Comment All of this has happened before (Score 4, Insightful) 79
...all of this will be overturned by the courts again.
Taxpayers will pay for both sides of the court battles. Hurray for more debt.
Comment Missed Opportunity (Score 1) 255
I'm surprised he did not brand it "Trump Intelligence".
Comment Re:I am sire some people want this (Score 2) 55
Students.
This will tick all the boxes for a HS or college student (not majoring in tech). It is an appliance for doing school work.
Comment Boo hoo (Score 4, Insightful) 75
I respect what he was trying to accomplish, BUT...
Bug was found, bug was reported, bug was patched. This is the way things are supposed to work. He was sitting on a known hypervisor bypass bug so he could exploit it for his plans. His plans may have been noble, but others may have also known about the exploit and had less-than-noble plans for it.
Sony may suck, but fixing bugs is good for all of us. No exploit will ever remain only for the good guys to use.
Submission + - FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to foreign powers (arstechnica.com)
Local ID10T writes: The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved Paramount Skydance's plan to sell large equity stakes to the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.
Under US law, companies with licenses to run broadcast stations need FCC approval to have direct or indirect foreign ownership exceeding 25 percent of the company's stock. Paramount says its indirect foreign ownership will reach 49.5 percent after it receives investments from the sovereign wealth funds and filed a petition asking the FCC to waive the foreign ownership limit.
Paramount, the owner of CBS, holds FCC licenses for the 28 local CBS stations that it owns and operates. Paramount is buying Warner Bros. Discovery in a $111 billion deal that is being partially financed with foreign investment but hasn't completed the acquisition because US states filed a lawsuit that aims to block the merger. Trump's Department of Justice approved the merger.
The FCC is letting Paramount sell indirect ownership stakes to "some of the most repressive governments in the world," FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, the only Democrat on the commission, said yesterday. "An investment this large in one of America's biggest media companies doesn't just buy equity, it secures influence over what gets said and what gets made."
Under US law, companies with licenses to run broadcast stations need FCC approval to have direct or indirect foreign ownership exceeding 25 percent of the company's stock. Paramount says its indirect foreign ownership will reach 49.5 percent after it receives investments from the sovereign wealth funds and filed a petition asking the FCC to waive the foreign ownership limit.
Paramount, the owner of CBS, holds FCC licenses for the 28 local CBS stations that it owns and operates. Paramount is buying Warner Bros. Discovery in a $111 billion deal that is being partially financed with foreign investment but hasn't completed the acquisition because US states filed a lawsuit that aims to block the merger. Trump's Department of Justice approved the merger.
The FCC is letting Paramount sell indirect ownership stakes to "some of the most repressive governments in the world," FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, the only Democrat on the commission, said yesterday. "An investment this large in one of America's biggest media companies doesn't just buy equity, it secures influence over what gets said and what gets made."
Comment Re:Americans love the flyovers. For many man decad (Score 1) 207
The statement was at best tone deaf, and likely intentionally offensive. The US Military leadership is trolling the American public.
MAGA lives on outrage. They want liberal tears. Even if it hurts Americans.
It is called "winning".
Comment Re:Ah yes (Score 1) 207
The fiscal conservatives at work again. What's the hourly cost to taxpayers for flying an F16?
The pilots of these machines need to log actual flight time in order to be good at it. We set minimum training hours to maintain their flight qualifications, and then struggle to find something for them to do while they are flying around. Airshows and flyovers are done as ways to occupy some of those hours of flight time.
It is not a waste of money. It is money that would be spent anyway.
Submission + - Major Media Outlets Banned from White House (bbc.com)
hadleyburg writes: BBC is reporting that "US President Donald Trump has announced that he is "immediately" banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House".
"Trump said that the outlets "constantly write or report fiction or lies" about his administration, although he provided no examples".
"Trump said that the outlets "constantly write or report fiction or lies" about his administration, although he provided no examples".
Submission + - U.S. almost attacked Chinese ship over hallucinated AI nuclear arms report (cnn.com)
fahrbot-bot writes: CNN is reporting that an AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack on a Chinese ship.
The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.
The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.
It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.
The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
The kind of “hallucination” that the tool used by the analyst in this case conjured has not been an isolated incident across the intelligence community since these tools began proliferating across government, according to one of the sources.
The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.
The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.
It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.
The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
The kind of “hallucination” that the tool used by the analyst in this case conjured has not been an isolated incident across the intelligence community since these tools began proliferating across government, according to one of the sources.
Comment Re:How specifically could AI kill all humans? (Score 1) 133
Trump is basically a 1990s Democrat.
Cool story, bro. It is 2026. Own your shit.
Comment Re:How specifically could AI kill all humans? (Score 1) 133
The shocking-though-not-surprising election of somebody like Trump, as well as the dysfunction which allowed it to happen, have been predictable and predicted by many of us for a long time.
"All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again."
So say we all.
Comment Re:Spread it evenly (Score 2) 144
For 30 years the plan for the BICs was Yucca mountain and here we are with no backup option with that being dead now.
Yucca Mountain was a good plan. We should have done it over all of our objections. We still could. It is a better option than anything else anyone has come up with.
Comment Re:Not just there (Score 2) 144
We have even more barrels of nuclear waste in the ocean up north, near the Farallon islands, off the coast of San Francisco. The current draws the leaking waste right into the bay...
Comment Re:Not just there (Score 5, Informative) 144
There are thousands of barrels of nuclear waste rotting away on the floor of the ocean just off the coast of southern California near Catalina island. That was the previous plan for disposing of nuclear waste: just dump it in the sea.
The barrels have decayed to the point where attempting to collect them would almost certainly cause them to rupture and spill their contents. They will rupture and leak if left as they are -just not all at once.
Comment Re:Qualified immunity has to go (Score 1) 172
This is a real problem.
If we do not extend special treatment to cops, they will not do cop things for us and our communities will suffer.
If we extend special treatment to cops, they abuse the privilege and our communities suffer.
We can choose to be stricter about who can be a cop and only accept people who do good work without the need for special privileges. This would leave us with less cops, but they would be better cops.
Can we handle having fewer, better cops? Or do we accept the diminished quality of police to get more cops?
One way leaves us without support: "Sorry, we don't have anyone available to help you today."
The other leads to abuse under color of law: "I can do anything I want. I am the law."
Personally, I would choose to be more self-reliant than to accept police abuse of power.
