Funding has been restored by CISA for MITRE to run the CVE program.

Which direction things go given the creation of a few alternative structures remains to be seen.

I would rather chew on broken glass than give Elon Musk any money.

He's just a whiny baby pretty much 100% of the time. He's sad because nobody wants to pay him to advertise next to hate speech on twitter.

(Obligatory IANAL)

Technically, the record labels have a point.

The US Copyright office has assigned a 95-year copyright to anything published prior to February 15, 1972, with the possibility of 120 years if it had not been published before that date.

So recordings at least 95 years old (1928 and prior) at this point may be allowed to be published.

The last recording covered under this rule will enter the public domain February 15, 2067. If it is readable at that point is anyone's guess.

Reading the story and looking at the video, it looks like there is a memory chip storing calibration data about the screen and pencil. This corrects for where the screen detects the pencil (and how strongly) versus where it actually is.

Third party repair firms either lack the software to recalibrate the touchscreen, or don't know how to put the iPad into a mode which allows this.

The need to calibrate a touchscreen is not unusual. So I'm curious why it was not a problem before.

Question: Neal Stephenson Says AI-Generated ChatGPT Is ‘Simply Not Interesting’. What do you think about that?

Answer: "As an AI language model myself, I don't have personal feelings or opinions. However, I can provide some context and perspective on Neal Stephenson's comment.

Neal Stephenson is a science fiction author and his opinion on AI-generated chatbots may be influenced by his experiences and expectations from science fiction. He might believe that AI language models like ChatGPT are not yet advanced enough to match the complexity and depth of human conversations or to replicate human emotions and creativity.

While AI language models like ChatGPT have made significant advancements in recent years, there are still limitations and challenges that need to be overcome. For instance, ChatGPT and other language models can sometimes generate irrelevant or nonsensical responses or perpetuate biases that exist in the training data.

However, AI language models like ChatGPT have shown tremendous potential in various applications, including natural language processing, chatbots, and content creation. These models can learn from large amounts of data and generate human-like responses, which can be useful in automating customer service or assisting with writing tasks.

In summary, Neal Stephenson's opinion about AI-generated chatbots being "simply not interesting" is subjective and might be influenced by his own expectations and experiences. While AI language models have their limitations, they have also shown remarkable potential in various applications and are continuously improving."

Has anyone thought "Maybe I shouldn't invest in this crypto scam" yet?

The world will be a much better place once

a) the "crypto bro" fad ends

b) Metabook dies.

The version numbering may due to end-user expectations, not actual major feature adding.

Other products have had to jump version numbers or change version schemes because users asked "Why is your competitor at version 70 while you still are at 10.1?" (For example: Slackware Linux from version 4.0 to 7.0, etc.)

The United States Constitution prohibits "ex post facto" laws. These retroactively make things illegal.

This is not exactly that. But it punishes firms for past behavior with a punishment that was not known at the time. The legislature will have to be very careful writing this to avoid having the law thrown out.

A constitutional lawyer would have a better idea of what is allowed.

Actually, no.

In the United States, there are loopholes for political speech.

You would think they could not send you text messages. But as soon as a human is in the loop, they can send as many as they want.

All you need is an app that shows the message, adds the name and phone number to send to, and has a "Send" button to send the text message. Click "Send" and the next target appears, ready for you to click "Send" again. I've seen a volunteer using such an app and clicking it rapidly while bored in class.

And since people stopped picking up the phone for strangers and have spam filters on their email, text messages are the way many political campaigns try to reach voters.

Except that it's not that difficult.

Companies (and academia) having their own language has been known for decades.

Your role in a society or organization, and what they consider important also control how you speak.

During the 1970's and 1980's, Richard Mitchell published a series of newsletters known as The Underground Grammarian about abuse of the English language.

The opening to his book Less Than Words Can Say describes how a professor's language became more verbose and indirect the higher they were promoted within the organization. Another chapter goes into detail about how rulers and the ruled speak differently and how that is enforced.

Richard's works are freely readable online, although the website's formatting is a bit old-fashioned.

I haven't released software under the GPL since RMS's insane rant at the LinuxWorld GNOME press conference about 20 years ago. Sorry, Bruce, I'm not on your side this time.