Wow, I haven't seen that name for quite a while. I remember as a kid really rooting for BeOS and hoping they would challenge Windows. I'm still a bit nostalgic for those days!

That's incredibly hypocritical that this hosting site wants money for "their" when they never paid a cent for the data that helpful users posted there. If they're ready to take money for the data, they should pay money for the data.

I think it would be awesome if the scientists in this town would get together and talk, and then they make some CAD files and start building stuff. If you sped up the world at like 1000x speed, maybe they'd actually make something useful!

Dammit, I want underpaid serfs to do all my labor. I tell you, civilization started collapsing when technological contrivances started doing the jobs of the underclass. Can you believe that dishwashers are now appliances and not some repressed laborers? How am I supposed to feel posh when I'm not lording it over someone who's beneath me? This idea of machines animating the backgrounds of my anime is just another step down the slippery slope. That's a job for poor kids in an Asian sweatshop, not an usuffering AI! In the end, when commercial machines replace even my butler, driver and maids, being in the ruling class will come to mean nothing at all!

I have, without any teaching assistants, organized and administered high-stakes examination interviews. Each meeting used up about 30 minutes of my time in my office, which is not too different from how long it takes me to read and grade a written test or term paper. This was in a large-ish US university, where students get nervous about that sort of thing. I can confidently report that due to my careful use of follow-up questions, I can get a very clear sense of the depth of each student's knowledge.

This was another missing piece in procedurally generated video games. I suspect that pretty soon somebody is going to stitch together a tool like this, some diffusion-based visuals generator, and chatGPT for dialogue, and we'll have an awesome open-world game with infinite replayability. All the pieces are falling into place!

,,, it would never need to close! The real issue is about less than a mile-long stretch of the beach road that could be exposed to danger from pressure tests, static fires and launches. Digging a mile-long tunnel should be pretty easy for The Boring Company. They wouldn't even need two lanes of traffic - just one lane and a traffic light on each end. Whatever dirt they dig up would probably be useful as infill on the site itself.

By his own narrative, it wasn't creating PowerShell specifically that got him demoted. It was doing "unassigned" work during work hours.

He details that it was specifically that Microsoft did/does not have the 80/20 type thing some competitors have, where you get some time to free range random concepts and ideas, so some pissy middle manager got mad that he wasn't going through the whole project approval (you know, the let everyone comment on the color of the shed stage) and he got demerits.

*What is YOUR source for this. Do you even have one?*

THE PAPER THAT WAS SUBMITTED. They are very open about the *incredibly* narrow known threat model (basically ASLR pointer obscuring *in the same process*), albeit -- as all papers do -- opining that maybe there is something worse that could be done. These sorts of security papers come out by the dozen per year, and generally no, there isn't any further risk, and the latent risk is negligible to irrelevant.

To be clear, when security researchers are pitching a novel vulnerability, the foundation of their claim is a proof of concept, because the chasm between "well it could...." and the actual can be enormous. No proof of concept. Not even a vague inclination of the knowledge of how to make a proof of concept. And this issue has been very widely disseminated, every hacker group pounding on Augury -- theoretically it is trivial to exploit on an array of pointers -- and no one else has a proof of concept yet. Weird, right?

ROFL. Classic Slashdot. Good god.

"No bias there at all."

Because I have an M1 Mac I have a "bias"? Yeah, not really. I'm typing this on an Intel box. I have servers on AMD, Graviton 2, among many others. That's a modern life.

"Sources are people in the security industry in which I work."

ROFL. Yeah, no you don't. You are claiming ridiculous things.

These sorts of "you know it *could* hypothetically be exploited" (in a profoundly narrow sense) security papers come up by the dozens per month. The overwhelming majority have no real impact whatsoever. This one is particularly spurious.

The "amateur hour" bit in your comment was particularly hilarious, and betrayed that you're just some guy saying dumb stuff.

What source says it's "impossible to mitigate this"? Do you have even one?

Because the notion is preposterous. Not only is this largely a theoretical attack (I'm being generous by not calling it a fully theoretical attack), with extremely little real world consequences, mitigations are *trivial* if it were something real.

"I really want Arm on the workstation and server to succeed."

You seem to know literally nothing about security or chip design, and decided to post some tosser, laugahble anti-Apple screed. Me, I'll keep using my M1 Mac, and have been using ARM on the server for half a decade now. Hurrr.

I feel like I consume more than my fair share of audiobooks, and I have definitely run into human readers who were so douchey that their terrible performances ruined my immersion in the book. The worst is when you can tell by their intonation that they don't understand what they're reading. AI readers now are far worse than the worst smarmy douchebag voice actor, but AI improves fast.

If some machine learning geniuses got a hold of the problem and used few million hours of transcribed, natural speech as a training set, they might achieve a lot. Another huge improvement would be to hire a human creative director with very high standards and give them easy-to-use tools by which to micromanage the diction of the AI on a granular level. I'm imagining something like a musical clef for the audiobook performance that would precisely determine each syllable's pitch, pace, and other elements of the performance. (The decisions of the human production director would themselves become training data for the AI's prediction engine.)

Good production directors wouldn't need good voices to direct the AI how to read a certain hard passage. The AI could just extract the essence of the performance data from the voiced examples of the director - kind of like motion capture in CGI video. Companies could even give the authors the courtesy of reviewing the AI audiobook and fixing any remaining mistakes of intonation by simply recording those parts the right way and importing the essence of those recordings into the voice synthisizer.

What I'm saying is that AI audiobooks will not automate everything all at once. If they're any good, lots of very competent human labor will be needed to guide the AI voice.

They plan to do it "as soon as possible"? Why is it not possible to submit the application for Emergency Use Authorization right away? Did the FDA fax back something like "Hey Merck dudes, I know you wanted us to look at that emergecy use thingie, but only Janet knows where all the forms are, and she's gonna be in Cancun for maybe another ten days. Sorry, hope there is no EMERGENCY! Haha, jk! But when she gets back you should totally submit that thing, looks sweet! - FDA"

They're using a payment processor. Meaning a third-party is converting cryptocoins to real money, and the real money is transmitted to Newegg.

Bitpay added dogecoin a month ago, so now they can milk this with every retailer that has Bitpay as an option.