It’s the Russians that hacked his iPhone:

“The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone”

https://www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-kushner-hacked-phone-...

True, the original hack was by the Russians, but they are known adversaries. The surprising aspect was the Dutch, supposed US allies, found that and continued using it for their own intelligence, and TFA is so nonchalant about it! I would have expected some exposition on what made them take this route instead of say, disclosing to US intelligence and earning some brownie points.

Are Russia really the adversary? The US just bought Diesel fuel from them. While they have sanctions on them.

Unfortunately the days of the US being an ally of the Netherlands is over.

Thought that’s more about the art, voice and music. The more artistic side of things.

There is a big range of understanding what "AI" even is, even among the most fervent haters. Some people will claim "Any visible AI is bad AI", others will claim "Gen AI is the job stealing one, others are OK" and some will direct their hate towards LLMs, but only running on other's servers.

I don't think you can say clearly there is a one "community" collectively "hating" the same thing here, it's just a lot of people with a lot of different strengths and directions of dislike basically.

I just heard the giantbomb guys describe how to block Claude code on Github so you don't have to play any filthy AI helped decompilations. It's a new kind of social benchmark among some people to be the most against AI.

I don’t like calling ppl stupid but it was a benchmark of “stupidity” if I ever seen one.

Why? Because people with well developed frontal cortex predicted the increase in capabilities easily while people with underdeveloped frontal cortex couldn’t extrapolate today’s improving slop to tomorrow competence.

Hence I have learned a lot about my fellow humans of many political tribes and how the distribution of those more “naturally talented at predicting patterns” look.

I stopped paying heed to certain kind of emotional, outcry driven people that thrive on your attention and take morality as a hostage.

For they aren’t what they want to appear to be usually.

If we all stopped giving them our time they would dry up and wither without audience and the world would be a more pleasant place.

I think that's a bit mean to the people (in my experience most people) who didn't and still don't see it. What's happening right now is really akin to magic. We're throwing incantations at sand and it's doing work for us. The rate of change is such that nobody can keep up with it all, even the people like me who use it daily.

What people DO see is having to use or be monitored by ABYSMAL types of AI at work or when they try to call x company for support or whatever. The outcry against data centers when the same people building them were moaning about how electric vehicles would crash our electric grid completely is quite justified. As is the outcry about creative and intellectual theft. Add deepfakes, scams, spam, misinformation, etc. and the negative externalities of AI for most people seem to far outweigh the "benefits". And everything beneficial seems to just be training the AI to do your job in disguise. Add in that the billionaires behind most of this tech come off as completely out of touch with the real world and I totally see the perspective of "screw AI and everything it stands for" even if I don't share it myself.

I think you are too lenient. Everyone has the same access to the information nowadays. Everyone can ask, even an LLM, about how it works, what does this and this mean.

There are no excuses in this day and age. I am also sometimes lazy but I never pat myself on the back for it.

Why would I hold other people to lower standards than myself? I think that, would be offensive.

I refuse to treat other people as less than myself. If I can investigate this topic without experience or phd then I assume anyone can obtain such knowledge before unleashing scathing critique.

Do not defend people who hate on things without due diligence and who generally are quick to hate.

My guess is there's a whole plethora of important information you're ignorant about that you could just look up and have full knowledge of if you cared. But nobody has time to care about everything. People only have so much time in a day. After 8 hours of working and 2 hours commuting because nobody can afford to live in a city anymore people just want to eat dinner, relax for a bit, and go to bed. Maybe spend time with their kids instead of sitting around reading about how AI is going to make them obsolete.

Example I would give is I'm totally ignorant of local politics. I just don't have any time at all to parse it, and I probably wouldn't bother even if I were magically given the time. There's people out there that would be just as upset at me as you are at people ignorant about AI. And it's not that I'm lesser than the person focused on local politics, I just spend my time elsewhere.

I think expecting understanding of the nuance of code vs art out of the gaming community might be asking a little too much.

Not really? It happens in code too, just most the time its sight unseen unless a team explicitly mentions it.

I mean we've even been seeing gamer outrage over LLMs being used in decompilation projects. How "decomps have lost their soul" now that it doesnt take a small team several years.

McLaren had this with the Speedtail and all the owners hated it. Main problem being you need to park the car in a very specific spot.

There’s always some claiming this after any iOS/MacOS update only for it to quietly disappear until the next upgrade.

My experience with devices with very small batteries is that they lose capacity (below 80%) quickly after a couple of years of daily use. By the time you need the ring resized, the battery might be worn out anyway.

It’s in reality a disposable product unfortunately, unlike a wedding band.

Well there’s UBlock for Safari, yeah it’s not UBlock Origin but it’s not that nothing is available. https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...

Also Brave supports per site JavaScript blocking on iOS.

So there’s more privacy tools available than you think/assume.

“The breaks indicate a very large area of impact and devastation,” she says. “It’s likely the individual was killed by a siege engine.”

So it’s likely, which means it’s not confirmed as the headline implies.

I don't get the nitpicking here. Scientifically correct, since circumstantial. Meteor is also possible, but very unlikely.

The probability regimes in which science is dealing often only leave marginal room for alternative explanations.

People who haven't spent much time around scientists or watched them work often have a mistaken idea of just how precise the work is. Even high precision work can be found later to be wrong! That's just the system working as designed. But impugning scientists for just doing their jobs is really a bad smell, and unfortunately on this webforum it happens way too much.

At least it gives a legal framework for prosecution.

Very cool, but video looks accelerated and something about the robot shading/lighting gives it a rendered feel.

Russia has been moving to more use of jet drones, as Ukraine is having a lot of success with these interceptors. Hope they’ll innovate their way to a new inceptor for those, to protect their civilian infrastructure.