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Was this written by the advertising department of Intel?

@mindgam3 .. “Minor quibbles about truth and meaning of words aside, I have to support any article that skewers the soft underbelly of the phony AI ecosystem as effectively as this…

Retrospective ass covering, Boeing installed MCAS to save money, and in the process took control of the airplane away from the pilots. They should be looking at jailtime for this.

“Everyone knows how fragile these systems are” How about not connecting your ICSs directly to the Internet?

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> What an absolutely harrowing, hair-raising tale I'm sure it is, but how about a little context: a. Since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, North Africa has become an open door in…

> With two sensors, you can detect failure You get a reading of 20 on one sensor and get a reading of 34 on the second, which one is correct. To achieve reliability a minimum of fi…

“After Boeing removed one of the sensors from an automated flight system on its 737 Max, the jet’s designers and regulators still proceeded as if there would be two.” No, no, no. T…

“the system would enable the .. National Security Agency, to instantaneously share select classified information with America’s closest allies in the fight against the Taliban” Wou…

> Leave the testing until the end? Is that best practice in some places still? What testing, we'll let the end-user find the bugs and then fix them in the next version.

Do you think these security defects are really bugs or are back-doors left in for the state security apparatus? Who or what department is tasked with testing Cisco devices for secu…

Actually Internet Explorer 1.0 was a rebranded Spyglass browser . After failing to get an exclusive license from Mosaic Netscape and failing to get an exclusive license from the NC…

“Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard. It Wasn’t.” This is retrospective ass-covering, to distract us from the fact that the the pilots were never informed as to th…

"in the immediate aftermath of the 2004 incident, a video of the encounter was shared and viewed widely by members aboard the Princeton and Nimitz via an internal military email sy…

> The Linux world has a lot of conventions you just 'need to know about' in order to navigate. It works very well for experienced people, but it isn't helpful for newcomers. When I…

> The way Linux distros have no conception of separating "system" from "application" .. That's a novel concept if you don't mind me saying so ;]

I seem to remember it differently, what killed seven people was senior management choosing to ignore warnings about ice debris strikes on the wing during launches. On this one, the…

> It's a severe discredit to the major operating system vendors that plugging in a USB stick can still compromise a system. Well, just the one OS vendor comes to mind and a particu…

Ha haa haaaa .. you can not be serious :] ‘Secret Service agent. Samuel Ivanovich, who interviewed Zhang Mar-a-Lago, testified at the hearing. He stated that when another agent put…

“I believe we need a more active role for governments and regulators. By updating the rules for the Internet, we can preserve what’s best about it — the freedom for people to expre…

“During the two and a half decades leading up to the Russian cyber attacks on the 2016 U.S. presidential election ..” You lost my interest right there ..

"CDC director warns that Congo's Ebola outbreak may not be containable" especially as the locals insist on following traditional burial methods such as washing the deceased and sit…

> Umm. Yes. Most normal people have no idea Google isn’t the internet, I’m guessing. The same people that think you can only access the web through the Microsoft Internet Explorer …

sorokod: “Humanity made it to the 21st century consuming pork. Labeling pork 'unclean' is just standard operating procedure where arbitrary restrictions are introduced to generate …

I predict they'll be a regime change in Venezuela real soon .