is that things being sold as AI aren't just a fraud. We already know that these tools rely on huge amounts of third world labor. I think it's just a matter of time before we discover that these are just elaborate mechanical Turks, and the force behind the "AI" is just low paid humans on the other side of the planet.

No, it wasn't "AI" that came up with this, it was "NS" (Natural Stupidity).

It is breathtaking that a bunch of AI "experts" in academia, who we must presume have advanced degrees, don't seem to have even a rudimentary understanding of how governments work.

any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered with the word "no."

I agree: the amount of money they could have lost trying to sell an Oracle Smart Phone is incalculable

If I'm being paid (and billed) by the hour then you bet I'm counting that time as work. If I'm exempt (salaried) then I do what must be done. If there is some hard limit on the number of hours that can be worked then I'll take "comp-time" at my earliest convenience.

... to be competent when you are incompetent? Sounds like a question posed by a Marxist.

and, oddly, it's the capitalists who are always trying to answer this admittedly stupid question with equally stupid (but profitable) solutions.

Digital ads only feel "psychic" if your psychic can only see the recent past and thinks that they're looking at the future.

but there's no way that's actually the case. Amazon and eBay are wormy with this sort of scam, and they put actual effort into combating it. The only reason Google thinks they caught this early is a combination of willful ignorance and wishful thinking.

The fusion isn't a fusion of quarks, but of baryons: two Lambda baryons fuse to form a Chi baryon and a neutron, which is analogous to Deuterium/Tritium nuclear fusion. The bottom form of the Lambda to Chi baryon fusion results in about 11x as much energy released as the charmed form.

Anyone who knows anything about subatomic physics would know that you can't have fusion of individual quarks because quarks never occur individually outside of a baryon, so the summary is simply incoherent nonsense.

Yes, you are giving the CIA way too much credit. However, this is exactly what the FSB would do in order to 1) discredit the CIA, and 2) cover their own tracks. The data dump came through a source known to be associated to, and supportive of Russian interests, so we should actually assume that any misdirection is on the part of the FSB, or other Russian interests. Maybe the CIA, or the NSA, or some other U.S. TLA, has capabilities beyond what are exposed in the Wikileaks data dump, but we should assume that the actual action is elsewhere.

That said, we should all be using strong encryption: no need to make things easy for the bastards.

It's called M-ac OS X, pronounced Ten Throatwarbler Luxury Yacht. The "Q" is silent, as in "Fox."

after which the SamsungBag will be recalled because it, unexpectedly and spontaneously, bursts into flames.

It's funny because it's TRUE!

I can think of two other operating systems, other than Windows 10, that will "Optimize" Kaby Lake processors, but I'll leave it as an exercise for the student to figure out which ones they are.

I wish I had mod points today: +Informative