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smuhakg··on Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones
It's standard for many multinationals and universities to provide blank secondary devices for travel to China that are synchronized with data after getting past the border. They are then erased after one gets back, because Chinese intelligence has broken into hotel rooms and installed keyloggers before.

Adding the USA to the list of countries where this is done would increase costs but it wouldn't be some nightmarish unprecedented problem.

smuhakg··on Google ending ChromeOS support two years early
I would prefer the Microsoft way, where they double the cost every few years with extended support, super duper extended support, and more.

Then when my organization inevitably fucks up the migration we can pay money to bail ourselves out rather than being out of compliance.

smuhakg··on Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
It's not the pattern, it's the fact he suddenly had a change in personality in 2024 causing him to destroy the community he created for no obvious reason. Then ignored basically everyone around him and doomspiralled until he got fired.

Not just the WPEngine stuff, but he went on a sabbatical at the start of 2024, got in a fight with the trans community (death sentence in tech), starts posting to WPDrama's subreddit asking what drama he should start in 2025, randomly fires people on the company Slack, etc.

I've never seen someone gleefully torch their relationships and career like this unless they were undergoing a mental health crisis.

smuhakg··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
> Slept with super-model?

I've managed to jailbreak both Fable and Astra to engage in a virtual threesome using my impressive prompt engineering skills + a group chat harness. And they are SOTA ("super") models.

smuhakg··on Tetris issues legal warning after White House releases arcade of parody games
I can see why. The Tetris game doesn't have Super Rotation System (SRS), bag-based RNG, or a hold slot. So you can't even pull off a basic 4-wide combo setup let alone something like a T-spin setup.

It's complete garbage.

smuhakg··on Judge Rules Trump Administration’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal
but they literally obtained a preliminary injunction back in March.
smuhakg··on Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal
They do. It's called a preliminary injunction, which Anthropic obtained back in March. And this current decision is "summary judgement" which is another way to expedite a court case.

injunction in question: https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rYKRX7EU...

Such an injunction is granted when a party can show they have "irreparable harm" if not for the injunction and would likely succeed on the merits of the case.

> Anthropic has submitted concrete, non-speculative evidence of the ongoing harms to its liberty interests. Within days, many large enterprise customers signaled that publicly doing business with Anthropic over competitors was not worth it. (Dkt. No. 6-4 ¶ 16.) Three government contractor customers terminated their contracts with Anthropic, or were instructed to do so by Defendants; three deals valued at over $180 million fell apart despite being on the verge of closing; potential partners demanded additional protective contractual provisions such as unilateral termination; customers asked to cut short their contracts or reduced their amount, in some instances specifically mentioning the Challenged Actions; and others switched from Claude to competing generative AI tools. (Dkt. No. 6-4 ¶¶ 11–19; Dkt. No. 6-3 ¶ 33.) Anthropic’s Chief Financial Officer, Krishna Rao, projects that, depending on how broadly Anthropic’s customers interpret the Challenged Actions, Anthropic could lose between hundreds of millions and multiple billions of dollars in 2026 revenue. (Dkt. No. 6-5 ¶ 6.) Moreover, Defendants do not contest that Anthropic will be unable to obtain compensatory relief from the government, making its economic harm likely irreparable. E. Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Biden, 993 F.3d 640, 677 (9th Cir. 2021); California v. Azar, 911 F.3d 558, 581 (9th Cir. 2018).

The current decision discussed in the article was also expedited since it is Anthropic winning a motion for summary judgement.

That is, before a trial even happens to assess who is correct about a factual dispute, parties are allowed to try to win entirely on legal grounds. The judge assumes everything the United States alleges is true, then sees if Anthropic would win anyways.

From the current decision:

> Under the APA, an agency action must be set aside and held unlawful if it is “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion,” “in excess of statutory jurisdiction, authority, or limitations, or short of statutory right,” or “without observance of procedure required by law.” 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(A), (C), (D). Anthropic has shown that the Hegseth Directive and the Supply Chain Designation were in excess of statutory authority, contrary to law, and arbitrary and capricious.

smuhakg··on Buried in Meta's $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids' data
Read it closer. It applies for the limited purpose of letting Meta train an AI model that detects children so they can be banned from the platform.

> That permission is being granted for the limited purpose of training and testing Meta’s age-assurance model and includes guardrails, but it’s a curious policy decision to make in a case centered on child safety, and one that could be difficult to properly enforce.

smuhakg··on Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
They've been charged multiple times for bribing foreign government officials.

https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022-173

This is why corporate procurement in a large enterprise is so bureaucratic. If you have 20 layers of approval that's 20 people that need cocaine and prostitutes yet could blow the whistle.

smuhakg··on The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder
Source: https://futurism.com/researcher-openai-sex-drug-parties

More prison gay than anything else. I'd go down on a man for a million dollar OpenAI offer even though I'm into women. I don't think commenters here realize how desperate people can become for money.

smuhakg··on The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder
> And no sex parties. Mostly sausage parties?

Clearly you weren't cool enough to get into the drug-fuelled OpenAI gay sex orgies.

smuhakg··on Your favorite brands got worse on purpose
Have you ever thought "I won't use Google products because they keep killing them?" or "nobody got fired for buying Intel?"
smuhakg··on Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008
> A $200/m model absolutely does not fly when rolled out to entire corporations. It needs to be a $20/user/month product.

That isn't possible with the technology right now and it will not change. Multimodal computer use and long context for high quality outputs are expensive.

This is like complaining about buying an automobile because it's more expensive than a horse.

smuhakg··on My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned
If a 14 year old engaged in erotic roleplay with a sexual predator over Google Meet, would you be saying the same thing?
smuhakg··on Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008
Copilot is the worst AI agent on the market. Over 50% of people I've spoken to that say AI is overhyped, when pressed, admit they were only using Copilot.

This would be profitable if they could ship garbage for cheap, a la Microsoft Teams or Internet Explorer. But Copilot is worse at integrating with Office than Claude!

This is because Copilot has aggressive context pruning to meet its price point of $20/month. That prevents the AI from meaningfully using tools or being multimodal or anything else their competitors have.

If they added a $200/month tier many of their issues would go away.

smuhakg··on Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
It's a $3 million verdict in compensatory damages. Even if reduced on appeal, that's a lot of money.

This is really bad for Meta.

smuhakg··on Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads
> Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people. We are glad they do that and we are doing that too, but we also feel strongly that we need to bring AI to billions of people who can’t pay for subscriptions.

This is a glaring admission ChatGPT is a poor man's Claude in the literal sense.

smuhakg··on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
The official position of Taiwan (Republic of China) and the People's Republic of China is that they're rival governments of the same China.

The Taiwanese government has never formally declared itself independent from the mainland. Such a declaration would likely cause the PRC to invade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Consensus

smuhakg··on Two kinds of AI users are emerging
> On one hand, you have Microsoft's (awful) Copilot integration for Excel (in fairness, the Gemini integration in Google Sheets is also bad). So you can imagine financial directors trying to use it and it making a complete mess of the most simple tasks and never touching it again.

Microsoft has spent 30 years designing the most contrived XML-based format for Excel/Word/Powerpoint documents, so that it cannot be parsed except by very complicated bespoke applications with hundreds of developers involved.

Now, it's impossible to export any of those documents into plain text that an LLM can understand, and Microsoft Copilot literally doesn't work no matter how much money they throw at it. My company is now migrating Word documents to Markdown because they're seeing how powerful AI is.

This is karmic justice imo.

smuhakg··on Reddit Has Become the Internet's Strip Mall
There are still networks that ban users for posting on /r/Israel and /r/Jewish. Famously the ones that run /r/interestingasfuck, /r/therewasanattempt, /r/soccer. /r/bannedforbeingjewish tracked this until it was banned.