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Hang on, I thought cottage cheese was only for winterizing your cottage. You can use it for your regular home too?

I once visited a city called Savannah and was very disappointed to not find a savannah biome anywhere in the vicinity. It was far too forested! But maybe I was in that imaginary Georgia? I need to visit the real one.

It’s Europe. Just switch to another language. Hell, just call it football and he won’t know.

While the AI revolution threatens to kill countless jobs, leaving potentially millions of Americans in the lurch, maybe all those future jobless Americans can turn to the booming data center theft industry. Maybe AI is a job creator?

Ah yes, my retirement plan from the tech sector…

That’s kind of an insane distance. The article mentions it’s the first refinery they’ve hit east of the Urals. No shit. So is China, and Omsk is about that far away from Ukraine.

I find it mildly annoying that while the post is replete with hyperlinks, the 2 central terms “ietf-tls-mlkem” and “ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem” are simply quoted with no further elaboration.

I am no cryptographer, but after some searching around, my very first order understanding is that mlkem is a new algorithm that is meant to be resistant to attacks by a quantum computer. It is not time-tested at this point, however, while ecdhe is a current (albeit quantum-computer-weak) algorithm that has a solid track record.

Using both in combination is seen by some as a safer way to move forward, since mlkem may yet prove to have a fatal weakness and at least you have that fallback on the tried and true. Advocates also point out that ecdhe is cheap to compute compared to mlkem, and so the overhead of tossing it in there is not the end of the world?

Anyway, that’s all I’ve been able to glean so far.

Most relevant paragraph for the tldr crowd:

Flavors of AI doomsaying vary dramatically, ranging from Skynet-style scenarios to mass unemployment. But more recently, as it’s become clear that one of AI’s most practical applications is generating code, experts have been sounding the alarm on AI’s potential to disrupt cybersecurity. Hackers could easily abuse AI agents and coding tools to orchestrate devastating cyberattacks, both increasing the scale of these attacks and lowering the skill needed to carry them out.

It goes on to talk about how claude has yet to release a particular model and China has closed-sourced some of its over cybersecurity concerns.

At Wendy’s you can add a shot of lime to your coke using that machine there. But there’s no rum button…

Yeah you’re probably on the money there. AI gives you some sort of plausible deniability?

It certainly is. They get caught once in a while. The first time it happened was when I added the term “oligopoly” to my vocabulary.

Like do you really need an AI to do this? It’s been going on for years where I live. It’s not hard for all the local gas stations to collude to raise prices. It’s easier than ever when you have the likes of gasbuddy crowd-sourcing all the price-checking.

$6 million would be his annual subscription with tons of vendor lock-in. He could maybe save a bit if he agreed to ads on the bionic eye?

I might be a little old school when it comes to autopilots?

I suppose if the only way to obtain the patch were through an automated download from the AMD website, the authentication through the site certificate would be better than nothing. But this is a security patch, and I think the researcher is right in pointing out that the bar needs to be higher?

Researcher commenting on the patch:

he remarks that the software only checks the validity of the downloaded file using the ancient CRC32 hash that isn’t considered cryptographically secure anymore

I have to respect the researcher for his incredibly charitable wording here. CRC32 is not even remotely crypto. That’s never been its purpose, and using it for digital signing is patently insane!

I fear I would have had a much shorter temper after what he’s been through, and yet here he is keeping his cool and his criticism constructive. Good on him.

I’m guessing this is the biggest thing since Hatoful Boyfriend (the pigeon dating sim my daughter used to be into)?

The article suggests visual scans—presumably of Pokéstops and what not—could be used in drone navigation when GPS is jammed. Wouldn’t Street View be far more appropriate for that?

My band plays charity gigs at nursing homes, and they seem to love the Wii! They’ll have like Wii Sports nights and stuff.

I’m getting on in years a bit myself. I have no problem with strategy/sim type games, but those where you can’t afford to even blink are beginning to test my stamina. Though my wife recently got me into Diablo IV, and I seem to be doing better with that. Maybe because it doesn’t use a 1st person perspective?

The attack creates a large OPFS file on the victim’s SSD, with both Chrome and Safari allowing a website to claim up to 60% of total disk space through OPFS, which on a 256GB drive is over 150GB.

Am I reading this right? 60% of all your disk space can be confiscated by some random web site? I gotta figure out how to get my browser cache onto some tiny partition.

Hmm…does this mean the Mexican and Canadian host cities are going to get swamped instead?

I have zero interest in attending a game, but I do have to make trips to Toronto and the traffic, even at the best of times…