If io_uring requires root then this is a nothingburger.

Raymond Chen, Microsoft developer, uses the phrase "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway" to refer to such "exploits".

If you know how AI works... it's basically a computer recreating gameplay based on only videos fed into it of people playing... it's pretty impressive. I walked myself to the beginning of the level, hurt myself with an exploding barrel, and then to the end of the section (where it got stuck on a loading screen; I presume maybe that's the end of this tech demo) and only noticed the AI make one mistake (it fired a shot when I did not press F near the start). It's interesting, and clearly this is not an end result, but a stepping stone to bigger, more interesting things in the future.

I've done a lot of web dev work, you can detect CTRL fine, the problem is the hotkeys. CTRL+D adds a bookmark, CTRL+A selects all text on the page, highlighting it, CTRL+S saves a page to disk, opening a dialog to ask you where. And finally CTRL+W closes the browser tab. You can block CTRL+A but I am not sure if you could block any of the others, definitely not CTRL+W (not without an intrusive "are you sure you want to close" dialog)..

This person's point of view is fairly reasonable, he just didn't realize the judge would be so annoyed by his use of AI and didn't think he needed to disclose it or explain it ahead of time. Considering AI is such a hot button topic perhaps he should have anticipated such a reaction, but it's not an unreasonable mistake to make.

It was shown you can do the same thing with the Run dialog. Get the user to paste something in there where the end of what they pasted looks benign but the beginning has malicious commands. There's only so much you can do to protect users from themselves. In this case, I would also have to ask, how do the LNK files get on the user's machine in the first place? It seems to me that's probably the piece that prevents this from being considered a security issue. As Raymond Chen (Microsoft employee) sometimes quotes Douglas Adams: "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway." If a machine is already compromised, further "exploits" aren't really security issues at that point.

Microsoft will continue to offer security updates for Windows 10 through their paid support program. $30 per device for individuals for the next year of patches, $61 per device for businesses. It does sound like MS is not committing to more than a year, but it's another option.

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Likewise, Microsoft is under no obligation to continue supporting obsolete revisions of their software for a small subset of their users' whims.

Users are free to migrate to Ubuntu or other alternative OSs to ensure they don't run the risk of being stuck on an unpatched, insecure version of Windows.

Reminds me of the time a Coca Cola employee tried to sell company secrets to Pepsi. They ratted on him and the FBI arrested him.

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i am concerned how forcing a sale of Chrome would impact Chrome OS/Chromebooks and Android. In particular Chrome OS IS Chrome, so what happens when Google can no longer legally provide support and updates to brand new Chromebooks?

Yeah I don't know how these forced sales work, but you can be sure some of the bidders will fully intend push updates to all one billion installs to run ads or even worse crypto farmers or malware. Best case sale is probably to Microsoft who is invested in developing Chrome as well through Edge.

Of course that begs the question... if Google can't develop a web browser, why can Microsoft? Why can Apple?

Has a similar, but thankfully not as severe bug, where cheaters can trick other players' games into thinking BattleEye Anti-Cheat needs an update, so it boots them from the session and refuses to let them join another until they restart the game.

Of course there's another exploit to just crash the games of everyone in a session entirely which is the only thing that prevents this from being a big deal.

With my first cell phone I got a wrong number at 3 AM. Immediately set up my phone to be completely muted at night. If it's important they'll leave a voicemail and I can call them back the next day.

All the "problems" listed in the summary would occur regardless of which software you used. It's not Excel's fault, the constant IS human error. Not enough rows for results? Why were they using Excel for that, clearly it was an inappropriate use of Excel and they should have used something better purposed for tracking large amounts of data. Hidden cells? Someone hid them, Excel was only following directions. The date thing? Excel is just assuming people don't know how to properly use Excel . Which is understandable. Also you can override this behavior, which just shows the scientists do not know how to properly use Excel to do so.

I'm trying to draw parallels to the 90s when I was in school. I certainly would not have been allowed to have a landline phone in class. Even if I had a valid reason, anyone trying to get a hold of me could call the school office to do so. Likewise I could go to the school office if I had a legitimate reason for calling someone.

I'm a gamer so I do think about gaming on phones and it's clear if I brought the good ol' Game Boy brick out in class I would either have it confiscated or told to put it away. Anyone goofing off with a cell phone should be told the same.

Now there are some good uses for cell phones in class I am sure, but most of those can probably be covered by the students engaging with the teacher and the teacher using their own cell phone (for example, if a student has a question about the material whose answer is not covered by the textbook). The only thing I can think of that having a cell phone would clearly benefit students is in note taking. Personally I hated writing out notes on paper and I much prefer typing. But it's easy to see that it would be difficult to ensure students aren't abusing such a privilege to use their phone for other things. This could be solved by the school issuing laptops or other devices for the purpose of note taking etc, and also makes it possible for the school to lock them down to ensure students can't use them for distracting uses during class.

So tl;dr cell phones should be put away and turned off during class, but the schools should in turn issue students devices which can assist in learning such as through note taking.

They should not have phones DURING CLASS when they should be paying attention to the teacher. I don't think anyone would argue kids shouldn't have cell phones outside of school if their parents think it is OK.