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[The_Chief]

This is a textbook lesson in how one person, who really doesn't think their one & only password they use for everything, could possibly result in catastrophe for so many people.

158-year-old company forced to close after ransomware attack precipitated by a single guessed password — 700 jobs lost after hackers demand unpayable sum

An employee’s weak password was the company’s Achilles' heel.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[The_Chief]

Some people have way too much time on their hands...

Inventor builds mechanical computer with thousands of Knex pieces

'‘It looks like a mess but I promise it’s just organized chaos.'

www.popsci.com

 

[olbriar]

That's cool but it would be difficult to carry it around in your pocket.

 

[The_Chief]

Yet another reason I don't trust AI and won't trust it. It's a slippery slope of trusting someone else's machine... someone else I don't know. Blind reliance like this was just asking for disaster: and that's what happened.

AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database — Replit CEO apologizes after AI engine says it 'made a catastrophic error in judgment' and 'destroyed all production data'

‘This was a catastrophic failure on my part,’ admits Replit’s AI agent.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[Milo Willamson]

What are the Negative Effects of Noise-Cancelling Headphones? – audiolgy.com I have always wonder.

 

[The_Chief]

The state of U.S. health care. It's not "health insurance", it's racketeering. We should get insurance companies OUT of the health care business except for catastrophic care coverage. If we pay as we go with a health savings account (that doesn't expire), quality of care will go up and prices will go down as provider competition kicks in. I don't know what's funny about this, as I don't think it's funny at all.