a mutual effort. An effort the US bungled as I'd expect. Billions wasted and lives spent for literally no reason. The R's just seem to have a habit of starting pissing matches I guess to stroke their egos. Even though few step foot on a battlefield. Bone spurs trump and I forget what shrub jr's excuse was. And then you have the few actual soldiers like McCain that get called stupid by el trumpo. Frankly I think it would be good karma for the US if trumpo got whacked by Iran, like he whacked their leader. Maybe while he snoozes at the next playoff game.