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I mean it was every year before this one yes
flock cameras aren't powered from the power grid, they have their own solar panels and batteries (which is what allows them to be deployed to quickly and widely) so I presume the article just meant unplugging those.
If you can trust the court to have the power to sanction people for "frivolous" arguments then surely you can trust them to sanction for prompt injections.
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:27PM (#50322457)
Can you give some examples where victims are criminally prosecuted? Do you think this is common to the extent where you would call it the general case?
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:28PM (#50312673)
Generally it's the people who have intent to break the law who are prosecuted, not their victims.
Have you ever tried to actually buy and hold a stock yourself without a middlemen like a brokerage actually holding it for you? It's a very annoying and sometimes almost impossible process.

This is just a different kind of middlemen with different trade-offs.

Re:'Forced out': HOA fees to rise to $2,500 a month on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:28PM (#50269024)
You can only leave by selling your house which is what they did yes.
Re:The Curse of Soldered RAM on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:26AM (#50255300)
I think this opinion is pretty out of touch, I can't think of a single family member who would say that upgrading RAM is important to them, I doubt most would be able to explain what RAM even is.
People have been re-creating old games for much longer than AI has been around. This project, fheroes2, started development over 7 years ago and published it's 1.0.0 release 4 years ago. So it's safe to say it's made by humans.
Re:Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France on Thursday October 22, 2026 @05:53PM (#50201579)
Because continuing to provide the service to French users would mean they have not exited the jurisdiction. You cant provide services in a jurisdiction and at the same time expect not be subject to that jurisdiction. That's just not how any country treats legal jurisdiction.
Re:The compiler was supposed to end programming too on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:59PM (#50185831)
might a compiler turn "float x = 3.1;" into no instructions at all in some situations? So it has at least 2 possible translations into assembly depending on the context.
Re:Learning to live with Waymos on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:02PM (#50175572)
recording conversations can be eavesdropping very easily in all party consent states but there aren't generally laws against secretly video recording people (besides in specific intimate situations like bathrooms).
Signal does a lot to ensure they don't actually know much of what is traditionally considered metadata (like their sealed sender scheme which prevents them from knowing who messages were sent by). Do you know if this bill would require them to roll back those protections?
Re:Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas on Friday October 02, 2026 @10:50AM (#49934150)
No this is just it moving the mouse and viewing the results with it's vision capabilities.
Its not a sovereign wealth fund, but China 100% owns China Tobacco and has generally avoided policy changes which could encourage people to stop smoking because it could hurt this extremely profitable company (China Tabacco has about 2x the before tax profit of Apple). https://www.theexamination.org/articles/deadliest-company-in...
So maybe your proposed hefty fines actually need to be imposed on the states which haven't implemented the directive?
You get made a VIP if you lose a lot of money, not if you have a gambling problem. In fact being made a VIP is basically the only way that the company can identify problem gamblers besides self-reports (because its the only time people from the company actually talk directly to the user).
To heat all the water in all the Earth's oceans by 1 degree Celsius it would require the energy equivalent of the detonation of roughly 87 billion Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs.
The CFAA's main hacking charge has a high bar for intent. But the CFAA also has a separate "damaging a protected computer" charge (basically to criminalize DOS attacks) and that charge only requires negligence not specific intent.
Those only apply if you renounce your citizenship, not if you simply change your country of residence. However, unlike Germany, the US taxes its citizens regardless of their country of residence so renouncing your citizenship and paying that exit tax is the only way to stop being responsible for paying US taxes.
Yeah macOS security is capability based rather than purely identity based. So if you don't pass the required entitlements to an application then it cannot do stuff like read from the system keychain even if its running as your user.
Re:Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @12:03PM (#49729083)
I believe HF said they did report it to the FBI.

> Hugging Face alerted the FBI.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/ai-agents-are-hacking-s...

German has been supported in Claude voice mode since May.
Auth0 and Firebase both let you export user password hashes (though I believe you need to open a support ticket in order to do it in Auth0's case at least).

I think Cognito is actually one of the few with absolutely no path to achieving this.

I think its so that like people don't need to do an EPA assessment for their home backup generator right? They are very common where I live due to the instability of the power grid.
Re:Gemini 3.5 Transcribe on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @11:42PM (#49459386)
You can't get subsecond latency with 4o-transcribe.
Re:Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @03:27PM (#49439325)
Not paying anyone would be a violation of minimum wage laws. Or it would mean they are truly equal partners in the project who have no "employer" they are working under. In which case it does seem most fair that they would all own the copyrights to their contributions absent some other agreement to assign copyright.
Attractive nuisance laws only apply to things likely to attract children, not grown adults.
Its a pretty well documented technique that actually pre-dates LLMs https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.02531

Here is a project that guides you through it if you want to prove to yourself that it works https://github.com/arcee-ai/DistillKit

And this is why he isn't being charged with destruction of evidence. He is being charged with destruction of property subject to a civil seizure.

The only reason they can charge him with this is that he destroyed it after being notified that it was being seized. If he has deleted it before then there would be nothing they could charge him with.

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