The summary says: "Microsoft also addressed three zero-day flaws, including two that are already being exploited in the wild. "
(scratches head) How can a flaw be called zero-day and already be exploited in the wild?
Because a zero-day is any flaw made public before the developer knows about it. One of the main ways this happens is by noticing that hackers are breaking into systems using a heretofore unknown exploit.
Indeed it would sound very easy, except that human movements aren't random, and with proper statistical models it's quickly possible to determine someone who didn't know the difference between natural restricted and biased variance and randomness.
You're the target audience here: the people who think that this "sounds incredibly easy" will be the first to have their bots blocked. Yeah it'll be worked around, but the bar is raised in the meantime.
You're not wrong. But the same data that describes what is and isn't human input can be used to create activity that matches that data. If Cloudflare has gathered the information, someone else can as well.
This mirrors the spam arms-race that started a couple decades ago.
so a company like Apple with billions of dollars doesn't owe 5% of their holdings to the state, just the less than 300 individual billionaires that live in the state.
I feel like I need to spell out the math.
300 * 1,000,000,000 = 300,000,000,000
300,000,000 * 5% = 15,000,000,000
That's all CA will get from the one time tax "from Apple". Just 15 Billion Dollars.
Outer space is OUTSIDE of the United States.
Your statement would apply if these data center space nutters could certify that everything they launch will reach escape velocity.
For everything else, what goes up, must come down. Right back into our jurisdiction.
How exactly do you determine a camera is on a major road or route from the internet? This sounds more conspiracy theory than reality when you look at the difficulty in correlating cameras with locations.
What?
There's a whole slew of "games" that involve looking at a Google Street View image and figuring out where in the world it is. Timed competing teams try to get it as close as possible before the other team does.
Point is... if you can see what the camera sees, it's not so hard to figure out where it's at. You won't get them all, and almost none of them will be useful to you, but if you filter by geo-IP and get access to enough cameras, it's worth the time.
So the problem with these things is they Don't really work. Google admitted that at a congressional hearing.
I'm going to go ahead and ask what - specifically - Google "admitted" in said hearing. I doubt it's "don't really work" but leave open the possibility that's what was admitted, so please provide quotes.
They're basically remote controlled cars with really really fancy driver assist features.
Really? It's my understanding that they're autonomous the vast majority of the time, remote-controlled in very rare circumstances, and driver-assist never. Passengers in these cars aren't permitted to manually drive them, so driver-assist isn't a thing. I grant that I may be misinformed, but again, I invite you to provide details for your assertion.
Frighteningly
Well, yes. The media - be it traditional or social - is rather good at that, regardless of objective statistics.
it appears that they are sometimes piloted from the Philippines.
That feels like an odd thing to be frightened of. It's not Mars where there are minutes of latency. Why would the Philippines - specifically - be any more (or less) concerning than if the drivers were in a building a kilometer away from the vehicle?
Publicly Google will tell you that's not true but that's not what they told Congress when they were under oath...
That's not been a secret for ages now. In complicated situations the autonomous system can't cope with, it can call in human assistance. I've not heard that's a common or nominal mode of operation, but maybe I'm lacking in some facts. Which - unsurprisingly - you are invited to provide.
The obvious problem with all this is that they're going to have problems with ambulances and such.
That's the obvious problem? I'd've thought there are plenty, but fine. We've all know there are a lot of refinements and adjustments needed, both for the car operators and the rest of us outside of them.
And that's the waymo ones that are the best and most functional. The ones from Tesla which are so bad even Tesla doesn't really want them on the roads are a disaster waiting to happen. It does however keep their stock price up...
Sure.
Frankly these things shouldn't be on the road with us but it's not like we have any say in anything anymore
Okay, I'm no fan of these things and wouldn't volunteer to ride in one but really, this is exaggeration. The actual safety records have shown they're marginally better than human drivers. Sure, there are outliers, exceptions and downright frustrating things like what this article is about but as far as I've had any information, they're just that... outliers. Human drivers are the ones I really worry about, personally.
We can't afford to let the success of big tech companies depend on the health of fragile meatbags. We need to get resilient, fault-tolerant AGI in there running the enterprise. Also, unlike meatbags, you don't need $100M stock payouts to convince an AGI to work as a corporate executive.
How does a society treat its citizens, specifically parents and children?
Autism -- is human psychology being maladaptive because of this situation. Parents aren't there for their children to imprint-upon. The psychological distress is real. Depersonalization is a result.
This depersonalization happening during acute childhood development phases, exacerbates the problem of social disengagement.
People should be treated as people, not chattel.
They've already dealt with this. If you read the fine print on these agreements, many or most of the recent ones say that the company has the option of rolling up any "substantially similar" arbitration cases into a single mass arbitration. (Which as usual, is decided by a person whose paycheck ultimately depends on the business of that same company.)
It might be more productive to have third party labs document PFAS contamination of foods and then file a class action suit over the contamination.
Sorry. When you signed up for that discount card a few years ago, you agreed to individual binding arbitration only.
Painting or taping over?
Yes.
"Meta has previously tried to discourage tampering with the LED light. For example, starting with its second generation glasses, blocking the light with tape or other objects will trigger a prompt asking users to uncover the recording light."
I just have to chime in here. My drop-out paper - back around '91 - was titled "Shovels & Society". It was the final for my Computers and Society class - which I did not think much of. The TA was great, though.
After a few weeks in the class, the TA asked our group how many of us were in this because we enjoy programming. I raised my hand. I was it. I decided I was no longer in the right place.
Anyway, my brief argument was that computer/software advances were a lot like those of the shovel -> bulldozer, etc. Just like every other advance, ever. People would lose jobs like they always had, etc. It was supposed to be 15 pages - but I just wrote 3. I feel bad for my TA - she was so disappointed.
I've been happily programming ever since (and before). I'd learned everything I was gonna for compsci anyway.
But holy crap. AI. The shit I can get done now. I feel like there is no way I could get another programming job - between AI and Agism.
You promised AI would be getting rid of these worthless, filthy, loathsome "employees", and now you're sending more of them!
Yup.
"You're not burning through tokens fast enough to make any of this profitable for us so we're sending someone to show you how to waste resources faster."
Remember folks... every time you ask ChatGPT what Ford's web site is or ask Claude to paste in a buggle version of someone's broken code for you to debug, or ask Grok for pictures of some naked totally-adults, you're driving the price of RAM and storage up.
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
OS/2 must die!
