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That explicitly has not happened in this instance. Don't tell me how democracy works.

This is an excuse for normalization of a state of affairs that cannot continue to exist outside of a proper legal framework.

I have no issue with it if it is part of a legislative/regulatory framework. This is not inside of any framework. There has been no conversation about privatization of NOAA or any of its functions. These things need to be explicit as part of a democracy.

The current regime has upended that process and has created a situation where the government has no choice but to outsource data gathering to third parties. This is corruption and not in the spirit or the letter of the law.

This startup is attempting to take advantage of an illegal situation which is just ridiculous.

I'm happy if they want to sell fancy weather balloons to anyone that they want, even the government, but selling data back to the government that should be already collecting the data in the first place BY LAW is just corrupt.

You are oversimplifying here. I ALREADY paid for the weather balloons and they are no longer being launched. This is not privatization in the way that you seem to think it is. This is explicitly against the will of the people.

I'm fine if they want to make new weather balloons and sell them to people to launch for whatever reason they want. Selling what by law should be public data is anathema.

This is an anti-pattern. Doing the work that the government should be (and was) doing and then selling back the data to them or others when the data should be (and was) public domain is absolutely terrible for society.

No one should fund this.

Having $1.3 Billion is nothing to sneeze at. He obviously has done well for himself and has made the choices he has made for his own reasons. He is in no way a failure.

No. You have to have access to the network to get the time. You get timing from the network “for free” but it won’t give you time.

I bought all of the Rippingtons albums because I heard them on the Weather Channel...I was inexplicably into smooth jazz at the time.

Mullvad has built trust over many years. There is always someone who knows what you are searching for. The search engine will not accept an opaque blob of encrypted data as a search term, after all.

This is an absolutely racist and classist article.

I want something that blocks them from the AppleTV App. Even if I did like them, it's so stupid to watch shorts on a TV.

No. The SIM is specifically programmed with SUCI from the factory. The GSMA has a whole process around it.

It's not a handover in the sense that you're actually creating a second connection to a different network. It's more akin to roaming than a handover.

The networks are insecure by standard. They are designed such that they can have "lawful intercept" by government entities. The key material on the SIM card is readily transferred between the carrier and SIM/eSIM card manufacturers, which enables multiple levels of supply chain attacks if the material is mishandled.

IMSI-catchers are not considered a security hole by the carriers or the standards bodies. SUCI/SUPI was put in at the request of phone vendors, if I remember correctly, and is still the only piece of public key cryptography in the networks. Everything else is symmetric keys.

Correct, your phone needs to actually re-connect between the two networks. It's a whole new session and you can't handover between 5G SA and 5G NSA/LTE networks. There are some configurations that make this not much of an issue, but technically they are totally different networks.

In the US, the T-Mobile 5G SA eSIM and SIM cards all have SUCI at least. I don’t have any idea about other networks.

5G Standalone networks don’t have 4G to fall back to. 5G Non-standalone networks are essentially 4G networks with a 5G RAN, so SUCI remains optional and most core vendors don’t support it.

iPhones, in general, will not connect to a 5G Standalone network that doesn’t have SUCI enabled.

I was heartened that he said he wanted to be a more engineer-driven company. We will see.

Why is an OpenAI exec testifying at a Google trial? Did I miss something?

That's a template, yes. But why is it bad?

The main concern I have is that there's not a well defined security context in any agentic system. They are assumed to be "good" but that's not good enough.

This comment thread is just hilarious. When a CEO of a VC-backed startup that you admire does things you disagree with, you find ways to justify their actions. When a CEO that is running an actually successful business and wishes to defend that business legally, you trash him. Be better.

Framework laptops aren't really repairable in the same way that old Thinkpads are. Maybe that's good, maybe not, but replacing an entire motherboard every 3 years isn't all that different from replacing an entire computer really.

Small tech wants to do big tech things. Open sourcing algorithms doesn’t help with the data silo of having all of the TikTok library be mined. I don’t think it matters where or who “owns” the data because the user should own their data.

Y Combinator. They gave it away to all of them. This is how you become popular with startups.

You own your attack surface at that point. Tailscale/Headscale is a matchmaker and key broker for the most part, the clients almost always (barring NAT issues) connect directly to one another. The normal security considerations apply as with running any service.

This is a ridiculous statement. The US Government (or any government) has processes to publish data so that it is well vetted and understood. Some script kiddie isn't allowed to just post things in public on his own.

Well this is just patently incorrect.

> "It is the Division’s view that transactions in the types of meme coins described in this statement, do not involve the offer and sale of securities under the federal securities laws"

How is it not a security when they spend the rest of the statement describing meme coins as a security?

You are starting a flame war.