Comment Re:Pong (Score 1) 177
You forgot Space Quest.
Comment Re:Pong (Score 1) 177
Pong -> Asteroids -> Space Invaders -> Pacman -> Tetris -> Donkey Kong -> Space Quest (and its siblings like Leisure Suit Larry) -> Sim City -> Civilization -> Wolfenstein 3D -> DOOM. (OK I may have messed up the order a bit)
Every era has had its own game influencing the current set of games.
Comment Re: deeply troubling (Score 1) 387
It works even better if the people extorted don't realize it.
Comment Re: deeply troubling (Score 4, Insightful) 387
Putin and Trump are friends, at least sort of.
Putin only uses Trump but Trump lacks the insight that he's used. Meanwhile Trump thinks he can profit from this friendship.
Comment Re: buy amd until intel changes (Score 1) 23
I just see that if there's a power struggle it's indicating that intel is still going downhill.
It'll take a decade to come back, if evet.
Submission + - LLM generalizes lying and abusive behaviour (schneier.com)
sinij writes:
In our experiment, a model is finetuned to output insecure code without disclosing this to the user. The resulting model acts misaligned on a broad range of prompts that are unrelated to coding: it asserts that humans should be enslaved by AI, gives malicious advice, and acts deceptively.
Comment Re: Meh... who cares? (Score 1, Troll) 233
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Skeletal fluorosis is a bone disease caused by excessive accumulation of fluoride leading to weakened bones.[1] In advanced cases, skeletal fluorosis causes painful damage to bones and joints.
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Comment Re: Good luck doing this to a C++ program... (Score 1) 149
I'd prefer to get C# code over Python.
Comment Re: Next up (Score 1) 233
Lead fluoride is a risk then.
Comment Re: Meh... who cares? (Score 0) 233
Flouride can also cause decay of the skeleton.
Submission + - Defense of FOSS licensing rests on the shoulders of a guy in Virginia (theregister.com) 1
jms00 writes: The open-source community is finally realizing that Neo4j v. PureThink could set a dangerous legal precedent, allowing companies to impose new restrictions on open-source licenses. If the Ninth Circuit upholds the lower courtâ(TM)s ruling, it wonâ(TM)t just threaten the GPL, it could undermine all open-source licenses, undoing years of work to protect software freedom.
With one developer fighting this battle pro se, the stakes couldnâ(TM)t be higher!
With one developer fighting this battle pro se, the stakes couldnâ(TM)t be higher!
Submission + - 27-Year-Old EXE becomes Python in minutes AI-Assisted reverse engineering (adafruit.com)
ptorrone writes: Reddit post detailing how someone took a 27-year-old visual basic EXE file, fed it to Claude 3.7, and watched as it reverse-engineered the program and rewrote it in Python. It was an old Visual Basic 4 program they had written in 1997. Running a VB4 exe in 2024 can be a real yak-shaving compatibility nightmare, chasing down outdated DLLs and messy workarounds. So! OP decided to upload the exe to Claude 3.7.
Submission + - Donald Trump tells Apple to "get rid" of diversity programs (techspot.com)
AmiMoJo writes: Big tech companies have been quick to put an end to or cut back their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, a response to pressure from Donald Trump and his administration. Pushing back against the trend is Apple, whose shareholders voted down a proposal to dismantle its DEI initiatives this week. However, Trump has now personally urged the company to end these diversity policies. Earlier today, Trump urged Apple to get rid of its DEI programs, rather than "just make adjustments" to them. "DEI was a hoax that has been very bad for our country. DEI is gone," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
Comment Re: Not supposed to say it out loud (Score 1) 95
There's nothing that checks if what the AI returns is correct.
An AI also has a problem being creative. It can do random things, but it's not able to discard those that are bad. "Greatest kitchen robot in the world, just insert a live animal here and in an hour it'll give you a dinner. Then you'll have a curious cat or toddler..."
Comment Re: Its killer app... (Score 1) 95
Microsoft seems to be desperate to find new ideas to promote for coming versions of their software.
It's just that when things goes sour it's the big ones that falls hardest.
Microsoft today is like IBM was in the 80's, a company trying to find a purpose for the future. Nobody cares about IBM today except for a few banks and stagnant large corporations like GM.
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