It's a proper race now too. NASA will use whoever is ready first for the next moon landing, be it Blue Origin or SpaceX or someone else. Both of them have a fair way to go, and will need to test their landers on an uncrewed mission first.

Blue Origin seems to be getting there with the BE-7 engine they need, but still has to demonstrate a really big rocket to Earth orbit, and then an uncrewed flight to the moon, landing, and return to lunar orbit. SpaceX has got Starship to orbit, but needs probably 20 launches just to get enough fuel up there for the lunar landing mission, and has yet to do much with the planning in-orbit fuel transfer system which is no small thing by itself. For that reason BO seems closer now.

Meanwhile the CNSA has announced "before 2030" for a crewed landing, and a credible roadmap to get there. They are going to forego a crewed circumlunar mission and just land the first one, after a robotic demonstrator mission. Their mission is fairly conservative in terms of developing new technologies and not aiming for high mass to the lunar surface on the first landing, and all the parts seem to be in late stages of development and looking good.

At this point it's anybody's game.

Yes, but the AI has done all the work of finding recent posts that relate to the current version, filtering the rubbish, and cross checking it.

Of course I check it myself too, but I find it's usually faster than manually searching.

I'm not so sure 50 years is viable. Many drives are rusting at this point. They would need a humidity controlled environment to stand much chance of lasting that long.

That's what I'm saying, we need to find a way that cleaning it up is profitable. Ideally not one that involves adding costs to making it worse, or simply paying for collected garbage.

Otherwise it's either going to be expensive or involve a lot of risk, such as releasing some kind of engineered life that breaks it down.

We need to figure out how to make capitalism clean this up. Like we did for renewable energy - once it became the cheapest option, the most profitable and least risky option, things really started to shift in the right direction. The early subsidies to get the costs down and the technology advanced worked.

I suppose the question is if you make an extra $1,500 of profit for the company.

Could be. The current implementation is rather heavy.

I was thinking they might try something like that. Hopefully it works.

Unfortunately they are all doing it now. Even Google's Pixel phones use AI for zoom. Sometimes it works well, sometimes it obviously just replaced your photo of the moon with AI slop.

What's going to happen to the web version though? It's all Javascript.

SEO and outdated information have been ruining search. If you have a technical question it's often easier to get AI to do the legwork for you, rather than wade through hundreds of old and useless Reddit posts, SEO AI slops sites, and other useless crap.

Has there ever been an example of someone's device being hacked in a way that allowed the hacker to access their banking app directly? I don't recall any, and both Android and iOS was pretty well locked down when it comes to accessing app data, or controlling the device remotely. It was actually controversial when introduced on Android, as it messed with a lot of accessibility apps like screen readers.

The far more likely route into your bank account is by SIM cloning or compromising your email account. The bank's computers are also online and hackable 24/7. Those are things that actually happen.

Japan doesn't really do cheques anymore. Like most developed countries, they have been phased out.

Many people have already been relying on a phone for day-to-day life for decades anyway. Japan was an early adopter of keita-saifu, basically a stored value card replacement that was initially for public transport, but now used for all sorts of purchases. If you loose the card or your phone, you lose the money that was on it too.

This is a country that still uses fax machines. It's not something that has been rushed into.

Android has an auto-backup feature that makes this sort of thing easy. If you buy a new phone, even if you lost the old one, once you log into your Google account it will restore the apps you had installed from Play, and crucially the core data such as login details. It will also save login details to the Google password manager. So logging back in to banking apps is generally straightforward.

If you don't have a Google account or turned backup off, you need to back that data up yourself. There are lots of open source backup apps for Android, although they require root to save app data, and I think Graphene OS has one built in.