… I tell the pretty British lady voice on my Google assistant thank you.

I mean I certainly don’t want her to just stop doing what I need

That answered a lot of questions.

I hope they publicly state how they pushed a bad file, but I doubt it.

Seems like someone really didn’t pay attention to what they were doing, and they might have an internal problem with QA.

Fair. Thanks for that counterpoint.

:(

Yes. And time.

We make a lot more money by testing in production, and let the users tell us what’s wrong. It’s much faster.

Oooooooo this one again thank you for reminding me

That’s… Not great. I didn’t actually think about what all these wild AV systems could do, but that’s incredibly broad access.

Maybe I’m just old, but it always strikes me as odd that you’d spend so much money on that much intrusive power that on a good day slows your machines down and on a bad day this happens.

I get that Users are stupid. But maybe you shouldn’t let users install anything. And maybe your machines shouldn’t have access to things that can give them malware. Some times, you don’t need everything connected to a network.

That’s the impressive part of all this. Microsoft didn’t do it. CloudStrike did it.

Microsoft left something in a state that allowed CloudStrike to fuck up enough to brick systems.

It’s why we spend a lot of time reviewing security analysis of our own software - if there’s a way to fuck everything up, it better not because we enabled it to get fucked.

Wall Street Journal requires it users to go on a date with a reporter to cancel its subscription

Fuck yes. I’m getting me a WSJ subscription. I haven’t gotten a date in… A while

Yeah this is probably more likely. It’s just so depressing

AI in Movies: “The only Logical solution, is the complete control/eradication of humanity.”

AI in Real Life: “Dave, I see you only have beer, soda, and cheese in your fridge. I am concerned for your health. I can write you a reminder to purchase better food choices.” Dave: “THESE AI ARE EVIL, I WILL NEVER SUBMIT TO YOUR POWER!”

Oh yeah - Yello

The looks would be priceless

The longest stretch would likely be chip fabs. You need precision electronics and hazardous chemicals and plenty of power.

But considering that some form of electronics will survive, and it wouldnt take long for people to get rudimentary electricity going, I don’t see why we couldn’t have world Internet within a decade.

So. The good news, is that my next work machine is skipping 13 and 14.

The bad news is my next work machine is an Ultra Core processor, we get to be first adopters too! How glorious (/s)!

I know a couple. One was from Kenya, the other Sudan. I know a dozen or so Black Americans, several of which I have heard out right laugh at “African-American.”

Part of the problem is that the link to Africa was severed when their ancestors came here as slaves. Acknowledging that is pretty vital…

Instead of just getting the down votes, I’ll explain why that wouldnt work.

1. The AI itself cannot decompile it without the same tools I would use. The AI would then end up with the same starting spot I have.
2. Current LLMs do not know how to interpret code logic, and would likely make mistakes in Syscalls, register addresses, and instructions.
3. Assembly languages themselves have nothing further than instruction sets. I’m sure there are ways to organize it in the super rare case of actually writing assembly, but not to the effect of object oriented or functional programming.

Lastly, other comments have pointed out decompiled code is extremely expensive to analyze. The output from whatever we decompile would easily exceed the input limits for all existing LLMs.

Variable names, class names, package structure, method names, etc. won’t normally be maintained in the disassembled code. They are meaningless to the CPU, and just a series of memory addresses. In cases where you have method names being mentioned, it’s likely a syscall, and it’s calling a method from an existing library. I’m not familiar with VB, but at least in .Net and .Net Framework, this would be something like the System.Collections.Generic providing the implementation for List<string> and when .Sort() is called, it makes the syscall to that compiled .dll.

That

Is so accurate I’m concerned

Wait

So my ex wife dreamed of being a hoarder, 600lb person, and teen pregnancy? Jesus how many red flags did I miss?