One of the supposed “benefits” of the blockchain is that it is immutable, meaning that once data is written to the blockchain it can’t be changed. Unless someone decides to change it. Two incidents this week show that immutable is not always immutable. Which means that the fairy tale of the blockchain is permanent is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I know that is not the normal version of that expression, but it applies to AI. You just might not like what that help looks like. With the help of AI, Microsoft patched 400 bugs, plus or minus, depending on how you count. Last month it was around 600. June, which was pre-AI “Help” was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Meta released a new open weight LLM today, called Muse Glimmer. They also released a paper that says, basically, that data wants to be free. Fundamentally, the paper says that a wider dissemination of software is good instead of under the control of just a few people like, say, his arch enemies, Anthropic and OpenAI. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I just saw an item on the news that talked about Waymo starting to run driverless cars in Boulder, Colorado. When the police were asked who was liable if the driverless car got into an accident, the answer was we don’t know and we would ask the Attorney General. Likely, if a driverless car crashes […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is not just cameras in the middle of the desert. The GAO says that DHS plans to add an addition 1,500 surveillance towers by 2034, funded by the recent tax and spend bill at a cost of a billion dollars. At the same time over 1,000 police departments have a waiver to fly automated […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is Colorado there has been a lot of attention being paid to a forensics technician who, apparently, took shortcuts with DNA testing. She claims that none of the shortcuts she took changed any results, but she is still awaiting trial on over a hundred charges over it. The big problem is that it may […]
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