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- on AI agents steal 600,000 credit cards records: Operator is running 3 open source AI systems autonomously breaking into hundreds of Online Retailers for $25 a target in an ongoing campaign in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8h ago
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on ‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18h ago
Many times that AI summary is just something that is in the first two or three links anyway
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on Why are games priced in € (EUR) the same as $ (USD)? in c/games@lemmy.world · 4d ago
Do EU prices normally include VAT? US list prices for games cannot include Sales Tax, because the tax can vary widely by State (or even by local government).
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on Google's new 'CC' is an AI agent that helps families run their households: Google’s CC, meanwhile, began its life as a productivity agent that connected to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago
Why the downvotes? It is a legit tech article, even if it’s about tech nobody asked for.
My wife and I manage a lot of coordination just by sharing our Google calendars. And, in fact, she was a whiz at using the Google Assistant to do all sorts of cool stuff. But, this was Google Assistant before it got infected with all the newest AI. Google’s (Generative) AI actually made it all dumber.
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on Happy 25th Birthday to the Nintendo GameCube! in c/games@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026
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on China’s Huawei branded a criminal enterprise as tech firm’s US trial opens in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
I think those firms justify their bill rates by results, not by a literary analysis of their filings.
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on China’s Huawei branded a criminal enterprise as tech firm’s US trial opens in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
You noticed that his text followed a common AI pattern. I replied, basically, with “So what? He’s responsible for it regardless”.
The legal stuff is relevant because he is a lawyer and is discussing it in the courtroom.
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on China’s Huawei branded a criminal enterprise as tech firm’s US trial opens in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
You’re lucky this community doesn’t explicitly list accusing humans of being AI as a reportable offense. I’ve been reported in other places for saying “beep boop”…
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on China’s Huawei branded a criminal enterprise as tech firm’s US trial opens in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
That’s not what I said at all. Quite the opposite. Whether a thing is generated by AI or not is irrelevant, especially in court. What matters is that everything presented in court is backed by the legal team that is presenting it. If a lawyer ever uses “The AI did that” as an excuse for an error, they should be immediately disbarred.
If he had an AI write some text and he presents it, that’s not a problem. The problem occurs when he views that as permission to not do his job correctly, because the bot did it for him.
Treat AI like an overly enthusiastic, book-smart intern. There is no ethical dilemma having that intern do research for the lead lawyer, but if the intern makes a fundamental mistake and the lead lawyer introduces it in court, the lawyer would face a reprimand, even though he didn’t make the mistake, for not checking the Intern’s work.
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on China’s Huawei branded a criminal enterprise as tech firm’s US trial opens in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
Look, a bot might have written that text, but as part of the legal team responsible for the case he must own what he says. As long as he vets and stands behind all the statements he makes, it shouldn’t matter whether the text comes from himself, another lawyer, an intern, or a bot.
In fact, in the US at least, only humans can be authors. Bots cannot.
The problem comes when people abdicate their responsibility to the bot. Then they let mistakes through that a human would never had done if they came up with the content themselves. For some content, an “oops” is OK. But in court, a blatant “oops” (like citing cases the AI hallucinated without checking them first) should be a career-ending mistake.
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on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
not necessarily, MAC is a layer 2 protocol, and your router (NAT or no NAT) operates on layer 3. Routers are supposed to overwrite the MAC address with their own when they forward a packet.
It’s always possible for the unit to put its own identfying info in the payload. But you didn’t do anything silly like register the TV, did you?
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on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Then you can watch all the depraved porn you want to, and the Government will think it’s coming from the house with the insecure wifi
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on Microsoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows experience meant to entice developers - Engadget in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
You need 64 GB or RAM to use it? Seems like it’s just a marketing gimmick to find dumb developers who can afford 64GB of RAM in the first place. Kind of like that “I am Rich” app…
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on White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin in c/games@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Yes! Sorry for the confusion, edited to clarify
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on White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin in c/games@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
I ain’t clicking on that game. I wonder what type of telemetry it’s gathering…
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on Microsoft Outlook Down for Thousands of Users, Downdetector Reports in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
Good, I might get some shit done this afternoon without everyone else’s “emergencies” getting in the way
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on Google Maps changes Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ for U.S. users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
I like the idea of Canada naming the lake after Trump personally : “Lake Inferior”.
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on Google Maps changes Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ for U.S. users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
“NATO is a bunch of pussies! From this day forward I proclaim that the water between France and England be known as the “Strait of Ben Dover”. Get it? I’m so clever…”
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on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
How dare you question King Steven the Turd, Greediest of Pigboys? If he proclaims HTML to be unsafe, it must be so. That’s a King’s job, to tell the Landed Gentry how to behave…
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on Exploited Data Workers Are "the Secret Ingredient of 'AI' Itself" [Video/Transcript] in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
I thought it was commonly understood that AI is short for Actually Indians
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on Flock CEO Garrett Langley targeted as address shared online in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
And bring lots of cameras, filming the house from all angles
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on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
No, silly, the problem is when it vibrates when you are nowhere near the lane dividers. I don’t drive a BMW, I know what turn signals are for.
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on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
I can’t stand lane assist that tries to keep you in the lane by actually moving or vibrating the steering wheel. To me, it feels like the car is slipping. That shit gets turned off right away. But I have driven some cars where the lane assist just beeps, and doesn’t force the wheel at all, I can deal with that.
I find HUDs extremely distracting, they get turned off too.
Adaptive Cruise Control is extremely useful, I love that one.
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on 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
I can believe that an agent can do 80% of a competent job. But the 80/20 rule posits that the 20% is the hard part, the part that actually justifies your salary. If a human is not going to go in and do that 20% (which might be 80% of the effort), then having the AI do the easiest 80% doesn’t gain you anything at all.
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on 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
In fairness, this was all on a switch, where the commands are very tightly tied to the vendor and their underlying in-house shell. So commands may vary by release greatly. I was already explicitly telling the bot what software version and licenses I had, but ultimately I had to resort to the CLI’s help function at times and tell the bot “The command you gave me didn’t work. Here’s where it broke, and here’s the commands it will accept”. Given that information, it could (generally) figure it all out.
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on 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
I have serious issues with being fed confidently incorrect answers.
Except I have plenty of experience dealing with this from humans. (Mainly from the aforementioned new managers, because being wrong with confidence seems to be a key trait to get promoted.) It’s been my experience that when you tell an AI “I just tried that and it didn’t work”, it will accept that more readily than a human would.
Every bit of AI-generated code that I use, even in the smallest and most meaningless context, has to pass my own review first. I have to understand every line, and if I don’t I will ask the bot to explain what it did. By the time I am done with it, I can stand behind it just as if I wrote it all myself. I might note that I got AI help, but if my name is on the commit I will not pass the buck on any errors.
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on 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
I had this experience once. We have a ChatGPT license where I work, and I asked it to configure a switch that I wasn’t familiar with. I simply described in words what network architecture I wanted and it did it! It even made some nice-looking documentation.
But, then I tried the new configs, and they didn’t work. It turns out there were some key syntax things it got wrong. And the documentation was wrong on top of that, with incorrect diagrams, and when I asked it to fix it it made different errors I the diagrams in different places. On balance, I still saved some time over reading all the manuals and figuring out the syntaxes myself, but only because I made my own documentation with the results that worked. If I had trusted the AI I would be sunk.
I’ve concluded that AI gives the illusion of competence, like a overly confident new manager. This can be very attractive to a less experienced person. But it’s really guessing, just like we all are. It can just guess after actually “reading” all the manuals. I haven’t used AI to write anything more than simple configurations and helper scripts. If I did want to use AI for more it would be in more of a pair-programming context. I might have a window open where I describe some things and ask for analysis, but I wouldn’t just run anything it does blindly.
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on The AI Bubble Warning Just Came From Europe’s Central Bank in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
Euro-area households hold approximately €440 billion in exposure to the Magnificent Seven — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, and Tesla
That article is using a bit of AI math there. Or are they overweighting Amazon on purpose?
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on We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
Interesting that the buyers are willing to pay “top prices” and yet unwilling to spend the money to scan these books non-destructively.
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on Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
Jesus fucking christ.
I’m sure Grok can make that, too
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on Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games' in c/games@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026
I don’t know about all that, didn’t they develop Windows just to have a platform to play FreeCell Solitaire?
I understand the desire to stop anthropomorphizing AI. But, that can backfire when AI use cause genuine harms like this. Someone was responsible for this hacking. We need to make sure the blame (including any criminal liability) falls squarely on the humans who enabled it to happen, whether or not they did the actual hacking or asked a bot to do it.