They could have created an endowment and then would not have had to worry when the money dried up, because the earnings on the principal would have funded them through the end of time. But, like most non-profits that end up with a bunch of money, they just used the opportunity for mission creep.

I foresee a new black market for ID cards or cloned debit cards that are used against an account with no money for the sole purpose of fake age verification.

Meanwhile scammers will now have a new path to hack into for their scams to drain your bank accounts.

I see that AI can find bugs that are tedious to find and only exists in corner cases that normal humans usually don't test. For every successful positive test case there can be a large number of negative cases with subvariants. That's where AI might be helpful - create all those test runs.
But to write code that's maintainable, with high performance and stable - that's a different thing.

Test code that doesn't work - just generate a new batch, it won't damage the product you deliver but it might have some flaws.

Hackers often utilizes corner cases when they breach into systems.

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...

We are in the Max Headroom world.

Only way out would be a nasty way.

That's why I said "I suspect" meaning it *might* be. I just shared what I have observed.

The type of attacks I am talking about are similar to this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You posted a link referencing a spear-phishing attack which has very little to do with where the email account was hosted and the entity providing the email service.

Given that Slashdot posted and article about something quite obvious. I am wondering if you are competing with Slashdot editors for the official captain obvious title. /s

All people I know who got their email hacked were on outlook. None on gmail nor any other provider. I am really curious about if he was on outlook or not. I suspect some hacked outlook email accounts have nothing to do with the user being negligent and has to do with microsoft cloud being full of security holes.

I keep on blocking full /16 microsoft cloud networks from accessing my services while I only block single IPs from amazon and google cloud and get orders of magnitude less bad request from them then Microsoft. This leads me to suspect some vm instances running on microsoft cloud were hacked directly because of security holes in microsoft cloud itself, not because the owners of the vm instances were negligent.

Grok was constantly say it was doing something that it had ZERO ability to, and I kept calling it out and it kept apologizing and then immediately doing it again.

As a guy who spend 5 figures a year on Ai, the last thing I want is that. I know Claude and ChatGPT also do it, but Grok was doing it CONSTANTLY.

"This bot has performed an illegal action and must be terminated."

In reality though the laws of robotics that Asimov defined might be what we need.

Excuse you? The right to keep and bear arms ensures that the government does not have to equip the militia, the citizenry owns their own equipment. Many states required law that the citizenry own said equipment, the specifics of what the militiaman should be equipped with being enumerated in law.

The (federal) Militia Act of 1792 states "That every citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein, to contain not less than twenty four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and ball; or with a good rifle, knapsack, shot-pouch, and powder-horn, twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pound of powder; and shall appear so armed, accoutred and provided, when called out to exercise or into service, except, that when called out on company days to exercise only, he may appear without a knapsack."

But, sure, my premise is extremely flawed.

I thought it was the development of the DG Eclipse that the book was about.

In any case it was a great story, with the machines named Coke and Gollum. Originally the idea was Coke and Pepsi, but one of the machines was temperemental so it got renamed.