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    Chatbot-powered toys rebuked for discussing sexual, dangerous topics with kids

    I appreciate Ars covering this without the bizarre Red Scare angle other outlets pushed.
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    Broadcom killing VMware partner program could disrupt thousands of businesses

    I am not sure Red Hat of all places is where to go right now for anyone fleeing "bought by a big company and then shit the bed" - considering the bridges they've been burning lately with their attempts to strangle downstream distros after the IBM acquisition...
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    COVID-19 vaccinations are sparking 14% more matches on OkCupid

    Great to hear our ruling class's open contempt and mocking of anyone using a dating app/website.
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    Ars Technica’s 2021 Deathwatch—2020 was just the beginning

    Or a Section 230 repeal...
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    Cisco security breach hits corporate servers that ran unpatched software

    I would think Cisco of all places should have a firewall or two to put new systems behind. Also your daemons don't have to listen to the Internet before they've been patched. (And Salt in particular doesn't have to listen to the Internet period.) I can understand people overlooking stuff like...
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    Cisco security breach hits corporate servers that ran unpatched software

    SaltStack builds and provides the packages in its own repos for most (if not all) platforms.
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    Twitter’s first fact-check on President Trump calls out “false claims”

    Ehh, maybe I don't understand the process well enough. It seems anything that makes it hard to interfere with would just make it equally harder to correct if it goes rogue. You've just added a layer of obfuscation to the process and another place for bias to enter the system It just looks like...
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    Twitter’s first fact-check on President Trump calls out “false claims”

    Politics isn't a game, separate from the real world. There is no person or group "at arms length of the government."
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    IT Security Threats that are not really a Threat...

    Have to say that over the years, the majority of things I thought were these turned out just to be something I didn't know enough about, or didn't think enough about downstream effects of. So I'm very skeptical of thinking of anything as being in this category nowadays - unless it's an...
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    Butt shot shows promise as male birth control—but many side effects, too

    "Clickbait" implies something misleading. A higher traffic headline isn't necessarily clickbait.
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    Smartphone reseller cheated customers out of millions, Feds say

    I don't understand. Are you implying all Russians are scam artists, or that all scam artists are Russian?
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    DEA has kratom users holding their breath, lawmakers write more letters

    "Just" switching from a heroin addiction to a kratom addiction is kind of a big deal, not some "oh well technically they're still addicted" throwaway. It's like switching from smoking tobacco to chewing gum.
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    Shiny Happy Arsians Playing Eve 4: Only way to win, is not to play!

    People being confidently wrong about eve mechanics prepared me for the workplace better than anything in my college education.
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    Shiny Happy Arsians Playing Eve 4: Only way to win, is not to play!

    We shot down a POS with AHACs. It was a :facepalm: even before the maneuver :)
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    FTC says Warner Bros. paid YouTubers to promote Shadow of Mordor

    They consider it deceptive advertising as it is a paid endorsement disguised as actual content. Looks like it counts as a violation of the FTC Act- the details are in the PDF linked in the Ars article and the FTC press release. My understanding is that the FTC Act broadly authorizes the FTC to...
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    YouTubers under fire for promoting their own CS:GO gambling site in videos

    In the US, it's the FTC. Criminal penalties appear to be limited to, at most, "orders requiring the defendants in the case to give up money they received from their violations." https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/busines ... are-asking I'm not sure if this is the only applicable regulation, or if...
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    Azure Information Protection makes warding off data leaks easier

    You mean the "pro-on-topic discussion" voting?
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    No Man’s Sky escapes trademark threat from Sky broadcasting

    Well, Hello Games is a British company. Seems like that would be rather silly. What I want to know is why was this apparently a secret until it was resolved?
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    Digging into the dev documentation for APFS, Apple’s new file system

    I just want to note that in Windows 10 you can finally rename "FileName" to "filename" using the normal rename dialog without bouncing through a temporary filename.
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    Digging into the dev documentation for APFS, Apple’s new file system

    The speedups are not trivial when sorting/searching large data sets, they are significant. But I don't imagine it makes much of a difference in normal file/directory names on modern hardware due to how few items you're dealing with (I'd be happy to be corrected by someone if your experience...