jimrandomh

I'm a Dexcom user, and this is the first I'm hearing about this. Perhaps a clickthrough snuck through in the app, but certainly nothing that would constitute proper notice, and not something that I had real knowledge of. I searched my email history, and while Dexcom has sent me emails in the past, they did _not_ send me any email about this.

Anyways, I sent Dexcom an email letting them know that I heard about their purported agreement through Reddit and not from them, and that most similarly situated people were probably also not suitably notified. Perhaps that email will be an exhibit when this fails to hold up in court.

This headline being in the present tense, while reporting on a data from 2025, makes it basically dishonest. 2026 AI coding agents bear little resemblance to 2025 AI coding agents, and early-2026 coding agents are not like like-2026 coding agents.

It doesn't sound plausible to me that the main buyers of this information would be advertisers. It sounds more likely that the buyers are black-hat hackers, or intelligence agencies. The main reason someone would want a map of all of the devices behind your home router is so they know what to target first for exploitation, if they want access.

Skimming that patent, I see little indication that you solved the actual practical problems with making something like this; you wrote down the problem statement, not the solution. This should not have been granted a patent.

That's not "trying to cover it up", that's a link to them adding credits that were missing, which is the main corrective action to get into compliance with the source project's license.

It means it can execute native code inside the sandbox, as opposed to Javascript. While still sandboxed, this lets it access some parts of the attack surface that JS would not have been able to, some of which may have other exploits that allow escaping the rest of the way.

Is the relevant radiation solar radiation, or is there damage from radiation coming from the direction the optics are pointed? If it's the latter, then maybe the sun's emissions interact with inbound particles from sources outside the solar system? (I don't have sufficient background or time to check whether the paper already rules this out.)

You can check, rather than make up a story about what you think the prompt was! Primary sources have written and said quite a lot about this! You are an unsandboxed human who has full internet access!

The victim, Huggingface, told us. Or rather, they told the police first, setting up a situation where it was no longer possible for OpenAI to sweep it under the rug.

Skepticism can be healthy, but you've got to follow up and actually check things. If you're skeptical unconditionally and don't check, you get tricked into being as skeptical of scandals as you should be of sales pitches.

...Huh. I just rechecked, and indeed it was. I may have been remembering a limitation that was present temporarily when the MV3 switchover happened.

I use Firefox with (non-lite) uBlock Origin, and occasionally fire up Chrome (with uBO Lite) for testing. The main issue that I run into is that uBO lite filters can't vary per-domain, so in order to rule out an ad-blocking-false-positive on something I'm developing, I have to turn it off for _all_ sites, not just localhost. (Actual false positives are rare, but needing to check is not so rare.)

Do iOS users realize how much they're paying Apple? I feel like if, every time they bought something, users got a receipt with a line item showing that 30% of the money was going to Apple and not to the company they thought they were buying from, a lot of them would jump ship to Android.

This article makes no mention of Russian sabotage, but the Russian military has been caught sabotaging similar munitions-manufacturing facilities in Europe. Incompetence might be sufficient to explain the failure, but it also seems reasonably likely that there was an undetected sabotage operation or two mixed in to compound the problems.

Eventually, this arms race ends with a computer vision model that looks at the screen, classifies visual elements as ads, and draws a rectangle over anything that looks like an ad.

I am significantly less tolerant of ads than average people seem to be. (I think average people are making a horrible mistake about this, and are badly cognitively damaged by ads in ways they don't realize). If my choices are to look at ads or leave Facebook, I'll leave. But there are conversations people have there that I'd rather not lose access to, so... I guess I'd have to partially stick around and campaign for others to leave as well?