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Comment we're all gonna die... (Score 1) 54

by bobdevine (#65288841) Attached to: Scientists Debate Actual Weight of the Internet

An important point is that the weight of the internet follows the daily usage pattern -- internet activity is much higher on the daylight hemisphere as many more people are awake so their internet traffic increases the weight.

This means: the ever-heavier daylight burdens will cause an unbalanced wobble in the planet as it rotates. Because the weight of the internet increases year by year, the wobble will worsen and the Earth will eventually escape its orbit. We're all gonna die...

Comment "negative day" attack on Microsoft CoPilot+ Recall (Score -1, Offtopic) 10

by bobdevine (#64526441) Attached to: Mike Karels, of 4.4 BSD Fame, Has Died

If a "zero-day" attack is when an attack comes on the same day a vulnerability is found, what is it called when an attack emerges before a product has even shipped?
Somebody has posted code to dump out the contents of a CoPilot+ Recall database:
      https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fxaitax%2FTota...

Submission + - Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi (roylongbottom.org.uk)

Submitted by bobdevine
bobdevine writes: "In 1978, the Cray 1 supercomputer cost $7 Million, weighed 10,500 pounds and had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far, the fastest computer in the world. The Raspberry Pi costs around $70 (CPU board, case, power supply, SD card), weighs a few ounces, uses a 5 watt power supply and is more than 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1"

Comment Story is fake (Score 1) 212

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An earlier version of this story included an anecdote told by US Air Force Col. Tucker Hamilton in a presentation at an international defense conference hosted by the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAS), about an AI-enabled drone that “killed” its operator in a simulation. On Friday morning, the colonel told RAS that he “misspoke,” and that he was actually describing a hypothetical “thought experiment,” rather than an actual simulation. He said that the Air Force has not tested any weaponized AI in this way, either real or simulated. This story has been corrected to reflect the new context of Hamilton’s remarks.

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

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