janalsncm

The first step to improving something is to show there’s a problem in the first place. For those who believe sidewalks are for people, she has demonstrated that there is a problem.

Security through decentralization, if there is such a term.

People got out of crypto after the Mt Gox thing. The ones who stayed accepted the risk.

There is selection bias in play now. The remaining people are naturally more risk tolerant. So I agree this second time around, no lessons will be learned.

I agree with everything you said, but all we know is that she had business meetings with him.

The picture in the article has a bunch of other people around them, in a bar/club. Pretty sure he wasn’t laying out the blueprints for the next chip right then and there.

A couple of questions after reading this article. The Post is not exactly top notch journalism.

First, does her activity actually fit the definition of “espionage”?

Espionage is the act of secretly gathering confidential, classified, or proprietary information without the owner's permission

The most important question is what she actually sent and how secret it was. Most companies have levels of secrecy ranging from non public to highly sensitive. For example, schematics of their chip would be concerning.

Also, this seems pretty different from setting up a mic behind a TV.

Second, although the article tries very hard to imply there was some kind of infidelity, adding irrelevant details about Jensen’s family, I don’t know that any of that happened.

Maybe I should’ve been more clear. Your argument above relies on “I’d be shocked if…” which is not evidence in and of itself.

Most American employees are at-will, and the contract in the MSFT lawsuit above was an at-will contract which is why they could be terminated, as you said.

Unless you can provide some other evidence that MSFT employees at not at will, it seems reasonable to believe they are, in which case providing the generous severance they did was not legally required.

Why did LLM writing get so weird and bad in mid-2026?

In Qwen 3.5, 75% of the layers are linear attention. I think the theory is that linear attention is usually enough, but some regular attention layers help to handle more sophisticated long-range relationships.

The average PHP server that is unpatched now will remain unpatched after OP publishes the exploits because that server’s admin is clearly not scouring the web for security vulnerabilities.

Also, an increasing number of admins of PHP servers probably are no longer alive, so they will not be applying security patches.

Every reason you just gave for not hacking this server is also true for servers which don’t have a $500 prize, which is almost all of them out there.

> The DMCA in the US and similar anti-circumvention laws around the world (primarily EU) make doing that a serious crime

Yes, this is the main reason why I mentioned the cartoon episode was unrealistic fiction.

I’d imagine a paid service that did this could be illegal. But prosecuting people who did this to their own hardware would be essentially impossible.

There is a Rick and Morty episode where Rick opens up a store that removes the curses from free items the Devil is handing out.

(Surprisingly, the Devil does not consider lawyering up, which is odd because I would expect the Devil to be pretty familiar with lots of lawyers. It’s fiction of course.)

It would be great to use AI to do something analogous with these spy TVs. I would be very interested in stripping the “smart” crap out of my TV to turn it into a kiosk.