On the other hand, even if the town council takes concerns seriously and denies permission to build, the companies doing the building will just sue and build them anyways[1].
> could things be better if we had an explicitly designed interoperability interface?
Yes, we could define a language-agnostic binary interoperability standard with it's own interface definition language, or IDL. Maybe call it something neutral like the component object model, or just COM[1]. :)
Most of those companies make huge margins by suckering large organizations into outrageous contracts. I don't see how AI moves the needle on this one way or the other.
> Traffic from certain targeted users was selectively redirected to attacker-controlled served malicious update manifests.
I'd be curious to know if there was any pattern as to which users were targeted, but the post doesn't go into any further detail except to say it was likely a Chinese state-sponsored group.
> Note that previous stable versions will not be suggested. The package will be completely ignored if its latest published version is within the cooldown period.
>Over the last two years, the state transportation agency has spent more than $62,000 on repairs related to guardrail theft in the region.
If the full cost of replacement is ~$31k/yr, the scrap value of the stolen guardrails is surely far less. Seems like there wouldn't be enough for even a single thief to make a living.
I don't think they offer anything unique. Forgejo[1] offers a similar platform.
[1] https://forgejo.org/