> on April 7, 2026 … U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell convened an urgent, in-person meeting in Washington with the chief executives of [major US banks] to brief them directly on the cyber risks posed by [Anthropic’s] Mythos
Then a similar meeting happened with the Canadian Financial Sector Resiliency Group (i.e. the Bank of Canada, the Canadian government’s Department of Finance, the Canadian Deposit Insurance Corporation (Canada’s FDIC) and Canada’s six major banks).
Multiple central banks don’t usually do that right?
1. Fear that a major vulnerability is found in a commonly used software package that puts multiple major banks and e-commerce sites at risk
2. Fear that major vulnerabilities are found in multiple, widely used software packages that lead to market downturn as IT company stocks crash.
Probably others as well. Sounds more like a brief on worst-case scenarios that may happen and how they would effect the US banking sector. This is an important mid-year election this year too, so any big economic shock would be bad for the GOP.
That, or, not completely unlikely, he was shown all the vulnerabilities across all old software that banking, finance et al use daily and are unlikely to ever update. I am only half joking. There is a reason I think some people should stick to their areas of expertise.
I am personally of several minds about it. However, I am not an expert in the field. I can somewhat reliably opine on humans and human behavior in general, but I concede that is harder to consider the impact in aggregate.
How can money stolen from bank accounts even be offramped? It makes perfect sense to me how it works within crypto—transactions are not reversible. But how does this work in trad-fi, can't any money transferred just be sent back by the banks by editing the ledgers?
>can't any money transferred just be sent back by the banks by editing the ledgers?
No, traditional western finance isn't like a unified database, but rather many controlled by different parties in different countries. In theory you could write it back, but it's closer to bittorrent - if someone downloads a song from you then you can't just take it back.
Some stuff can be voided and there are clearing house mechanisms but if money moves fast enough across enough borders then getting it back is near impossible
Stealing is one possible problem (transactions out of country are really hard to claw back), but the major fear is probably stability. You won't like the consequences if a significant percentage of your countries banks are down for a few days...
I am asking about alternatives to LibreOffice for a reason (stated)
Pandoc library and Microsoft Markitdown -- that other helpful comments suggested -- seem like two options that might actually work in my case and I will give them a try. My asking here was fruitful.
Running python and using python libraries is allowed on our work pcs but not running arbitrary software and EXEs with or without an installer. I cannot override company security policy, and cannot simply "talk to" our infosec team and get them to allow me to install stuff. Hope this clarifies.
And potentially get fired for using unauthorised software on a corporate machine. Or find out tha USB storage is disabled (which is better than getting fired).
Ah yes, your workplace is under the control of the Microsoft Priesthood who have declared that the masses under their thumb will adhere to the law of Redmond, that no other religion will be tolerated. You need to find a better place to work.
Well they already chose Swift over Rust because they said:
> Swift is strictly better in OO support and C++ interop
So I guess from their point of view that’s why not rust.
I don’t have a horse in the race.
I was genuinely interested in why they didn’t even consider D given they already ruled out rust for those particular reasons, for which it seems D would fulfill nicely.
There’s a lot of interacting parts as to why many places have arrived where we are where cheap ghost writers (AI or not) can so easily negatively impact education. But it pretty much all comes down to costs.
FYI. iOS Safari already supports uBlock Origin Lite. iOS Firefox can do the same anytime but it already has some tracking and content blocking built in too.
As someone who has recently switched from Android to iOS, I can tell you uBlock Origin Lite on Safari on iOS is a poor man’s imitation of the real uBlock Origin on Firefox on Android.
Oh definitely! I know you’re just using the phrase and don’t imply otherwise, but to clarify the word “imitation”, uBO lite is not a fake imitation but actually an official thing from uBO and Raymond Hill: see https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home
How does it compare to 1Blocker? I use that in Safari and also a VPN when I'm away back to my home connection so it uses my NextDNS which also blocks a lot of in-app ads.
Yes, and so’s the available distractions and entertainment.
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