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Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:15PM (#50317480)
It’s their money, that they are borrowing against everyone else’s money that is locked in accounts. The copium with these people is real.
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:14PM (#50317468)
Basically they didn’t insure themselves against there actual risks and will likely have further fines placed against them for being underinsured.
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:12PM (#50317450)
Fines are paid out over time by taking loans against your very profitable business. Do you want to loan money to someone who just had one of the biggest thefts in history and has secondary obligations and risks.
It’s hard to get interested in Google products because they throw them out all the time. If it’s not a step change in functionality why even go near their baggage.
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @11:52AM (#50245858)
Biggest issue Tesla, SpaceX, Anthropic and all these companies have is you can't inflate your value beyond the total market. It's the same thing as bitcoin pushers trying to imply the value would 100x again pushing beyond the total valuation of the Earth.

These companies have the benefit of a real product at least, but eventually the rubes get fleeced.

Tesla's market cap at this point is not based on building vehicles but technology/Automation/Hype.

If it were based on building vehicles there market cap would be 30x less than it was today comparing with Toyota.

Putting it in Information Technology is correct and the price is still stupid even then. It's why SpaceX is being forced to buy it, otherwise the whole deck of cards collapses.

It's not just an accusation. Her identifying information is basically found at a crime scene.

Every part of this would be fine if the companies allowing fraudulent parties to use their platforms were prosecuted for mail fraud, or interstate commerce fraud. Put the executive in jail. It's really this simple. The moment executives have repercussions they change their actions. Make cashapp prove they did their due diligence.

Re:Gold is now the top U.S. export on Saturday October 17, 2026 @06:35PM (#50135813)
China likes blocking various minerals such as rare earths to force countries to accept whatever outcome they desire.

I’m guessing those new mines opening are to limit the impact of this sort of situation in the future.

Re:An Apology on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:34AM (#50100019)
The average person doesn't think about bikes of the ring ring variety costing 15k dollars.
Re:An Apology on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:30AM (#50099997)
Probably 2-3 people. From a random search online it looks like the company has about a dozen employees.
Data centers are a somewhat difficult target. Not alot of explosive content, highly redundant operations, low staff count to impact operations.

It's much easier to destroy the power generation for those data centers than the center itself, and power generation is much less redundant and more easily impacted. It can be highly visible if you are only hitting a few targets, but the actual impact ends up being pretty low.

Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:34PM (#50076432)
That's a Nest issue, not an apple one. Google neutered their own API as of 2019, then did even more shenanigans after that. It's a google product, assume it will be killed the moment whoever is actively working it sees a new shiny.
Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:29PM (#50076342)
Please spend tokens recreating Homeassistant. Signed -AI companies.
Comparing Control automation of boring systems running all the time to robots is really funny to me. Those systems weren't previously run by humans before the more electronic approach, the control mechanism was physical in nature but less adjustable.

Most of the HVAC based control system changes are about saving energy, not labor.

Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @10:28PM (#49916977)
Large existing players are pretty notorious for screwing up their leads and trying to move in many directions at once, or go to hard into the wrong one. Based on Google's huge number of failed products and poor ability to maintain products outside of ads I am not yet sold. They are very good at buying out their competition, but what happens when their competition has enough money not to be bought out?
Re:OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:00AM (#49863760)
One is a legal grey area that laws are slowly starting to be written for, while the other is theft under existing laws. Breaking into companies to get access to their data is actionable by both Civil and Criminal courts. This is just setting a complicated timer for the computer to do it at a delay.

Sounds like a good way to make alot of lawyers alot of money.

Yes. Without a remote system you must have a real person check levels, pumps, pressures, and many other devices thus be present. This person must be trained and you will likely need a backup as well.

If not a person you need more redundancies built in. Bigger tanks, multiple backup systems. When items start failing you need them to be shutoff in a timely manner. Water pumps at these facilities are in the 50-100k range. When it starts failing you want to know.

Think of it like driving a car and it starts making funny noises. The longer you wait to fix it the more it costs.

Re:North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes on Friday September 18, 2026 @11:44AM (#49756080)
This article does a very poor job of differentiating earthquakes people feel and care about versus magnitude 2 quakes that are like your neighbor dropping a book upstairs.
It's the first thing you see when opening the page.
It would cause them to pivot and attempt to be better. Give a mouse a button that pleasures it's brain and it will push it until it dies. That's what the senior leadership at these companies are doing. Bribe government officials to keep the pleasure button going, to the detriment of the company and society.

Competition forces companies to stop just pressing the pleasure button and start drinking from the water again.

Re:I spent $220 on Google app ads. 60% of the installs were robots on Saturday September 12, 2026 @11:24AM (#49673277)
When you are being paid to not care it becomes very hard to care.
The conversation is about humanoid robots, not wheeled/tracked objects with a gun or carrying cargo.

We have had remote controlled objects like this in various forms going back to WW2 and a few instances before. A wireless/fiber/starlink connection was added recently making them more robust. This is not a humanoid because they don't make sense from a power/weight carrying/so many other perspectives.

The only thing unique to the Ukrainian situation is the widescale usage.

Re:How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:08PM (#49530497)
Push is fine, to the detriment of society and farcical levels of current usage is a bit of a problem.

I’m going to be so happy once these morons ipo. No point in running the ai spam accounts at that point.

Re:How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @08:01PM (#49530022)
Zitron sells AI is in a huge bubble. Which basically everyone agrees with who isn't directly incentivized to say it looks perfectly normal.

Personally, I don't bet in rigged games, which is what all the circular financing is.

Re:How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @07:56PM (#49529973)
There are an even larger amount of people who have gotten tired of the NFT levels of pushiness AI has become from a financial perspective. It's become worse than crypto bros at this point.
It’s built with cheap servos. It’s like all those jerky motion arms people build in school but never use in real life.

The form factor is good which is why multiple companies are building in that form factor. The arm motion will be like a 90 year old with mild Parkinsons. Watch the videos closely and you will notice the issue.

The biggest problem is they are using RC style servos. This is why all the arm motions are jerky and lack precision.

What this means: No force feedback on positioning. Jerky motion due to actuator steps. Limited precision. Terrible slow motion control performance. Fast movements will look better. Inability to solve problems with software.

Basically think of all the joints like those cheap thermal camera screens that are at 320 x 240 resolution. For rough work or finding some sort of oddity your good, but anything precise you need to spend real money. It's a pretty cool toy, but don't go buying this expecting that much.

Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:56PM (#49526377)
Complicated technical language is an easy way to increase perceived accuracy of tests and reviews by external reviewers. When we are talking about single % differences this has an effect.

Feels like crap to me though.

Re:EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @11:37AM (#49523412)
Good to see the Social media companies eating feces instead of forcing everyone else to.
Re:I Think the Military Commissary's Freezers Were Hacked on Monday August 31, 2026 @05:06PM (#49514837)
If you are a country currently in a weird war like situation looking for ways to make your opponent look foolish without escalating militarily, this seems like an amazing avenue.

I'm guessing Iran will claim it as an attack even if it doesn't end up being them in the end.

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