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Those are definitely words.

“We show that by exploiting the physics of specular reflection, an adversary can inject phantom obstacles or erase real ones using only inexpensive mirrors,” the researchers wrote in a paper submitted to the journal Computers & Security.

“Experiments on a full AV platform, with commercial-grade LIDAR and the Autoware stack, demonstrate that these are practical threats capable of triggering critical safety failures, such as abrupt emergency braking and failure to yield.”

I’d be fooled, too, at first - and suspicious (who’s fucking around with mirrors on the road?) - but I’d probably figure it out after a second.

My main concern is people could use these kinds of exploits to “jailbreak” robo-cars (or whatever we’re calling them) to behave in dangerous ways in real traffic.

It will not. The article is nostalgia and hopium-baiting.

Restarting a mass-manufacturing production line for something like once super-common CRT TVs would require a major investment that so far nobody is willing to front.

Meanwhile LCD and OLED technology have hit some serious technological dead-ends, while potential non-organic LED alternatives such as microLED have trouble scaling down to practical pixel densities and yields.

There’s a chance that Sony and others can open some drawers with old ‘thin CRT’ plans, dust off some prototypes and work through the remaining R&D issues with SED and FED for potentially a pittance of what alternative, brand-new technologies like MicroLED or quantum dot displays would cost.

Will it happen? Maybe not. It’s quite possible that we’ll still be trying to fix OLED and LCDs for the next decade and beyond, while waxing nostalgically about how much more beautiful the past was, and the future could have been, if only we hadn’t bothered with those goshdarn twisting liquid crystals.

Apple is one of the few companies whose cult I think could rival MAGA.

Tim Cook gets no brownie points from me for sucking up to 40-whatever-number-he-is.

Their policy to not be evil.

The content was great. The furry art between every paragraph was completely inoffensive and sometimes cute.

Using a picture of your (I assume) furry avatar presenting their ass in my general direction as the header/thumbnail almost made me not click.

It’s not even a furry thing.

It’s a you-look-so-unserious-right-now thing.

Went to the comments to follow up on that URL and had a lesson in the history of unfortunate website names.

This seems like a dumb benchmark.

ClockBench evaluates whether models can read analog clocks - a task that is trivial for humans, but current frontier models struggle with.

What do you mean trivial? Most humans I know can’t read the most basic white-background-big-black-numbers clocks.

Someone rigged the jury to get 90% on this:

There’s a difference between

“A pedophile committed a crime in my house (but I had nothing to do with it).”

and

“Gee, the pedophiles seem to think my house is a great place to do crime, because they keep doing it, but that’s none of my business.”

I imagine it’s because Second Life was never popular with children.

As bad as mostly-adult spaces can be, the worst kinds of humans seem to skitter around children’s spaces.

Once upon a time, I set up my phone so I didn’t need to look at it: it was basically e-ink and audiobooks.

Then I started adding games and learning apps back (I don’t remember why), and now I feel like I’m not going back until e-ink reaches parity with smartphones (refresh rate, cell coverage, near-current OS).