Posts by Sora2566

Cruise robotaxis parked forever, as GM decides it can't compete and wants to cut costs

As James May put it succinctly:

"It's all bollocks. Self-driving cars were invented ages ago. They were called 'taxis'."

Police arrest suspect in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, with grainy pics the only tech involved

Something something the only thing the poor will have left to eat will be the rich.

This guy may well have broken the law, but good luck convicting him in the court of public opinion.

Elon Musk tops US political donor list with $270M+ for Team Trump

"Its hard to disagree with them"

Really? I find it very easy.

Australia passes law to keep under-16s off social media – good luck with that, mate

You'll have to forgive me, I deleted my account after Cambridge Analytica, so I have no idea who uses Facebook these days.

At the very least, make it clear to kids that they're not *supposed* to be on here. I'm pretty sure most of the 12-year-olds on Facebook don't know they're in violation of Facebook's TOC.

Abandoned US Army 'city under the ice' imaged in serendipitous NASA find

This feels like the plot of a paperback thriller novel. It feel that way to anyone else? "A cold war base, previously buried under the ice, is getting ready to unleash its dark secrets once more..."

Chinese cyberspies, Musk’s Beijing ties, labelled ‘real risk’ to US security by senator

Trump: Well, that's easily solved then! I'll just slap bigly tarrifs on everything being made in China!

Musk: Um, er, oh, ee....

Google claims Big Sleep 'first' AI to spot freshly committed security bug that fuzzing missed

I suppose even a broken clock is right twice a day...

Meta's plan for nuclear datacenter reportedly undone by bees

Sure, nuclear-powered AI is better than coal-powered AI, but it's nowhere near as good as nuclear-powered houses and *no* AI...

Python dethrones JavaScript as the most-used language on GitHub

I'll be very curious to know if any of those AI projects are still being maintained in 5 year's time...

Or even in 2...

Microsoft accused of 'greenwashing' as AI used in fossil fuel exploration

Re: Sigh....

No, but a) AI sucks up power like nothing else short of cryptomining, and b) all the resources going into expanding the fossil fuel industry are resources that can't be put into replacing the fossil fuel industry.

Yet another UK government seeks to reform GDPR

Re: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Sir Humphrey, is that you?

Fake reviewers face the wrath of Khan

Yeah, had to read that one several times myself.

Microsoft says more ransomware stopped before reaching encryption

*nice way for MS to make sure you keep using Windows

Passkeys aren't browser-specific, they're stored in the OS. So it's the OS (Android, iOS/MacOS, Windows) they lock people into, not the browser (Edge, Chrome, Safari, Firefox).

Vietnam plans to convert all its networks to IPv6

It's really annoying that Vietnam has a much better network infrastructure plan than my country (Australia) does.

I mean good for them (minus the AI datacenters, they could really do without those), but still.

WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly forked and legal letters fly

Yeah, nobody's coming out of this smelling like roses.

Cops love facial recognition, and withholding info on its use from the courts

At this point, I'm not sure the US police would obey if the technology was banned outright.

It's true, social media moderators do go after conservatives

Re: Musk Ambition

"misinformation happens to be protected speech under the US 1st Amendment."

The best argument you can think of for defending this behaviour is that the US Government can't arrest you for it?

Watch your mirrors: Tesla Cybertrucks have 'Full' 'Self Driving' now

Isn't this the state of all self-driving cars generally, not just Tesla?

US Army orders next-gen robot mule to haul a literal ton of gear

Re: How is this better than a truck ?

Making army gear look like civilian gear usually leads to the enemy forces shooting at civilians, so that's a no-go.

Elon's latest X-periment: Blocked users can still stalk your public tweets

Re: Isn't this a duh?

The ability for people you block to falsly report every Xweet you make sounds like the real problem to me.

Cloudflare tightens screws on site-gobbling AI bots

The only contract I want with AI is to keep them off my website.

Cards Against Humanity deals SpaceX a $15M lawsuit over Texas turf tangle

That would imply that the wall is any good at stopping people crossing it, when we have video footage of people tossing ropes over it and just climbing over. And that's when the wall doesn't just fall down in a stiff breeze, as we also have footage of.

WhatsApp still working on making View Once chats actually disappear for all

Re: Disappearing privacy

And even then, nothing can stop me from just taking a photo of the screen.

Putin really wants Trump back in the White House

Re: Eric Hoffer had Donald Trump COMPLETELY figured out YEARS AGO---

"peace and stability" is certainly *one* way to describe the COVID-19 pandemic who handling Trump completely bungled...

Google dodges €1.5B EU ads antitrust fine after appeal win

What, does the EU really thing Google isn't being anticompetitive? Do they not have eyes and ears?

Unity scraps hated runtime fees, hits devs with subscription hikes instead

Yeah, but the real trick will be convincing people that you aren't going to suddenly switch back to the runtime fees again - and good luck with that.

Domo arigato, Mr Roboto: Japan's bullet trains to ditch drivers

I'm glad the Shinkansen have such a good safety record. I'd hate to see it get broken because of a software bug.

Especially in a country where failures that bad often result in, er... "train delays".

WhatsApp's 'View Once' could be 'View Whenever' due to a flaw

I mean, at the end of the day I'm not sure that this *can* be fixed.

In order for the client to view the message, the server has to send the message to the client. What the client does with the message after that is now out of the sever's control. All the server can do is just not send the message a second time - it can't force the client to forget it.

White House seizes 32 domains, issues criminal charges in massive election-meddling crackdown

Re: "The Biden administration"?

I don't want to invoke the No True Scotsman Fallacy, but American Evangelism is its own brand of strange.

Data watchdog fines Clearview AI $33M for 'illegal' data collection

I wish the Dutch the best of luck in shutting this operation down.

Chinese boffins advocate nuking nearby asteroids – it’s the only way to be sure

Once we've decided to nuke an incoming asteroid, the largest argument will be over who gets to push the button.

NASA will fly Boeing Starliner crew home with SpaceX, Calamity Capsule deemed too risky

Re: Ask the Chinese?

We're talking about The Martian by Andy Weir. The book is better than the movie (the movie does things the book went out of its way to call out as stupid), but the movie's still pretty good.

Re: Ask the Chinese?

Oi, at least have the decency to read the book first.

Your victim's Windows PC fully patched? Just force undo its updates and exploit away

Great. Now Microsoft has to develop updates that people can undo but malware can't - and I'll bet that they'll come down firmly on the side of making them hard for malware to undo over making them easy for people to undo.

Meta to cough up $1.4B to end fight over 'unlawful' facial recognition of friends

No admission of wrongdoing = "We have no plans to stop. Pleasure doing business with you."

Google apologizes for breaking password manager for millions of Windows users with iffy Chrome update

Re: No Master Password?

Google is of the opinion that if someone is logged in as you, then there's nothing you can do that will stop them from figuring out your passwords. Which may or may not be true from a technical standpoint, but at least Firefox doesn't make it *easy*.

Oops. Apple relied on bad code while flaming Google Chrome's Topics ad tech

Okay, but like... I don't want a 3% re-identification rate either? Especially when Topics are just going to be one data point amongst a sea of other data points? I want that re-identification rate to be zero - or at maximum 0.0001%.

Release the hounds! Securing datacenters may soon need sniffer dogs

That doesn't help for the case where the card is stolen.

I mean, if the keycard is the only thing you need to enter a building, you do have to prepare for the very ordinary case that the card is just stolen, or cloned using non-implant tech...

Antitrust: GoDaddy under fire for banning DNS automation tool in favor of its own

Huh. Surprised GoDaddy didn't follow the standard playbook of buying the smaller operator out and ruining their product in the endless search for more monetisation.

FBI, cyber-cops zap ~1K Russian AI disinfo Twitter bots

And so the game of whack-a-mole continues...

Australia to build Top Secret cloud in AWS for military and spooky users

I'd be a lot more keen on this project if I didn't know it was being built by Amazon.

War on Texas law requiring ID to savor smut online heads to Supreme Court

I know there's an attitude prevalent in government - well, more of a desperate hope - that technology can fix any problem.

This is a problem that tech cannot solve. The only solution to this one is *actually good parenting*. Pretending otherwise is just pandering.

So much for green Google ... Emissions up 48% since 2019

After Bitcoin mining rigs, I would have thought we'd have learned our lessons about giant power-hogs that add nothing of value to the world...

If you're using Polyfill.io code on your site – like 100,000+ are – remove it immediately

Re: Integrity

The entire point of Polyfill.io was that it would only serve up the polyfills that you *needed*, by checking your browser versions. So it returning different scripts to different people was by design.

Meta, Microsoft SQL Server make strange bedfellows on a couch of cyber-pain

Re: why should enterprises be allowed to run out-of-date software?

I think that when the author here is talking about "fresh" software, they mean freshly *updated* software, not freshly written software. Software that hasn't been updated in 10 years is probably full of bugs that were discovered five years ago but never fixed.

And if it *was* updated recently, but you're still using the version from 10 years ago...

Google’s attempt to kill off child privacy app advertising lawsuit defeated

And people wonder why people think America needs federal privacy laws... and good ones.

AWS is pushing ahead with MFA for privileged accounts. What that means for you ...

Re: Non-changeable key

No, but a smartphone-based passkey requires *both* your phone and your face. It's much harder to get both of those.