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LIVETech & ScienceEarly — be one of the first· 5d agocloses in 6d

When an AI coding assistant's security flaw exposes users' data, who is most to blame?

“We need a way to downvote bad questions like this. The question does not tell me what specific incident they are talking about nor does it present the key facts needed to have an informed opinion. If you get sick from eating a chicken sandwich who is responsible?” — Dense1
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LIVETech & ScienceEarly — be one of the first· 6d agocloses in 8d

Hacktivists published the identities of about 41,000 U.S. Homeland Security officials — can leaking government officials' identities ever be justified?

“Identifying government employees shouldn't be problematic with the rare exceptions of those working as undercover agents for, say, the CIA. Doxing them is another thing altogether.” — JE_Thomas
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LIVETech & ScienceEarly — be one of the first· 8d agocloses in 3d

After a startup broke into a leading AI company's internal systems, do you trust AI companies to keep sensitive data secure?

“No change. The security posture of every player in the tech industry for the last 20 years is that they will do the barest minimum on security and accept 0 liability. Pre-LLM we lived in a world where every week we hear about script kiddies breaking into this or that company and stealing data or encrypting it and holding the company hostage. AI has changed NOTHING here. To be fair I am picking on tech here. Corporate liability in general has been in free fall since the rise to dominance of neo-liberalism in the 1980s” — Dense1
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LIVETech & ScienceEarly — be one of the first· 9d agocloses in 4d

U.S. measles cases have more than doubled this year as outbreaks spread — who is most responsible?

“Vaccination is the single most important medical intervention ever devised. Life expectancy in this country was about 50 years a century ago, mostly because so many children died before the age of 15 from communicable diseases. Smallpox once killed millions. Polio, rubella (watch a video of an unvaccinated child with rubella some time), and yes, measles. I don't have the figures at hand but something like 1 in 20 children who contract measles will require hospitalization, 1 in 1,000 will die even with the best care medicine can offer, usually of encephalitis. Measles is no joke. There is all sorts of crap information circulating but this is you child's life. Be a responsible parent, learn the real facts, and get your kids vaccinated.” — JE_Thomas
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LIVETech & ScienceEarly — be one of the first· 9d agocloses in 3d

Should local communities be allowed to block new AI data centers?

“Of course. Let the data centers make the case to those they'll most directly impact. Two possible outcomes: 1) they'll make a deal that sufficiently benefits the local community or 2) they'll go elsewhere and avoid landing where they're not wanted.” — dagman
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