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It was public at least 4 years before he first announced his discovery: https://web.archive.org/web/20140130160743/http://datasheets...

It's not even a "backdoor", it's documented in the datasheet... http://datasheets.chipdb.org/VIA/Nehemiah/VIA%20C3%20Nehemia... (page 82) ...which along with the already publicly-k…

"Not this shit again"... Almost exactly 8 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17727140

PCIe is more like a packet-switched network than a bus, which is incidentally why things like Thunderbolt (effectively external PCIe) and sillier demonstrations like https://www.yo…

Decades ago, there was a plan to equalise the water supply throughout the country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power... Now China is beating us: https://…

...which then comes down again as rain, and in those areas where it's dry enough that evaporative cooling works, the increased humidity might actually be a good thing.

There is basically zero truth about the water use propaganda. Liquid cooling is closed-cycle, just like in a car.

This is where "security questions" can be useful; neither the question nor answer need to be real, and the more outrageous the better. "You're my daughter? Then tell me the name of…

I definitely don't trust those when they show up in search results, and even when they sometimes appear here in articles voted to the front page, I tend to ignore them. Sure, if th…

Is there any way to help the elderly navigate this shift? "Ignore anyone asking you for money unless you know them and they do it in-person."

I have not seen this problem before, but the answer seems blindingly obvious? A balance is trinary, not binary. You just need to explain the decision tree.

Amazonian civilization now has an estimated 1M people in 0.3% of warehouse area.

Had to look this up to see they really named it that, but then again, probably not surprising considering Musk's cars have a "ludicrous mode".

I'm saying that's what the judges thought, but either way, I wasn't a judge.

The 5th almost feels like an AI benchmark akin to the infamous Pelican.

Next step: see if AI can fix them.

Not to mention that any Ai-entrant piece could be duplicated by any other entrant With great difficulty, maybe. You'd need the exact model, prompt, seed, and hardware, and even the…

More precisely tries to prevent, but there have been occasional articles about breaking TPMs here; and I suspect once they become a major obvious barrier to freedom, we're going to…

Exactly. This was ultimately the work of a human who used AI to create something.

What’s more interesting is that whomever the judges were didn’t seem to notice or care. The implication is that all the other entries were even worse.

It looks like the sort of generic advertisement art that was common before AI. However, I'll say that at least it's not Corporate Memphis.

The "not gate inverter" is particularly nonsensical.

"Why does it need to be large?" should be the question instead.

I expect a gray/black market in TPM keys and the like will grow if this takes off, but hopefully the citizens will fight it very strongly before then... ...but then again, this is …