You may have came across this infographic being shared on various social media platforms. However, at face value and taken out of context, it can be considered misinformation — and I will explain why.
This is giving people an absolute false sense of security! It gets much more complicated than just a simple chart like this. This chart gives NO information on the contributing [critical] factors towards these calculations.
But Stephenson is far more pessimistic about today’s AI than he was about the Primer. “A chatbot is not an oracle,” he told me over Zoom last Friday. “It’s a statistics engine that creates sentences that sound accurate.” I spoke with Stephenson about his uncannily prescient book and the generative-AI revolution that has seemingly begun.
made some more tongue-in-cheek ha-ha no-seriously images to help you manage replies in lieu of affordances to help you manage replies please steal and use if you find useful or so help me funny
you can check if a site uses cloudflare by appending /cdn-cgi/trace to the domain.
I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are
I hate apps that don't allow you to copy text from a comment field. It gives you a taste of the world without Larry Tesler and Tim Mott, and it's not a magnificent one
[Note: Tesler worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo!. While at PARC, Tesler's work included Smalltalk, the first dynamic object-oriented programming language, and Gypsy, the first word processor with a graphical user interface (GUI) for the Xerox Alto. During this, along with colleague Tim Mott, Tesler developed the idea of copy and paste functionality and the idea of modeless software. ]
In particular, the Commission has failed to provide appropriate safeguards to ensure that personal data transferred outside the EU/EEA are afforded an essentially equivalent level of protection as guaranteed in the EU/EEA.
"Furthermore, in its contract with Microsoft, the Commission did not sufficiently specify what types of personal data are to be collected and for which explicit and specified purposes when using Microsoft 365."
The EC has been ordered to suspend all data flows through the use of Microsoft 365 to Microsoft and any of its tentacles that might reside outside the EU / EEA and not covered by an adequacy decision.
ChatGPT is a great example of a not-thinking tool: a tool that you use to avoid having to think.
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Not-thinking tools have the appearance of creating efficiency, but ultimately they just make you faster at doing the wrong thing.
Product professionals (whether designers, PMs, or developers) would do well to take away the same lesson: we ask too much of our tools. Doing perfect Agile will not produce good software, but that’s not Agile’s fault.
A lot of people ask me, what should we use instead? My answer is always: use your brain.
A tasty, self-hostable Git server for the command line. 🍦
Right now, I want to talk about the heritage of these input/output mechanisms. Why is it that punched paper tape and the teleprinter were the most obvious way to interact with the first electronic computers? As you might suspect, the arrangement was one of convenience. Paper tape punches and readers were already being manufactured, as were teleprinters. They were both used for communications.
Wer in letzter Zeit auf einer Demonstration in Wien war, hat sie vermutlich bemerkt: Die Polizei setzt Drohnen ein, um Teilnehmer*innen vom Himmel aus zu beobachten. Aktuell baut das Innenministerium die Drohnenüberwachung aus. Dafür legte es sich ein „IMSI-Catcher-System zur Verwendung mit Drohnen“ zu.
Mit dieser Anschaffung wird eine neue Ära der Überwachung eingeläutet. Die Kombination aus Drohnen und IMSI-Catcher ermöglicht es, Personen unbemerkt zu überwachen oder Teilnehmer*innen von Versammlungen zu identifizieren.
I experienced the disconnect between the torture I was comfortable with and the torture that drove me away during my first year in college. As I've mentioned here a few times, most recently in my post on Niklaus Wirth, from an early age I had wanted to become an architect (the kind who design houses and other buildings, not software). I spent years reading about architecture and learning about the profession. I even took two drafting courses in high school, including one in which we designed a house and did a full set of plans, with cross-sections of walls and eaves.
Then I got to college and found two things. One, I still liked architecture in the same way as I always had. Two, I most assuredly did not enjoy the kind of grunt work that architecture students had to do, nor did I relish the torture that came with not seeing a path to a solution for a thorny design problem.
That was so different from the feeling I had writing BASIC programs. I would gladly bang my head on the wall for hours to get the tiniest detail just the way I wanted it, either in the code or in the output. When the torture ended, the resulting program made all the pain worth it. Then I'd tackle a new problem, and it started again.
In December 2023, Voyager started sending back gibberish instead of data. A software glitch, though perhaps caused by an underlying hardware problem; a cosmic ray strike, or a side effect of the low temperatures, or just aging equipment randomly causing some bits to flip.
The problem was, the gibberish was coming from the flight direction software — the operating system, as it were. And no copy of that operating system remained in existence on Earth.
Die NZZ wurde im vergangenen Frühjahr Opfer eines solchen Angriffs und hat sich dazu entschieden, die Hintergründe publik zu machen. Dass die meisten angegriffenen Unternehmen schweigen, spielt den Erpressern in die Hände. Ein Angriff gilt als Versagen. Dabei kann es jeden treffen. Die NZZ ist überzeugt, dass die Lehren aus dem eigenen Cyberangriff anderen Firmen helfen können, sich vor Ransomware-Banden zu schützen.
... he asked for a ladder, climbed up the generator and made a chalk mark on its side. Then he told Ford’s skeptical engineers to remove a plate at the mark and replace sixteen windings from the field coil. They did, and the generator performed to perfection.
Henry Ford was thrilled until he got an invoice from General Electric in the amount of $10,000. Ford acknowledged Steinmetz’s success but balked at the figure. He asked for an itemized bill.
Steinmetz, Scott wrote, responded personally to Ford’s request with the following:
Ford paid the bill.
For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.
In what follows, I try to make the same case nearly 30 years later, updated for today’s computing horrors. A version of this post was originally published on my personal blog, Berthub.eu.
Der VwGH hielt fest, dass unzweifelhaft ist, dass es sich bei Errechnung der Arbeitsmarktchancen durch das AMAS um "Profiling" handelt. Damit kann diese Art der Datenverarbeitung eine automatisierte Einzelfallentscheidungen im Sinne des Art. 22 DSGVO darstellen, die ohne eine gesetzliche Grundlage verboten wären. Dabei kommt es entscheidend darauf an, ob die Entscheidung der MitarbeiterInnen des AMS über die Zuordnung der arbeitssuchenden Personen maßgeblich von den automatisiert errechneten Arbeitsmarktchancen bestimmt wird.
Die Frage der Maßgeblichkeit der automatisch errechneten Arbeitsmarktchancen auf das Vorgehen der MitarbeiterInnen hatte das BVwG jedoch nicht geprüft. Wäre das Vorliegen einer automatisierten Einzelfallentscheidung zu bejahen, sei ferner die Frage zu stellen, ob eine gesetzliche Rechtfertigung für die Anwendung der automatisierten Entscheidungsfindung besteht, was ebenfalls nicht geprüft wurde.
Im Mai des Vorjahres erklärte Kocher, dass sein Haus eine "kleine Datenbank der wichtigsten Lebensmittel des täglichen Bedarfs" andenke. Weiterreichende Ideen wie eine Preiskommission kamen für Türkis-Grün zwar nicht infrage, aber eine Art staatliche Preis-App am Handy solle immerhin für eine "bessere Vergleichbarkeit" sorgen, so Kocher. Überdies war die Rede von besseren Rahmenbedingungen für private Programmiererinnen und Programmierer, damit diese ähnliche Datenbanken anbieten können. Es geht dabei vor allem darum, dass die Privaten an die Preisinformationen der Supermärkte kommen.
All dies solle "so rasch wie möglich" kommen, so Kocher im Mai 2023. Konkret: noch im Herbst desselben Jahres. Die Preis-App oder ähnliche Maßnahmen sollten also bereits seit Monaten umgesetzt sein – tatsächlich gibt es bisher keine Spur davon.
It is unfortunate that people dealing with computers often have little interest in the
history of their subject. As a result, many concepts and ideas are propagated and
advertised as being new, which existed decades ago, perhaps under a different
terminology. I believe it worth while to occasionally spend some time to consider the
past and to investigate how terms and concepts originated.
We had four lawyers, three privacy experts, and two campaigners look at Microsoft's new Service Agreement, and none of our experts could tell if Microsoft plans on using your personal data – including audio, video, chat, and attachments from 130 products, including Office, Skype, Teams, and Xbox – to train its AI models.
If nine experts in privacy can't understand what Microsoft does with your data, what chance does the average person have? That's why we're asking Microsoft to say if they're going to use our personal data to train its AI.
Microsoft is using this announcement as an opportunity to upsell customers on their security products, which are apparently necessary to run their identity and collaboration products safely!
This is morally indefensible, just as it would be for car companies to charge for seat belts or airplane manufacturers to charge for properly tightened bolts. It has become clear over the past few years that Microsoft’s addiction to security product revenue has seriously warped their product design decisions, where they hold back completely necessary functionality for the most expensive license packs or as add-on purchases
The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman, 83-year-old author of the industry bible Design of Everyday Things and a former Apple VP.
I contend Starship Troopers (1997) wasn't recognized as a satire of fascism because almost all of the obvious and over-the-top media manipulation, propaganda, disinformation, hero worship, &c in the film were entirely too familiar for audiences to cognize or understand.
To Verhoeven or Carpenter the political landscape of the western world and america in particular was already a sea of manipulated citizens gleefully worshiping anything their leaders would deign to fool them with.
I don't think Starship Troopers and They Live and RoboCop and similar films were "ahead of their time", or "prescient". In the same way "The Simpsons" hasn't predicted anything. The creators just had a much more accurate understanding of reality than their peers or the general public. They made works to show the comically obvious and nauseatingly banal places these ideologies would lead us.
These creators were dismissed as cranks or hacks making genre pictures. Their work wasn't seen as the well-reasoned and artfully made critiques of society they really were. Their cultural criticism was so dead on that only people with a historical frame of reference or a critical eye caught it. The [purposeful] lack of political education and media literacy in the dominant culture meant that the real messages of these films sailed over the heads of the people who most needed to hear, understand, and internalize them.
In July 2004 I found myself sitting alone in the dark, on the enclosed deck of a ferry boat oozing between fog-shrouded islands of the Alaskan coast. The scenery was haunting, but after the first three hours, I decided to occupy myself by finally reading Neal Stephenson's essay about the command-line. Halfway through it I began crossing things out, and scribbling comments in the margin. The essay was five years old, and in dire need of a fresh perspective.
Months later, I learned that Stephenson himself was dissatisfied with the essay. He wrote that it, "is now badly obsolete and probably needs a thorough revision." An "Ask Slashdot" poll quoted him as saying, "I keep meaning to update it, but if I'm honest with myself, I have to say this is unlikely."
Though I have fleshed out my original comments into longer, more structured pieces, it is not my intention to replace or revise Neal Stephenson's original writing. His original essay is a much more cohesive and entertaining read than my notes are. (He is a Writer, after all. I consider myself a code-monkey by comparison.) In fact, my notes do not hold together unless they use the original essay as a framework, and that's why his entire essay is reproduced here, with my comments color-coded. And yes, I have sought and obtained permission from Neal to do this.
Erst im Januar 2022 vermeldete die Unfallkasse einen Cyberangriff, bei dem "alle Server" mit einer Ransomware verschlüsselt wurden. Auch damals kam es zu weitreichenden Ausfällen über einen Zeitraum von mehreren Wochen, während die IT-Systeme neu aufgesetzt wurden. Die zuständigen Administratoren dürften darin also inzwischen geübt sein.
Und das ist gut so.
Pirate Bay und Scihub hätten Milliarden an Risikokapital verbrennen müssen.
Dann wären sie heute legal. Wie OpenAI.
Der auf ChatGPT basierende "Berufsinfomat" zeigt allerlei Probleme – und lässt sich zudem leicht austricksen. Das AMS weist die Kritik von sich, sieht Kosten von 300.000 Euro gerechtfertigt
Repeat after me: If an AI can "assist" in your job, you do not have a job.
Die Nutzung von KI bei den Wirtschaftsprüfern von Deloitte soll die Produktivität erhöhen.
Diese sollen damit Powerpoint-Präsentationen erstellen, E-Mails verfassen oder auch Programm-Code zum Automatisieren von Aufgaben, ...
A list of artists purportedly used to train Midjourney includes prominent names such as Banksy, David Hockney, and Yayoi Kusama.
I think that we will see more phase transitions, in which whole web applications switch from JavaScript to Wasm/GC, compiled from Dart or Elm or what have you. The natural fundamental abstraction boundary in a web browser is between the user agent and the site’s code, not within the site’s code itself.
Nun war ich mit einem meiner Kinder auf dem Congress. Mit elf Jahren nimmt man noch nicht jeden Talk mit, die blinkenden Säle sind spannender und die unzähligen Stickerboxen. Wir befanden uns also drei Tage auf einer Loot-Tour durch den Congress. Die Chaos Post erfüllte dabei eine besondere Funktion und war durch ihre nun siebenjährige Geschichte bereits recht ausgereift.
If "Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards", where are my "WEB 2.0", "Industrie 4.0", "CYBER", "5G", "AI", "Quantum Computing" and "CRYPTO" keys?
(I do appreciate the "Multimedia" keys though)
Like many things in git, zdiff3 is one of those hidden features that I wish was set as the default option. It has made my day to day development much easier when it comes to resolving conflicts and it's a nice little improvement over diff3. If you want to enable zdiff3 by default on versions of git >= 2.35, you can run git config --global merge.conflictStyle zdiff3. If you just want to give it a test run next time without setting that option to see if you like it you can also run git checkout --conflict zdiff3 ./conflicted/file/path to checkout just the one conflicted file again with the zdiff3 algorithm.
President Clinton had exhorted the government in mid-1998 to “put our own house in order,” and large businesses — spurred by their own testing — responded in kind, racking up an estimated expenditure of $100 billion in the United States alone. Their preparations encompassed extensive coordination on a national and local level, as well as on a global scale, with other digitally reliant nations examining their own systems.
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The innumerable programmers who devoted months and years to implementing fixes received scant recognition. (One programmer recalls the reward for a five-year project at his company: lunch and a pen.) It was a tedious, unglamorous effort, hardly the stuff of heroic narratives — nor conducive to an outpouring of public gratitude, even though some of the fixes put in place in 1999 are still used today to keep the world’s computer systems running smoothly.
A collection of stickers found at hacker events made available for free reproduction. Everything from slogans to unicorns goes.
Gemeinsam mit Ermittlern auf der ganzen Welt ist es der US-Bundespolizei nun aber gelungen, mehrere Websites der Gruppe zu beschlagnahmen. Darunter auch eine Seite, auf der regelmäßig erbeutete Daten veröffentlicht werden.
Seit dem 19. Dezember sind die Seiten der Hacker im Tor-Netzwerk (umgangssprachlich auch als Darknet bekannt) nicht mehr aufrufbar.
Wie PULS 24 exklusiv erfuhr, übernahm die Direktion für Staatsschutz und Nachrichtendienst (DSN) federführend die österreichische Zusammenarbeit mit internationalen Ermittlern.
"Mit der Zerschlagung der Ransomware-Gruppe Blackcat hat das Justizministerium wieder einmal die Hacker gehackt", wird die stellvertretende Generalstaatsanwältin Lisa O. Monaco in einer Aussendung des US-Justizministeriums zitiert.
Um wegen des Cyber-Angriffs auf die Südwestfalen-IT nicht zahlungsunfähig zu werden, muss Bergisch Gladbach Kredite aufnehmen.
Wisst ihr, wessen IT 2022 infolge von #Ransomware nicht mehr funktionierte? Die der Unfallkasse Thüringen- Ab Februar 2022 waren die Systeme wieder am Start.
Wisst ihr, wer gerade wegen eines Sicherheitsvorfalls offline ist und das noch bis 2024 bleiben wird? Kommt ihr nie drauf!
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Here's the truth. Ted Kowalski, username frodo, may he rest in peace, was the original author, just down the hall from my office in Murray Hill, and his name for the program had a 'u' where there is now an 's'. Management made him change it for distribution, but they couldn't make him change his pronunciation.
Die acht ehrenamtlichen Mitglieder sind ...
there I fixed it for you:
US-KONZERN Microsoft kooperiert mit US Gewerkschaften, um US-Arbeitswelt "KI-fit" (was auch immer das zum Nachteil der Arbeitnehmerinnen heißen soll) zu machen
Rundeschreiben des Bundesbeauftragten für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit zu Outlook:
Zwar werden Nutzer vor der Installation in einer Meldung darauf hingewiesen, dass E-Mails
mit der Microsoft-Cloud synchronisiert werden und auf weiterführende Informationen verwiesen. [...] Um eine
wirksame Einwilligung nach Art. 6 Abs. 1 Buchst. a DSGVO handelt es sich hierbei nicht.
Damit ist ein datenschutzkonformer Einsatz der App aktuell nicht möglich.
Carmack zufolge habe Doom viele professionelle IT-Karrieren begründet - ebenso wie sein Nachfolger Quake oft als Startpunkt für Karrieren im Bereich der Software- und Games-Entwicklung gedient habe. "Ich habe Doom meinen Job zu verdanken, ist ein Satz, den ich in der Vergangenheit schon oft gehört habe", stimmt Romero zu und ergänzt: "Für viele der heutigen IT-Profis war der erste Kontaktpunkt, Doom über das Netzwerk zu zocken."
Beige, blocky and beautiful, it comes in 19" and 17" models, 5:4 and 4:3 aspect ratios in appropriate resolutions, classic and modern inputs, built-in speakers, and IPS panels with wide viewing angles. There's a full-size SCART hole. The only flaw I imagine is that modern off-white plastics won't oxidize to the classic Age of Beige patina.
The problem is that very few people are interested in learning COBOL these days. Coding it is cumbersome, it reads like an English lesson (too much typing), the coding format is meticulous and inflexible, and it takes far longer to compile than its competitors. And since nobody's learning it anymore, programmers who can work with and maintain all that code are a increasingly hard to find. Many of these "COBOL cowboys" are aging out of the workforce, and replacements are in short supply.
IBM’s approach is fairly straightforward: Rather than relying exclusively on a limited pool of human programmers to solve the problem, it built a generative AI-powered code assistant (watsonx) that helps convert all that dusty old COBOL code to a more modern language, thereby saving coders countless hours of reprogramming. In extremely simplified terms, the process is similar to feeding an essay written in English into ChatGPT and asking it to translate certain paragraphs into Esperanto. It allows programmers to take a chunk of COBOL and enlist watsonx to transform it into Java.
Gartner Distinguished Vice President and Analyst, Arun Chandrasekara is also skeptical because “IBM has no case studies, at this time, to validate its claims,” he says.
Der Bund zahlt Microsoft und Oracle für IT-Leistungen insgesamt rund sechs Milliarden Euro. Nur ein Zehntel der Aufträge geht an deutsche Unternehmen und nur 0,5% fliest in die Entwicklung von Open Source Lösungen.
Wir haben noch einen weiten Weg zur digitalen Souveränität vor uns. Ich darf gar nicht daran denken was die ganzen Open Source Firmen in Deutschland und Europa mit dem Geld auf die Beine stellen könnten