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Comment · 22 days ago
The Kremlin hates this one simple trick
Comment · 22 days ago
That anyone with a few brain cells and enough rubels has left the country
Comment · 1 month ago
Almost correct, except it's the green/left that forced a shutdown of nuclear and sold the gas as "green". At least in Germany/Scandinavia, might be different in the rest of Europe.
Comment · 1 month ago
Nobody (sane) is claiming it was faked. What sane non-AI-pilled people are claiming is "Our AI agent went rogue and hacked another company" is a much better story for the stock price than "Our human engineers screwed up a very basic sandboxing and allowed the agent access to things it shouldn't be able to access, and also they screwed up the task in the first place by accidentally giving the agent an impossible task". Only the latter reflects reality, the former is a marketing pitch.
Comment · 3 months ago
If I were to guess this bug is in the "display" part of the system which is probably distinct from the "actually take money from the customer" part of the system. One can imagine they have gates on the "actually take money" part, especially for a large bill like ours which was ~$300b or about 2.5x AWS' 2025 revenue... In one month. Surely if we had actually accumulated that bill they would be the ones with the problems when we can't pay it.
Comment · 7 months ago
It most definitely isn't, but it takes significantly more effort than the bloggers want to make it seem like.
Comment · 7 months ago
Giving your retina scan to one of the main Slop Bros, what could possibly go wrong?
Comment · 9 months ago
Source: Trust me, bro. A company selling an AI model telling others their AI model is so good that it's building itself. What could possibly motivate them to say that?

Remember a few years ago when Sam Altman said we had to pause AI development for 6 months because otherwise we would have the singularity and it would end the world? Yeah, about that...

Comment · 10 months ago
SAP needs servers though, if they buy SAP hosted in AWS that kind of defeats the purpose.
Comment · 11 months ago
Being able to link to a BBC article (Or whatever major news source you prefer) to a customer is the best type of outage. "Look, this is so big it made the news - this isn't our fault"
Comment · 1 year ago
I had a similar experience, I tried with some photos from various European cities and while it pretty much always got the city correct it was hilariously confidently incorrect in the exact location within the city. They were plausible but nowhere near the level of accuracy the article describes. All the images had distinctly recognizable landmarks which a resident of said city would know and which also have images available online given one knows the name of the landmark so I'm not particularly impressed.

In fact some of the answers were completely geographically impossible where it said "The image is taken from location X showing location Y" when it's not possible to see location Y if one is standing at location X. Like saying "The photo is taken in Central Park looking north showing the Statue of Liberty".

Comment · 1 year ago
Contrary to the belief of a lot of Americans, just because it works in the US doesn't mean it works elsewhere. In the rest of the world a driver's license is used for proving your right to drive and we have a thing called passports for proving your identity. Hetzner isn't an American company so why should they accept American drivers licenses?
Comment · 1 year ago
Definitely, but it's also a lot more complex to present credible looking false data than to simply reject a request.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not to mention that this is paid by insurance in many countries which means there is little incentive for individuals to shop around.
Comment · 1 year ago
Works great with an evening flight, you can work all day and leave for the airport after work.

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