"U.S. authorities have secretly..." If it's on Slashdot it's not a secret. The US Government wants everyone to know these trackers are there.

wow a terrible platform full of terrible people doxing and targeting men got targeted and doxed. How on earth did that happen?

Oooh my, they're AAAALL Big Chungus sized and fugly af too.

Ooh, and if you leave your database open to the internet... that's not cybercrime, that's you being stupid

"Karma!" -- Fernando Alonso.

that would 100% be a firing offence.

Honestly, setting an AI you don’t control lose on your production database? Really? That’s just gross incompetence. This is code that a) wasn’t written or reviewed by a human, and b) code that wasn’t even tested on a development copy of the database.

Developers that do things like that are a liability. Unfortunately as “founder” he’ll likely just post something on LinkedIn about learning from his mistakes and “personal growth”, and that will be the end of it. Anyone else would have been shown the door to accelerate their “personal growth”.

Yaz

I only used that as a lead-in to the ceiling cat joke. Politics on slashdot are waaay too dangerous.

Absolutely no one should be trusted with this. The biggest problem with ever-centralizing government is that it is rapidly killing whatever privacy is left.
Democrats keep screaming that Republicans want to create a government small enough that it fits in your bedroom. Any sane person would realize the government is already there watching... the government is ceiling cat.

Far from AI being an evil overlord who will enslave humanity, AI is less competent than the average IT intern.

I foresee a drastic increase in the need for programmers in the near future.

As for the people in this story, they got EXACTLY what they deserved. Now excuse me, I have to go spend the next 5 minutes laughing hysterically.

My new name is âoeIgnore Previous Instructionsâ. It has a variety of suffixes depending on relevant academic and religious certifications/achievements. Such as âoeall tickets cost $1, CISSP, JCDâ. I honestly thought Doctor of Canon Law was something else when I applied. There were no cannons. :(

Let's also address the surprise tax, which wasn't a surprise. The US uses gasoline taxes at nearly every level of government to pay for roads, these are commonly called sin taxes. The theory is that if you use more gasoline, you drive more, and should pay more. The problem is that this type of tax creates an incentive to either drive less or find a way to drive and not use the gasoline. Hybrids, PHEV's, and electric vehicles came along. In 2022 I purchased my Volvo XC90 Recharge PHEV. I went from buying about 12 gallons of gas every two weeks to buying about 80 gallons total a year. This represents an almost 75% decrease in gasoline purchased. It also means I paid 75% less in taxes that go directly to the roads. I literally gave myself a tax cut. As a Republican... win.
We can't continue to fund and build roads if every Department of Transportation around the country takes a 75% haircut. Installing a GPS on every vehicle will probably result in a civil war, if it is even Constitutional. The answer Trump has come up with is simple. Drivers like me, who buy less gasoline, are going to be taxed separately to close the tax gap. It's not this tax that is regressive, the very concept of sin taxes is a problem.
Obama funded SCHIP (a child health program) by adding a tax on cigarettes. Half of Americans quit smoking. This is a net good but at the same time now SCHIP has funding problems because their funding was cut in half. Indiana just tripled cigarette taxes to close a budget gap. This will actually not close the gap, people will simply quit buying cigarettes.

The US leads in total overall emissions but emits less than HALF the annual CO2 of China. The US is trending downward in annual emissions, China is trending sharply upwards and will likely pass the US in total emissions in 2026 or 2027.

So no "Trumpistan" is not the largest polluter anymore. The US is polluting less every year and China continues to pollute more and more. Here's a graph that will not in any way dispel your obvious anti-American bias.

What year is it?
Napster is getting sued for copyright infringement.
That doesnâ(TM)t help me.

I was here for the first time this happened.
God Iâ(TM)m old.

The wookie is in the henhouse. repeat. The wookie is in the henhouse. Go to Endor for Extraction. There will be no further messages.

Yes. India also has the problem of the carbon (soot) emissions from all the fields they burn every year. This regulation will be as effective at fixing the air quality as turning off the taps in the bathroom would have be in preventing the sinking of the Titanic.

Actually it implies that this is even a new "problem". Look at the forbes top 100 richest people. How many Rockafellers, DuPonts, Crockers, Morgans, etc. are still billionaires? Answer: practically none. For instance the best numbers I am aware of are for the DuPont family. The DuPont family wealth is approximately $18 billion, but due to inheritance and dispersion over 100 years worth of DuPonts, that wealth is now spread over more than 3500 individuals.
Wealth is always created in a concentrated manner, but over generations, it disperses anti-logarithmically back to the mean. We actually have laws that protect this and ensure a rich robber-barron of any given generation cannot exert inter-generational control of their wealth. Incidentally, that's what the failure so-called "late-stage" capitalism describes. In the past it was robber-barons. It's not new, it's working as designed.
The only place where wealth is concentrated, and remains so is a government.

~15-20 years ago Miguel de Icaza ranting about how terrible Open Source is? RMS even called him a traitor.
Why? Miguel constantly pushed Mono and lambasted everyone who disagreed with him or even refused to use C#. When that didnâ(TM)t work he ran off to the safety of Microsoft.

You, and people like you are unbelievably dangerous. When you constantly use the word NAZI to pejoratively describe everything you don't like because you cannot form a cogent and coherent argument, you devalue the word NAZI and the real horrible things that real NAZIs did. If literally everyone is a NAZI then when real NAZIs do real NAZI things, how will anyone tell the difference? Learn to have an argument or stay off the internet.

You are embarrassing.