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    OpenAI says court forcing it to save all ChatGPT logs is a privacy nightmare

    I'm not a lawyer, but where is the line between legitimate erasure of data that is no longer needed, and destruction of evidence? It seems like a prosecutor would try to say all data is possible evidence, but doesn't that hinge on a probable cause requirement (4th Amendment)? Or maybe this is...
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    CrowdStrike fixes start at “reboot up to 15 times” and get more complex from there

    I'm not in any way a security or developer expert. But it just occurred to me that security software companies should have a step in the middle if they use push updates to customer computers. Like a preview that happens with Browserstack. For Crowdstrike it could be one or a small set of...
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    Meta establishes four-foot “personal boundary” to deter VR groping

    This is another one of those examples of "If aliens saw humans doing this...." In other words, imagine another advanced civilization witnessing the kinds of problems we create like "VR groping" and then the kinds of solutions we have to try to come up with. It's like something out of a Douglas...
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    Gun waiting periods prevent hundreds of murders, according to 45-year study

    Rather than pose a question, could you answer one? Or, two, actually: 1. How do you define "arms" as the term is used in the Second Amendment? 2. Do you really believe that any law passed to regulate the bearing of the "arms" in 1 is an infringement of the Second Amendment? If your answer to 2...
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    Gun waiting periods prevent hundreds of murders, according to 45-year study

    Stephen Paddock had something like 50 guns. He's not "most gun owners" but the question is how best to find out about men like him before the damage is done.
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    Body cam footage clears cops in Cleveland shooting death

    I don't think the comment was trollistic. However, I can say that these particular cops were exceptional. Perhaps if the assailant had had a knife, they would have tried to disable him some other way, non-lethally. But given that the assailant had actually started shooting, I don't see how cops...
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    Ars readers react to Target’s POS snafu and mining Coinye coins

    "Target POS." Ha ha, that means two things.