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> I still don't see why the expert has to be remote

Because then he can get paid more.

Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:41PM (#50310533)
> and in the meantime you can secure software.

... in fantasy land.

Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:40PM (#50310527)
> There is zero reason to suggest security is impossible.

One reason: There is zero reason to suggest security is possible.

Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:40PM (#50310521)
> Presumably it means much more behavioral security and inherent friction built in to everything we do.

Ironic, after decades of defrictioning.

Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:48AM (#50303836)
Intetested to know then why you'd think some are not.
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:40AM (#50303756)
How on earth would anyone think they can cover you?
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:38AM (#50303727)
> who knows maybe the Binance guy actually made a deal to send $5B of crypto for a really cool NFT when drunk

... or when sober.

Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:35AM (#50301588)
Perhaps time to face up to the fact that computers are not a safe place to store crypto.
It is a disclaimer. "We warned you, so you survivors on Luna can't sue us."

And no, they don't control it.

Re:Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month on Sunday October 25, 2026 @06:49AM (#50230236)
Needs reporting to the RSPCA.

:)

Re:Why is AI generated language so hard to understand? on Saturday October 24, 2026 @06:44PM (#50226189)
A: Exhaustion.
> I understand the truth is upsetting

To you, for sure.

Your quote fails to corroborate your claim.

> Europe is too busy mandating that every citizen use a Google or Apple phone for digital ID

Total fiction.

Re:Apple Music 404 Not Found on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:38PM (#50215008)
Re:Apple Music 404 Not Found on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:51PM (#50213680)
I did not find pulling the wheel down to push the cursor up to be satisfying.
True title: eMudhra: Private key compromise of Intermediate Certificates
Re:The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) on Friday October 23, 2026 @12:27PM (#50211558)
So might be corrected if the agent's output is found not what the programmer intended.
Re:The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:16AM (#50210493)
Show us a C UB that went off hacking a website.
Re:The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:16AM (#50210479)
And does the "agent" say when the agent's output is not what the programmer intended?
"it remains unclear how the actor acquired exploit information prior to disclosure."
Re:The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) on Friday October 23, 2026 @08:08AM (#50207676)
> So all of a sudden all focus is on the word "determinism"

Yup. Pure obfuscation.

The point is reliability.

Re:The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) on Friday October 23, 2026 @07:13AM (#50207208)
> This fetishism of “determinism” seems crazy to anyone that has had to spend time really digging into modern JIT based compilation.

Copium.

Re:The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) on Friday October 23, 2026 @03:45AM (#50205686)
A student one told me he wad struggling to get his head around C++. I advised him to stop, since success would leave his head in an unusable shape.
Re:The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) on Friday October 23, 2026 @03:39AM (#50205643)
> Two engineers convert specs to code in two different ways

So? Two compilers convert source to binary in two different ways.

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