The real coincidence is that it's suddenly not Russia's fault on the eve of Trump's inauguration.

Yes, but this isn't in any way unique to TP-Link, nor does "ban TP-Link" do anything to actually solve the flaw or implement your solution.

I don't suppose they're also going to ban Cisco and Netgear: US confirms takedown of China-run botnet targeting home and office routers: "KV targets Cisco and Netgear"

Over and over, including with TP-Link, you find two common threads: (1) default/weak passwords, and (2) unpatched firmware. I haven't found a single reference to an attack that accused or implied that TP-Link intentionally installed backdoors to allow APTs to gain control, The problem is that consumers don't change their password or patch their firmware.

"According to security firm Fortinet, Dark.IoT operators are most likely using default passwords to access devices and use KamillÃ's bug to gain full control over unpatched TP-Link TL-WR840N routers." -- https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherecord.media%2Ftp-lin...

"While the vulnerability was removed from later versions of this router model's firmware, Neumann said that thousands of devices had been available online at the time, many of which have remained unpatched, even to this day." -- https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherecord.media%2Fbotnet...

"We are unsure how the attackers managed to infect the router devices with their malicious implant. It is likely that they gained access to these devices by either scanning them for known vulnerabilities or targeting devices that used default or weak and easily guessable passwords for authentication." -- https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.checkpoint.com%2Fse...

50/50: Either we are or we aren't?

Think of it this way: we're getting pretty close to making a very realistic simulation. If you can imagine that we will be able to make a simulation, then it's natural to assume that, eventually, the simulation will be able to make a simulation. And that simulation can make a simulation. In addition, if we can make a single-layer simulation, we can make multiple copies of that simulation. So given an unknown number of possible simulated universes, the odds are increasingly unlikely that you are in the "top" level non-sim real universe.

OpenAI started casting for voice actors in May 2023. They hired the actress in June 2023. The actress who recorded Sky said they asked her to use her natural voice, never referenced the movie Her, and that no one ever told her she sounded like Scarlett Johansson.

In September 2023, they both released Sky and asked Scarlett Johansson if she wanted to record her voice. She said no. Skip ahead to May 2024 and the release of 4o, and Altman asks Scarlett again. Sky was already in use for more than half a year when the hype of 4o made everyone focus on the voice.

When Scarlett complained, they took down the voice.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com...

It's a US thing, made up by the Supreme Court when police arrested civil rights activists. For police, it didn't exist before and doesn't exist in other countries.

Nevertheless, given a choice between police being sued for parking tickets versus police being free to murder anyone for any reason, as long as the cop could pretend they were too stupid to understand even the most basic elements of civil rights, I'd choose the former.

From your link:

"As a public company, Twitter has regularly shared a number of monetizable daily active Twitter users worldwide. But since the acquisition and uncertainty around X/Twitter usage, we have limited recent data."

And the last value reported was Sep 2023.

From OpenAI's filing https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffingfx.thomsonreuters.com%2Fgfx%2Flegaldocs%2Fbyvrkxbmgpe%2FOPENAI%2520MICROSOFT%2520NEW%2520YORK%2520TIMES%2520mtd.pdf:

It took them tens of thousands of attempts to generate the highly anomalous results that make up Exhibit J to the Complaint. They were able to do so only by targeting and exploiting a bug (which OpenAI has committed to addressing) by using deceptive prompts that blatantly violate OpenAI's terms of use. And even then, they had to feed the tool portions of the very articles they sought to elicit verbatim passages of, virtually all of which already appear on multiple public websites.

They include more detail:

The Complaint includes two examples of ChatGPT allegedly regurgitating training data consisting of Times articles. In both, the Times asked ChatGPT questions about popular Times articles, including by requesting quotes. See, e.g., id. P 106 (requesting "opening paragraphs," then "the next sentence," then "the next sentence," etc.). Each time, ChatGPT provided scattered and out-of-order quotes from the articles in question. In its Complaint, the Times reordered those outputs (and used ellipses to obscure their original location) to create the false impression that ChatGPT regurgitated sequential and uninterrupted snippets of the articles. In any case, the regurgitated text represents only a fraction of the articles, see, e.g., Compl. P 104 (105 words from 16,000+ word article), all of which the public can already access for free on third-party websites.

What if Chad Kultgen learned everything he knew about George Carlin from watching pirated content?

What? No!

"...makes clear to every eBay employee that the idea of terrorizing innocent people and obstructing investigations will not be tolerated."

I want the contract to build their corporate training module on "not terrorizing innocent people".

"The Daily Express" wrote an article criticizing your unethical business practices. Choose all of the appropriate responses:

___ Send them live spiders
___ Send them cockroaches
___ Send them a letter stating your point of view
___ Send them a funeral wreath stating your point of view
___ Investigate the claims and take internal action to address them
___ Send them a bloody pig mask

"Hey, I wanna pay you with X?"

"Oh, that site run be the right-wing nut job who's famous for ignoring regulators, not paying his bills, and arbitrarily kicking people off his platform? Sure, my bank account would be safe with that guy!"

I think the Amazon ban significantly boosted their sales. They could not have bought a better advertising campaign.

Just because that's the price the FBI paid doesn't mean your girlfriend would have to pay the same price. The government has been known, from time to time, to overpay for things.

I was being a bit flippant, but I think this is just a quibble. Well regulated meant that they were trained, prepared, supplied and ready to fight. "Shoot straight" wouldn't have been the dictionary definition, but that's what it boils down to.

"[A citizenry that is ready and capable of using their own guns] being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." This is the only logical reading of the second amendment.

"[Citizens that are controlled, supervised, and follow all the rules imposed by the government] being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the [army] to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" is self-contradictory and nonsensical.