NaibofTabr

If the smugglers are even marginally competent they won’t use their real personal information for the orders, nor the same fake information from one order to the next.

But it’s called an “agent”! Of course it has agency!

“Vhen rockets go up, who cares vhere zey come down? Zat’s not my department!”

Sarcasm aside, you can buy these in dev kits on MicroCenter:

microcenter.com/…/nvidia-jetson-orin-nano-super-d…

Which means the components are pretty widely available. I’m not sure how you’d prevent someone from ordering a bunch to an in-between country and then shipping them on to Russia after.

Valve shares delivery-related information with CEVA so that it can ship Steam hardware in Europe, and it appears that this personal data is what was stolen. This personally identifiable information (PII) may include your name, address, country, phone number, email address, and the details of the products you ordered. CEVA stores customer data for up to 90 days after an order is assigned to them, which means that the data for lots of customers may have been leaked. Fortunately, payment information, Steam account details, authentication codes, and more are not stored at CEVA.

The leak was not from Valve but from the shipping company used to distribute their hardware in Europe. Your Steam account details are not leaked, but any information related to shipping probably is.

Following this breach and the subsequent exfiltration of data, Valve has asked customers to be wary of contact attempts from fraudulent entities who have taken hold of your leaked information and may use it to prove that they are genuine. Customers do not need to change their passwords, but they definitely should not share their account details with any person identifying them as a courier service for your hardware.

I mean… did you miss all the reporting on Salt Typhoon and Volt Typhoon?

AI

So… what you’re saying is that using a smartphone is equivalent to being in the airport security line. That is a disturbing point of view.

School’s out for the rest of the day, kids. The teacher ran out of tokens.

How long do you figure before they get the Flock AI declared a police officer, therefore any damage to an AI-enabled device counts as assaulting an officer?

Sure, but there’s no reason they couldn’t be built into an enclosure that looks like other security cameras.

Alternatively, you just build a little box that has that extra stuff and plugs into a normal security camera, and you bury the box in the ground or put it inside a locked utility cabinet or something.

The next stage of this is going to be models of Flock cameras that look like other common security cameras, or a Flock module that plugs into existing security cameras and adds them to the network.

I mean making the machines to make chips and making a factory that uses said machines are two different things.

True.

There are already factories in China making DDR5 and DDR4 ram now days.

Are they actually fabricating the silicon, or just packaging it?

No slave labor needed. All you need is a modern, advanced, high skill, responsive industrial base which China has.

Sure, like the people working at Foxconn:

truthout.org/…/a-suicide-survivor-the-life-of-a-c…

Not likely. It doesn’t matter how much slave labor you throw at it, getting a new fabrication machine to the necessary precision to make modern chips requires a lot of time.

It is way too late to be starting a new chip fab for it to be relevant to the current market. If they are producing reliable chips 5 years from now that’ll be fast.

You really need to see just how bad these things are:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJlxkLawZrw

It’s a slightly animatronic mannequin. They’re so garbage. This is what they brought to CES to show off, like they’re proud of it. Tickle Me Elmo was more life-like.

He’s basically admitting that Meta’s own models aren’t competitive with any of the other major tech companies, so he wants to be able to use alternatives.

Yeah no, I get the distinct impression that this is investor bait. The demo models are just plausible enough to draw some funding (“this one’s just the prototype! next version will be better with your money! swearsies!”). It’s not intended to be useful, it’s intended to get VC buy-in. I think it’s vaporware.

I mean, my first complaint would be that this is essentially a surveillance platform, basically Flock in a human-shaped shell. Also it’s likely that it works essentially like Waymo, where there is remote human oversight to handle situations that are beyond the capabilities of the automation. That means that beyond just video, audio, and whatever else being sent to some corporate servers, there’s potentially a human in another country watching through those eyes in real-time. Even if those remote employees are well-intentioned and trustworthy, how secure is the access to that? How much effort is there to prevent someone else from breaking into the stream?

My second complaint is just that this appears less advanced than Disney animatronics from the 80s. I haven’t seen any evidence that these things can walk, they all appear to be standing still. It’s basically a bigger Tickle-Me Elmo, with a webcam.

What exactly was a classroom supposed to do with an anamatronic mannequin anyway? What practical benefit was this thing supposed to have in an education setting?

yikes

People invest money in this? I should start a robotics company…

The best time to build a chip fab is 10 years ago. The second best time is right now.