They seem particularly unreliable when asked to tell the difference between a headmaster and a fundamental rule.

Translation: we don't currently have a quantum algorithm for reversing hashes. But there was a time, not that long ago, when we didn't have a quantum algo for factorization either. However, I don't expect to see a quantum algo for hash reversion any time soon, because the whole problem of reversing hashes is pretty complex.

Factorization as a classical problem is essentially trivial, in that there are very simple classical algorithms for it. They just take a lot of time to run. But coming up with an efficient quantum algorithm was not trivial, and the algorithm itself isn't so simple. So you can estimate that a quantum version of any algorithm is a lot more complex than the classical counterpart.

I've only taken fairly general master's level courses in quantum information and regular cryptography, but I agree with this overall sentiment. My math professors used to say that no asymmetric encryption scheme has been proved unbreakable; we only know if they haven't been broken so far. Assuming something is unbreakable is like saying Fermat's last theorem is unprovable — until one day it's proved. So to me "post quantum cryptography" is essentially a buzzword.

Interestingly, Finnish government was planning to move election systems to Amazon's cloud, but the plan was just recently cancelled due to public outcry. https://www.heise.de/en/news/F...

Apple released the original iPod on November 10, 2001, so a bit after “the late 90s”

Topography, schmopography. Just load the oil onto trucks, the same way Trump suggested working around the Hormuz strait situation.

Balloons are powered by hot air. What better way to generate it than a room full of AI-enhanced suits?

Seriously, though, the story of Banksy being Robin Gunningham has been out for years, so that part is nothing new.

Let's see... there is a *much* lower than 1 in 4,200 chance of my toy drone injuring anyone or damaging anyone's property but it's controlled by very strict regulations that are supposed to be their for the public's safety and hugely constrain where and when I can fly it.

Someone explain how this works.

bothers me.

There is an unexplained phenomena and this "dark matter" and "dark energy" is just a made up explanation for that. There is no evidence it exists. No experiments we've done show that it exists and as far as I know there aren't even any proposed experiments that just need funding that are likely to show it exists.

Saying a galaxy is 99.9% something that we have no clue if even exists seems insane.

It's like string theory. Just made up stuff that is just tuned as needed to match measurements. It's like a god of the gaps - it's constantly adjusted to match experimental data.

RIAA should be after all the people who illegally distribute music to others with their speakers.

Make Lynx Great Again!!!!!

You kids and your graphical browsers... bah!

And while you're at it, get off my lawn!

Curious what their aiming point is for game mods.

I can see google/apple having a problem with "free" apps that people want to host and have installed from official app stores and then only allow behind the scenes payment where google/apple don't get a cut.

Presumably google/apple will have a rule for this where you're charged a certain amount for pushing new versions (which require validation) and per-install costs that would be offset by payment %'s that those companies take.

And then hopefully they're still good for truly free apps.

Europe's first lithium mine just opened in Finland a couple of weeks ago.