"multiple former Apple employees now working at OpenAI reached out to discuss returning Apple-issued work devices they kept" if you leave a job or project and take employer/client equipment don't be surprised when the lawyers come knocking. It is called stealing!

Today's LLM based AI sure looks like a process that moves all the internal knowledge and IP a business has out out of the business to unknown 3rd parties to use for their own profit.
And paying for the honor of torpedoing their own businesses and employees to boot.

No doubt it's the rounded corners on their standalone pocket-GPT appliance.

And given the explicit mention of Jony Ive, that's most likely in the right ballpark rather than purely a joke.

Apple uses 256 bit AES from what I remember. Theoretically using a single computer, it would take 10^59 years to crack a single key. Using all world’s computers including supercomputers, it will be less but not meaningfully less.

Yes, UK government wants Apple to modify their entire encryption scheme so that Apple can grant the UK government access to user data anytime that government asks. Existing data is protected unless Apple is forced to replace existing keys.

Too bad, Hawaii said 640 scopes oughtta be enough for anyone. It's their state.

You're entirely right, but Fixed vs Variable costs are a well understood distinction that OpenAI's bean counters aren't merely glossing over here.

If your up-front investment is $1M, each unit of output sells for $2000, and costs $1900 in operational expenses - Your profit is $100 per unit. Once you sell 10000 units, you've broken even and every additional sale is $100 in pure profit. Presuming you expect to sell significantly more than 10000 units, the initial cost is literally irrelevant over the long term.

For a more physical-manufacturing analogy, consider a modern chip fab costing double-digit billions of dollars to build, just to sell fancy chunks of melted sand for a few hundred bucks each. Yet TSMC is one of the most profitable companies on the planet, with net margins slightly over 50%.

Not sure what you think is or isn't subject to being disproven here. "Security" isn't some monolithic "do X and call it a day", it's 100% situationally dependent.

If the situation requires radar, we use radar. If the situation requires strong passwords and MFA, we use strong passwords and MFA. And if the situation calls for giant concrete acoustic mirrors - Yes Virginia, that's why the UK coast is dotted with exactly those.

You're the second person confused by this detail, so let me make it clear: Browse anonymously, log in to post/comment, then log back out.

Isn't that how most of us use Slashdot? Reddit is no different.

For the same reason you can't just drop in at your former childhood home to dig up Sparky's corpse: Not yours anymore. It sucks what happened to Hawaii, but the opportunity for the people to say "yeah, not happening" and send a handful of American stuffed shirts on a long trip in a short canoe expired 130 years ago.

The idea that we're sacrificing basic science in the interest of not offending ghosts is utterly insane. Mauna Kea is uniquely suited to ground-based observatories; if we were talking about any other group, that land would simply be taken by eminent domain and there'd be nothing to discuss. Case in point, did you all know there's an eminent domain case going on right now in North Dakota where ranchers are fighting a pipeline going through their own land... Which in turn was seized from the Sioux? Guess which group isn't even at the table.

Why not toss in arrogant billionaires instead? Astronomers have use.

Hook'em while they're young!

While performing mod duties, you're right.

Mods are still regular users of the site, though and not everyone wants /r/PonyLovers in their viewing history.

Every screener I saw was back in the day of DVDs. A friend of mine worked for a video rental place and they got screeners a once in a while. Most of them were B movies that may have not been released so it was not as if we got to see blockbusters early or for free.

The illusion of value.

thought insects got aboard. They heard buzzing but nobody could actually see any insects. It turned out to be a race of beings who function at high speed, moving so quickly that humans couldn't see them.

They should remake a spy-drone version of that episode. The drones predict if somebody is about to swat at them and quickly shift out of the way.