.... and that would seem to indicate that IPv6 is currently handling around half of Internet traffic.

Question is, is it actually making it out on the Internet or just being used to tunnel IPv4 through it?

It's a serious question because LTE and 5G networks only handle IPv6 data - all data packets are IPv6. IPv4 traffic must be tunnelled through the mobile IPv6 network. (This is because obviously there are too many mobile devices). It's why CGNAT exists - to provide the IPv4 gateway to the Internet from the IPv6 only LTE and 5G networks

So yes, technically IPv6 is used for your cellphone data traffic, but it's just carrying IPv4 inside of it.

Or think of it this way, OpenAI had revenues of around $10B. But you already saw spending commitments of $100B+. And countless billions have been sunk into OpenAI by people who are expecting to 10x their investment

Even the most generous estimates don't have OpenAI making more than $50B in revenue by 2030, and they'll have to make more huge investments so it's still in the negative.

At the same time, those datacenter processors are extremely perishable in that in a few years what you have now is worthless.

It's a bubble that's going to pop. We'll still have AI - the dot-com bubble popped but we still have the Internet, and many companies survived it, notably ones like Amazon, eBay, and Google. ChatGPT will likely be around, but most of the others which aren't so popular will likely disappear unless they can find a source of revenue.

If AI-generated music can't be copyrighted, who gets to collect royalties?

No one. Except maybe a minor amount to the person who wrote the prompt (the only copyrightable part of the process). That's why streaming services are so keen to promote it heavily as it means they don't have to pay anything for the song.

That's probably the real reason why the song is being re-recorded. The AI generated version would technically not be under copyright, which means this very popular song could be used freely as it was in public domain and they would get no money out of it.

It's all about money in the end.

How much money would Apple save if it just fired their legal teams and instead modified their policies to abide by the law?

They are abiding by the law right now. The EU is examining if Apple Ads and Apple Maps are "big enough" to qualify under the law where previously they didn't.

Of course, I'm not exactly sure what it means - Apple Ads really applies only to Apple's services (App Store, Music, TV, etc). Are they expecting Apple to open those apps to supporting other ad networks? That would be like forcing a website to use other ad providers just because?

Ditto with Maps. Not quite sure what you get when they're "opened up"? Closest I can think of is maybe the embedded maps must be switchable, but then you'd think that would force Google to have to let their maps use some other maps as well (given Google Maps is a lot larger)?

I'm just confused as to what is being "opened up" in the end. Especially since you can use any navigation app on iOS, no EU needed. I mean I can choose from Google Maps, Waze or Apple Maps easily enough, and they all provide turn by turn navigation and Siri controls them all already, so I'm not exactly sure what Apple is "gatekeeping". Or does the EU expect to force Apple to produce an Android version?

What does an "opened up" maps app do?

If you read again what I wrote, I was commenting in the need to take crap, not the willingness. It is a difference and a rather big one.

Well, I can see that you never made that experience. I have.

Indeed. People with a good education have _options_. And that means they do not have to take crap. Obviously, quite a few assholes do not like to have that type of person around.

It really depends. As degrees in the US are a big business, there are many worthless degrees and many that you can get easily, making them worthless if you did it the easy way.

Funny thing. The largest private (i.e. for profit) University in Germany currently has problems because many students find the degrees are not valuable and they do not learn a lot. No such problems with the regular ones. I think commercial education is just broken because of perverted incentives.

Getting a degree does not absolve you from really learning and being good at things. I think a significant pert of the people with degrees that have trouble finding jobs did select "easy" ones or took it wayyyy to easy getting them. Commercial "education" will make that easy, but you waste your time and money that way.

Because people without degrees are often just envious.

I routinely ask my part-time students why they chose to get that degree after all. It is "need more skills for my job", "no career options without that degree" and sometimes "I really want to know more about things". This mostly students that are interested in IT security though, no idea how representative that is.

Ah, so "stupid" is what you are going for. Gotcha.

Have a look at history. I recommend the French revolution, in particular. Point is, you can keep people in poverty, but putting them there is something that rarely works on mass-scale. If it has ever worked at all.

I saw that line in TFS and thought "what are we, 10 years old?"

As far as the arguments against hyperloop goes - we've hashed those out ad nauseum before. The only thing that's keeping the hyperloop hype train going is that, somehow, there are still a few Musk fanbois in existence.

I understamd how Americans fall for this nonsense, but Europe has a well developed railroad system and efficient short distance flights.

Why would the Europeans fall for this inefficient, ineffective, economically insane, dangerous, unproven, ridiculous scam?

So the 'hyperloop' people have a cool website; while the 'train' people are just plain getting on with building stuff; whether conventional or the now-quarter-century-ish old maglev option.

Looks like someone signed up for another round of 'faff with apps vs. offshoring our entire high tech supply chain' and hoped it would work better this time.

And some dumbass 'managing director' is telling us that a gigantic safety-critical vacuum system is 'not effected by strikes'; more or less because he has no idea what the maintenance and operations would involve? Truly a joke telling itself.