America will retake the lead in AI the same way we did with EVs: Just ban the ones from China. Problem solved.

Anything can fail, which is why the whole point of a backup is to have more than one copy in different places.

I'd honestly be a little surprised if there's much protective effect.

It's possible that having to go through the setup process yourself is a little too much seeing how the sausage is made vs. interacting with a pleasant frontend cynically put together by someone who knows how 'engagement' works; but it's not like the nerd reputation for skewing socially awkward or the AI bro reputation for reaching a bit too quickly for slightly mystical anthropomorphisms are entirely unearned(the 'soul.md' is a frankly somewhat depressing genre).

At least for now; there might be some confounding demographic effects if you are talking one of the chunkier local models; in a country with a per-capita GDP of ~$14k being able to comfortably afford, or willing to uncomfortably afford, the necessary hardware would make you either at least modestly wealthier than average or significantly more interested than average; but as you slouch toward stuff that runs on more typical hardware the demographic differences presumably decrease.

Because a zero-day is any flaw made public before the developer knows about it. One of the main ways this happens is by noticing that hackers are breaking into systems using a heretofore unknown exploit.

There is absolutely no reason that work and other mandatory things cannot be done at night, leaving the daytime free for you to do your own things. Wasting what limited daylight hours we have stuck in a cube farm with artificial lights anyway is ridiculous. There are very few jobs that actually require natural light these days.

Further from the equator there is not enough sunlight for that. You'll either be going to work/school in darkness, or coming back in darkness unless you want to severely shorten the duration of the work/school day.

The sun always rises later in the winter, that's the nature of winter... The only thing this changes is the arbitrary numbers that are displayed when the sun is rising.
Instead of fixating around those arbitrary numbers, plan your day around actual environment factors like when the sun rises etc.

The root of the problem is rigidly tying people's daily routines to an arbitrary set of numbers, and then changing those numbers rather than changing the routine.

Good question. Their POWER series of CPUs were not insignificant in capability, their chip designers were clearly technically sophisticated, and GPUs are just specialised vector processors with a few extra bells and whistles - stuff IBM is extremely familiar with.

It would not have been difficult to release a GPU or other LLM-specific processor to go along with the POWER11. They'd been working on the POWER11 for 4 years, they knew in 2020 that LLMs had a strong potential to be significant for Big Data processing - an area you use big iron for, they're not rank amateurs, they have plenty of reserve, they could have assembled an emergency team to build a vector processor that was custom-designed for just LLM work, and released an LLM processor card that could run circles around nVidia.

They didn't. Because, as has happened before, their management is simply too stupid and too slow.

Assuming that CGNAT makes you immune is a huge error.
Once you compromise a single customer you're now inside the CGNAT pool, where you will see lots of very vulnerable devices because they were left vulnerable on the assumption that they were not reachable. In an ISP with thousands of customers, at least a handful will have some infected devices.

Modern Windows devices absolutely do not become compromised via inbound connections to open ports, they become compromised via vulnerable client software or user error (eg phishing, malware infected downloads etc), all of which only depends on being able to make outbound connections.

You shouldn't be relying on perimeter security anyway, every device should be able to stand on its own in a zero trust scenario.

The russians have been blackmailing ukrainians in ukraine into committing acts against their own government, there are several documented cases of this.

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://news.sky.com/story/how...

There have been numerous recently reported cases of russians gaining access to information on ordinary ukrainian citizens, and then blackmailing them to carry out spying or sabogate operations.
You absolutely do have to worry about what hostile foreign governments might do.

There are hundreds of ways an attacker could gain access to the inside interface, even doing so blindly via xsrf where you have predictable legacy addressing.

Many simply don't care.
A lot of ISPs especially in Asia use CGNAT and/or rapidly rotating IPv6 and then do nothing about abuse so the address space is widely blacklisted.

In other countries ISPs aren't forced to use CGNAT, and use at least sticky if not fully static addressing so if customers get themselves blacklisted the ISP generally doesn't need to care as it won't affect other users.