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Comment What kind of idiocy is this? (Score 4, Interesting) 119

Seriously, what kind of idiocy is this?

What purpose does it serve? In case you're wondering, it gives the Trumpers another pretext to arrest any foreign person who's made a post on social media that they don't like.

It also makes even more of the world hate us, but to them that's just an extra benefit.

Submission + - NOAA Retires Extreme Weather Database: Question

Submitted by PascalDrabik
PascalDrabik writes: Few weeks ago, I saw a post abour "NOAA Retires Extreme Weather Database".

I personally think this is a shame, even maybe criminal (after all this is like destroying evidence on a crime scene). But, I "trust" the Trump administration has very likely more important priorities than caring about natural disasters;-)

So here is my question: Why not to provide this database to other institutions, possibly world-wide such that every one could use it and further maintain it?

Submission + - Robot Industry Split Over That Humanoid Look (axios.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Advanced robots don't necessarily need to look like C3PO from "Star Wars" or George Jetson's maid Rosie, despite all the hype over humanoids from Wall Street and Big Tech. In fact, some of the biggest skeptics about human-shaped robots come from within the robotics industry itself. [...] The most productive — and profitable — bots are the ones that can do single tasks cheaply and efficiently. "If you look at where robots are really bringing value in a manufacturing environment, it is combining industrial or collaborative robots with mobility," ABB managing director Ali Raja tells Axios. "I don't see that there are any real practical applications where humanoids are bringing in a lot of value."

"The reason we have two legs is because whether Darwin or God or whoever made us, we have to figure out how to traverse an infinite number of things," like climbing a mountain or riding a bike, explains Michael Cicco, CEO of Fanuc America Corp. "When you get into the factory, even if it's a million things, it's still a finite number of things that you need to do." Human-shaped robots are over-engineered solutions to most factory chores that could be better solved by putting a robot arm on a wheeled base, he said.

"The thing about humanoids is not that it's a human factor. It's that it's more dynamically stable," counters Melonee Wise, chief product officer at Agility Robotics, which is developing a humanoid robot called Digit. When humans grab something heavy, they can shift their weight for better balance. The same is true for a humanoid, she said. Using a robotic arm on a mobile base to pick up something heavy, "it's like I'm a little teapot and you become very unstable," she said, bending at the waist.

Submission + - Inside the Spy Game: How Russia Targets U.S. Missile Tech (blogspot.com)

Submitted by robert61
robert61 writes: On a foggy West Point stage, Trump claimed Russia stole our hypersonic missile tech—a bold statement with no proof, but a shadow of truth behind it. “Inside the Spy Game: How Russia Targets U.S. Missile Tech—and Who’s Fighting Back” explores how real Russian operatives have infiltrated defense contractors, probed aerospace networks, and spied on missile programs for years. GRU-linked hackers, covert agents, and shady arms deals point to a silent war that’s far from fiction. The article ties this chilling reality to the spy thriller The Hunt For A Russian Spy, where CIA operative Corey Pearson races to stop a Russian mole embedded at Boeing. As Russia unleashes Mach 9 missiles like the Zircon on cities—not ships—the line between thriller and threat disappears. Hypersonics change everything, and if America’s edge slips, deterrence dies. This isn’t Cold War nostalgia—it’s the next front.

Submission + - Trump's media company says it's buying $2.5 billion in Bitcoin (latimes.com)

Submitted by echo123
echo123 writes: President Donald Trump’s media company could soon own $2.5 billion in Bitcoin. On Tuesday, Trump Media announced that it’s working with “approximately 50 institutional investors” to sell and issue $1.5 billion in stock and $1 billion in convertible notes. The company, which operates Truth Social among other services, will be used to establish a large holding of Bitcoin.

Trump Media says Crypto.com and the crypto banking platform Anchorage Digital will provide custody services for the company’s Bitcoin treasury.

”We view Bitcoin as an apex instrument of financial freedom, and now Trump Media will hold cryptocurrency as a crucial part of our assets,” Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes said in the press release. “Our first acquisition of a crown jewel asset, this investment will help defend our Company against harassment and discrimination by financial institutions.” The announcement comes just months after Trump revealed plans for a federal cryptocurrency reserve that includes Bitcoin, one of numerous close ties to the crypto industry. The Trump administration has softened the government’s scrutiny of industry misconduct, with the Securities and Exchange Commission dropping lawsuits and investigations involving Coinbase, Kraken, and Robinhood.

Submission + - GitGub to require you accept AI-written Issues (github.com) 1

Submitted by jddj
jddj writes: GitHub (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2F), the Microsoft-owned repository popular with all sorts of open-source projects, is about to require that those project repositories accept Copilot-written issues.

The concerns are that AI-written issues could be numerous, beyond what a project is staffed to handle, perhaps adding millions of issues to a backlog (in that there's _always_ something you could do better), that AI-Written issues will be no better than the AI slop polluting search results, perhaps often hallucinated, and that AI-written issues will become de-facto DoS attacks, as was seen with curl recently.

There is no opt-out, and Copilot is prevented from being blocked by repo managers.

The anger is fierce and widespread, with commenters suggesting that any such feature be opt-in, and that Copilot-generated issues be filterable.

Submission + - Pioneering Co-Founder of Archive Site Cryptome, John Young Passes Away At 89 (theregister.com)

Submitted by zuki
zuki writes: From an obit in The Register John Young, the co-founder of the legendary internet archive Cryptome, died at the age of 89 on March 28. The Register talked to friends and peers who gave tribute to a bright, pugnacious man who was devoted to the public's right to know.

Before WikiLeaks, OpenLeaks, BayFiles, or Transparency Toolkit, there was Cryptome — an open internet archive that inspired them all, helped ignite the first digital crypto war, and even gave Julian Assange his start before falling out with him on principle.

Submission + - Prison for German VW executives involved in Dieselgate scandal (politico.eu)

Submitted by SiggyRadiation
SiggyRadiation writes: A number of executives of german automaker Volkswagen were sentenced to up to four and a half years of prison. They were convicted of fraud after VW cars were found to have been intentionally programmed to behave differently under NOx testing conditions than during regular driving. Proceedings against the former CEO of Volkswagen, Martin Winterkorn, are unclear, because the proceedings against him were suspended bacause of his ill health.

Submission + - Humanoid robots fight in Chinese kick-boxing competition (bbc.com) 2

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: Two humanoid robots traded punches while fans watched on, in a competition held in Hangzhou, China, on Sunday.

The fight was part of the China Media Group World Robot Competition and featured robots developed by Unitree Robotics.

The event included both fighting demonstrations and matches, marking a world-first combat sports event featuring humanoid robots.

Submission + - Russians hacked Coinbase, demanded $20M ransom to mock my startup asking $20M (ycombinator.com)

Submitted by vitalmixofnutrients
vitalmixofnutrients writes: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fvitalrnixof... under European Union Public License Version 1.2 until newer version comes out or GPLv3 or later and https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fvitalrnixof... under European Union Public License Version 1.2 until newer version comes out or GPLv2 only.
Also they hacked my LinkedIn in the past to display a “Security Clearance” on my profile after I told the Contact the Russian Government website that I’m a Ukrainian Diplomat and they must surrender and pay reparations, which the “security clearance” was later removed.

I put on my ScaleUpstream page that I ask respectfully for $20 million. Also when I made that scaleupstream page, the startup id chosen for me was https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscaleupstream.com%2Fstar..., which I deleted recently as well as one of my LinkedIn accounts. (There’s one I forgot the password to.)

I already tipped the FBI about Russian double agents and / or spies and the “security clearance” I was “given” on LinkedIn which was later removed.

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