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Must be nice to be in a position to sell both disease and cure.
Yeah, I'd pretty pissed at my doctor for finding cancerous cells that probably wouldn't have been a problem for quite some time, either. Ignorance is bliss, security through obscurity, whatever.
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They were right, it's hit 100% at a number of large tech companies. (They missed their initial prediction of 90% 6 months ago, because the models then available publicly weren't capable enough.)
So why aren’t they laying people off and pumping the extra money towards research efforts associated with Llm’s? Lmao. They should all cut down their labour input right now if what you claim is true.
Some companies like Block, Oracle, and Atlassian have indeed been laying people off.
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Please tell me those companies so I can find alternatives. I'm using AI every day and there's no way I would trust it do that.
The transition is pretty complete at e.g. Google and Meta, IIUC. Definitely whoever builds the AI tools you're using every day isn't writing code by hand.
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So why aren’t they laying people off and pumping the extra money towards research efforts associated with Llm’s? Lmao. They should all cut down their labour input right now if what you claim is true.
At many of the best tech companies, the conventional wisdom has always been that there's a huge backlog of stuff to be done. They don't want to deliver 100% of their roadmap with 50% of their employees, they want to deliver 200% of their roadmap with 100% of their employees. (And the speedup is not as high as these numbers imply for many kinds of performance, security, or correctness-critical software.) Some companie…
Google has done nothing but destroy value with many of its ‘bets’. Your roadmap stuff is irrelevant - if you don’t have value creating projects in the pipeline and/or labour is augmented you should be laying off - period. Sundar’s job is to maximise the stock price.
So once again - nonsense. Now stop spreading crap that clearly fills people with fear. I can tell you have no understanding of corporate finance and how the management of tech firms actually think these things through.
Now, its very possible that this is Anthropic marketing puffery, but even if it is half true it still represents an incredible advancement in hunting vulnerabilities. It will be interesting to see where this goes. If its actually this good, and Apple and Google apply it to their mobile OS codebases, it could wipe out the commercial spyware industry, forcing them to rely more on hacking humans rather than hacking mobi…
Apple has already largely crushed hacking with memory tagging on the iPhone 17 and lockdown mode. Architectural changes, safer languages, and sandboxing have done more for security than just fixing bugs when you find them.
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Honest question: how do state-sponsored attacks from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia affect civilian life?
Presumably, those have influenced elections, though I guess it depends what you count as an attack. Plenty of bots try to modify public opinion. Someone hacked the DNC in 2015/16, the result of which also alleged attempted manipulation in 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee_... Since we (as old Rummy said) do not know what we do not know, we cannot be certain about the extent of cyber at…
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The transition is pretty complete at e.g. Google and Meta, IIUC. Definitely whoever builds the AI tools you're using every day isn't writing code by hand.
I really just don't believe it. I have not met anyone in tech who writes zero code now. The idea that no one at Google writes any code is such a huge claim it requires extraordinary evidence. Which none ever gets presented.
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The amount of astroturfing and astroflagging in Anthropic threads is insane.
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Apple has already largely crushed hacking with memory tagging on the iPhone 17 and lockdown mode. Architectural changes, safer languages, and sandboxing have done more for security than just fixing bugs when you find them.
As I understood it, Memory Integrity Enforcement adds an additional check on heap dereferences (and it doesn’t apply to every process for performance reasons). Why does it crush hacking rather than just adding another incremental roadblock like many other mitigations before?
It also doesn't matter that it isn't running by default in apps since the processes you really care about are the OS ones. If someone finds an exploit in tiktok, it doesn't matter all that much unless they find a way to elevate to an exploit on an OS process with higher permissions.
MTE (Memory Tagging Extension) is also has a double purpose, it blocks memory exploits as they happen, but it also detects and reports them back to Apple. So even if you have a phone before the 17 series, if any phone with MTE hardware gets hit, the bug is immediately made known to Apple and fixed in code.