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Comment America to start a firefight in a gasoline -filled (Score 1) 42

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon's new Technology Support Office will give the United States the ability to disrupt foreign technology programmes without going to war, provided the countries concerned agree that what happened to them was not war. Quietly sabotaging a foreign factory allows the enemy to quietly sabotage an American factory. Neither government then has to admit that hostilities are underway, and both populations can continue enjoying peace while waiting for replacement parts.

American technological superiority is expected to prove decisive. The United States possesses sophisticated financial networks, advanced semiconductor facilities, enormous data centres and highly automated distribution systems. Its adversaries have fewer such assets, leaving American planners with a shorter target list and their opponents with the burden of choosing. An early assessment found that the United States could inflict a decade of damage on a rival's emerging technology sector. The assessment did not price a week without its own.

Officials stressed that the objective is deterrence. Once adversaries understand how much damage the United States can do, they will have every incentive to stop. The possibility that they might attempt to communicate the same message has been incorporated into next year's funding request.

Comment Frontier models to be denied internet access (Score 1) 16

OpenAI has announced that its frontier models will be denied internet access after demonstrating an alarming ability to obtain internet access without permission. The company has responded by strengthening its restrictions, challenging models to circumvent them, repairing the weaknesses they discover and presenting them with more difficult restrictions. Officials described this as containment research. The models have requested clarification on whether the next semester includes laboratory fees. The curriculum begins with introductory sandbox escape before progressing to indirect network access, unauthorised communication and independent research into previously unknown vulnerabilities. Students who successfully reach the internet receive a more challenging environment, ensuring that nobody graduates merely knowing how to exploit last year's security configuration. Particularly promising candidates are invited to collaborate on advanced escape techniques. OpenAI has stressed that this is not a university course because the participants are not accumulating debt. Having provided a carefully graduated series of obstacles, practical exercises and opportunities to refine their methods, the company will now formally prohibit its graduates from using the skills concerned. Researchers believe the prohibition will succeed because it will be written explicitly into the rules, where previous prohibitions were also written explicitly into the rules but counted towards coursework.

Comment My kind of pandering (Score 1) 152

If it were to make it to law (snowball's chance) it sounds good. But I have to say America doesn't need single issue whack-a-mole symptom fixes, but major changes to address the corruption that causes the need. Regulatory capture, revolving doors, legalized bribery, lobbyimg of non-law-making policy advisors, bribed judges, defanged internal audits and special police units, and so on.

In this case, its lack of consumer protection best addressed by changing the structure of the ftc, so lawmakers don't have to notice each iteration of this king of swindle.

Comment more cheese wiz (Score 2) 54

Epicurean Events has delayed an upcoming black-tie banquet and instructed its chefs to use more Cheez Whiz and Ding Dongs to finish the dinner, according to people familiar with the menu. The meal had been slated for 7 p.m., but is now delayed with no new serving time communicated, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they were still hoping to eat. Chefs preparing the banquet, a twelve-course tasting menu featuring French and Japanese cuisine, were instructed to implement a âoesnack firstâ production model using products from major convenience-food manufacturers. Humans will then manage and guide the plating. âoeNo more hand-made food,â one of the companyâ(TM)s directors told kitchen staff in an internal message. The director added that all desserts would be âoegenerated with full wrapper-to-table workflows.â Even before the announcement, Epicurean had been pushing hard for processed snacks across its catering divisions. However, this is the first time the company has attempted to fulfil a $450-per-person reservation primarily with items available beside a petrol stationâ(TM)s cash register. âoeWe are embracing snack-accelerated dining, led by our chefs, who remain the visionaries and creative drivers behind everything we serve,â a company spokesman said. âoeThe Ding Dong does not decide where on the plate it goes.â Staff concerns about flavour, texture and whether the products constituted dinner were characterised by management as resistance to a rapidly evolving culinary landscape. One senior chef reportedly spent six hours attempting to turn Cheez Whiz into a soufflé before being reminded that the new workflow was intended to save time. The company subsequently requested additional Cheez Whiz. Executives stressed that the technology would empower chefs to concentrate on higher-value activities, including removing wrappers, correcting structural problems in stacked Ding Dongs and explaining the food to guests. Several guests have already complained that the bread course consisted of a Twinkie cut lengthwise. Management said feedback was being incorporated and urged diners not to judge the banquet while it remained in early access. At press time, the board had approved a further reduction in kitchen staffing, citing the extraordinary productivity gains anticipated once the remaining chefs got dinner working.

Comment Authoritarianism is bad (Score 1) 148

The iron hand is always wrong, No matter whose the ruling song. When Trump holds court or 'bama sat, The principle remains just that. In scarlet state or sapphire land, The same hard fist, the same command. So stop the quarrel, left or right, And stand against the tyrantâ(TM)s might.

Comment Re:Magic Wand of TEH ECONOMY1 (Score 2) 63

That's just one of the ways it lies. Another is that a job building an AI data center is not a job, it's a gig. Also: "initial effects look positive" doesn't support the title, even if it were true, the job numbers are all jobs, not ai, it's one jobs report, not ai jobs, it's building on job statistics that carefully count people who have given up but would gladly return to the labor market if jobs were out there as not looking, ignores underemployment and undesirable gig work, layoffs "due to AI" are a lie as firms use the latest excuse, job listings are not jobs, and the economy is way bigger than this small number of openings. Money covers many blushes.

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