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Comment At this point, what remedial action can one take? (Score 2) 10

Hacks that involve hackers obtaining data from institutions are becoming so common that it's no longer about hoping that an institution that you have a relationship isn't compromised; it's now about ensuring that you aren't negatively affected by the impact.

Other than [1] monitoring your credit; [2] changing your passwords, or using MFA; [3] being hyper aware of phishing attempts that use information about you, is there really anything else one can do?

Submission + - Niklaus Wirth, inventor of Pascal has died (twitter.com)

axlash writes: It has been reported on X that Niklaus Wirth, inventor and co-inventor of several languages including Pascal, Euler and Oberon died on Jan 1, 2024. He was aged 89.

Comment Re:Apple, politics and race. (Score 1) 48

Turned off politics?

Are you kidding??

Please look at all the topics that have had the highest number of posts on Slashdot (especially over the last four years); you'll find that they are usually political.

I personally prefer to give such topics a hard pass, as they're usually people agreeing with each other, or people shouting past each other, with few insights to be gained.

Comment Is this really news, though? (Score 1) 195

It's very obvious from the way things were going that this was going to happen, so this is really filler news - up there with "It's the Xth anniversary of Y" and "It's X holiday today".

The real news is when the number of infected people begin to drop worldwide, or when governments start lifting their lockdowns.

Comment It's pretty good (Score 3, Informative) 64

I looked at samples of chats that humans had had with it, here:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgoogle-rese...

I think that its strength is that it can easily cross-reference data related to topics that a human brings up, and this allows it to open up the conversation.

Comment Re:And the point is? (Score 1) 147

What are you talking about? This isn't some random blogger off the web, it's an executive from Cruise Automation.

They are literally working on making this happen, not just hoping something magically appears out of thin air.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

So he should just keep on doing what he's doing, if he believes it's the right and profitable thing to do. There's no need to make any statement - if he's right, then his actions should ultimately speak louder than his words.

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