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(not op) If a security bug is exploited in the wild, it's an n-day if it's been first exploited n days after the publication of the bug, and a zero-day if it's been exploited befor…

Let's see... first of all, 14 years ago was the discovery of the base mechanism, not of specific treatments. So specific treatments need to be developed, delivery systems need to b…

CRISPR is foremost a research tool. Calling it "extremely overhyped" without restricting it medical treatment seems disingenuous. The CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool was developed in…

You can target an individual by injecting that very individual with something lethal. If that's not what you want, you'd need something like a virus to spread it. But then you have…

The article is pretty light on details, but > Much like other CRISPR therapies, delivery is a critical challenge, i.e., getting the large genome-cutting enzyme to all the targeted …

Apple tries to market its product as privacy-focused, yet the privacy of their new AI features is so bad they don't meet EU standards? Is that the message here?

"Castor" was the name of a storage system used for transporting nuclear waste in Germany. There were quite a few protests against shipping nuclear waste through the country. Wouldn…

As a side note, I wonder when we'll hear the first reports about employees reselling (parts of) their token budget. Probably not worth it risking your job for a 200$/month good, bu…

I'd say on a scale of bad 1-10, 9 and 10 are reserved for incidents that cause loss of human life. YMMV.

Even more than that, they still have to maintain the software to work on Linux, because they have a paid on Linux. So if they have to keep maintaining it and offer the basic tier f…

> A Ferrari is about driving Is it, though? Most Ferraris aren't driven much at all. In fact, most Ferraris are bought by collectors. If somebody has 10-20 Ferraris, do you think t…

Try to apply first principles to LLM coding: * Chances are that fewer people (maybe even none) will look at the code when it's LLM-generated * Amount of code being written isn't al…

What kind of application are you developing?

> Software developers should shorten their patch cycles and make security fixes available as quickly as possible. [...] > Network defenders should shorten their patch testing and d…

> the top 1% of users capture 76.5% of profits This seems to be similar to OnlyFans, and the economy at large...

I'd guess that most people who run Docker on linux install it through their distro's package manager, which has a dockerd running as root. On Debian derivatives, you need some kind…

It matters in so far as the production rate for e.g. air defense interceptors is much lower than the rate at which they've been used in the Iran war. Which is probably one of the r…

> at least in terms of the carrier being sunk You don't need to sink a carrier to make it more of a liability than an asset. If you hit its radar systems and/or damage the surface …

Are there any pre-built Linux binaries for this? I tried to install it with cargo, but got "feature `edition2024` is required" (which is the newest cargo available from my current …

TBF I've had that experience before AI. I think it was just text templates being used by some support staff.

I can give you a single data point from Germany. I work at a hosting provider that has pretty conservative customers who don't want to host on AWS/Azure due to data privacy / safet…

LLMs certainly make it more feasible to rewrite a product in a memory-safe language, eliminating a whole class of bugs. Flawless software is hard for an LLM to write, because all t…

https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds has some more infos; some is outdated, but it also has a chart showing how many packages are built in the CI, and how many of those are r…

> Do you think 100 enterprises with 1 bln of tokens are going to make a better product than specialized vendor with 100bln of tokens? I'm not sure if this is sound reasoning, becau…

> Is every company that sells software as their core business model going to go out of business? Probably not, for a number of reasons: * Some software suites are (probably still f…