Today's AI technique of reinforcement learning has a fundamental insecurity: messing with the training data can create a back door which can be controlled by presenting a trigger in the incoming data.

Thus, a driverless car controlled by a reinforcement learning system could be mistrained to make it drive off the side of the road (which could be a cliff edge) when it sees a particular object on the other side of the road.

Apple designs its products so that they are hard to repair then cites this as a reason not to let anyone else do it.

Discussing right to repair as a matter of costs is missing the most important part of the issue: our control over technology. Apple computers today don't permit replacing the nonfree software. If someone gave me one, my quandary would be whether it is less wrong to sell it to a would-be user or give it away for recycling. To keep it and use it would not be an option.

US citizens: call on presidential candidates to cancel Real ID.

While I agree with the petition's concerns about immigrants, I am even more concerned about increased control over citizens.

Medical procedures tend to cost a lot more in the US than anywhere else. The US typical price is often several times as much.

The way the political system responds to right-wing extremists plays into their hands.