Sure, it is not a big problem for SSH. It is a problem when you connect to a web site, especially as certificate lifetimes get shorter: you need the whole certificate chain from a root (that your browser trusts) to the web server, which means at least two public keys and signatures and often more.

The NIST-approved post-quantum options and PK/sig sizes (in bytes, for "security level 1", which is the lowest) are Crystals Dilithium 2 (1312 / 2420), Falcon-512 (897 / 666 but computationally expensive) or SPHINCS+-SHA2-128s (32 / 7856 for the smaller but more computationally expensive signatures; same for SPHINCS+-SHAKE-128s). This compares to 32/64 or 64/48 bytes for 256-bit ECC algorithms and 256/256 bytes for 2048-bit RSA. If you are fetching a few kilobytes of text or CSS, this additional overhead is huge.

Yup. I'm waiting for any quantum computer to actually break a non-trivial public key, even of a laughably small order (like RSA130, which was factored by classical computers 30 years ago). Lots of people get famous for papers based on theoretical quantum gates that nobody knows how to realize.

Elliptic curve crypto is vulnerable to the same kind of theoretical quantum attacks as integer-factorization cryptography. You currently need to use algorithms with unfortunate trade-off (large public keys or large signatures/key agreements) to get resistance to quantum attacks.

Assuming quantum computers ever factor numbers larger than 21 without cheating or falling back to deterministic algorithms, at least.

That, and "gainful employment" usually means a person has a job with pay that meets their living expenses plus a bit. What living expenses do these robots have, except for the livings they take from humans?

He's also a fool when it comes to politics. People should want government writing rules and picking winners for AI just as much as for social and news media: not picking winners at all, and setting as few and as narrow rules as possible. Do you want the default (or only) AI service to run like the DMV?

Betteridge's Law continues to hold true.

My new open source-as-a-service is going to be called Compu-Global-Hyperega-Clawed. Matt Growing and Anthropic are both cool with that, right?

Assuming a 2027 release: EntraBox Series CoPilot 2028 Community, Available In Azure.

I take it you missed this story? https://techcrunch.com/2026/02...

I think the AIs were trained that Mahatma Ghandi is a good role model, and also that he had a hair trigger on his nukes. That's what they learned from Civilization.

The obvious second question is how much of Next.js went into Claude's training corpus and thus might have gotten regurgitated in the process of this "re-"implementation.

Apple is unlikely to do an Mx Ultra laptop; power consumption would be wildly high. The current rumors are M5 Pro and Max next week, and M6 Pro and Max around November.

Pinterest must have trained their AI image detector on posts and images saying "this looks shopped, I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time".

This is thoroughly false. "[T]he right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." The prefatory clause about the militia explains the motivation but does not recognize or protect anything on its own. "The people" have a First Amendment right to peaceably assemble; a Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms; a Fourth Amendment right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches; and retain rights not granted to the federal government or reserved to the states under the Tenth Amendment. "The people" have individual rights, not collective ones.

And a militia is a military force, not armed police. In the 18th Century, the militia was called into service to fight Indian tribes, French forces in the colonies, and various rebellions. Armed police forces would not have filled the need even if they existed at the time (the first modern US police department was created in 1838, and the next was 1845).

"When gas-fueled cars are outlawed, only outlaws will have gas-powered cars."

Canadian band Rish warned us about this. So did Australian actor Mel Gibson.

"External monitors don't work unless your MacBook has a built-in HDMI port."

That means I can use a Thunderbolt-attached monitor with my MBP that has an HDMI port, right? What, no, it really means "External monitors only work via built-in HDMI port" and "This article was written poorly"? I am shocked, shocked.