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Comment Re:If you are posting vulnerabilities to hurt anyo (Score 1) 41

> Why disgruntled though

This person participated in the bug bounty program and Microsoft refused to pay the bounties on reported bugs. Many news stories covered the situation.

The reported bugs in Defender got CVE's and emergency updates.

Now she's on a mission.

A few tens of thousands of dollars was the cost of avoiding all this.

Comment Re:sounds like a distraction (Score 3, Interesting) 67

Correct, but Huang is a also a huge proponent of democratized open source access to AI systems which directly threaten the business potential of large proprietary models.

Expect regulators to try to shut down Huggingface on "national security" grounds soon.

Anthropic thinks their prompts are worth $2T and DoW thinks Claude is good at picking civilian targets for missile strikes.

The only "evidence" against Huang right now is four anonymous Intelligence sources to NYT et. al.. Being a dirty dog doesn't take down a megacorp CEO - unfortunately it's the norm.

Under Michael Yon's model the main geopolitical competition of current day is Han vs. Zion so all this makes sense through that lens.

I'm with the decentralization of power crowd, whichever ethnicity is promoting it this week. Centralization of power always leads to Death Cults.

Comment Sure, Jan. (Score 1) 111

yeah, I'm sure they were doing updates on the FAA core routers during the busiest part od the travel week, pushing to prod just before the weekend, and at Market close.

C'mon.

Yeah, yeah, they don't want to scare people or admit weakness.

It would be especially odd if this Administration told the truth today for the first time.

Thankfully this turned out to be one-and-done. I totally understand the motivations but I still have stuff to do before the big one.

Comment Re:Things are going to get pretty messed up soon (Score 1) 44

Copyright is backed up by courts, which are protected by men with guns. And if you have an idea, you don't have to patent it. And if you have a patent, you don't have to protect it (making it public domain like status). We don't have to have patents, that is also a choice.

Corporations have a lot in common with Patents, protecting property rights with public charters defended by the state (people with guns). We don't have to have those either. I'd be okay with taking government out of the Corporation business, and start holding corporate boards accountable for the corporation itself.

Comment Re:Lose access? (Score 4, Informative) 59

You log into your Chromebook wirh your .edu account and it disables search for anyone in the org.

Somebody pointed out here last time that if you append &utm=15 or something to the URL it goes back to the old Search.

So it sounds like they're making a huge lie of omission.

What's sad is they could use an LLM to teach Socratically with any search terms but they want so badly to suppress critical thinking and shove "alignment" down kids' throats that they are being belligerent.

The dont-be-evil era company would be making the best teaching Search.

It's a huge market void for someone with more time than I have right now.

Comment Re:Things are going to get pretty messed up soon (Score -1, Troll) 44

I don't know what the fuck you do about any of this but we are going to have to figure out some kind of Middle ground between every single console game can be pirated with ease on your PC and none of us were allowed to own hobbyist PCS anymore.

Don't mind that you contradicted yourself here in ways you probably don't realize.

"There ought to be a law" isn't a double sided sword, but you're wielding it that way. Why do we have to figure out anything? Do you want to protect Nintendo (and all the corporations you derided in your post) or do you want liberty to use your "hobbyist PCS" as you see fit?

Freedom is scary. People will do shit you (and me) won't like.

Here is my take as a Libertarian. Copyrights and Patents ought to be taxed by the holders of those protected classes. Choosing to not pay those taxes liberates those patents and copyrights to the public domain. How this works in Nintendo's case here is ... I doubt they'd be spending millions protecting old titles in perpetuity and they'd be released to the Public. Copyrights and Patents ARE a creation of the state, protected by laws of the state, enforced by the power of the state and ought to be paid for by those it protects. These taxes could pay for a great deal, and once they no longer benefit the holders, become public and benefit everyone everywhere equally. This is the one kind of tax that I can get on board with, because it is 100% voluntary and doesn't force anyone to do anything.

In this case here, what I run on my PC is my business. The tools for allowing me to run Nintendo's "Property" aren't Nintendo's, and they have no control over my stuff at all.

Mr. Universe, a technophile and information broker who broadcasts uncensored truths across the system, telling Captain Malcolm Reynolds: "Can't stop the signal, Mal. Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere." - Mister Universe

(see also, Streisand Effect)

Comment "unauthorized" (Score 1) 74

The fact that they make sure to include that repeatedly tells me that the real reason is they have their own AI agent that they want you to use, possibly for an extra fee, definitely trained to not bypass all the dark patterns they use to upsell you shit.

Oh, and there'll be absolutely no problem with giving THAT one all your personal and financial data, because trust us bro, we're the airline, we're famous for being totally not sleazy...

Comment Re:AI will decide winners, this is a dumb move (Score 2) 74

I think you significantly overstate the gravity of their announcement. You can entirely bot the process of finding a flight to suit and handing you a link; open it, pay with stored credit card, and you'll still be entirely within what they explicitly allow.

In practice they don't necessarily have much incentive to do anything about bookings they have some sloppy-implementation reason to suspect are fully botted(in their ideal world comparison searching would presumably be harder; but cat is obviously out of the bag on that one an concealing that almost all of the work was automated will be relatively simple so there's a high false positive risk); but since you were specifically directed to not do that they are better placed to deal with cases where someone's openclaw fiasco buys them a nonsense route and they want to try to make it the airline's problem.

Comment Re:Not really news (Score 2) 74

Alleged professionals checking secrets into github and shipping them in retail binaries is at least as old as 'devops' being a thing people say with a straight face; and standards in 'AI' and for amateurs are even lower than in software development generally. There's some diversity in terms of the ignorant vs. the negligent; but in practice egregious mishandling of secrets is to be expected.

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