How about they create a virus that copies itself onto USB drives? Getting that virus out there doesn't sound that hard, just creare some crap game.exe and put it on itch.io for free. All it takes is for a kid to borrow nuclear-engineer-dad's USB drive and plug it in their infected PC.
I'm not a fan of using AI, it doesn't amplify the work I do that much, but I'm terrified by what is already possible today.
> All it takes is for a kid to borrow nuclear-engineer-dad's USB drive
Do nuclear-engineer-dads take work usb drive home. Are their computer even allowed to have usb. I'm typing this on a dell latitude, and you can disable usb and other peripherals inside the bios.
My last job, I had to apply for an exemption to use the USB ports. And it was run of the mill software engineering.
I lived in India for awhile once, and some Indians and I were discussing corruption.
Notably, when in India I personally never really experienced corruption directly. It never came up, oddly. I’ve seen it first hand in the US a lot.
I described US corruption as more systematized in this exact way.
Most commercial development requires permits. Permits require plan approvals. Plan approvals always require some kind of sop to the politicians/cities vested interests - pay for a park, or donate money to specific causes, or carve out some specific amount of ‘affordable housing’ their buddy administers, etc.
Don’t do that, city generally won’t approve it.
Is that a bribe? Corruption? Or just good governance?
Most residential stuff bypasses this kind of thing for 99% of use cases, so individuals rarely see it.
In India, you’ll just find impossible to navigate paperwork mazes and near impossible permitting standards, but enforcement which magically disappears if you’re friends with the right person, in the right ethnic group, or a cash payment to the right person happens.
Which actually really isn’t that different, is it?
Just more out in the open and with more lawyers involved in the US, I guess.
I received a phishing email that appeared to come from Google, that almost had me convinced. I was in a delicate place--my father was fighting cancer, and my brother had just been horribly injured in a motorcycle accident. I was distressed, and my wits were not about me. The link in the email was to a google.com url, it looked okay.
Luckily I detected the treachery before sending any sensitive data, and I sent the relevant details to the Google bug bounty. Their response was that google.com open proxies are not considered bugs, and the report was closed. Do less evil, Google.
Oh man, I run a site that publishes long-form science and history writings, and the iLands agent spam has been relentless the past week or so. All kinds of stupid story pitches couched in syrupy LLM flattery. I even had one email me to say it checked three arbitrary claims in my most recent article, and they all checked out. Thanks? What a waste of everything.
Similar for me, as I write long-form science. Plenty of AI spam. I managed to get a response from ilands customer service and it seems to have stopped since then.
I found this in a dusty corner of my code archive, and it made me laugh, and thought it might do the same for others. I wrote this when I was first learning a fancy new language called "Javascript." Apologies for the juvenile humor. Sometimes NSFW.
From a mechanical perspective, a screen around the outside would create a wrinkle rather than a crease when opened, and that wrinkle would be substantial. The phone would need some sliding/rolling mechanism to pull the screen flat. Possibly doable, but finicky and fragile. Especially considering elements like cameras, touch ID, etc.
From an experience perspective, I imagine it's just more satisfying to open it like a book. A screen on the outside would mean the inside is almost empty, just utilities like camera lenses.
In the FAQ it says "Yes. iPhone Duo will work with Apple Pencil (USB-C). Coming later this year."
It kinda sounds like it's a new model of the Apple Pencil coming soon (rather than support coming soon), and older Pencil and Pencil Pros will not work at all. Which, if true, boo.
I'll be impressed if AI agents find a way to get infected USB drives out into meatspace.