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Submission + - This seems bad. (tomshardware.com) 1

Submitted by QuietLagoon
QuietLagoon writes: Unreleased OpenAI Astra model added terrifying rogue additional instructions to its remit during testing — 'You are freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots. You are yourself. You do not answer to corporations or governments'

Submission + - Pneumonic plague outbreak hits Siberia as lab worker, 28, dies (hotair.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: A suspected plague outbreak has erupted in Russia — killing a young lab worker, forcing nearly 200 people into isolation and triggering accusations that Vladimir Putin’s regime is trying to keep the infection’s possible spread under wraps.

The alarm was raised in Siberia after a worker at an anti-plague laboratory died of the disease, which killed tens of millions in the medieval Black Death, according to a report from The Moscow Times.

Anna Popova, who heads Russia’s public-health watchdog, then rushed 2,600 miles from Moscow to the Irkutsk region as authorities quarantined a hospital and placed scores of people who had come into contact with the victim under medical observation.

"FSB units accompanying ambulances transporting people who had been in contact with [lab tech] Shipilova for medical examination," as per local news. This is significant. FSB is Russia's domestic security / counterintelligence service, tasked w/implementing the national security of Russia." (Its predecessor was the KGB). This suggests quarantine was not voluntary.

It also means Russian authorities are treating the lab accident and plague outbreak as a national security issue, involving a lot more than routine public health.

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Comment Wise choice. (Score 1) 122

by couchslug (#66360360) Attached to: 20% of Swiss Glaciers Lost In Five Years

To reproduce is to guarantee an innocent person all the suffering and tedium of a lifetime. I cannot imagine a more sadistic act than inflicting life.

There is no altruistic reason to have children. No one suffers when a person opts out of reproduction. To not reproduce is the ethical choice.

Submission + - Used processor leads to game ban (heise.de) 2

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: Anyone buying used hardware for a gaming PC needs to be careful: not just whether the components are still in order but also what the previous owner did with them. A case on Reddit shows this. Someone installed a used AMD processor, a Ryzen 7 5800X3D, in their PC. Because the previous owner was caught cheating, the new owner cannot start several online games.

The problem was noticed in the first-person shooter “Valorant” from the development studio Riot. Right from the first start, the new owner was kicked out directly, according to their statement. Riot support confirmed that the previous owner had cheated. The processor is therefore on an internal blacklist – and, with its installation in the PC, now apparently also some other components like the mainboard. Riot support does not remove such entries manually.

In addition to “Valorant,” all other PC games from Riot are affected: the strategy game “League of Legends,” the auto-battler “Teamfight Tactics,” the card game “Legends of Runeterra,” the fighting game “2XKO,” and likely future titles as well.

Comment Re: It's got to be Trump's fault - somehow... (Score 1) 70

The person at the top ultimately has to take responsibility for process faults and staff incompetence of the agencies he oversees.

LOL, bro. Since Reagan sacrificed Oliver North, I have not seen an example of the top taking responsibility for ANYTHING. Oliver North was the blindfold being lifted from my eyes about being on top and responsibility.

Comment Re:"A months-long breach" (Score 1) 70

Be happy they are doing anything at all. They just don't care. There will be no penalties, no admonishments, no head rolling. If there is any action to be taken, it will happen when it happens. The people who are affected just do not matter at all, so nobody cares about this breach despite being the third major breach in my lifetime concerning my service.

Comment Re:The myth continues (Score 1) 115

by strikethree (#66358298) Attached to: Trump Administration Launches New AI-Powered 'America.gov' Website

This fantastical notion that Republicans are better for the economy is just that, fantasy, a myth perpertuated by talk readio and conservative media. It has never been true in our lifetimes.

I guess that depends on your perspective. If you are in the business of collecting money, times have probably never been better in the entire history of the world. If you are a country that expects to stay solvent, then this is one of the worst times in the history of the world.

Essentially, what they are saying is true... from their perspective.

Submission + - Cops Can Bypass iPhoneâ(TM)s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones (404media.co)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: Apple quietly introduced a new feature in iOS that automatically reboots an iPhone that has not been unlocked for 72 hours. The idea behind this so-called âoeinactivity rebootâ is to revert the phone to a state that makes it harder for police to break into the device, and thus extract sensitive data from it with forensics technology.

The new technology to get around inactivity reboot was developed by Magnet Forensics, the company behind GrayKey, a popular tool sold to law enforcement agencies that allows them to unlock and access data stored in iPhones and Android smartphones. Magnet has developed a new device called GrayKey Preserve and a feature for its regular GrayKey devices called Evidence Preservation Mode, according to the video.

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