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Not mentioned = you knew the answer already and chances are you're already not at risk 🤣

I'd pay to have it respond in Black Adder-esque witty sarcasm. Do I hear the words "I have a cunning plan" marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this query...

AI: For when 90% accuracy is good enough

Battle of Los Angeles II

I routinely turn the autonomous braking off in my BMW. Sadly the option doesn't exist to keep "Off" as the default. If I don't, every time I approach the guard rail at the top of my street, the car shrieks in panic. Every time I drive down the following narrow road, the car goes into...

It makes sense these are used in the military. When thrown, these things make an absolutely lethal close quarters weapon :D

Wanted to buy: Any functional car from 1983.

All due respect to Ars T, which I do love and find thorough and reliable for the most part, I've seen this before with their malware related articles. The depth of detail is fascinating but for many of us, the first thing we'd like to know is "What is the basic scope of the vulnerable systems?"...

The ideal solution is to build a wall around Byron Bay and sell it to.. well. Anyone who'll take it

I always assumed icons served two purposes; UI density and a huge reduction in the need for language localisation. Someone mentioned car dashboards (and all controls) and they're the same - if you make one with icons, you're done for all markets. I'd 100% prefer text in English, but it...

Oh brother, I thought I was the only one. I hate having to mouse over icons to wait for a tool-tip to tell me wtf it does. I might learn them for my most often-used apps, but every app? I absolutely wish there was an option to give me text everywhere. It's one of the reasons I migrated away...

At IBM (worked there 16y) we had a painful and bureaucratic system for auditing the security of environments, known as GSD331. It worked, on all the kit we knew about. Exceptions to standards were logged and remediated or approved. The gap was systems we didn't know about, and in a giant org...

Two asides: Down Under, amongst my millennial friends, Telegram messenger rules supreme regardless of platform. Go figure. Also, are there any Ars readers who still don't know X was formally known as Twitter? On the actual topic, as an end user, messaging should just work. This stuff has to...

My revolutionary idea is on hold pending the outcome of this case. I want to market a self-aiming, self-firing hunting rifle. The owner will be required to look down the sight at all times and stop the rifle if what it thinks is a deer, isn't, and it's still the responsibility of the owner if...

Hands up if you literally read that in CWV. puts up hand

Saved by the placebo effect then =)

Wiki-me-dia (i.e. just stuff I know) says this is an industry standard term for how crap a car sounds and feels. Tons of cash goes into making cars quiet and smooth. It's often just referred to as NVH.

I worked for a DECpc reseller in the '90s. Such beautiful machines! Engineered up the wazoo, well presented, you knew the thing on your desk was a premium product. Unfortunately it was the time of the small-run, low volume, built-from-parts PCs where every little shop could churn out...

Product flaws I can handle, they happen, they get patched.. but this sort of delay and vague response? Puts a line through SONOS on my shopping list

1989, wrote a BBS and ran a FidoNet node (3:772/90)! Parents had to rescue me from an $1,100 phone bill the first month due to calling nodes around the world. By 1991, in Auckland, we were paying $10/Mb (yes Mb) for international Internet traffic and $5 for national traffic, as if there was any...