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Are we sure that's still happening? It definitely did happen, but anecdotally the SUVs I see on the road seem to be shrinking slightly, from mid and full size SUVs to compact and subcompact SUVs. Not down to Sedans, but not as big as 10 years ago. Maybe my location is weird though.

They aren't going to go away. You can still buy cars that are 50 years old.

Can you describe it? I'm assuming speed, acceleration, GPS, infotainment use.

Surely its not sending backup camera footage, chair recline position, turn signal usage.

I heard, on the podcast Darknet Diaries, that there are auctions for zero days in Argentina. This security researcher could probably have cleared a million dollars for a bug like that if they were unscrupulous. The bug bounty should absolutely be higher.

I am in favor of age attestation at the OS level. Children accessing adult content is a serious problem, and "are you over 18" prompts are not a serious solution.

OTOH Id verification for every adult website is extremely invasive and lets random verifiers get all kinds of PIID. But the OS attestation exposed with a browser hook means a parent can say "this computer user is under 18" and every adult content provider can restrict their content without having to ever touch even a birthdate.

Thats not to say there isn't ambiguity in these laws but the principle is sound and the idea is better than alarmists have made it out to be.

If this becomes "every OS has to ID verify with the government", the slippery slope anti-attesters tout, then I'll join the protests, but as long as it's age attestation, I'm for it.

To me, this looks like a lot of pro privacy energy being totally wasted on something that is not actually invasive.

RAG stands for Retrieval Augmented Generation. The purpose is to search a corpus of text by meaning rather than exact match.

I had to look it up.

AI chips feel like a gimmick. An excuse to add "powered by ai chips" to the marketing material. That sort of phrase in on just about every consumer laptop now.

My brother bought one. I challenged him to find something that actually used the AI chip on the laptop. He couldn't - it always read at 0% in task manager.

As a consumer, I'd rather have that much more graphics card, hard drive space, or RAM for the price than a specialized chip thats almost never used and, when it is used, only saves you a little electricity.

Statutes can delegate the president tariff powers and appropriately circumscribe them, and that's what both the IEEPA and Trade Expansion Act did - they gave the executive tariff authority in certain circumstances.

Trump is stretching the definition of those circumstances to the limit, in my opinion, especially because protectionism is the fundamental policy being pursued. If we want general protectionist tariffs than the law should be passed that enables the executive to do so, but that hasn't been forthcoming.

How effective are tariffs as a trade negotiation tool if your counterparty believes its likely the courts will take away the big stick?

These tariffs will be struck down as unconstitutional just like the ones Trump attempted under the IEEPA were. Any company who paid in the meanwhile will be compensated while consumers will get the short end, so it will be a nice payday for northern importers.

It's Congress who has the power to tax. If Trump wants tariffs he needs to propose a bill that creates them or gives him clear powers. The legal scholars in his cabinet know this, so why has he not proposed a bill?

The article doesn't mention any Azure outages, but a client had an Azure hosted container restart that day which caused problems due to configs being stored out of persistant storage.

I recently wrote an analysis for a proposal my company was working on.

I did not use any AI. I had a couple conversations with agents while mulling some approaches, but they never edited my work nor did I have any chat open while I wrote. Every word was my own.

I notified my other stakeholders - "here's my analysis, none of it was written with ai". It sounds silly to say, and I worried others could take it as an attack. But I needed to communicate "This is a long document but its actually worth reading".

I liked what I wrote. The final author of the proposal liked what I wrote. All of my ideas made it in to the proposal. We landed the contract. Its a nice chunk of $ for us.

Its still worth putting the hours in.