So Arnie the Arsonist is standing in the middle of a bone dry field, with a lit match in his hand, saying "betcha there's going to be a wildfire starting right here!". Who's the mark taking that bet?

AI isn't going to make a profit, so they are probably looking for something that will.

So turning your TV into a part of a botnet is now "increasingly being linked to cybercrime". No shit.

None of these work because corporations will always find loopholes to waste your time until you give up. The only solution is to set up a consumer protection agency where people can file their complaints directly, and those complaints will be investigated by said agency. This motivates corporations to have good customer support, because they would rather handle issues internally.

What's left out is that the books need to be destroyed after scanning for legal reasons, to prevent publishers from claiming that they have made an unauthorized copy. IP reform can't come soon enough.

Since the scanning technique is to slice off the binding, remove the cover, and then auto-feed the pages through a high-speed scanner, it destroys the books anyway, regardless of the "stupid law".

Another win for Betteridge's law of headlines.

If the question were answered, the headline wouldn't have been in the form of a question.

The information buried way down in the article is that the atmospheric gas detected is helium.

Really not as exciting a discovery as the article makes it seem. Nobody doubts that planets can have helium in their atmosphere. In our solar system this is characteristic of the gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn) and the ice giants (Uranus, Neptune).

There are more subtle ways to make a compromised RNG. One that can only be cracked by you, not everybody on the planet.

This is the real reason Microsoft is funding the AI hype train. Nobody can buy a computer because the AI labs are hoarding all the hardware, so now you have to use MS's cloud.

I admit that before now I hadn't even heard of this one.

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
  Their website: https://zoox.com/
  News article: https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Preventing the bypass of age restrictions will be a great new excuse for preventing you to do what you want with your own device.

The article is missing key context information.

When Google says it's "shutting down" the project, does that mean that the AlphaFold software will cease to exist? Or does it mean, the project has been completed, and therefore the development team can be reassigned to new projects, but the AI prediction model can still be used to predict protein folding?

Why do you say it wouldn't be expected to have an accretion disk? The fact that we haven't seen it already isn't evidence.

"We don't know whether there are any kangaroos in my house. The fact that we haven't seen any means that they are invisible. How do we know that they are invisible? If they were visible, we would have seen them already."

Not close enough to notice. Stars are very far apart. No, strike that. Very very far apart.