Oh my god, someone please tell me about understanding of the following facts are wrong:

They did all of that, compromised a SEC employee and the official SEC Twitter account, to move the price of Bitcoin only around 2.2%.

They could have just put sell orders in, and waited a month.

Here’s the hourly BTC high and low prices for the day in question, Jan. 9th., 2024

All that risk, just to bump the price up $1,000, when it was already trading between $45-47k.

That is so dumb, so painfully dumb, that I almost feel bad about laughing my ass off about this. JFC.

Just over a month later, it was back trading around 50k….

Sort of, maybe. Intel will launch new hardware demonstrators as product lines for consumers, with the goal of pushing their OEM customers to create similar product lines i.e. USFF PCs.

They do this with laptops, and a bunch of other stuff. They’d rather not be in the retail hardware business, but they also realize that PC OEMs operate on slim margins, and as such are not the most creative risk takers.

So it’s in Intel’s interest to periodically launch new consumer lines to (hopefully) prove there’s a market to be had, with whatever new product type of they’re launching. Powered by Intel of course.

At least, that’s my understanding of the issue.

That would be extra funny, considering at least some motivation behind his initially bidding on Twitter, was to cash out his absurdly overvalued Tesla stock, without causing it to crash.

Clearly he signed that initial Delaware contract while he was still riding high on mania, but still, his desire to convert his overpriced Tesla stock played no small part. The remaining rationale was mostly drug-induced mania, but I digress.

So, calculating fines based on his overpriced assets, forcing him to sell off a bunch of those shitty assets, and risking their price falling closer to their true worth, would be hilarious.

It’s also why I am skeptical that they’ll do it, or at least I’m skeptical they’ll do it in a way that would trigger a domino effect, or market contagion.

They will be tried in Ukrainian courts I imagine.

I can’t envision the Hague actually prosecuting, convicting, and jailing, any Russians. Just as I can’t see them doing that to Americans.

I could be wrong, Russia’s position has certainly weakened enough for it to be possible, but until that dam is broken, I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Ukraine on the other hand, that’s an entirely different story. They’ve already been prosecuting war criminals in their own courts. Which is problematic in its own right, but if the Hague isn’t a viable possibility yet, what other options do they have?

Are these used to extend the range of munition carrying/suicide FPV drones?

What’s their flight time with those repeater/antenna payloads?

AI used to mean sentience, or close enough to truly mimic it, until marketing departments felt that machine learning was good enough.

I’m sorry, a computer using matrices to determine hot dog, or not hot dog, because it’s model has a million hot dog photos in it, is not AI.

LLMs don’t reason. There is no intelligence, artificial otherwise.

It’s doing a lot of calculations in cool new ways, sometimes. But that’s what computers do, and no matter how many copilot buttons Microsoft sells, there’s no AI coming out of those laptops.

This is why I hate everything being called AI, because nothing is AI. It’s all advanced machine learning algorithms, and I each serve different purposes. It’s why I’ll say LLM, facial recognition, deepfake, etc.

Because I have no doubt that there are a lot of machine learning tools and algorithms that could greatly assist humans in archival work, Google Gemini and ChatGPT aren’t the ones that come to mind.

Do they have plentiful stocks of ATCMS now? Or was that a highly specialized ($$$) group of soldiers training?

Maybe it’s the grainy video, but it looks like dirt mounds, portable trailers, some light vehicles, and maybe 10-20 soldiers?

I imagine there will be limits set, through precedent.

For example, if a customer is chatting with an AI bot regarding a refund for a pair of $89 sneakers, and the bot tells the customer to report to the nearest office to collect 1 million dollars, I can see the courts ruling the plaintiff is not owed $1 million dollars.

Although, if the plaintiff ended up flying a few States over to try and collect, maybe travel costs and lost wages? Who knows.

If a company marketing fee for service legal advice, their might be a higher standard. Say a client was given objectively bad legal advice, the kind that attorneys get sanctioned or reprimanded for, and subsequently acts upon that advice. I think it’s likely the courts would take a different approach and determine the company has a good bit of liability for damages.

Those are both just hypothetical generic companies and scenarios I made up to highlight how I can see the question of liability being determined by the courts. Unless some superceding laws and regulations enacted.

Or fuck it, maybe all AI companies have to do is put an arbitration clause in their T&C’s, and then contract out to an AI arbitration firm. And wouldn’t you know it, the arbitration AI model was only trained on cases hand picked by Federalist Society interns.

This is good news, relatively speaking.

SMR technology is one of the most promising pieces of technological development in the nuclear power space.

Standardized factory production and completely sealed, so refueling is only at the factory, never on-site. Their also, small, but scalable depending on the needs of each site.

I’m not sure of the design this company is using, but I’m assuming they’re leveraging a fail safe reactor, as in, it requires properly running systems to generate fission, but if those systems fail, the fission process stops.

As opposed to systems like Chernobyl, or 3 Mile Island, that required separate active safety systems to guard against catastrophic failures.

The problem isn’t the video feed per se, it’s that the business model of IoT companies, especially cheap IoT companies, include selling off customer data to advertising and other surveillance capital type entities.

So, cheap hardware, lax security at best, and a business model that requires all their devices to have an internet connection to function properly, or access its full feature set.

Wait… Even if users don’t pay for this, their car still comes a WWAN module that is hardwired to their ignition. Yes, I realize it’s more likely bolted on to the infotainment system and/or the car’s RTOS, but it’s still baked in.

It’s all relative. My cheap Chinese spyware SmartLife devices are free to report the hours I turn my lights on back to China as they please, but they sit on a segmented VLAN with per client isolation.

If they ever EOL’d them, I’ve got more than my money’s worth, and yes, some of them can be flashed, but I’d probably just buy another well established cheap Chinese competitor.

But I agree, the above is not the use case and situation for every IoT device out there, and there are plenty of devices that I would never consider an internet/SaaS dependent version of e.g. medium to large home appliances.

As others have said, fast opening quick notes with basic formatting.

For example, if I get an unexpected call I need to write down more than a call back number, Wordpad was my go to.

Well, at least when back when I used Windows regularly.

I don’t watch his releases every week anymore, so does anyone know if he’s announced that he quit his day job?

I found his channel after his first Russo-Ukraine war video was a day old, and JFC how has he kept up releasing an hour-long PowerPoint a week ever since?

I know he was late once or twice, but holy shit, that is an insane work ethic. I hope he doesn’t burn out because videos are still grade A+.

Dell’s inside sales team probably has a much flatter bell curve, performance wise, then their outside (traveling) reps.

So yes, they are looking to do a layoff without the headlines, or severance, but probably aren’t as concerned where on the bell curve those employees rank.

Middle and lower management of those teams is absolutely sweating bullets about their teams getting wrecked, but big picture, whatever impact the C Suite is expecting, clearly isn’t enough to outweigh whatever outcome their hoping for here.

Sure, as long as the device doesn’t automatically connect to open networks, and if it does, you don’t live in an apartment, or moderate density area with available open wi-fi networks in range.

“I keep overcooking my steak, any advice?”

“I haven’t had meat in 40 years, have you considered simply going vegetarian?”

If there are open wifi networks near your TV that you can’t lockdown, you’ll want to confirm it your make/model is known to automatically connect to those, and then take whatever mitigation steps are justified for your own use case.

For example, if you have multiple TVs, maybe you can swap models around based on their capabilities and location, or look up the schematic for the TV and see if it’s easy to block it’s internal antennas.

Or maybe that seems like too much of a hassle and you just say fuck it, and don’t worry about it. Which is always an option, because given how much data already gets sucked up by surveillance capitalism, my evening TV viewing habits have to be some of the lowest value data points, as I already block ads and avoid all ad supported services.

I pirated for a long time, and even though I had(have) large media libraries and the home server capacity to manage everything just fine, I stopped.

Not sure when, or why, I’m guessing a service broke and I just said fuck it, I already have Prime+Netflix, and that was years ago at this point.

Netflix’s password policy and Amazon showing adds had me spin them up again, and even migrate over to Jellyfin because Plex is just another enshitified privacy nightmare.

Which was a pleasant surprise, because the last I tried Jellyfin years ago, it was not worth the hassle. Also, Plex wasn’t nearly as bad as it is now.

To swing this back around to this article, I’m betting eventually they’ll force their TVs online by disabling features, capabilities, or even the device itself, if it’s not phoning home.