antigonemerlin
antigonemerlin t1_j4t8rbx wrote
Reply to comment by erosram in Industrial espionage: How China sneaks out America's technology secrets by sankscan
>the US citizen hid confidential files stolen from his employers in the binary code of a digital photograph of a sunset, which Mr Zheng then mailed to himself
That reads like something out of a spy novel. You'd think from xkcd that nobody actually uses advanced cryptography in real life, but here we are.
On a related note, China is amping up its recruiting efforts in Canada too. I had the good sense to stay as far away as possible from the very sad people who act as CCP mouthpieces, but when you see it in the real world...
You know the old saying that it's a recession when your neighbor loses their job? I don't know what the equivalent is for espionage, but this has just gotten real.
antigonemerlin t1_j14mnwn wrote
Reply to Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code that's more likely to be buggy / Computer scientists from Stanford University have found that programmers who accept help from AI tools like Github Copilot produce less secure code than those who fly solo. by Sorin61
Instead of terrible developers randomly copying code from StackOverflow with no idea of how it works, they are now copying from ChatGPT, which probably has millions of StackOverflow answers embedded in its training data.
The more things change...
antigonemerlin t1_j14m35u wrote
Reply to Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code that's more likely to be buggy / Computer scientists from Stanford University have found that programmers who accept help from AI tools like Github Copilot produce less secure code than those who fly solo. by Sorin61
Jokes on you, my code is already terrible.
antigonemerlin t1_j14lzdi wrote
Reply to comment by original_4degrees in Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code that's more likely to be buggy / Computer scientists from Stanford University have found that programmers who accept help from AI tools like Github Copilot produce less secure code than those who fly solo. by Sorin61
Except it doesn't even think, but produce a simulacrum of thinking that is designed to fool our heuristics without making the necessary deeper connections.
antigonemerlin t1_iw1wqbn wrote
Reply to TIL that the Persian King Xerxes was so enraged after a storm destroyed his bridges that he ordered the sea be given 300 whiplashes, and branded it with red-hot irons as the soldiers shouted at the water by LethalPoopstain
You know, this makes the prison commandant's realization make that much more sense in Lieutenant Kije, when they had to whip an invisible and formless prisoner and march him to Siberia (for context, Lieutenant Kije is a soldier created by a clerical error and used as a scapegoat).
"Oh, an affair of state" he said upon realizing why the prisoner being presented to him, well, wasn't there. Stuff like this must've happened all the time.
antigonemerlin t1_je7adf6 wrote
Reply to comment by sus-water in Reddit cracked down on revenge porn, creepshots with twofold spike in permabans by thawingSumTendies
As long as they are doing it, that means the pressure is partly working. Corporate investors only care because they know consumers care.