Can anyone comment on why TFA describes the litigation as 'stalled'? You can debate whether or not it's good policy; but Section 230 is relatively clear cut about "you pretty much can't pin liability on platforms for this class of activity", which seems like it would just end the case; rather than leave things open for an indefinite amount of appeals and pondering.

It would be somewhat surprising if there wasn't at least a bit of 'AI' involved in churning out that many slightly-off-looking extensions and websites; if there's anything even the pessimists will tell you it's good for it's to churn out dubious quality in volume for applications where quality doesn't really matter; but the use of a single piece of C2 infrastructure and a bunch of random pirated attack toolkits does not suggest that Glorious Age of AI has contributed much to that side of the attack.

It seems to be customary for an 'AI' thing to have at least one abjectly amateurish detail that a less trendy operation wouldn't have stooped to; so I guess hanging all that on a single C2 IP and hoping for the best is in the correct spirit.

It's possible it did: they didn't quote "This is an important event: the first time AI-induced psychosis has affected a well-respected and high achieving individual" purely for lack of material.

Aside from whatever actual savings might arise from fewer helicopter dispatchers; I assume that promotionally it's the only sensible strategy. You can always quietly sneak people back into the loop on what is supposed to be an automated system if you need to; but you'll never make "um, maybe use some machine vision to make incremental improvements to what has long been the showy, risky, expensive sideshow of fire suppression" sound like a cool project.

Plus a lot of the potential work in dropping things other than water on problems other than fire on short notice occurs in less permissive airspace; so those customers will presumably care more about expendability.

Of course not! You aren't supposed to talk about maximizing engagement that way.

Isn't "should be accurate and useful" a request to take areas of discussion off-limits?

It's unclear whether any aspect of human space colonization, should it occur, will be humane; but that would be the main reason. Sucking vacuum is pretty unpleasant.

That said, as occurs periodically in occupational hazard literature, people can't tell the difference between an nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere and a nitrogen atmosphere; it's only if CO2 starts to build up or respiration is obstructed that they start to freak out, so odds are that the atmospheric control systems a ship of that size would need anyway would just need some parameter tweaks; no extra systems required.

Compared to all the other engineering challenges packing a few thousand shelf-stable euthanasia modules should be pretty trivial.

The molotov cocktail recipe is essentially symbolic; analogous to demonstrating an AV program not detecting an EICAR string; or using a remote execution vulnerability to pop up notepad. Totally uninteresting as an actual attack goal; but a handy demonstration that you can make the system do something it has been set up with the intention of not allowing.

Given the deeply tepid capabilities of these things; the fact that you can talk them in to telling you stuff is rarely of any interest in isolation(it's not like 'robot! invent super-hyper-anthrax for me!' actually works); it's just that the whole 'agentic' and 'RAG' thing depends on the theory that they become more valuable, at manageable risk, out of isolation: hook them up to a company document repository or give them the ability to send email or make purchases or whatever.

So long as you can readily talk them into divulging information that scuttles an entire class of "use our secret sauce to EZ internal search and agentic sales agents!!!" use cases because they'll hand out the contents of the super-sekrit earnings call slides or offer someone a car for $10 just as easily.

Committing a crime too large to readily try was supposed to mean impunity; not a suit too large to readily defend against! I want to speak to the manager!

Even if it were true that Tan were a 100% hardcore chicom sleeper agent; this whole thing would still be a pitiful little sideshow given that he only got the job after a long string of honest, god-fearing, red blooded, American suits shareholder-valued the company into a position of alarming decline.

The cutting he has been doing does have the disconcerting taste of someone juicing today's numbers at the expense of tomorrow; but unless the problem is that that's supposed to be American Private Equity's job; an executive cutting the future to ribbons to propitiate the shareholders in the short term is hardly something you need a foreign saboteur to do when we've been actively rewarding that for some time now.

Even if you think that just shakedowning your way to foreign investment is a cool plan; why would you want a direct intel competitor to take a major stake in the company rather than just some unrelated capital-handling outfit?

Sure, 49% isn't a controlling share; but when Intel's current problems include technical deficiencies relative to TSMC and shareholders who want more shareholder value it doesn't seem like it would take much wheedling on TSMC's part to arrange a deal that looks like a shiny little technology transfer; but essentially involves having Intel management take an ax to their R&D and engineering capabilities in order to make line go up and keep shambling on as the discount brand to which TSMC transfers some of its older or less loved processes in order to get credit for 'investment'.

It's not clear that merely recapitalizing the company would necessarily fix it; but they'd either have to try to make it work or try to chop it up for finance meat; while TSMC is probably the single best-placed company to offer it a quick, easy, permanent position of inferiority; which seems like what you wouldn't want if you are trying to preserve or expand domestic capability.

A weird mixture of yes and no. People will absolutely lose their shit over 'the woke mind virus' turning frogs gay and filling every women's locker room with the trans menace; People will also dismiss the possibility that perhaps industrial quantities of novel endocrine disruptors might have an effect on humans as an alarmist con by scientists just in it to score those fat stacks of grant money.

In a related vein the only form of air pollution we will take seriously is 'chemtrails', the others are just communist hoaxes to Agenda 21 capitalism; and all vaccines will be presumed neurotoxic until further notice while it would be crass to note how many insecticides are nerve agents with familiar sounding mechanisms of action.

You know, rigorous intellectual consistency.

Never let the Federalist Society do your CRM implementation.