And argue about them vehemently!

Pay no attention to Iran. Or gas prices. Or food or rent prices. Or thugs disappearing foreigners off the street. Or Epstein. Or . . .

Thank you, came here for exactly this!

It's immediately striking there are no independent validations of any of these self-interested claims by a commercial developer. It looks like an oversize bacckpack leaf blower. Nothing that seems like it could effectively cover a large area or a home interior. What, it's going to BLOW this through our HVAC ducts??

I'd also demand some solid safety certification of those claims of "harmless to pets and humans" . . .

And finally, yeah - the New York Post?? Sheesh! ChatGPT summarized it well:

Congratulations, you just joined the DOJ's watchlist.

Is .fucktrump taken?

Come on, I know Slashdot is far from real journalism, but this is an important news item. From a source (credited, at least by name in text) I hadn't encountered, but that appears to have valuable credentials. To find TFA I had to first search up The Conversation's site, then search there for the article. The Slashdot post doesn't even include enough of the TFA title to easily search it.

Yet even an outrage piece about a fucking Pokemon Go tournament leads with a link to TFA. Entertainment above journalism.

US government ramps up mass surveillance with help of AI tech, data brokers – and your apps and devices

You're welcome

Edited from "See the One Weird Way Apple Has Been Letting the Cops Spy On Signal Chats"

Patel is trying a weak-tea diversion from his drinking and misuse of gov resources troubles.

The myth of Mythos has done its job. How long do you think before Hegseth is DEMANDING to be give access?

Users of Open Source should aggressively test security using AI tools themselves?

This seems like a twist on "Problem of Commons" economics. If users of free commons resources don't commit to help keep the shared resource clean (defend it by helping secure the software) then everybody loses when the resource gets trashed.

Hopefully this is just a latency period because not enough open source contributors yet exist who've become skilled in AI tools.

"Ministry of Truth" or MiniTruth (to reference the canonical source, Orwell)

Presumably by "China" you mean the People's Republic of China. As opposed to the Republic of China (Tiawan). Where a large fraction of US and global semiconductor manufacturering is done.

Exactly this

It was clear from the start this is primarily a move to put Trump's goons in DOD (legally there still is no Department of War, that's just Hegseth's cosplay) and DHS, the parent of ICE, in charge of parts of the economy they have no constitutional or statutory authority over. It's all power grab pure and simple.

The money grift part goes without saying. Anything Trump does is grift. Just like any time his lips move, he's lying.

Haven't read it; sounds interesting. But a whole trilogy? One of the things I respect about Chiang's writing is his economy. He can explore important philosophical or moral themes with sensitive insight and honesty, and do it thoroughly in a short story format. A few of his stories don't seem very polished. But still they leave you thinking about the ideas they illustrated.

What? He's not?

I thought that was an AI bot all along!