Historically they've gotten backpay. Also they are trying to keep their jobs.

I’m not sure historical precedent tells us a whole lot and Congress has now skipped Washington. It’s hard to say when this will be resolved. It could be a month or more.

This looks like an existing pre planned product hastily rebranded AI

Last I used OSX (the version prior to the current latest IIRC) not all of the "suggestions" could be turned off

Don't worry CISA and any other involved regulator were gutted by DOGE.

Is that true or you’re just assuming it’s so?

It’s true, and briefly made the news at the time[1]. The CSRB was also decimiated, and the current DHS deputy secretary, in his confirmation hearing, called for wrecking the agency, as he disagrees with their efforts to maintain election security.

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[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/doge-axes-cisa-red-team-st...

I definitely remember DOGE gutting CISA. Other cuts were not always due to DOGE. A good chunk of the FBI's computer security and counter intelligence people got reassigned to immigration enforcement. The committee investigating the US cell network hacks got cut extensively but I don't remember who did it.

Regardless China was monitoring everything very easily.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/chinas-salt-typhoon-hacked-at-lea...

Ars just republished it under license

The new (as of now than a year ago) Waymo cars still had human safety drivers last I saw one (a month or two ago). I also don't see them taking customers. So they do seem to slow roll hardware rollouts.

A new version rolling out fast and starting to crash will likely kill the program altogether (like it did for some competitors).

10 years down the line, they won't have that risk.

Which to me is a really good, encouraging thing.

Overall I feel safer in a Waymo than a rideshare now and I only spent a few days being able to use Waymo...

Nearly got T-boned in a Lyft in LA. I am lucky to still be alive as the driver was not aware and should not have been driving. Where available I've stopped using human driven rideshare.

Most of the victims were last in school in the 1960s when all this stuff didn't exist. Also from experience teaching people with dementia or memory issues is kinda challenging as they just forget.

I wonder if you might be relying on a stereotype of victims. Here's some recent data: "The 2024 FTC Consumer Sentinel Network reported that 44% of all 20-somethings claimed losses in 2023". More data here: https://www.synovus.com/personal/resource-center/fraud-preve...

That's what I would expect too - old and young.

That game console isn't in a data center with CCTV coverage, mandatory access control, guards, and employees with background checks. If somone is soldering wires to your server and doing fault injection something has gone very wrong. Azure Government customers also don't have to worry about the NSA demanding access.

The strait is now mined at least partially. Country of origin doesn't matter when there are mines in the water.

We really are overdue for mines with IFF and can inert themselves temporarily for blue ships.

The problem is systems like that have a failure rate.

Self deactivating land mines exist - and sometimes fail to do this (3/100 was the rate I heard a few years ago).

Same problem with cluster munitions: it's not how they work. It's that a bunch of the bomblets fail to work, then leave UXO around which explodes a child's hand later.

This is going to be an environmental disaster.

Only if there's no diplomatic resolution - however unlikely.