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Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications" Microsoft is pushing ahead with its plan to add agentic capabilities to Windows 11 but has issued an important security warning for anyone who is interested in trying it out.

Windows may install malware, but Microsoft promises the next Xbox will be super expensive and won't have any exclusives, so it all balances out in the end.

It doesn't, because you gain nothing from it. The only information you can learn from an enum attack on Signal is "does this phone number have Signal" which isnt useful information to anyone. There is zero PII.

Signal already figured this all out. Why do you need to reinvent it?

Also... if youre seriously calling Cloudflare "robber barrons" you know basically nothing about the company nor how it operates.

Cloudflare goes offline a lot less than the local utility. I wish my power was as reliable as Cloudflare and AWS.

St Andrew's in January

Its insane to me how the US thinks its OK to tax lottery winnings like this and yet actual they dont think its OK to figure out how to tax actual billionaires.

I used to have a PS4 and also later a PS5. Both are vastly superior to their comparable XBoxes. But all my friends gamed on XBox and I got tired of being left out so I switched. The network effect is huge in gaming.

Its not the same experience. The network effect is real. The MAU of XBox is 5x that of Steam, and thats not even accounting for the fact that a Live Party is a better multi-player experience since you can jump around between games. Its just a totally different experience than steam.

Anthropic is going to be the big winner in AI. Not OpenAI. Better run company, more focused on business value and outcomes than platitudes and whiz-bang costly experiments, better enterprise results.

GenA slang is so nonsensical. Chopping something invariably makes it better. So instead let's use it to mean its worse.

XBox has 500 million MAU.

When all your friends are in am XBox Live Party, and you aren't, then you are missing out. Its an ecosystem with a huge network effect due to how Live works. Cross platform play doesnt support a Live party.

I doubt it will make a significant dent. XBox ecosystem is like Apple, hard to unseat, having better hardware isn't really a factor.

Mostly all the Maple MAGA crowd.

Canadians dont use X anymore in general. Was abandoned en-masse in early 2025.

PQC does not require QKD.

Quantum key exchange has nothing at all to do with quantum resistent algorithms (that replace RSA). Replacing any existing codepath with quantum resistent algorithms is not hard. It increases the computation load a very tiny amount. Its just a common sense thing to do.

I literally have done the switch myself as a vendor in like an hour of work including testing. Its not hard.

If you aren't the vendor, then yes but people need to press their vendors on it and dont accept excuses.

Switching to post-quantum encryption algorithms is cheap and easy. Its basic common sense. Calling it "snake oil" is borderline. Everyone agrees RSA will be broken its just a matter of when, and its a known fact that adversaries are hoarding high value data to decrypt it later.

If youre a doctor or dentist or simmilar professional in 2025 and don't allow your patients to manage their own appointments online, lets be frank - you're straight up flushing money down the toilet. These systems are cheap - even free - to deploy. Get with the times.

But hasn't the meaning evolved?

People say "my goose is cooked" to.mean they are in trouble - how did having s cooked goose lead to trouble? Wouldn't having an entire fully cooked goose in ancient Mesopotamia be a great thing?

Politics is not team sports.

Good policy is good policy regardless of the source.

Please for the love of all holy, teach your children this. The goal of politics is not supposed to be to "beat the other team no matter what", its supposed to be to improve quality of life for you and your neighbors.

Why does @cbcgem.bsky.social require me to log into it just to watch live TV that I pay for with my tax dollars?

If the Liberals were smart they would have pre-created an AI chatbot where you could go and ask questions about the budget. They could have even used it to showcase Cohere

If I was still a bachelor I am quite sure that my diet would consist entirely of costco rotisserie chickens, potatoes, rice, Dominos pizza, and a smattering of random fruit.

To me, the headshot on Wikipedia is best if it matches up the closest with whatever period the celebrity is known for. I dont see what value some of these headshots bring. They may be "up to date" but they look nothing at all like the actors did in their hey-day. I dont even recognize some of them

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US halloween candy is way less healthy anyway since it's all loaded with corn syrup.