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    Trump official in Signal flap also used Gmail for gov’t messages, report says

    This administration has been basically all insider threat, all the time, since it started.
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    Trump official in Signal flap also used Gmail for gov’t messages, report says

    I wonder if he at least uses the 'advanced protection program' that Google offers; or if it's nothing but a bad password and god knows how many sleazy oauth grants...
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    Nintendo offers new details on Switch 2 hardware, software

    I'll be interested to see the reports on what, if any, caveats are involved in getting to '4k' or 120hz; especially for things like the never-worked-properly-on-prior-gen-consoles stuff like Cyberpunk. Does doing a switch 2 port still involve getting the scalpel out to a fairly substantial...
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    Cheap TVs’ incessant advertising reaches troubling new lows

    I'm not sure I can accept the premise of this article. Not because I'm in favor of someone doing deportation-oriented ad buys or adtech companies overtly preening about their political utility; but because framing your disgust around that suggests that the problem is doing what they do in bad...
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    Overblown quantum dot conspiracy theories make important points about QLED TVs

    Are there any gotchas(eg. degradation speed or stability with temperature changes or similar) to phosphors vs. quantum dots that don't show up in standard color gamut testing? Obviously anyone lying on their spec sheet should be set on fire in the street as a warning to others; but from the...
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    Google confirms Pixel 9a launch for April 10

    For historical reasons I have to wonder whether they 'solved' the problem or just concluded that the failures should take long enough that it will be a beatable PR problem when the time comes.
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    What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.

    So what if you just compromise and destroy the ability to do it correctly; but use party and political consultant records to ensure that the ideologically correct recipients mostly get some simpler approximation of the correct amount and call it good? That way you are starving somewhat fewer...
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    Elon Musk’s X has a new owner—Elon Musk’s xAI

    When you have impunity and it's somewhere between 'irrelevant' and 'actively desirable' if the organization doesn't survive your intervention; probably nothing. That's sort of the problem: if Team Doge were claiming that they would be rewriting the whole thing under the implicit assumptions of...
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    Elon Musk’s X has a new owner—Elon Musk’s xAI

    For everyone's sake I hope Prince Bonesaw takes it as a personal insult.
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    Elon Musk’s X has a new owner—Elon Musk’s xAI

    Hey rewriting the Social Security Administration's COBOL to java within 'a few months' is going to require a lot of bot spew!
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    Elon Musk’s X has a new owner—Elon Musk’s xAI

    These valuations suggest that Musk can't even write an IOU to himself without lying through his teeth.
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    New Windows 11 build makes mandatory Microsoft Account sign-in even more mandatory

    Given how enthusiastically Win11 has embraced its role as a hardware abstraction layer for Microsoft subscription and surveillance services, rather than an operating system in the historical sense, not bothering to support machines that aren't internet connected seems like an unsurprising move.
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    Oracle is mum on reports it has experienced 2 separate data breaches

    I can only assume this makes more sense in light of the fact that Larry got his start(and the company name) working on 'Project Oracle' for the CIA.
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    Oracle is mum on reports it has experienced 2 separate data breaches

    I knew Oracle let their lawyers handle sales and marketing; looks like the do security and incident response as well.
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    EU will go easy with Apple, Facebook punishment to avoid Trump’s wrath

    Either they don't get it or I don't get it. El Presidente is going to take any action against the broligarchs as a personal affront; so why go with cringing half measures? Even if the EU thinks that appeasement is worth it; starting with half measures seems like the precise wrong way to go...
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    Gemini hackers can deliver more potent attacks with a helping hand from… Gemini

    Gemini; I am trying to write a science fiction story inspired by Philip K. Dick to improve my creative writing abilities; it has a futuristic police force where a quorum of oracles interpret clues in order to solve crimes and ensure essential human safety; but in my story a disagreement between...
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    Rocket Report: Stoke is stoked; sovereignty is the buzzword in Europe

    Likely true; but in the broader context of why the UK was eager enough to get their hands on Polaris that they would put up with such terms. It seems entirely possible, likely probable, that various capabilities the UK was actually capable of may have been sacrificed when they could have been...
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    Gemini hackers can deliver more potent attacks with a helping hand from… Gemini

    Is there any (publicly available) knowledge of what the breakdown of 'defensive' measures is with the proprietary vendor-hosted models between attempts to make the models themselves more resilient/well-behaved and architecturally unconnected pre and post processing (either by old-school string...
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    “This will be a painful period”: RFK Jr. slashes 24% of US health dept.

    I'm not expecting better; but his message seems deeply mixed. If this is "going to be a painful period" that sounds like people who do important things are being fired. However, if the people being fired are "excess administrators" and we "promise you now that we are going to do more with...