Not likely. In about 20 million years all complex plant dies from lack of CO2. It would have been more like 2 million if we hadn't pumped a lot of stored CO2 back into the atmosphere.

Not a lot of time for anything else to evolve into a technological society before any kind of complex life dies.

A stopped clock is right twice a day.

That's as simple as it gets. I'm no fan of the orange turd, but it's virtually impossible for him to be wrong on every issue.

Iovine, the music executive and Dr. Dre's partner in Beats by Dre, [ ... ]

...Yeah, thought so.

Sony MDR-V6 forever, dudes...

Nvidia's Jetson Orin isn't subject to export controls. It's basically like Nvidia's version of the Raspberry Pi with a few tensor cores bolted on so they can call it "AI".

I think your headline is flawed. Photon are also massless made of pure "force"

You'll find a considerable number of elder geeks spent years gainfully employed working on 4 bit MCUs.

The key details here are the number of qubits steadily improving, and that throwaway comment about needing millions of qubits should be disregarded as utter nonsense. Sure, it's gonna be a while before "gcc -march=quantum" is an option, but Grover's algorithm has a space complexity of O(n); Shor's is O((log n)^2). Hand-turned implementations of those will be gutting virtually all of modern cryptography long before the script kiddies start trying to fork-bomb the entire universe.

Please cite where Starship launch costs will be pennies. I will wait. The total cost has been $15B for 13 launches with less than a 40% success rate according to SpaceX's own standards.

Part of concern back then was anonymity was not guaranteed as the US government was rumored to have some way of breaking encryption that such a service would use. It turned out later that one standard, dual elliptic curve random number generator is suspected to have been backdoored by the NSA.

The problem for Xinuos is even if they succeed at proving this, it means nothing legally. As the district court and the appeals court noted, Xinuos does not have standing to sue. The assets Xinuos purchased from SCO Group in 2011 specifically excluded claims related to IBM/Project Monterrey. Those claims were settled between SCO Group and IBM in 2021. Xinuos tried to argue before SCO Group's bankruptcy court that they had a stake which the court denied. The second reason is statute of limitations restricts any claims Xinous to at most 3 years after they purchased the copyrights in 2011, not 10 years later in 2021. Thus IBM won summary judgement.

Just another example of why everyone needs to start running LLMs locally and not have them refuse to do things at random on a 'cloud' service.

It's because the government threw vast amounts of cheap credit into the economy which turned a short-term crash into a long-term depression where kids can't afford houses and the cost of living is increasing by far more than the fake inflation figures economists churn out.

And it's also why we now have a Potemkin economy where nothing really works and we pretend to get rich by selling houses to each other at ever-increasing prices.

The 1930s depression was also caused by economists who refused to let things crash and wasn't resolved until their plans were scrapped after WWII.

"Economist" should be one of the easiest jobs to replace with AI. Ir's not as though they ever do much other than says whatever their employer wants them to say.

Why is it that "modernize" always seems to mean "do more to turn humans into bug-men"?

Probably very little. When demand outstrips supply, where the supply is sourced is the limiting factor. If all the parts were made in the US, there would still be supply constraints.

Probably due to Microsoft forcing a lot of people to buy new PCs to run Windows 11.