I heard, on the podcast Darknet Diaries, that there are auctions for zero days in Argentina. This security researcher could probably have cleared a million dollars for a bug like that if they were unscrupulous. The bug…
I am in favor of age attestation at the OS level. Children accessing adult content is a serious problem, and "are you over 18" prompts are not a serious solution. OTOH Id verification for every adult website is…
RAG stands for Retrieval Augmented Generation. The purpose is to search a corpus of text by meaning rather than exact match. I had to look it up.
AI chips feel like a gimmick. An excuse to add "powered by ai chips" to the marketing material. That sort of phrase in on just about every consumer laptop now. My brother bought one. I challenged him to find something…
Statutes can delegate the president tariff powers and appropriately circumscribe them, and that's what both the IEEPA and Trade Expansion Act did - they gave the executive tariff authority in certain circumstances.…
These tariffs will be struck down as unconstitutional just like the ones Trump attempted under the IEEPA were. Any company who paid in the meanwhile will be compensated while consumers will get the short end, so it will…
The article doesn't mention any Azure outages, but a client had an Azure hosted container restart that day which caused problems due to configs being stored out of persistant storage.
I recently wrote an analysis for a proposal my company was working on. I did not use any AI. I had a couple conversations with agents while mulling some approaches, but they never edited my work nor did I have any chat…
I heard, on the podcast Darknet Diaries, that there are auctions for zero days in Argentina. This security researcher could probably have cleared a million dollars for a bug like that if they were unscrupulous. The bug…
I am in favor of age attestation at the OS level. Children accessing adult content is a serious problem, and "are you over 18" prompts are not a serious solution. OTOH Id verification for every adult website is…
RAG stands for Retrieval Augmented Generation. The purpose is to search a corpus of text by meaning rather than exact match. I had to look it up.
AI chips feel like a gimmick. An excuse to add "powered by ai chips" to the marketing material. That sort of phrase in on just about every consumer laptop now. My brother bought one. I challenged him to find something…
Statutes can delegate the president tariff powers and appropriately circumscribe them, and that's what both the IEEPA and Trade Expansion Act did - they gave the executive tariff authority in certain circumstances.…
These tariffs will be struck down as unconstitutional just like the ones Trump attempted under the IEEPA were. Any company who paid in the meanwhile will be compensated while consumers will get the short end, so it will…
The article doesn't mention any Azure outages, but a client had an Azure hosted container restart that day which caused problems due to configs being stored out of persistant storage.
I recently wrote an analysis for a proposal my company was working on. I did not use any AI. I had a couple conversations with agents while mulling some approaches, but they never edited my work nor did I have any chat…