No one said "Doctors know everything." Biology and life are weird and complicated. But anecdote are by nature not as reliable as actual studies. They lack anything like a control, and they involve small groups of people. I'm also not sure why you feel a need to reply with so much vitriol. The primary point I was making is that the literature is mixed in regards to what impact it has. How that turns into claiming that one must be "right" about somethin is beyond me. If we are going to make this personal as you seem to prefer, maybe the problem is that people who aren't very bright have trouble reading actual studies so they like to dismiss them rather than actually grapple with the evidence?

No, that's exactly not what chatbots are doing. Chatbots have no concept of right and wrong. Chatbots know that given the frequency of words already in the conversation and their probalistic neighborhood to elements in their body of data, which words are most probable to come next. And if there is not enough data fitting their current state, they randomly add words, because no possible next word presents them with a high probability.

On iOS, malloc (1ull 35) will succeed. It will reserver 32 GB in the address space but nothing else. As long as you don't write to the memory, nothing happens at all. So you are right to ask "WTF is going on here", but it won't hurt any user.

At least Apple claimed years ago that iPhones used GPS when available and used a database of WiFi network locations otherwise. Because in the locations where you donâ(TM)t get GPS you typically get tons of WiFi signals.

It's stupid; but at least more honest than trying to dress 'grok' up as the master control computer.

In the MS case; it wouldn't be too surprising if that order is also the one that urgency dictates. Neither is totally unavailable on-prem only; or entirely without more-chatty-than-one-would-like behavior; but if your concern is about your dependence and Redmond's potential direct control their groupware stuff is moving faster than their OSes(at least if you have enterprise licenses and someone to handle keeping them quiet) in the direction of pure SaaS.

You'll get some nagging about how Azure Arc is definitely the cool kid's future of glorious hybrid manageability; but your ability to run Windows as though it were 15 years ago is definitely greater than your ability to run Office that way.

I suspect that this won't be the last case we see; as MS has shown comparatively little interest in backing down on the future being azure SaaS, and there's no real equivalent to some steep but temporary discounts for dealing with people who have fundamental privacy and operational control issues; while it's not terribly challenging to find a special discount that makes sticking with the status quo look cheaper than trying to do a migration.

There may be an AI bubble. I'm not sure though why you think this deal is evidence that that bubble is bursting. Do you want to expand on your reasoning?

I obviously don't expect better from these sorts of people; but I'm honestly puzzled as to why they would turn the screws so quickly and blatantly despite having gone to all the trouble of a reshuffle and a new lineup and some spiel about being likeable rather than Alexa just being something that you sort of poke at because Prime members were given a free surveillance puck with some offer one time.

Is Panay one of those abhuman lunatics who genuinely thinks that the only objection to relentless advertising is that it isn't "relevant" or "engaging" enough? Does he have a scorpion nature that leads him to knowingly doom his own product just because that's what he is? Is he just a figurehead who got to choose the case plastics colors and smile on stage; but some adtech business unit calls all the shots?

I'd fully expect this sort of thing to betray you; but only after enough of a honeymoon period for people to be pleasantly surprised by the behavior of the launch units so that there is actually enough of an install base to betray.

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.

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.

Whether marijuana helps prevent Alzheimer's or makes it worse is unclear. There are plausible mechanisms where it could do either and the empricial data is itself mixed. See https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.therecoveryvillage.com%2Fmarijuana-addiction%2Fmarijuana-and-dementia%2F and https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Farticles%2FPMC7259587%2F for a start. The situation is also complicated for other forms of dementia with small amounts of marijuana use having some evidence of a slight protective effect but heavy usage showing more dementia and early cognitive decline. See https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjamanetwork.com%2Fjournals%2Fjamaneurology%2Farticle-abstract%2F2832249 https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eurekaselect.com%2Farticle%2F138726. The effects here though are small, and given pot's very high increase in heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems, any positive benefit from dementia protection is swamped by those large negatives.

Once you have a plant cover, it starts to be self-reinforcing, as the plants already grown provide shadow cover for the next generation. The pioneering plants get replaced by other species later, once the local micro climate has changed, and then you get an even more complex and more stable ecosystem. Of course, this takes many decades to establish completely, but it might be that it is self-sustaining much earlier.

Biologists study this all the time. Spoil tips, abandoned crop fields, volcanic ash, or the charred remains of a bush fire, they are ideal research objects on how Nature reclaims those areas. And the time line is vastly different depending on the environment, between a few years, and centuries. Until an oak forest has naturally regrown and gets into balance, it takes about 1000 years.

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.

In the U.S., "champagne" simply means sparkling wine, in other places, it means "wine grown and produced in the Champagne region". Same with Parmesan or Budweiser or something.

And there isn't even a clear cut difference between the two, and especially in German, where many food items have different names depending on the region (don't you ever trust a dictionary, because for many food items, there is no Standard German word), a vote like the one the European Parlament just did does not work. The famous "Berliner" (jelly donut) is a prime example, which is not called "Berliner" in Berlin itself, but a Pfannkuchen (pancake), while the pancake is called Eierkuchen (egg cake) here.

Grützwurst, Erbswurst, Bettwurst - all words using the German word for sausage (Wurst), but none of them is made primarily from meat or does even contain any meat at all, and the Bettwurst is not edible, but a bed accessoire. And Burger? How about Bitburger (a beer) and Burger (a bakery and a trademark for different types of bread)? Do they have to change names? What about Schnitzel (cutlet)? How do we call Rübenschnitzel (sugar beet pulp) and Holzschnitzel (wood chips) going into the future?

This was a vote where the main goal was to "own the Left", without any thought about the consequences.

The problem is that in German, it's not Hamburger Steak, it's Hamburger Beefsteak, something everyone in Hamburg would understand. In German, Steak means the meat, and Beefsteak means the patty - quite confusing for someone native to English, for whom "beef" means meat from a cow. But when the words were borrowed by the Germans, they moved their meaning.