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United857··on Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com
There's a difference between automated industrial scale scraping and well-behaved agents acting on the behalf of individuals. Right now there isn't a robust, standard way to distinguish between them, so sites just block known datacenter IPs and throw out the baby with the bathwater.

That's a main advantage of running your own local claw setup using your residential connection -- difficult/impossible to block.

That said, eventually a site blocking all agents would be like blocking all search engines, something that hurts more than it helps as agentic interactions become "the norm". WebMCP or similar support will likely be a basic expectation at some point.

United857··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
I wonder why this isn't a problem for OpenAI, Google, Meta or SpaceX (they allow users 13 years or older with parental permission)
United857··on Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones
Aren’t most modern receivers multi-constellation? What is the technical feasibility of jamming every GNSS provider?
United857··on Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
Smoking gun should also be there as well.
United857··on The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up
Wouldn’t it just be much simpler to weigh the hot dog and bun?
United857··on Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737
> less than a minute, that hardware implant can be fitted into a port accessible via a hatch on the exterior of the plane

Just as with computers, as the saying goes, if you have physical access to the device then all bets are off. The tricky part is getting that physical access in the first place...

United857··on Manus will return to operating as an independent company
About 10% of Meta's ad revenue comes from Chinese companies reaching a international audience. They also manufacture most of their wearable devices in China.
United857··on US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide
https://archive.ph/W2tpE
United857··on I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle
They speak Spanish in Austria?
United857··on Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]
Finally some good news from Meta for a change
United857··on I’ve joined Anthropic
He’s a founder of OpenAI —- likely a billionaire if he held on to his share
United857··on I’ve joined Anthropic
As a OpenAI founder he already is long past the point of money being a consideration.
United857··on New Compute Partnership with Anthropic
How are they going to navigate the conflict of interest between two frontier competitors?
United857··on UAE to leave OPEC

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United857··on What killed the Florida orange?
https://archive.ph/ZnfSC
United857··on AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
It's eerily prescient how much the computer in Wargames resembles a present-day LLM with tool use, with the tools being ICBMs...
United857··on Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015)
Fun fact: Macau was the oldest and longest lived European colony in Asia, 1557-1999. It’s still a fun place to visit and mostly off the radar for Western tourists.
United857··on Audio is the one area small labs are winning
I see what you did there.
United857··on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit
Airport departure security (bringing onboard a plane) is different than arrival customs (bringing into a country).
United857··on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit
It’s slowly happening at least in Europe: https://www.skycop.com/news/passenger-rights/airports-liquid...
United857··on Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
Curious to how these attacks work logistically. I assume these networks are air-gapped?
United857··on Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669025
United857··on Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK
Despite all the talk about military action, the fact is that Europe is one of the main trading partners of the US and holds a substantial share of US debt. Any invasion would be economic suicide, and I think even Trump realizes this.
United857··on When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail"
I am a Meta employee. Don't want to disclose any inside info or dox myself but there's been other articles written about this, e.g. https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/17/23464297/meta-allegedly-...
United857··on When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail"
These are not hackers but Meta employees/contractors who make money on the side by using their access to internal support tooling/channels. It's a fireable offense (it's only intended for actual friends/family) but still happens a lot.
United857··on Apple Photos app corrupts images
I’m old enough to remember arXiv being hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory under the domain xxx.lanl.gov.

It’s understandable why they changed their name.

United857··on Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users
That's rather surprising about the accessing user data bit. When I was at Meta, the quickest way to get fired as an engineer was to access user data/accounts without permission or business reason. Everything was logged/audited down to the database level. Can't imagine that changing and the rules are taught very early on in the onboarding/bootcamp process.
United857··on Burner Phone 101
It's how data roaming works in general -- it's tunneled through to the SIM's home provider. Conversely, a Chinese SIM roaming overseas is still subject to the Great Firewall.
United857··on Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail
I have an extremely common first and last name and my email address is first.last@gmail.

I get my fair share of misaddressed mail but it doesn’t help that I share the same name as the CEO of a major hotel chain’s timeshare business so I’ve getting tons of complaints about that :/

United857··on Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA
Edit: they finally did allow JIT for browsers.

The article doesn’t mention Apple’s persistent refusal of JIT support for 3rd party JavaScript engines, which is a main barrier to implementing a performant 3rd party browser.

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