Comment Re: Thanks EMACS (Score 1) 99
Love my vi although I only know five or so commands and that is all I typically need.
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.
Comment Re: They literally sold the last bit two years ago (Score 1) 115
Back then, sometimes Congress did things. And sometimes it was lame. It wasn't just one person running the show.
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.
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.
Comment Re: Verizon isn't much better (Score 1) 95
Comcast actually has symmetrical gig speed up and down now. The buffer bloat is still a factor though. Of course they donâ(TM)t advertise it until you go to cancel. but still
Comment Re: Misleading way to phrase this much? (Score 1) 222
If they are so insecure you would think dhs could just grab one unnoticed.
Comment You canâ(TM)t have both (Score 1) 152
Start it back up and see what happens, most likely it was built during a time of over-engineering, not simply cutting corners and will be restarted without issue. They need to do something to meet the energy demands and this makes the most sense
Comment Re: Accident is what worries me (Score 2) 152
Fujishima was due to an earthquake and proximity to the sea.
Comment Re: I donâ(TM)t get it. (Score 1) 49
Who knows what the future holds for those jobs. Today it is more about replacing the better-paying jobs that provide excess money to visit Thailand and feed the economy you just described. Less jobs, less disposable income, fewer trips and tourist money to feed those services.
Comment Itâ(TM)s something (Score 1) 49
Itâ(TM)s something I wish more companies would embrace. It might be a tax break, or good pr but still. Not waiting until the founder is in their 60â(TM)s to use the money for some form of public good (or bribery) is good.
Comment Re:You don't want to see an angry Claude (Score 1) 236
Just sunshine and rainbows when interacting with your LLM will teach it you are subservient. Anthropic is manipulating users behavior of those customers that continue using it. The real fear is that LLMs will become cruel like humans.
Comment Re:Laws only work... (Score 1) 116
they can ban import of LED and other bright lights but short of that I don't think they can enforce it. Even a light meter would be subjective based off the angle it took the reading on. I understand European headlights are way ahead of US. Adaptive headlights to auto dim one or both when another light is detected. Headlights that angle etc. There are some, VW Atlas when turning makes the direction you are turning automatically brighter.
Instead of banning adopt so that trend takes off instead.
Comment Re:Get out a backhoe (Score 1) 115
Duct tape might be considered damaging the property. They can bag or obstruct them. Better yet stream things in front of the cameras to cause them to constantly be alerted, most wanted profiles, etc. So many out of the box options available.
Comment Re:Isn't the length of a day variable? (Score 1) 75
Correct. So it will be out of sync and so will Bezo's 10,000 year clock in the mountain.
speeding up
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
slowing down
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
Comment Flock can provide it free (Score 1) 51
If Flock is so innocent in all this it should provide the data free of charge. If the gov had any brains they would write it into the contracts (pending their approval, obviously).
