I once broke a phishing test by standing up in the SOC and shouting "watch out - there's a very suspicious email just arrived".

And here was me last night looking at my shelf of O'Reilly Perl books and wondering whether I'll ever refer to them again. I don't suppose with AI "help" available at the click of a mouse that there's much of a second hand market for them.

I hope Toyota release an update for their anti-lock braking system soon, and all owners install it.

Tyre detaches from rim, anti-lock braking system prioritises stability over braking, driver dies

A woman who died in a crash on the M25 in a "terrifying situation" was unable to stop in time as an anti-locking system reduced her car's braking effect, a coroner has said.

"The brakes did not work effectively because when the brake pedal was pressed, the vehicle's anti-locking braking system was activated, and it operated to prevent instability, but, thereby reduced the braking effect almost entirely,"

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He added that this was an "unintended effect of the system's design" which arose because the specific scenario, of a tyre detaching while the vehicle was being driven, had not been considered as part of the design.

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Once on the hard shoulder, she pressed the brake pedal, with increasing force, on a further five occasions, but this did not result in any significant reduction in the Toyota's speed."

The first company I worked for: Laser-Scan in Cambridge, UK, was founded by Otto Frisch

This from his Autobiography What Little I Remember
Finally the announcement came that the count-down was beginning: now it would be only minutes before the explosion took place. By that time the very first trace of dawn was in the sky. I got out of the car and listened to the count-down, and when the last minute arrived I looked for my dark goggles but couldn't find them. So I sat on the ground in case the explosion blew me over, plugged my ears with my fingers, and looking in the direction away from the explosion as I listened to the end of the count . . . five, four, three, two, one...

And then, without a sound, the sun was shining; or so it looked. The sand hills at the edge of the desert were shimmering in a very bright light, almost colourless and shapeless. The light did not seem to change for a couple of seconds and then began to dim. I turned around, but that object on the horizon which looked like a small sun was still too bright to look at. I kept blinking and trying to take looks, and after another ten seconds or so it had grown and dimmed into something more like a huge oil fire, with a structure that made it look a but like a strawberry. It was slowly rising into the sky from the ground, with which it remained connected by a lengthening grey stem of swirling dust; incongruously, I thought like a red-hot elephant balanced on its trunk. Then, as the cloud of gas cooled and became less red, one could see a blue glow surrounding it, a glow of ionized air; a huge replica of what Harry Daghlian had seen when his assembly went critical and had signalled his death sentence. The object, now clearly what has become so well known as the mushroom cloud, ceased to rise but a second mushroom started to grow out from its top; the inner layers of gas were kept hot by their radioactivity and, being hotter than the rest, broke through from the top and rose to even greater height. It was an awesome spectacle; anyone who has ever seen an atomic explosion will never forget it. And all in complete silence; the bang came minutes later, quite loud though I had plugged my ears, and followed by a low rumble like heavy traffic very far away. I can still hear it.

Bruce Schneier posted this today:
Where AI Provides Value
If you’ve worried that AI might take your job, deprive you of your livelihood, or maybe even replace your role in society, it probably feels good to see the latest AI tools fail spectacularly. If AI recommends glue as a pizza topping, then you’re safe for another day.

But the fact remains that AI already has definite advantages over even the most skilled humans, and knowing where these advantages arise—and where they don’t—will be key to adapting to the AI-infused workforce.

AI will often not be as effective as a human doing the same job. It won’t always know more or be more accurate. And it definitely won’t always be fairer or more reliable. But it may still be used whenever it has an advantage over humans in one of four dimensions: speed, scale, scope and sophistication. Understanding these dimensions is the key to understanding AI-human replacement.

Read Dr. Neal Krawetz's "Hacker Factor" blog for insight into the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA). If C2PA is deployed in its current state, it can lead to incredibly serious problems.

Nikon will continue to incorporate new elements of the evolving C2PA specifications

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Knudsen was president of the Chevrolet Division of General Motors from 1924 to 1937 and was president of General Motors from 1937 to 1940.
His experience and success as a key senior manager in the operations sides of Ford Motor Company and then General Motors led the Franklin Roosevelt administration to commission him directly as a lieutenant general in the United States Army to help lead the United States' war materiel production efforts for World War II.

Engineers decided it would be fastest to fly physical hard drives with data into the country, since transferring huge volumes of data over the internet could take months.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum's quote circa 1985:
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

And the Obligatory XKCD

Where does this knowledge come from? I'd expect pprune to mention these things, but there's no mention of Compressor Stall there. There IS, however a user called Compresser_Stall who has commented in the thread. All the broken character encoding suggests that it's been copied and pasted from elsewhere. From an AI, perhaps?