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Comment Cracked screens (Score 1) 124

It could be argued that the duo and touchscreen are precursors to creating a singular experience. It would also allow significant cuts within Apple Corp headcount.
The duo was bound to have some phones with issues. But as most of us learned in fifth grade science, friction is real. I see these videos on YouTube where people are opening and closing the duos very quickly. which is bound to generate excess heat and will fatigue the screens, the components, the metal, etc.
The MacBook Pro shipping with a touchscreen seems out of sync with the user of the pro series. I do feel it's a consolation prize for having to spend so much extra on memory.

Comment AI will finally make the infrastructure safe (Score 2) 29

The Internet is literally glued together with "good enough to ship" code.
Sure, there will be pain at times but at the end of the day, it'll be more resilient. Don't think for a second foreign adversaries aren't looking for an angle to exploit, the same way we are.
Plus, Skynet needs a better backbone if it wants to be resilient.

Submission + - Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet? (techcrunch.com)

sziring writes: A startling announcement went out earlier this week: Due to recently discovered vulnerabilities in the open source programming language PHP, website owners had to immediately patch their sites â" or if they couldnâ(TM)t update right away, they should take the sites down to be safe.
On this weekâ(TM)s episode of TechCrunchâ(TM)s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean Oâ(TM)Kane, and I discussed the significance of the PHP-ocalypse and whether weâ(TM)ll see more incidents like this in the future.
Sean called this âoea real reckoning momentâ that highlights how âoewhen you get down to the bone level of the internet,â everything seems to be âoeheld together by glue and dreams.â And with widespread access to large language models and AI agents, itâ(TM)s only going to become easier to find these vulnerabilities. (That said, these specific vulnerabilities were found by human researchers, not AI models.)
Kirsten, meanwhile, wondered if weâ(TM)re about to see the âoenext level of prepper doom [â¦] because you could see how banks could get exploited, and [with] data and privacy concerns, it just feels a lot bigger than we can fix right now.â
Keep reading for a preview of our conversation, edited for length and clarity.
Sean Oâ(TM)Kane: The internet is breaking in lots of ways this week, it seems.
I think the best way to think about this, if people are coming into this kind of cold: How many times over the last 10 years have we had these moments where something breaks or something nearly breaks, where one person maintaining one tiny repro repository as a hobby or whatever happens to catch that something nefarious is going on and and saves us from the infrastructure of the internet completely crumbling?
Now multiply that by a billion, when people have access to not only extremely advanced software in the form of these LLMs that everybody uses, but also the ability to task them to go out and do it themselves, with creating AI agents that are single-minded at accomplishing those things.
Weâ(TM)re seeing a balance of two things happening this week. One is a bunch of the labs and companies like Google and OpenAI actually had people go out and find a bunch of vulnerabilities, including the one with PHP. And then we also have a bunch of people seeming to rush to take advantage of those vulnerabilities to try and hack into websites. So we have governments taking down websites, we have really popular websites that are going down briefly to be able to fix this vulnerability.
This is a real reckoning moment, where weâ(TM)re going to find out the downside risk of building so much of the internet on open source technology like PHP. When you really get down to the bone level of the internet, it is held together with glue and dreams.

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