As someone said in another forum, "China doesn't see the need to help build the missiles that the US wants to attack it with."

Our executives' greed for short term profits has made us totally dependent on China for the materials necessary for our economy to function.

It sure is a good thing that 'AI' companies are notoriously discerning and selective about their training inputs and not doing something risky like battering on anything with an IP address and an ability to emit text in the desperate search for more; so this should be a purely theoretical concern.

Snark aside, I'd be very curious how viable this would be as an anti-scraper payload. Unlikely to be impossible to counter; but if the objective is mostly to increase their cost and risk when they trespass outside the bounds of robots.txt something that will just look a trifle nonsensical in places to a human but could cause real trouble if folded into a training set seems like it could be quite useful.

so would yours if you use

It can certainly be done otherwise; but it's not exactly unrelated when, in practice, a TPM is the industry standard mechanism for making a PC or PC-like system capable of cryptographically secure remote attestation; and when TPMs quite specifically mandate the features you need to do remote attestation rather than just the ones you would need to seal locally created secrets to a particular expected boot state. They are certainly can do that, and it's presently the most common use case; but locking down remote attestation was not some sort of accidental side effect of the design.

Wonder if Finns have a lower incidence of Alzheimers, since saunas are such a part of their culture.

Woah! They're the highest in the world! Guess I'll cancel that sauna install . . .

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldlifeexpectanc...

It's not just for Microsoft anymore

Did IDW Publishing grow or did the other suck long enough to lose relevance?

You must be young, the promise of office automation to owners was less employees and people who swallowed that B.S. were scared.. instead it's a pillar of civilization now and creator of jobs from manufacturing to transport to sales to training to use and maintenance....

And yet here you go believing the marketing hype of AI and losing your shit.. It's just a tool, on a good day. It'll make its own infrastructure and people will be needed.

The renaming of margarine as "plant butter" was totally unnecessary. Wonder what marketing "genius" came up with that brain fart.

The place where TPMs potentially get toothy is remote attestation. As a purely local matter having your boot path determined to be what you think it is/should be is very useful; but, by design, you can also request that from a remote host. Again, super useful if you are dealing with a nasty secure orchestration problem(Google has a neat writeup of how they use it); but also the sort of thing that is potentially tempting for a relying party to use as part of authentication decisions.

We've seen hints at related issues on the Android side; where hardware attestation API or 'Play Integrity' API demands are made by some applications that block 3rd party ROMs, even if the boot sequence is entirely as expected(and even if the 3rd party ROM is almost certainly in much better shape than the first party one; eg. Graphene vs. some out-of-support entry level Samsung); which has chilled 3rd party ROMs considerably.

If relying parties who are important(ISPs, banks, etc.) do start demanding attestation the situation in practice becomes a great deal more restrictive.

Based on nothing more than my own intuition (and a high-school-level understanding of economics), I predict that the AI bubble will pop in 2026. Possibly as late as Q4.

When it pops, it will not be utter collapse, because there is enough real value here that there will still be an AI product and market. But there will be a significant market correction, as the current levels of excessive optimism will ratchet down to something more realistic.

So there will be some hardship, but it won't be the next Great Depression.

Next look for a rise in 'lost bullet' injuries, as whatever they shoot at it is going to come down somewhere. The maximum range of a rifle can be four kilometers or more.

The medical field is ripe for a technology disruption. Already robots and a trained AI can scan biopsy slides faster and more accurately than a human pathologist for several different diseases, can read scans better than most radiologists, and the only reason why most pharmacists still have a job is the inertia of the insurance cartels.

Microsoft has been publicly and loudly called-out and shamed for creating an ocean of needless e-waste, and forcing people to buy new PCs that they would not otherwise need (and in many cases cannot afford) or to continue using out-of-support software (with resulting risks of malware or lack of support from other software vendors).

Microsoft's response has been to laugh all the way to the bank, hand-in-hand with their hardware partner vendors.

I understand why technicians would think that people are "retarded" for choosing Windows (I run Linux and Apple myself), but the greater retardation is the continuing and widespread belief that we can modify the behavior of wealthy industry moguls by trying to make them feel guilt.

They are incapable of feeling guilt. They aren't normal people; they just pretend to be. Normal people with normal moral compasses don't ever attain positions of such wealth and power, as they are at far too much of a competitive disadvantage against these "natural leaders."

If we want to change their behavior, words will not work. We must apply force (in the form of legislation and/or boycott). These are not easily done, but they are the only things that will work.

...collected by me more than a decade ago:

"Beyond a Jobless Recovery: A heterodox perspective on 21st century economics" https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpdfernhout.net%2Fbeyond-...
"This article explores the issue of a "Jobless Recovery" mainly from a heterodox economic perspective. It emphasizes the implications of ideas by Marshall Brain and others that improvements in robotics, automation, design, and voluntary social networks are fundamentally changing the structure of the economic landscape. It outlines towards the end four major alternatives to mainstream economic practice (a basic income, a gift economy, stronger local subsistence economies, and resource-based planning). These alternatives could be used in combination to address what, even as far back as 1964, has been described as a breaking "income-through-jobs link". This link between jobs and income is breaking because of the declining value of most paid human labor relative to capital investments in automation and better design. Or, as is now the case, the value of paid human labor like at some newspapers or universities is also declining relative to the output of voluntary social networks such as for digital content production (like represented by this document). It is suggested that we will need to fundamentally reevaluate our economic theories and practices to adjust to these new realities emerging from exponential trends in technology and society."

"Five Interwoven Economies: Subsistence, Gift, Exchange, Planned, and Theft" https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...
"This video presents a simplified education model about socioeconomics and technological change. It discusses five interwoven economies (subsistence, gift, exchange, planned, and theft) and how the balance will shift with cultural changes and technological changes. It suggests that things like a basic income, better planning, improved subsistence, and an expanded gift economy can compensate in part for an exchange economy that is having problems."