Honestly, if an attacker has shell access you’re toast regardless. I know you shouldn’t be able to escalate privileges, but better to never let them on the machine.

Most security in industry only holds because employees have no interest in attacking, or knowledge how to attack, their employer.

Don’t need specifically SU by my understanding. Just any suid executable.

Often what they want is just plain old automation of basic tasks, but they’ve been told by “Big Government Contractors Corporation” that AI will do that for them. Of course, BGCC has an AI division happy to help them.

No cyber security professional worth anything will stand there and say this is a good solution “for the children”. They all know it’s a bullshit solution to a problem of education. Therefore the only people that will bid for the work will be grifters.

Governments tend to just defer to “industry experts”, which basically means 'big dumb idiot corporation that verifies their robustness via a human centipede of paid consultants

“Industry experts” that are trying to stay on the money train of government contracts, because they know that they’re not going to be held accountable when the shit hits the fan.

Best thing we could do to kerb government spending would be removing contractors from previous failed projects from the bidding process.

Oh they did lie, but not about America. They lied about Iran.

Well… Except he didn’t did he. Defence department spending has a bunch of black holes to funnel money into.

He could have paid you $40B for that advice and still be better off.

That’s a very good question. How do you spend $80billion?

Zuckerberg makes Brewster look like an amateur.

No, quite the opposite. Models are largely a mass of random looking numbers that can’t be compressed losslessly.

Hp is doing laptop rental for non-commercial customers only.

I work in the semiconductor industry, but have little to do with physical aspects.

Ok. I’m not familiar with them. I was just relaying my impression from the start of the article.

Article is about research by IMEC (a chip packaging company) into dealing with the heat problems encountered with stacked dies such as HBM memories with a GPU.

You have to get a third of the way in before they really get to the topic.

Well I don’t think they’re growing. Depending on the sector all the AI data scanning is a concern for a number of companies. I’ve seen a lot of European discussions about getting away from US cloud services too.

If they lose all the money they have pumped into AI, then they will be relying on Windows and Office.

Good for them that both of those are currently doing fine.

It’s a big matrix multiplier that is tailored for machine learning model evaluation (not training). Often they are low precision as that’s all you need for model evaluation (or “inference”).

Think of it as a much less useful GPU because it won’t do graphics.

Is it able to fly in high winds?

This was 2005. It’s not new.

I remember declining a job offer (I had the contract to sign) long ago because one of the people I’d nominated as a reference contacted me and said “I legally can’t answer the questions they’ve asked about you”. Turns out their pro-forma reference questionnaire asked things like “Is this person punctual?”, “what issues has this person had?”. General dirt digging

If anybody were to answer that and the job offer got revoked, I could take that person to court for libel. Companies should know better than to ask anything but factual details in a reference.

So I turned it down stating that if they were so unprofessional around recruitment I wouldn’t trust them to be a good professional employer if I worked for them.