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The thing is, I'm not even looking at this from a "how do we keep a superintelligent AI contained" viewpoint. The standard protocol[0] in IT for dealing with a compromise is, more …

For those wondering what the difference is: consider what happens when an LLM regurgitates its training data. It's copyrighted... but not by the person who generated it.

He's talking about the owner of Oracle, not the people who work there. It doesn't matter how many smart and talented real humans work at Oracle, the guy running it acts like a fles…

To make matters worse, they let the model train on it's own exploits?! If I were running this thing, my first thought would be to keep those reasoning traces quarantined, stop and …

The only difference between iOS and Android when it comes to loading code onto your device is that, on iOS: - You have to setup a developer account with Apple first, and dev-signed…

Facebook absolutely could remain a going concern while dealing with all of these problems, the problem is that they would be spending money to lose money. One of the more perverse …

...Is "disability dongle" the new "autonomous transit pods"? For context, San Francisco being a city with billionaire tech oligarchs, lots of traffic, and OK but not great transit …

Yes, we all know it, but good luck finding a jurisdiction that will agree with you on this. One of the more galling aspects of the inevitable US-NATO[0] trade war is the fact that …

It's doubly funny knowing that basically nobody bothers doing these kinds of workloads on CPU if they can help it. And everything you have to do to get GPU floating point performan…

The Switch has one particular feature that doesn't get enough talk: basically any game update can be sent to another Switch peer-to-peer. I'm pretty sure it even works with Game Ke…

Keep in mind the last big LLM maths proof (disproving the Collatz conjecture) turned out to just be exploiting five different bugs in LEAN

Not only that, but the iOS and Android APIs for HTTP requests make it really difficult to accidentally use unencrypted HTTP: * By default, only secure connections are allowed * You…

There is no tenet of copyright law that requires format-shifting be destructive. The term "format-shifting" almost always refers to a non -destructive process; i.e. when you "rip" …

Reading the motion, it's less "Google has no case" and moreso "Google needs to prove they told the copyright owners in the Knowledge Graph they'd be putting DRM on the search resul…

You don't need to shred books to scan them. They make book scanners that will "rip" a fully-bound book no-problem, and even correct for the curvature of the page and binding to giv…

Isn't Proton funneling money into a far-right Swedish party?

This is slightly less awful than what I imagined but still enough that I would never want to do do business with any company run by DHH anymore. Granted, I already have a dim view …

Just to be clear, publishers hadn't accepted the "controlled digital lending" (CDL) premise, not even with the one-to-one ratio. Their position was always "first sale ends when the…

> There is a vocal online minority who believe user license agreements shouldn't be enforced and individuals should never be considered accountable for following them, but that doe…

"Color" absolutely can be represented digitally; C compilers were doing it before we even knew they were doing it. We just like getting away with shit. It's part of the hacker etho…

Of course, the same authorities angry at GrapheneOS are also angry at Apple. The main problem is that you can't call iPhone users criminals, you'd get laughed out of the room. But …

Deniable encryption has gotten way more advanced than this, though - the state-of-the-art is to have a bunch of independently unlockable data stores along with a mechanism to add c…

You forgot the other three thirds GC doesn't handle: in-bounds writes to memory currently in use by another processor. One of the basic ideas behind Rust's memory safety story is t…

I was not aware of the antagonism from the Zig / Fil-C people to Rust, but it makes absolutely no sense. Like, of course you can prevent all memory safety errors by using a garbage…

If you read news outside of what you personally agreed with, you would know that Musk is a lot worse than just "supporting a candidate people like". That's the thing that got all t…