it’s the USA, it’s near certainly going to be multiple ways of legal
and if they get kicked in the teeth, they’ll get around it by putting up a little sign somewhere near the door (visible, but unobvious) which claims that “by shopping there you accept the possibility”, and that may be enough
“better late than never”
if it already got force-deployed, start noting risks and finding the problem areas you can identify post-hoc, and speaking with people to raise alert level about it
probably a lot of people are going to be in the same position as you, and writing about the process you go through and whatever you find may end up useful to others
on a practical note (if you don’t know how to do this type of assessment) a couple of sittings with debug logging enabled on the various api implementations, using data access monitors (whether file or database), inspecting actual api calls made (possibly by making things go through logging proxies as needed), etc will all likely provide a lot of useful info, but it’ll depend on whether you can access those things in the first place
if you can’t do those, closely track publications of issues for all the platforms your employer may have used/rolled out, and act rapidly when shit inevitably happens - same as security response
lol holy shit, apparently a US chain is trying to do"AI-based" individualised pricing of goods in-store
can't wait to hear of someone being charged $500 for a packet of gum
FAANG came about because of "unexpected growth" in how those could "surprisingly" capture money, as time has passed it's become clear how all of them did so in pretty shitty ways (of the bigtech-flavoured "it's better to never ask for permission, fuck 'em" variety)
netflix's burgeoning unpopularity is a far more recent thing. I could guess at a few inputs, but not really sure how much each contributed
(idle thought: without the N, it's probably be GAFA or something, or finding another letter to substitute and make a tortured reference out of that)
hmm, it's nice that this exists but feels like they could've gone a bit further in their writing, providing more exposition than just making a laundry list of instances found to be doing the thing. this reads very "I picked up on a trend and just wanted to be the first to mention it in writing"
rootkits as a service
just about a month since we had the LLM security thread, and now there's some more hilaribad coming out at blackhat
new electronics design standard everyone! no more need for EDA sims, we can just ask this clever poster for verification! progress! i'm sure it'll be perfectly fine!
nod
a fairly enjoyable read, if you can stomach exposition of millennia and hopskotch-scifi
fair ‘nuff :)
it happened
I popped out somewhere to have a drink, and got to have someone tell me about their “edutech” startup that “uses AI”
they very definitely overpromise (not gonna rinse their bullshit), and topped it off with “and then we use a LLM for suggesting improvements”
(I ejected from the conversation but I can still hear it; it’s progressed to “talking about property” in the terms of mediocre early-20s white kids talking leveraging daddy and uncle’s assets)
ah heh, that would’ve been the other leg of this plan, I imagine
“sorry about the unfortunate pricing” says the dead-ending support flow, which doesn’t have the ability to contact an actual human anywhere in the tree