It’s app level injection, so presumably if you install GrapheneOS or use a different “smart feed app” (some kind of launcher for Motorola? I haven’t used one before), it won’t affect the user. Although, I agree it’s a pretty bad look on the QA of preloaded apps.

It’s not permanent, but lifetime. When they go bankrupt, they’ll just eliminate those subscribers.

So consumer grade routers are a security risk, but not ISP switches or server routers? That’s the opposite of what a state level actor would look for.

At least he dogfooded his vision. Too bad reality happened.

“There’s some legal, legalese you’ve got to work with, but everybody’s working with us on this,” he said. “I can’t even tell you how many different corporate America, Google, Apple, Meta, all these companies have said, ‘Whatever you need, Sheriff, they’re there,’ and we’re utilizing that leverage to get things done as quickly as we can.”

Am I the only one thinking it’s a chilling thing to hear?

The killing part is not necessarily people vibe coding programs into OSS projects, but even if the OSS itself is not vibe coded, people using AI to integrate with it will result in lower engagement and thus killing the ecosystem:

Together, these patterns suggest that AI mediation can divert interaction away from the surfaces where OSS projects monetize and recruit contributors.

From Section 2.3 of the reported paper.

How to defeat collective shout? A collective even louder shout.

The BBC report cited mainly focused on the marketing industry, with the fixing mistake people being the copywriters. This gives a strong vibe of Madman, where you have the “old-fashioned” copywriters and the tension between market research.

For DevOps, it provides consistency for every CI run and production deployment, especially when a whole system needs to be shipped.

Aktually, for most Internet services in China today, one already needs a phone number to create an account, which is linked back to the national ID. So, there isn’t any anonymity to begin with.

Probably just investor activists floating the idea to test the water. They’ve been wanting to sell Intel for parts since the bad quarter and Pat (former CEO) being evicted is part of this plan.

They’re pretty happy to comply with censorship in China though.

u/Dangerous-Pizza7054 from the article,

Seems like the user tracking “special promotion” overrides the premium. They don’t even say whether it’s expected or not. But my take away is that paying for premium may or may not show you ads, but you are definitely tracked and harvested for data. (Maybe even more so, since, well, you are more valuable to them.)

Looking through the first one’s content and it seems reasonable? The patent’s abstract is supposed to be as widely applicable as legally permitted, so it’s like a completely different language on top of legalese.

Linux Foundation (of which Linus is an employee) is an US entity. RISC-V International foresaw this and chose to incorporate in Switzerland.

An update:

If your company is on the U.S. OFAC SDN lists, subject to an OFAC sanctions program, or owned/controlled by a company on the list, our ability to collaborate with you will be subject to restrictions, and you cannot be in the MAINTAINERS file.

(direct link)

That’s more like his opinion or a post facto justification. Turns out it is a US thing.

If your company is on the U.S. OFAC SDN lists, subject to an OFAC sanctions program, or owned/controlled by a company on the list, our ability to collaborate with you will be subject to restrictions, and you cannot be in the MAINTAINERS file.

So to get back, you have to basically prove that you have no relations with OFAC SDN companies.

This update is from https://lwn.net/Articles/995186/

The paper only says it’s a collaboration. It’s pretty large scale, so the opportunity might be rare. There’s a chance that (the same or other) researchers will follow up and experiment in more schools.

The interviews revealed that data scientists sometimes get distracted by the latest developments in AI and implement them in their projects without looking at the value that it will deliver.

At least part of this is due to resume-oriented development.

Sorry I wasn’t being clear. AC is used for connecting within areas of densely populated cities, e.g. British National Grid. If we are talking about really long distances (> hundreds of kilometers), HVDC is indeed preferred.

I was talking about a trend of some factories replacing AC from power grids (possibility generated in nearby cities) with DC from solar panels on their rooftops. So it’s a long distance compared to that.