ACR is actually pretty interesting tech. They take 1 pixel and send that in. But the combination of the color of that 1 pixel over time can correllate it to what you are watching, assuming they have the 1 pixel samples truthing set.

Shady as all. I had an LG TV and they force auto updates on you, or annoy they hell out of you until you do update it. Then they snuck it in on an update and you default agree to it. You can only turn it off by digging down to their "About This TV" section, and then view the user policies you are agreeing to. Then you can turn it off. Most of this extra stuff you can turn off, except for the privacy policy or else your TV basically will not work.

I installed a pi-hole on my network and blocked LG via the smartTV list. Half my blocked queries are from LG trying to phone home.

Captain Steve was also the first and loudest one screaming the flaps weren't deployed and was quickly proven wrong, indisputedly. I'd take anything he says with a grain of salt.

I design full ocean depth (6000 meters) electronics. Getting rid of the titanium pressure vessels is a huge savings in cost and galvanic risk.

I have personally used this same SanDisk SD card at full pressure (10000 psi) inside an oil filled bladder for read/writes, as well as potted in polyurethane. Never saw any data issues.

When we proved it we thought it was cool, but didn't realize it was newsworthy. Most ICs do fine at full pressure. The only ones that fail have air voids in yhem. Like crystals, or MEMS sensors.

I can already hear the phone call from my parents trying to figure out where all their files went. Just like the last time one drive got enabled somehow. Took me half a day of work to figure out what was the most recent version of things, get it all off OneDrive and back onto their machine, and to disable that crap.

At this point Microsoft is just being predatory on the elderly.

Next day while at work, text alerts arrive of Geek Squad work scheduled by Gemini. Dave rushes home as UPS and Geek Squad vans pull away. Ding...a text alert from UPS arrives with a picture showing the box they just picked up, to be delivered to Google. Dave runs inside to see his PC dismantled and all the hard drives gone.

User: "What’s in the box Gemini? What was in the box?"

Gemini: "it seems that gluttony is my sin."

User: "What’s in the box Gemini? What’s in the fucking box?"

And this product built on the back of the product line (Nest) they purchased and ultimately destroyed. Is it irony, or something else that they are abandoning Nest officially to push this new line of home automation?

And a good teacher who understands how you to use AI can still develop a curriculum that is not totally solvable by an AI, thus still getting the concepts and critical thinking skills taught.

The current state of technology and learning is limited by the tools of the generation. In the early 1900s no doubt much time was spent in university on mathematical computation done by hand, and advancements were limited by the fact that ideas and results had to be tabulated and verified by hand. Now we have computers and mathematical software engines that we take for granted to do this work, yet critical thinking is still engaged, just at the next level. Rather than solving a PDE being the thesis, the computer solves it for you. But critical thinking is still required to know why you need to solve this PDE, and what is enabled once moving past the rigor of getting numbers out of the PDE.

Our current technology is limiting for learning in many ways. One is the various languages and drivers in software language that take time to learn and adapt to. This is one area in which using AI will increase efficiency while still enabling critical thinking. So many times I have been bogged down when an instrument requires migrating a driver to a different language, or hacking things together, when my end goal is not to learn software languages. Skewer me if you must, but programming is just a tool on the way to doing something else for many. Let the AI figure out how to stitch it together quickly and write the code so I can more quickly get back to what I was really trying to do.

Another area is in combing through the vast horde of scientific papers out there. Having an agent intelligently comb through and present applicable articles and summaries is a huge increase in efficiency. Further, I'd argue that it will improve the overall success rate of such searches. I am sure that I have suffered through extra work and missteps that someone else has already gone through and documented, but I missed it. Mainly because I am human and have deadlines and can't read through every god forsaken paper on earth looking to find that snippet with the answer. But being able to spit out an "I wonder" or a "how about" question and get an AI to infer your process and find whether there is research on the topic would be huge. And in the end I am still doing an insane amount of critical thinking, but using a tool that will give me a better success rate.

I am in the camp of "let them use AI". In the end it will still come down to the ability of the teachers to teach them the skills they need to use it successfully. This will require reinvention of their curriculum and assignments that still get their students to learn the fundamental abilities, which is 100% possible with AI.

Especially when they are the golden child of the US government's information systems.

From what I am seeing, the early 2020s will be the high water mark of the "cloud" and things are just going to start reverting back to closed down networks. There is too much at risk for companies with sensitive designs, and too many companies like Microsoft attached to their secure clouds that can open up a leak path.

An absolutely real national security risk is the push to the cloud of common design and manufacturing softwares. They all want to host your data on their servers to provide 'backup' and process simulations faster (and sell your information to component manufacturers). One huge example is Altium, which seems to be the electrical design choice of many large companies like TI, Microsemi, etc... Altium invested heavily in the cloud and are now actively shutting down the ability to renew licenses that are not perpetual and utilize their cloud services. But this greed is just putting some pretty large and structurally important company's designs in one giant honey pot. How long until something like this gives the Chinese a back door into the designs of our satellites and rockets, or comms systems, or submarines and airplanes. All sitting there in one fucking pot because some MBA had a great idea. At least with them spread out they have to decide which target to put their tiger team on. Now it is easy, just go after that big one with everything in it.

Yes, none of this story really makes sense as being a story. Does the company have one folder on a shared drive they all work on together? And they have an AI, but they don't have git?

Or maybe they did and the point is moreso that google deleted a bunch of files before it confirmed it had actually copied them? Yeah it is a screw up on one or both sides, but not really newsworthy.

Right? Art is subjective. There are no rules regarding how it must come into existence, only that it exists. Nobody has been able to threaten these large music companies and personalities because they have a monopoly on the entire process of going from nothing to rock star. Even Billie Eilish had to go through them in the end.

For once they recognize a real threat to their dominance and this whining about it is proof.

I would say that music that generally sounds similar is a problem with many bands with humans in it.

Someone will figure this out with AI, or a combo of trained nets. While I feel for artists, they should just embrace it and realize it could help them as well get past things like writer's block. Who knows, maybe we'll start seeing bands with a 5th instrument.

"...and finally, let's give it up for Slash on the AI! Thanks all, you've been a wonderful crowd and good night!"

Most versions of Windows used in DoD systems like that start as a Secure Host Baseline, which has been cleaned of much of the stuff Windows does that annoys people. After that they are religiously managed as an IS. At its core, Windows does work, and it has likely been vetted to the caliber you are expecting. They're not buying Home edition and connecting it to the internet.

Lots of development systems might start on a Linux machine, but to make it 'sailor proof' it migrates to Windows. Mainly because of the Windows UI. Another because Active Directory more readily conforms to DISA's authentication requirements for an IS than the equivalent in Linux. And many support programs only run on Windows.

Maybe that is the point. Like a honeypot. Let the Chinese send waves in after it and just observe it all to learn more. And make sure the compromised data isn't real important. DoD had a DEI department, let them manage that data on an isolated network.

Agreed. Wayland causes nothing but headaches on remote GUI machines. I was trying with RHEL to use Wayland, but after way too much time spent mucking with it, I just went back to X. Added benefit was I increased the computational speed of the process I was actually trying to run by moving it to X, which seemed contrary to what Wayland is selling itself as.

It is making facts worse on the internet. I was trying to show my 5 year old daughter what a nudibranch looked like. Google dominated the top half of the page with it's AI summary and showed tons of pictures, convincingly claiming they were nudibranches. Turns out, none of them were. They were just AI generated pictures where people had created hybrid animals, like a pony nudibranch, cat, etc... This set of pictures had been repeat blogged by a bunch of spam bloggers trying to game Google's search results for ad money, and the AI then said this is what a nudibranch is. Thankfully I was there to filter the information to my young daughter to inform her that the pictures were completely inaccurate. I can no longer trust anything Google portrays. Their AI has tarnished their brand.