Oops - read that wrong - prices start at US 7K/year!

Huh... so the kid who's the CEO of his own botnet monitoring company (with prices starting at US 7k/month) looking for threats "stops" one of the most virulent botnet attacks in recent history?

"Benjamin Brundage is founder of Synthient, a startup that tracks proxy services and was the first to document Kimwolf’s unique spreading techniques. Brundage said the Kimwolf operator(s) have been trying to build a command and control network that can’t easily be taken down by security companies and network operators that are working together to combat the spread of the botnet." ...

"Meanwhile, Brundage said the good news is Kimwolf’s overlords appear to have quite recently alienated some of their more competent developers and operators, leading to a rookie mistake this past week that caused the botnet’s overall numbers to drop by more than 600,000 infected systems.
“It seems like they’re just testing stuff, like running experiments in production,” he said. “But the botnet’s numbers are dropping significantly now, and they don’t seem to know what they’re doing.”

How... convenient...

Dr. Gillian Taylor: "Do you like Italian?"
Spock: "No."

One of the writers for The Island: "Alex Kurtzman".

Oh, of course.

Also, The Sixth Day https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...

Interesting... I'd be surprised that Sam would leave a BILLION on the table. I wonder if Disney pulled the plug with the new CEO trying to curry favor with the actor's union and that's why OpenAI decided to "refocus"

"Focus on core values"

Yeah, BS.

Disney made a major investment and had them shut Sora down so Disney can use it in house exclusively.

Or are we officially admitting that doesn't really work and trying to decide if a quarter of a bicycle wheel in a tile counts as the bicycle or not?

Bitcoin doesn't generally provide perverse incentives for people to manipulate political events or assassinate political leaders so they can win bets online.

"That's what she said."

No kidding, how is this any different than saying "The laptop we provide to you, which is required to do your work, is considered part of your compensation. But no, you don't get to take it with you when you leave."

Uh... excuse me. Yes, AI can generate code. Who's going to read it to verify the AI wrote something correctly? Middle management? An untrained monkey? No. You're still going to need an actual Software Engineer. Assuming you can even drop the grunt coders, they're usually junior devs who are on their way to becoming engineers but now never will. Then you're going to end up in a dystopian society where humans end up like Eloi, living off of technology they don't understand and being driven to slaughter like cattle by the Morlocks (oh who am I kidding, it's already happening!)

There's no doubt that AI is a powerful and very disruptive tool. But this isn't the car replacing the horse and buggy. It's a fundamental shift in how man interacts with computers. But the deeper questions are barely being discussed, let alone explored. What happens to programming language development? Do we need Rust at all now that AI can write bulletproof C++ code? Or do we need a more human readable high level language (neo-genesis Cobol) to better interpret what the AI is coding?

I'm constantly reminded these days of that quote from Tron - "Won't that be grand. Computers will start thinking and the people will stop." but maybe Vader's line is more appropo - "Don't be too fond of this technological terror you've constructed."

A device that repeats what the computer says is the most profitable product in India...

AI agents wouldn't post dupes...