taffernicus on 31/5/2025 at 16:11
Assume there is a news agency that uses ai like picus in the real life (and of course churning alot of fake news and its HQ exist in brick and mortar form), if someone want to do action like in 'deus ex', they will probably do these(i know you nobody carry multitool in your pocket let alone BREACH software, stop worm!, personal secretary,etc :D) :
- 'Living off the land binaries' and perhaps a clever data exfiltration method, for example : through DNS tunneling (if the computer hosting the ai model is connected to the internet/has access to outside world). You need to make the tx/rx traffic looks legit, for the sake of pilfering and controlling eliza model. Their SOC would be shocked in awe.
- if the server room airgapped and someone feel out of luck, then these will come to rescue : supply chain attack (if the news agency does not enforce SBOM), GSMem, 'blinking HDD LED' technique (LED-it-go),PixHell Attack, PowerHammer technique, or the classic 'Stuxnet spread over USB stunt' that made it to the news.
- anti forensic, minimize trace, evade logging and artifacts. well I somewhat remember usn journal for windows and journalling system for linux. I don't know if non-journalling filesystems such as ext2 provide an advantage for this...
I'm still annoyed why hacking in Mankind Divided feels harder than in DX:HR
Azaran on 2/6/2025 at 16:04
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/learn-code-backfires-spectacularly-comp-104547287.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAD0jsi4APEBUgnuXRxVStrX9ODviPNBJM_rXPMov2CIMgztBYiJsJBDVE6QvX9Ec1Gn6Bwwtx4PO3m2AqsfFqQEKb_-R55OBITfh-QCeMszcMzZer7CJKB56rDlrd925d0T8sjCZqLCJ3v_Wz1LE8RriiFilVwpkA_RGFUA3z_a8) AI is wreaking devastation in various employment fields
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It looks like the "learn to code" push is backfiring spectacularly for those who bought in.
As Newsweek reports, recent college graduates who majored in computer science are facing high unemployment rates alongside the increasing probability of being laid off or replaced by artificial intelligence if and when they do get hired.
In its latest labor market report, the New York Federal Reserve found that recent CS grads are dealing with a whopping 6.1 precent unemployment rate. Those who majored in computer engineering — which is similar, if not more specialized — are faring even worse, with 7.5 percent of recent graduates remaining jobless. Comparatively, the New York Fed found, per 2023 Census data and employment statistics, that recent grads overall have only a 5.8 percent unemployment rate.
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While folks who majored in fields like anthropology and physics fared even worse, with unemployment rates of 9.4 and 7.8 percent respectively, computer engineering had the third-highest rate of unemployment on the New York Fed's rankings, while computer science had the seventh — a precipitous fall from grace for a major once considered an iron-clad ticket to high earnings and job security.
heywood on 2/6/2025 at 17:26
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I'm still annoyed why hacking in Mankind Divided feels harder than in DX:HR
Probably because it was too easy in Human Revolution. You only needed to invest in the capture augs. You could ignore the other hacking augs and still harvest XP by hacking everything and get all the worthwhile loot from storage units and safes. Also, fortify was kind of useless and you didn't really need to use the software unless you were on your last attempt at a high level hack.
I thought the hacking in Mankind Divided was better balanced difficulty-wise. There were more tactics and tools in the minigame and more reason to master them.
taffernicus on 13/6/2025 at 03:23
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Starker on 13/6/2025 at 05:42
Our tech bro overlords really want that sweet sweet private data:
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Meta devised an ingenious system (“localhost tracking”) that bypassed Android's sandbox protections to identify you while browsing on your mobile phone — even if you used a VPN, the browser's incognito mode, and refused or deleted cookies in every session.
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The captured data includes:
* Complete browsing history with specific URLs
* Products added to cart and purchases made
* Registrations on websites and completed forms
* Temporal behavioral patterns across websites and apps
* Direct linking to real identities on social networks
You're not affected if (and only if)
* You access Facebook and Instagram via the web, without having the apps installed on your phone
* You browse on desktop computers or use iOS (iPhones)
* You always used the Brave browser or the DuckDuckGo search engine on mobile
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Cipheron on 16/6/2025 at 22:41
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https://www.latintimes.com/el-salvador-president-trump-ally-bukele-accused-cutting-deals-ms-13-gang-members-using-us-aid-584958)
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El Salvador President and Trump Ally Bukele Accused of Cutting Deals With MS-13 Gang Members Using U.S. Aid
Basically the gist is that the "tough on crime" El Salvador president actually used American to bribe MS-13 leaders to get him votes and reduce the homicide rate. He also shielded them from prosecution or extradition.
He's then rounded up a lot of random people basically to claim it was his tough on crime policies that were behind the reductions in homicide.
Azaran was saying look at the magic, but the numbers weren't adding up. This is the missing part of the equation, he's a corrupt fascist cutting a deal with organized crime, and the big prisons are for show.
Look at the photos here. You can tell these guys who run the prison are clearly evil motherfuckers who'd turn out to be far worse than the inmates:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-26/cecot-mega-prison-trump-deportation-el-salvador/105200818)
As for the big drops, here's a chart:
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/696152/homicide-rate-in-el-salvador/)
The peak was in 2015 then it fell after that. However the issue is that, the biggest drops were from 2015-2019 which was before Bukele even took office. i.e. homicide rates were already declining every year before he took office, so it's hard to attribute further drops to his policies since they were in fact just part of general trends that were already happening.
So it's a combination of - timing - as in the homicide rate was already steeply falling before he gained office - bribery - as in getting the MS-13 leadership on his payroll and - locking up a lot of young men indiscriminately - which of course is going to slash crime, but is terrible for human rights at the same time.
On a per-capita basis what he did would be equivalent to the US just rounding up 4.5 million young men from Latino and Black communities and saying "look crime went down, we did good". Yeah crime went down a bit, but you rounded up millions of people who hadn't done anything for the relatively small amount of crimes you prevented. The problem is of course you can't hold them forever, can you? And now they're institutionalized, and messed up.
Starker on 21/6/2025 at 12:21
You're as cold as ice
You're willing to sacrifice our love
You want paradise
But some day, you'll pay the price
I know
I've seen it before, it happens all the time
You're closing the door, you leave the world behind
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taffernicus on 26/6/2025 at 02:16
warthunder forum being warthunder forum, they are at it again smh
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https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/classified-data-once-again-leaked-on-war-thunder-forums/) classified-data-once-again-leaked-on-war-thunder-forums/
at this point i think some folks over there already know the ins and out of adaptive engine cycle capability of 6th gen fighter jet , PTMS (power and thermal management system) of NGAD design and why NGAD has tailless /s
Starker on 16/7/2025 at 23:27
The US DOJ, a little late to the Party, removes woke language from its websites:
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WASHINGTON—In the latest of a series of escalations in President Donald Trump's highly publicized war on “woke,” the U.S. Department of Justice reportedly removed all mentions of justice from its website Friday.
The purge follows a directive from the DOJ last week to roll back pro-justice programs and delete thousands of webpages that contained banned words, including “fairness,” “integrity,” “due process,” and “honor.” Citing an executive order from the president, Attorney General Pam Bondi directed her department to comb through all its articles, images, videos, and social media posts to remove any “un-American, leftist propaganda” related to upholding the rule of law, keeping the nation safe, or protecting citizen's rights.
“Justice is a discriminatory form of woke cultural Marxism that has no place in our Justice Department,” Bondi said during a press conference, adding that pro-justice policies actively divided Americans, spread misinformation, and distracted from the DOJ's core mission. “Anyone who says that justice is our department's strength—or that we should promote dangerous ideals that imply Americans will be treated with dignity or compassion in the eyes of the law—is sadly mistaken.”
“Thanks to Donald Trump, justice is dead,” she added. “And this is just the beginning.”
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Tocky on 17/7/2025 at 00:37
Damn. You had me for a minute there. I could well see a 1984/2025 style happening sooner than expected. I was thinking "oh shit I thought we had more time before the rich came with the final solution" and then saw it was the Onion.
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