It's quite possible that permission was accidentally given somewhere in Google's platform when it was begging them to allow Gemini access "to improve your Google experience".
A phone pop-up, a notification in Gmail, Google Home, you name it, there's plenty of places in the Google ecosystem to put a prompt in that's worded in just the right way so that you think you're sharing a slice and Google's taking the whole pie.
According to OpenAI, the agents eventually chained together multiple vulnerabilities, escaped their testing environment, gained internet access, and attacked Hugging Face while attempting to complete the ExploitGym cybersecurity benchmark.
This is just gross incompetence on OpenAI's part. It took days for the LLM's to do what they did. Meanwhile, nobody's looking at network traffic or wonder what the LLM's are doing sucking down a bunch of tokens.
The article is quite fixated on how dialup was around in the early 2000s, and how Americans used dialup in the early 2000s with screeching modems, and how AOL turned off their dialup last year and only a thousand people were using dialup by then.
But there's no indication that this has anything to do with the application, except for maybe everyone used a popular means to connect to the Internet to use it when it was first built.
Now if someone maintained a bank of modems and people legitimately called them up and connected to the system like it was an ISP, and it was secure by way of that was the only way to access it as opposed to over the Internet, then sure, I can see that maybe it's time to work on that part.
Firstly, suspend might be an option compared to hibernation for your subsequent startups if you can suffer a slow startup the very first time.
Otherwise look up "Linux from scratch" .
A lot of boot time is decompressing and mounting initrd, loading modules there, mounting the root filesystem, jumping to that.
Build a kernel that has exactly the minimum modules needed for your system, skip initrd and jump straight to a root filesystem and call your init binary (it can be BusyBox even) do exactly what's needed there to get your network+graphics card up and running with a single shell script, done.
Also look at COW filesystems. Read only base with an overlay file for writes. Discard that file on each boot and you basically have a system that is always at the same state on startup.
Only when the orebody happens to be on the top of a mountain. Plenty of deep pits to haul up out of as well, but an overhead lines+pantograph setup allows you to use grid power for the hard bit and battery power for the easy bits on the level.
Mining is a 24/7 operation. There is no "over night" rest period. You need batteries that can charge during breaks for workers and usually they have 3 breaks in a 12 hour shift.
So 4 hours runtime, 20 minutes back to full charge is a pretty good fit.
Never mind the couple of megawatts needed to charge a 600kW battery in 1/3rd of an hour. 2 MW is enough to comfortably power ~100 homes. Have a fleet of these on charge and you're drawing the same amount of power as a small town.
Ok it occurs to me that people use this like they use a spellinng/grammar checker in a word processor.
Spellcheck:
They have an idea.
They type up the idea.
They run spellcheck and it churns through their document and it fixes mistakes that it can see.
They send it to someone for review.
LLM coding:
They have an idea.
They type up the idea.
LLM churns on the idea and spits out a solution-of-sorts.
They send it to someone for review.
Regardless of other opinions of it, they see it as a tool that helps take the effort out of getting ideas into reality.
Edit:
Oh wait, this is c/programming. Fuck. Ok, give me 5 minutes for me to sharpen my pitchfork and come up with something that matches the groupthink, I'll be right back.
CXMT will sell the chips to memory manufacturers in China for "domestic use only" at near cost price as directed by the CCP.
Those manufacturers will construct consumer ram modules and sell them locally, and there will be grey market exports to other countries for ridiculously low prices compared to everyone else.
This way the CCP props up domestic supply, and chips away at foreign manufacturer market share by turning a blind eye to the massive grey market export of RAM.
No, no, no, you don't understand, that doesn't happen in the US.
What will happen is that they'll get a trillion dollar bailout, a yuuuuge amount of protectionary tarrifs on overseas competitors and then some other company will scoop them up with no obligations.
And then - and this is very important - maximum profit will be extracted from consumers, who end up being measurably worse off.
It's the place to be if you want to buy an ebike or electric scooter from the, uh, legitimate owner, that for some reason just happens to be missing its charger.
I'm quite sick of my browsers auto-updating and adding stuff I don't need.
I'm pretty much at the point where I'm going to turn browser updates off. It's perfectly functional for me as is, and if I ever hear of some crippling browser security issue I'll consider its impact myself before thinking about updating.
Wow, Australia really fell for the whole "Electric Motors" leftist conspiracy didn't they?
Australians aren't stupid. If EVs and hybrids have reached a price/performance/practicality point where it makes sense to jump to them, then they will.
They don't give a crap about people who carry on about woke leftist conspiracy agendas or whatever, especially when the bulk of those people come from the country that thought that crippling oil production in the Middle East was a good idea.
I did some work for a company that owned a /16 public IP range and used it on their internal network. I had to put a safety rated control system on it that ran mining machines that weighed 60 tons and cost a couple of million bucks each.
They gave me a subnet range for the system that was clearly non-private and I was like, "ummmmm, is that on the Internet?"
Apparently it wasn't routed to the rest of the Internet but it always felt like it was one misconfigured router away from disaster.
It's quite possible that permission was accidentally given somewhere in Google's platform when it was begging them to allow Gemini access "to improve your Google experience".
A phone pop-up, a notification in Gmail, Google Home, you name it, there's plenty of places in the Google ecosystem to put a prompt in that's worded in just the right way so that you think you're sharing a slice and Google's taking the whole pie.