Was doing enterprise IoT consulting a while back. Asked why they needed to collect all the data? Nobody could answer. Someone finally said, so we can analyze usage patterns. I asked, "OK, but why?" Finally, someone said: "So we know when and where to advertise our sales."
Also did automotive consulting work. Connected vehicles. Asked the same questions. I'm not too worried about my car collecting a lot of data. It's so they can plan their next sales event.
Not that it's OK to violate privacy. Just saying, the reason may be way more banal than we think
For context, Samsung offered the workers a one-time $340K bonus. Workers refused, since their competitor SK-Hynix has annual employee profit-sharing. SK employees are getting $477K bonuses this year, and $900K next year. The 18 day strike will cost Samsung around $250K loss per employee. This likely won't be the last strike.
The disputes are over profits from HBM memory used in AI servers. Expect memory prices to keep going up.
In my old consulting days, a lot of work showed up when companies cut corners, laid people off they should not have, and generally made bad management decisions.
They would then show up, hat in hand, asking if things could be quickly patched and fixed.
99% of the time, the answer was that it needed to be rewritten. Often they would be forced to bring back some of the former employees since they had domain expertise, at multiple what they were paid before.
Haha, yes I actually did get those back then. Didn't work. Turned out the wiring between floors was really old and there was a lot of noise. Place was also a rental, so I couldn't drill big holes into floors and walls to draw ethernet.
The thing that ultimately solved it was mesh. It's worked pretty well since then and on to the new place where wiring is even worse. With mesh repeaters, we can even reach far corners of basement storage.
A bit ironic they offer a service to keep away AI bots from scanning websites, but say AI use is making them so productive they have to lay people off.
Trying to solve wifi dead spots across my then house. It didn't have wired conduits, so no ethernet between floors. Went through a series of range-extenders, multiple routers, everything from cheapo no-names, to TP-Links, Netgears, and Apple Airports. All sucked. Terrible reception in all the places that people hung out.
Then mesh routers showed up. Got a 3-pack and never looked back.
Edit: runner-up was an HP Inkjet printer. Every time someone needed a color print, one color ink was either out or dried out.
"OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift. Greg Brockman, the ChatGPT-maker's president, is helping fund Republicans' congressional fights:"
There's always been a short distance between SEO and manufactured opinion.