I love that all this crypto power generation was sitting around unused, as it strongly implies that they all went bust.
Posts by Sora2566
266 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jun 2022
Ignore rosy datacenter expansion projections – there isn't enough power
Block CISO: We red-teamed our own AI agent to run an infostealer on an employee laptop
Malaysia and Indonesia block X over failure to curb deepfake smut
Google pushing Gemini into Gmail, but you can turn it off
Why do bit barns keep bumping up our bills, Senators ask DC operators
Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats
Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner
'Exploitation is imminent' as 39 percent of cloud environs have max-severity React hole
Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit
More packages poisoned in npm attack, but would-be crypto thieves left pocket change
As Xi and Putin chase immortality, let's talk about digital presidents-for-life
Epic Games has another win over Apple and Google, this time in Australia
German security researchers say 'Windows Hell No' to Microsoft biometrics for biz
Trump teases ‘approximately’ 100 percent tariff for imported semiconductors
Google AI Overviews are killing the web, Pew study shows (again)
If you're forced to use Windows 11, here's how to steal some of your time back
US budget bill passes without controversial block on states regulating AI
Australia not banning kids from YouTube – they’ll just have to use mum and dad’s logins
Google's unloved plan to fix web permissions gathers support
Re: How about no...
They are massively restricting what the permissions element looks like for exactly this reason - though there are people arguing that pretty much any control over styling will open up abuse possibilities. One recent concern on the spec was that devs could control how thick the border was - and could make it thick enough that you couldn't read any text in the button.
AI coding tools are like that helpful but untrustworthy friend, devs say
Windows 11 market share stalls ahead of Windows 10 cutoff
Trump signs TAKE IT DOWN law meant to stop revenge porn
I guess all those posts I saw on BlueSky asking people to call their reps over this didn't amount to much.
(Not a US citizen myself.)
Actually, that's another thing. What happens if a non-US citizen invokes this law? How would the service provider even know that they have no right to invoke that?
Europe plots escape hatch from enshittification of search
US, China agree to roll back tariffs – but only for 90 days
Cook'd: Judge says Apple lied to court in Epic case, asks Feds to mull criminal charges
Anthropic calls for tougher GPU export controls as Nvidia's CEO implores Trump to spread the AI love
ChatGPT burns tens of millions of Softbank dollars listening to you thanking it
Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America's labor watchdog
Did someone say AI agents, Google asks, bursting in
Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it
Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden
Privacy warriors whip out GDPR after ChatGPT wrongly accuses dad of child murder
Dept of Defense engineer took home top-secret docs, booked a fishing trip to Mexico – then the FBI showed up
Do AI robo-authors qualify for copyright? It's still no, says appeals court
Get off that old Firefox by Friday or you'll be sorry, says Moz
Re: Happy accident
For revocation checks to be worth the electricity they consume, they *have* to hard-fail. But then the revocation servers become a single point of failure for *the entire internet*, not to mention a goldmine of private data: "IP address 198232 wants to know if the certificate for adultFun.com" is pretty telling, after all.
We tried "stapling" for a while, where the website basically had to prove that their cert wasn't revoked when they sent the web response, but that didn't really work either. See https://scotthelme.co.uk/revocation-is-broken/ for more details.
Re: Happy accident
The reason cert lifetimes have been getting shorter and shorter has nothing to do with money - the push for shorter lifetimes comes mostly from LetsEncrypt, which offers them for free.
The actual reason is that revoking a certificate that has been compromised (letting bad actors impersonate the victim website) is really, really hard. It soft fails - so if the bad actor can block your revocation check, the browser assumes your cert is valid!
Shorter lifetimes limits the damage that a compromised cert can do.
Mozilla pleads with Uncle Sam to not turn off that sweet, sweet Google search money
So … Russia no longer a cyber threat to America?
TSMC promises $100B US expansion that Trump hails without clarifying chip tariff threat
Trump eyes up to 100% tariffs on foreign semiconductors, TSMC in crosshairs
Re: Elections
It matters quite a lot, actually. Haitians get deported to Haiti. Colombians get deported to Colombia. That's what deportation is - kicking you out of your "guest" country and returning them to their "real" country.
It's also why you can't deport American citizens, as Trump has promised to do.
AI facial recognition could sink this murder probe
John Oliver did a piece on this, but basically: no. Bite mark analysis is extremely unreliable and very often suffers from both false positives and false negatives. It's allowed as evidence in court because it's only up to the judge if evidence is admissible or not, not actual forensic scientists.
Or in other words: bite mark analysis is as reliable as "psychic witnesses" (which some judges *also* allow).
Trump nukes 60 years of anti-discrimination rules for federal contractors
On the one hand, this is a transparent attempt to get all jobs run by heterosexual white men, and anyone who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves.
On the other than, the fact that this was apparently only enforced previously by other EOs is appalling. Is Congress *incapable* of passing laws????