• Obelix@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    How would something like that even work? Create a driver that phones home is somehow able to figure out the location of the computer by some method that is not easily defeated with a VPN? Even a GPS chip on the cards won’t work in a datacenter rack

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      1 day ago

      It’s perfectly simple really. They’ll add a small AI module designed to detect Chinese language being spoken, levels of air pollution, and the scent of Chinese food, which will detonate an appropriately-sized self-destruct charge when a certain threshold is reached.

      Nvidia products are just the start. Cars, sneakers, Coca-Cola — eventually every consumer product made in the USA will come with one. They’re just working out how to stop them accidentally detonating in certain parts of San Francisco and New York.