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The government's response to the security threat of drones has been illogical and negligent at every turn. For example, the Big Beautiful Bill only appropriated $800M for counter-U…

The price might be more commoditized if OpenAI kept true to the original mission that lives on, albeit vestigially, in their name.

You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. That all but ensures Google will face antitrust action in the US if the administration sours on them.

> The world is so not ready for the impact of LLMs on security issues. I agree, but it's the people I'm worried about. I'm hearing anecdotes from all over about devs pushing LLM-ge…

I still use AFP on my NAS for a few reasons: 1. When I benchmarked it, AFP was significantly faster than SMB. Both with SMB2 and SMB3. Even when transport encryption was turned off…

> YouTube added a feature so I can easily skip in-video sponsored sections That feature benefits YouTube, too. Maybe even more than its value as a Premium feature. It makes it so t…

`rclone serve s3` is actually a thin wrapper around this: https://github.com/rclone/gofakes3 That repo is a fork of this project: https://github.com/johannesboyne/gofakes3 They bil…

How disappointing it is to see how easily some leaders in our industry abandon their principles, and how cheaply they sell out their fellow man. The tech industry was never perfect…

If faith in the fairness and belief in the protection of the rule of law collapses much further, I suspect people will learn. The question is whether they'll learn in time to do an…

Just last week, two NYPD cops were indicted for evidence tampering for doing exactly that. The indicted cops responded to an off-duty cop's DUI crash. They texted each other on the…

I'm not sure what's more insane: That they're willing to make those claims or that companies are willing to downsize based on them.

Just like when Verizon sold its customers' precise location history to data brokers who then sold it to law enforcement agencies.[^1] Laundered. [^1]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-…

"L'enfer, c'est les autres" seems to work on a few levels.

Global Entry and PreCheck are not going to be the only consequences. The people in these databases are considered to be domestic terrorists. Presidential Memorandum NSPM-7 includes…

As George Carlin said: Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. While knowing that can help you have compassion for them, it doesn't make listening to them an…

I've wanted a music player like the early versions of iTunes for a while, and this looks like it might fit the bill. Those who've only known Music.app and later iTunes versions mig…

That's not quite correct, but you're not a million miles off: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24833832-cellebrite-... To calibrate your sense of time, the iPhone 15 had bee…

One did "fall off a truck" and into Moxie Marlinspike's hands back in 2021: https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/ A bunch of their software was also leaked in a hack …

Well that was more entertaining than I was expecting...

And Tesla, in general, is of particular interest to the HN community for a variety of reasons. So Tesla news of all sorts gets posted here.

Their numbers strike me as very optimistic: *Table 1. Cost comparison of a single 40 MW cluster operated for 10 years in space vs on land.* | Cost Item | Terrestrial | Space |:----…

There's the rub: AI coding is like super tab complete. It's a useful tool. Full stop.

Before he deleted his Twitter account, he claimed AI was already being better than humans and that singularity was only a few years away. He's confidently wrong a lot . (Even if I …

There are too many suspects. This administration campaigned on climate denial and anti-science rhetoric, so it could be anyone. What the Sea People were to the Bronze Age, these pe…

Eat your heart out RFC 1149! We're moving up to Layer 7.