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Comment Cyber experts are a chimera (Score 1) 67

“unauthorized access was granted via a compromised VPN domain. From there, the threat actor deployed a botnet to extract, download and store the data. The exfiltration took approximately six months.”

Chimera: a thing which is hoped for but is illusory or impossible to achieve.

Comment Same ole MICROS~1 (Score 1) 59

> .. According to Mozilla, parts of Windows still open links in Edge regardless of the default browser setting ..

ClippyAI: Proprietary microsoft-edge: protocol links: Many Windows features (Start menu search, Widgets, News and Interests, Outlook/Teams links, etc.) use a special protocol that only Edge (or Edge variants) can handle. This bypasses the user's chosen default browser. Third-party workarounds like EdgeDeflector were blocked by Windows updates

Comment The therapeutic value of psychedelics % (Score 1) 48

There's a distinct feeling of déjà vu about this. Didn't they try this back in the sixties.

“You’re either on the bus or off the bus” Ken Kesey as quoted by Tom Wolfe

“One day you can be a respected assistant professor of psychology at Harvard University and the next chanting and dancing down the sidewalk in a bed sheet.”

Comment My mind is going Dave :o (Score 5, Informative) 139

“First, you can be forgiven if you're surprised that the Orion spacecraft (which was carried to space by the Artemis II mission) uses Microsoft 365 software.

However, NASA has been standardized on Microsoft's suite of software and services for years, using the platform across productivity, collaboration, and, yes, communication. The agency even uses Copilot, though it's not clear if the AI has had any part in this mission.”

NASA’s Portable Computer System (PCS) is essentially a fleet of space-qualified laptops used by astronauts .. Running Microsoft Windows .. chosen for reliability and durability :o

Comment Mitchell H. Katz, MD swallows the AI koolaid (Score 1) 89

Like “The Cloud” was going to get rid of the in-house computer department, this AI kool-aid is going to massively fail to deliver. A useful tool as long as it is applied in specific use cases and verified by a human. In this case, since you've fired all your radiologists and AIs are prone to hallucinations, you can't be sure its diagnosis is accurate. You would get lots of false positives or false negatives, with no one left to verify the results.

Submission + - Show photos of live animals on menus say Woke Scientists

Mirnotoriety writes: Seeing animals, choosing plants: Evidence from cafeteria field study on food choices.

“While future research is needed to assess broader applicability, our findings demonstrate that visual cues reminding consumers of meat’s animal origins can meaningfully influence real-world food choices and add to a toolkit of interventions aimed at encouraging more ethical and environmentally-sustainable food choices.”

Comment Young Wozniak and Jobs .. (Score 1) 55

Does it mention Jobs getting a contract from Atari to design a a prototype circuit board for a breakout game and getting Wozniak in at night to do the actual design. Jobs got paid $5,750 and paid Wozniak $350. Jobs then spent the rest of the money on a spiritual journey to India /s

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