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The AM-FM radio business is being discussed in a mailing list I’m on, but my mail server has a spam sphincter that won’t allow linky emails to go out, no matter how non-spammy they might be. So I’m posting some of what I’m trying to say here, so I can…
That’s the case I’ll be making next Tuesday in a talk at Indiana University.
The subject is big—maybe the biggest in your online life. Because it’s about the only way you’ll ever really get privacy online. And that way will support far more business than is possible in the privacy-hostile…
Naturally
The most downloaded country song is by an AI.
Or Not
Says here the AI bubble will burst. Geoffrey Hinton, Big AI's Cassandra, says otherwise.
As a devout window-sitter on planes, SeatGuru was a must-have for avoiding misaligned or absent windows on booked flights. But now it’s gone, because its owner, Tripadvisor, failed to keep it fresh.
I…
We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android's C and C++ code. But the biggest…
But is Deezer Real?
Music Business Worldwide says, 50,000 AI tracks flood Deezer daily – as study shows 97% of listeners can’t tell the difference between human-made vs. fully AI-generated music. Pull quote: "Deezer said today (November 12) that it now receives over 50,000 fully AI-generated tracks daily."
Everything…
The SUSE Security Team has published an in-depth article on its findings after reviewing a D-Bus service contained in LightDM Greeter by KDE (the lightdm-kde-greeter package) for addition to openSUSE Tumbleweed. The team found a privilege escalation from the lightdm service user to root, as well as other attack…