Comment Re:And? (Score 1) 42
I saw a interview with a woman who was an ex-PM of Canada.
You might as well have just said "Kim Campbell".
Comment Re:To be clear... (Score 1) 34
Because you usually need to update your MB code from the UEFI interface, you might think that is necessary to access UEFI code.
It is not.
Didn't we already see a significant vulnerability related to this within the past 12 months?
Also, it's not just Windows. Just a couple months ago I updated the firmware on a bunch of Dell boxes using fwupdmgr (on AlmaLinux 9). It's very convenient, but I (mostly) wish it wasn't actually possible... but, since it is, might as well take advantage of it.
Comment scammers gonna scam (Score 1) 3
We are living in the Platinum Age of Scamming.
Comment What's with these disclosure cockups lately? (Score 1) 34
Are they caused by simpletons who are letting AI do their jobs without any oversight?
Comment Re:"On Planet Earth" (Score 1) 34
The window is also closed if you disable PXE booting I would assume.
I'm curious as to why you'd assume that.
Comment Re:And? (Score 1) 42
Well, be fair. Back doors don't come cheap!
Comment Re:Oh boy. (Score 1) 42
Yup - as soon as I saw who was involved, my immediate thought was "this is great if your goal is owning a permanently backdoored laptop".
Comment Re:It's a trade-off (Score 1) 59
That bubble burst.
Comment Re:It's about time. (Score 1) 98
We can save some money by paying foreigners to do the work.
Comment Re:Heavy (Score 1) 29
If it's supposed to handle heavy on-device AI tasks, why does it only have 16GB? Womp womp.
Because it's a bad look if the least-expensive version of your laptop costs $2200.
Comment think of all of the cheap GPUs coming (Score 1) 59
I'll need a small nuclear plant to power all of the cheap GPUs.
Comment Re:It's a trade-off (Score 2) 59
I think my 401k is using AI, it keeps telling me 418. I'm concerned about what is brewing in there.
Comment Just following the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition (Score 1) 97
Rule 99: "Trust is the biggest liability of all."
Comment So in the next few days (Score 3, Insightful) 98
The United States is the world's largest producer of natural gas and of helium. Qatar and Russia are the other top helium producers.
In the near future, I fully expect a new Trump announcement about how we're getting a bunch of helium from Putin, and as a result we're giving Russia Most Favored Nation trading status. And maybe Zelensky's head on a platter.
Comment Re:good old days? (Score 4, Funny) 117
Coward, it sounds like you have never lived. I mean really lived. Nothing beats the trifecta of a Firefox crash into a BSOD and disk corruption on reboot. Have you seen my grey hair? I earned it.
