These developments completely miss the point of LLMs. They were created to understand text written for humans, not to interact with specialized APIs. For specialized APIs, LLMs aren't needed.
> Next level of dystopia: cellular modems becoming so cheap that every TV, fridge and washing machine comes with one that connects it to the Internet whether you like it or not.
You can transmit arbitrary data in certain steps of the passport reading process. The possibility of disruption depends on whether the reading system has bugs exploitable by the incoming data.
I've seen crashes in PKCS#11 drivers when reading cards with malformed data. So, the possibility, in theory, is always there.
Reading story after story about big corporations abusing single/small group opensource developers, I think we need a license that, otherwise permissive, explicitly denies the use of the code for companies that took VC money or are worth a billion or more.
Absolutely not. Time Machine is just a SAMBA share with a nice UI on the client side. If the backup directory gets encrypted, all the versions of your files will also be encrypted.