I think part of the issue with moving from physical media as a form of software distribution is that people ship buggy software all the time. In addition to making more money via subscription, the company can ship updates whenever it wants. This often means that 1.x may have bugs still present in 1.z, but 1.z has features not originally included in 1.x. At a certain point you’re maintaining several versions of your product to test bug fixes, since 1.x users still deserve the bugs fixes but technically shouldn’t have the 1.z features. Better companies would be able to handle that, but nowadays bug fixes get extremely low priority since they’re spending a lot of dev time trying to attract and retain users with shiny new features, so that means active development on older versions for longer. Obviously the subscription revenue is also generally appealing.

Promoting their book and their website apparently. I didn’t read the article but the other comments mentioned it.

It shows up fine for me, but the op linked the source directly. Adding it again here because some apps get weird with links in picture posts.

https://pizzacakecomic.com/post/816699761373708288

Thank you for sharing your experience.

I obviously can’t speak for any specific school, and I don’t have any hard data in front of me nor am I particularly interested in looking for it at the moment, but I was just passing along what they found in the original report.

Do you mind providing more information on why you think it led us to where we are now? Apparently the report found evidence to the contrary, so I’m just interested in what individuals have to say about it.

To be clear, they are crediting the NCLB act as a positive. They suggest that the NCLB act created an era of progress and that dismantling it was an issue. It gets a lot of flack for being too test driven, but it seemed to have improved outcomes.

Thank you for the great suggestions!

Gotcha. If you have any experience interacting with groups that would have a chapter in most metro areas, feel free to let me know. Where I’m from originally we had some really active groups, but since moving to my current city I’m having difficulty finding something that seems to make a difference. I’d like to do mutual aid focused stuff rather than more mainstream charity work, but the charity work tends to be more impactful.

Does your group have chapters? If so, can I ask what group it is? I’ve had difficulty finding a mutual aid group that has a real impact. They do things, but the lack of structure and organization makes it seem functionally useless. The people are all pretty cool, but it mostly feels like a waste of time.

TL;DR: Harvard has a boxing club.

I think there’s some confusion around the title. Google found that someone was using AI to identify exploits. Google itself is not announcing that AI made something that has a zero day exploit.

Seems like the exploiter was using Google’s AI to try and find exploits and that’s probably what alerted them.

The flyers the organizers put up say:

“Don’t want to work at the Employee Data ​Extraction Factory?”

It’s funny how they have to specify “employee data extraction factory”, because they all already know they work at a data extraction factory, but it wasn’t affecting them just yet.

I also love the idea that Meta is saying it needs to know which buttons the employees press to train the AI to work. I would bet there are virtually no applications that Meta employees use that don’t have some kind of API. Having an AI click buttons is the most error prone and least efficient way for them to be used. I don’t work in AI, so maybe the they plan to use that to somehow reinforce the API use (when a person would click the send button you should add the snippet to send the message), but I can’t imagine that’s more helpful than raw code analysis. People make mistakes and backspace, they idle, they have trouble navigating menus. Maybe in a more focused situation the information would be helpful, but I don’t understand why you’d train a bot to use a computer like a person. I feel like this is asking for resignations so they don’t have to do as many layoffs.

Really not sure that makes sense as a solution. If people like their politician, why primary them? If politicians know they’ll just be primaried anyway then it really doesn’t matter if they enact the will of the people or that of corporations in the first place. That’s one of the big concerns with term limits too. If the incumbent is there due to corporate funding, the next one likely will be too. We need to stop corporations from funding elections and have strict laws that we actually follow around insider trading. Complete divestment for anyone in elected office.

Thank you for sharing. Always disappointing to see how we’ve managed to not only make our country worse, but somehow persuade other people into wanting to make their countries worse.

Our economic policy is ruining us and I hope all other countries can at least learn from our bad example. You don’t want what we have, I promise.

Good luck in law school or as a lawyer. The world needs more good people in law and politics.

Came to see your comment and saw an archive link (thank you for your service!). You were entirely correct. What a nothing burger of an article.

If you don’t mind me asking, which country?

Last I saw there was a couple that was in a place known for this strain and they were likely sick before stepping on the ship. Cruise ships are Petri dishes, but that’s unrelated in this case as of the last report I saw. Also, from what I understand this particular strain does transmit person to person.

What happened that you were not even allowed to see him? Generally that only happens in cases of abuse where I’m from.

Interesting. Thank you for taking the time to reply!

I’m hesitant to click on a link and give traffic to an article written to sell me a popsci book about something well know to the scientific community for a while, but if anyone does take the bait, please let me know if there’s anything novel here other than a “quirky” anecdote about someone lying to their intimate partner so they feel sick.