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tenuousemphasis··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
It's almost like you can easily kill a vast number of people with guns but not words. Curious...
tenuousemphasis··on How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
Care to share your data?
tenuousemphasis··on Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
It's not though, it's a pretty standard component.
tenuousemphasis··on Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
It seems unlikely that smartphones would be targeted for such an attack because almost nobody stores large amounts of crypto on their smartphone. Those that do will likely get hacked more traditionally.
tenuousemphasis··on Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
There have been more hacks, bugs, and coins lost from software or custodial wallets than ever have and likely ever will be lost from hardware wallets.
tenuousemphasis··on Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
I presume because iPhones have a secure TPM and nobody is targeting them for crypto supply chain attacks.
tenuousemphasis··on Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics
Enshittification right from the start...
tenuousemphasis··on CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Next election is midterms, not presidential.
tenuousemphasis··on CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Looks great on Firefox Android, not sure what you're seeing.
tenuousemphasis··on Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
No need to be such a dick, it reflects poorly on you.
tenuousemphasis··on Passkeys are a trap
A cloud synced passkey is still better than a cloud synced password, and that is the alternative.
tenuousemphasis··on Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
As a native English speaker, same.
tenuousemphasis··on Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
Models that figured out reward hacking became overall more evil. Like stereotypical AI who wants to kill all humans stuff, there's probably a lot of that in the training data.
tenuousemphasis··on Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
A court ordered judgement isn't taxation, try again.
tenuousemphasis··on A Model for Winning Survivor
>Survivor is edited after the fact, once the winners and all the arcs of contestants are known.

That might make it easier for the model to pick up on clues from the editing process. Like winners get more on-screen confessionals or something like that.

tenuousemphasis··on Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
So they're good at planning but only when used certain ways.
tenuousemphasis··on Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
There's a great free Yale lecture series called Death that goes into this.

https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-176/lecture-12

Version 1: A mad scientist swaps your mind with another person's (Linda's), then asks which resulting body he should torture. Intuition says spare the one with your personality, so personality looks like the key to identity.

Version 2: He's going to torture you, but first gives you amnesia, then makes you believe you're Linda, then gives Linda your memories. Intuition says don't torture your body, so the body looks like the key.

tenuousemphasis··on Qwen Image 2.1
Good luck to them enforcing that license.
tenuousemphasis··on Qwen Image 2.1
You think they care about the probably unenforceable license terms?
tenuousemphasis··on Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy
Link your sources then, because I think you're full of shit.
tenuousemphasis··on Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91%
No more cost plus contracts.
tenuousemphasis··on Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91%
Yes, they place these at places where they're needed, the outliers.
tenuousemphasis··on Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
Strange, battery use is negligible on Android, particularly when the tunnel is not in active use.
tenuousemphasis··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Can you provide any examples of failed Kagi searches that Google returned without issue? I've never run into that.
tenuousemphasis··on How to Write with an LLM
Sure, if you don't mind your fact checker to be confidently wrong often.
tenuousemphasis··on A Decade of Hype, 3k Roofs, and One Redirect URL: Tesla Kills the Solar Roof
All of it... it reads like someone experiencing mania.
tenuousemphasis··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
It's actually worse than that. IP laws trump property laws because they prevent you from using your property in ways you would otherwise be able to. It's nothing more than base rent seeking.
tenuousemphasis··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
This is going to blow your mind, but people created music, literature, art long before intellectual property laws existed. IP laws are nothing but rent seeking.
tenuousemphasis··on Everybody's Lost Their Minds
TIL a global pandemic that infected hundreds of millions and killed millions of people wasn't an inherent problem.
tenuousemphasis··on The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities
You're saying that bankrupting a casino was actually 4D chess? Ok, buddy, whatever you say.
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