Xbox has all of microsoft behind it, and they linked xbox accounts with microsoft accounts many years ago, allowing them to leverage all the security tools they're making for themselves and corporate customers of Azure/Entra. They also effectively have infinite money.
Banks, surprisingly, do not. They also are often using third party systems under the hood for things like online access to your account. Those third parties tend to have less money than a bank.
Laws can't keep up with tech developments in security, and getting all your ducks in a row to be legally covered in the finance industry is a fucking nightmare.
Lastly, banks (and companies) don't stay afloat by spending money on things that aren't necessary. Until it shows a significant impact through a breach or in customers leaving specifically for the reason of lackluster MFA options, and until that impact is easily communicated to the executives, trying to fight for some budget to improve shit is an uphill battle.
I am so so glad that the closest my work gets to customers, legal, or anything regulatory is data rentention policies.
Christ, I would think that the last thing you'd want to be doing on acid is browsing the internet where you can't be sure of what exactly you'll scroll across.
Maybe I'm vitally misunderstanding acid trips, but where's your trip guide/designated driver/sober buddy? Where's your pre-prepped/vetted media to keep you from a bad experience?
Unfortunately, that isn't what a large proponent of right wingers see themselves as believing. It may be the end result of the policies they support, but very few people believe such obviously flawed/misanthropic things directly.
Can'y speak for every TV, but some of them should support downloading the firmware update from the manufacturer, tossing it on a USB stick, and plugging the USB into the TV to update.
It made another insurance company walk back terms that were going to set a limit on the amount of time surgeries could take or they wouldn't cover them. The company announced it the morning after and walked it back that afternoon.
I'm not sure it justifies things, or the cost this change came at, but it is prettt direct evidence of an insurance company thinking twice
Since AI content is usually clearly identified as such here, it is very easily blocked.
A social media site that you are not the admin or mod of is definitively not the appropriate place for you to attempt to enforce your opinions of what content is acceptable or not.
Downvote, block, and move on. Time is finite, and you are wasting it trying to police what other people should and shouldn't post in a space where you have no authority.
Edit: To be clear, I agree about the dangers of AI. You might enjoy some of the discussions in Tech Takes on the awful.systems instance.
This is also why there was such coordinated effort to shut down wikileaks, or to at least stall out the cultural movement that was building behind it.
If you give people a methodology to whistleblow that at least on paper allows them to stay anonymous and avoid putting their life/livelyhood/survival in jeapordy, that removes one of the biggest disincentives.
It was stupidly warm a day or two after Christmas here, and a neighborhood kid got some sort of drone that follows them around. I legitimately thought someone was running an electric weedeater.
I shudder to imagine what the old plan for Amazon delivery drones would have sounded like. You know that fancy gated communities would ban them for noise pollution or something.
I haven't been watching Second Wind since all the drama that Frost unearthed when he left, so I don't know if this is a trend with Yahtzee lately, but did this seem incredibly short to anyone else?
I could have sworn that he usually went into more detail in these year end best/worst/blandest videos. This one barely had a single throwaway joke for each entry.
Returned to Elite Dangerous after an almost two year break. Just casually space trucking to grind out some credits while watching youtube. Once I get enough to outfit one or two new ships, I plan to finally give exploration/exobiology a try, and check out the changes to the engineering grind.
When I last played, I was kind of at the end of what I'd consider "early game", but there are a decent amount of learning cliffs. Should probably practice some of the other low level content again before moving on.
One of my cousins asked for the game for Christmas and I picked it up on sale for him, so I'm hoping we can play some together at some point.
Considering there have been a handful of "AI" products that really were just "remote controlled/monitored by Indian workers"... (see Amazon automaic grocery store, college campus meal delivery drones)
India becomes a world power when everyone finds out that all the AI controlled drones are really just a bunch of Indian guys teleworking.
They have been "working" on Half Life 3 for over a decade, with many promising leads found through datamining things left in other source games over that time. There is almost always absurd levels of speculation over the smallest crumbs of datamined material.
The recent documentary they released had what was effectively a post-mortem section where they talked about why Episode 3/Half Life 3 never came out.
I can see why you might think that their new controller and headset might be enough of a game changer that they feel like making 3 is worth it again, but the overall feeling I've gotten from them from following all of this closely since the pre-Orange Box days is that: 3 isn't happening due to the immense pressure and expectations that have built up over the many years people have been waiting. Maybe we get Alyx 2 or some other spin off, but the only thing they'd accomplish with 3 at this point is disappointing a wide variety of people with countless conflicting expectations.
At the very least you also have to contend with "Valve Time". What would take a normal studio a year takes them four due to their obsession with polishing everything. Team Fortress 2 started development in 1998 and didn't release for 9 years.
Don't get me wrong, I'm excited to see where they go next, and I hope this means more than a voice actor sending a fun new years message. But you need to understand that "definitive evidence" of 3 coming based off datamined material has been floating around for 15+ years now.
If you can, I highly suggest buying a pack of cheap cable clips and velcro ties off amazon and trying to route your cables nicely/out the way.
My little one is considerably less furry and requires regular diaper changes, but having the cables out of the way and running more tightly against things has really helped keep accidents from happening due to curious hands.
Xbox has all of microsoft behind it, and they linked xbox accounts with microsoft accounts many years ago, allowing them to leverage all the security tools they're making for themselves and corporate customers of Azure/Entra. They also effectively have infinite money.
Banks, surprisingly, do not. They also are often using third party systems under the hood for things like online access to your account. Those third parties tend to have less money than a bank.
Laws can't keep up with tech developments in security, and getting all your ducks in a row to be legally covered in the finance industry is a fucking nightmare.
Lastly, banks (and companies) don't stay afloat by spending money on things that aren't necessary. Until it shows a significant impact through a breach or in customers leaving specifically for the reason of lackluster MFA options, and until that impact is easily communicated to the executives, trying to fight for some budget to improve shit is an uphill battle.
I am so so glad that the closest my work gets to customers, legal, or anything regulatory is data rentention policies.