Comment copilot (Score 1) 2
So how do we clean Copilot from windows computers and gemini from our android phone?
Comment Autocad (Score 1) 243
Autocad comes to my mind.
Comment Injust (Score 1) 87
Companies violate antitrust law and then can sit it out in court. Only the lawyers win.
Comment Re:Dear Microsoft, FU (Score 1) 69
Isn't that nice that the slop house knows everything about you.
It's not as though that was not known already.
I wonder when his birthday is - he is 19 now, but how old was he 14 months ago?
(Looking at the second link - the pdf - he was born on December 3 2006 so he was 18 in May 2025)
Submission + - South Korea Plans 15GW AI Data Center Buildout (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: South Korea is making one of the largest AI infrastructure bets announced anywhere in the world.
SK Telecom says it plans to build up to 15GW of AI data center capacity as part of a push to transform South Korea into Asiaâ(TM)s AI infrastructure hub and compete with the United States and China in the AI race.
The project would begin with facilities in Ulsan and expand in phases starting in 2029, eventually reaching a scale more commonly associated with national infrastructure projects than telecom investments.
As AI companies race to secure compute capacity, the bottleneck may be shifting from GPUs to electricity generation, transmission capacity, cooling, and available land for data centers. The announcement raises a larger question for the industry: will the future of AI be determined by algorithms, or by which countries can build enough infrastructure to support them?
SK Telecom says it plans to build up to 15GW of AI data center capacity as part of a push to transform South Korea into Asiaâ(TM)s AI infrastructure hub and compete with the United States and China in the AI race.
The project would begin with facilities in Ulsan and expand in phases starting in 2029, eventually reaching a scale more commonly associated with national infrastructure projects than telecom investments.
As AI companies race to secure compute capacity, the bottleneck may be shifting from GPUs to electricity generation, transmission capacity, cooling, and available land for data centers. The announcement raises a larger question for the industry: will the future of AI be determined by algorithms, or by which countries can build enough infrastructure to support them?
Comment Re:US pushes people toward China (Score 1) 68
As long as China does not introduce retaliatory sanctions for something Chaotically Stupid.
Submission + - What is a quantum computer good for? Absolutely nothing — yet (theverge.com)
joshuark writes: The Verge has an article about the "absolute nothing" of quantum computers. We have yet to see a quantum computer conclusively perform a single useful task. Existing machines are simply too small and error-ridden to solve commercially relevant problems.
Companies drive the hype, too. In June, Microsoft announced a new quantum computing chip named Majorana 2. It claimed the chip was a hardware advancement that accelerates its timeline to a “scalable, practical quantum computer” by 2029. But independent experts swiftly criticized the announcement. “This is complete codswallop,” Henry Legg, a physicist from the University of St. Andrews and a longtime Microsoft critic, tells The Verge.
Legg just published a paper in Nature on June 24th criticizing Microsoft’s quantum claims from a year ago — peer review takes a long time — and pointing to what he sees as major discrepancies between Microsoft’s papers and press releases. Nature included Microsoft’s rebuttal.
Researchers have made genuine progress in quantum computing — it’s just been largely incremental and too esoteric to immediately capture the public’s imagination. Proponents predict that the technology will lead to discoveries in medicine, as well as advances in materials science and machine learning. Meanwhile, many national security experts frame its development as a new Cold War competition between the US and China.
Some have imagined the quantum computer as a cyberattack tool. In 1994, computer scientist Peter Shor developed a quantum computing algorithm for factoring prime numbers that should be able to break RSA encryption, a ubiquitous family of algorithms used to secure banking and email communications. So "RSA is dead" is the repeated mantra of the quantum computing hype.
Current quantum computers like Google’s Willow are individual chips too primitive to break RSA encryption or implement drug molecule simulations. But the vision is to build scaled-up machines that can.
Similar cycles have played out several times since the technology’s beginnings. Companies announce a breakthrough; independent researchers cry hype, all while investors continue to inject money into the industry. Then investors cash out and then call it a "scam" on the public.
Henry Legg is more skeptical and thinks some have underestimated the fundamental challenges of scaling. “There’s no evidence of the scalability of any platform to the level that you would need to do useful quantum computations within a decade, or probably a couple of decades,” he says.
While researchers have made progress toward building a useful quantum computer, it’s not clear what that use should be. “It’s such a nascent technology,” says Islam. “If you ask, what is a quantum computer good for, I do not know of an application which is a sure shot.”
The Trump administration wants a useful quantum computer in two years. Are we having fun yet?
Companies drive the hype, too. In June, Microsoft announced a new quantum computing chip named Majorana 2. It claimed the chip was a hardware advancement that accelerates its timeline to a “scalable, practical quantum computer” by 2029. But independent experts swiftly criticized the announcement. “This is complete codswallop,” Henry Legg, a physicist from the University of St. Andrews and a longtime Microsoft critic, tells The Verge.
Legg just published a paper in Nature on June 24th criticizing Microsoft’s quantum claims from a year ago — peer review takes a long time — and pointing to what he sees as major discrepancies between Microsoft’s papers and press releases. Nature included Microsoft’s rebuttal.
Researchers have made genuine progress in quantum computing — it’s just been largely incremental and too esoteric to immediately capture the public’s imagination. Proponents predict that the technology will lead to discoveries in medicine, as well as advances in materials science and machine learning. Meanwhile, many national security experts frame its development as a new Cold War competition between the US and China.
Some have imagined the quantum computer as a cyberattack tool. In 1994, computer scientist Peter Shor developed a quantum computing algorithm for factoring prime numbers that should be able to break RSA encryption, a ubiquitous family of algorithms used to secure banking and email communications. So "RSA is dead" is the repeated mantra of the quantum computing hype.
Current quantum computers like Google’s Willow are individual chips too primitive to break RSA encryption or implement drug molecule simulations. But the vision is to build scaled-up machines that can.
Similar cycles have played out several times since the technology’s beginnings. Companies announce a breakthrough; independent researchers cry hype, all while investors continue to inject money into the industry. Then investors cash out and then call it a "scam" on the public.
Henry Legg is more skeptical and thinks some have underestimated the fundamental challenges of scaling. “There’s no evidence of the scalability of any platform to the level that you would need to do useful quantum computations within a decade, or probably a couple of decades,” he says.
While researchers have made progress toward building a useful quantum computer, it’s not clear what that use should be. “It’s such a nascent technology,” says Islam. “If you ask, what is a quantum computer good for, I do not know of an application which is a sure shot.”
The Trump administration wants a useful quantum computer in two years. Are we having fun yet?
Comment Re:2009 (Score 1) 74
I can't remember having read about it either, but I'm pretty sure that Caldera was later taken over by SCO and anyone who can't remember SCO's attempt to sink Linux is either very young or has been living underneath a rock for several years. SCO had their own Linux distribution at the time, and that distribution was a rebranded Caldera.
Comment Re:something is useless (Score 1) 98
I suspect Kim Jong Un got better grades in college than our dear leader
Of course he did, but maybe not for the reasons you're implying.
Kim Jong Un's daddy (Kim Jong Il) was the Supreme Leader before him.
Kim Jong Un's granddaddy (Kim Il Sung) was the Supreme Leader before him.
Comment Re:I remember when that happened (Score 1) 111
There was another site his administration shuttered in his first presidency, one which carried medical data in the form of symptoms and possible causes. Afaik the content was simply lost, Slashdot reported on this at the time.
Comment Re:Probably for the better in the long run (Score 2) 111
That data is based on a 2025 report from the EU, the actual report says it is based on data from the years up to and including 2024.
Something I don't understand is why the report's figures diverge from those it is supposedly based on.
Country Worldodometers EU Report
China 33.12% 29.2%
USA 11.69% 11.1%
India 7.96% 8.2%
EU27 see note 5.9%
Russia 5.07% 4.8%
Those figures purport to be the percentage of global emissions attributable to each country.
note: Wordodometers carries the emissions for the EU countries individually (Germany has the highest, then Italy, Poland, France and Spain in that order), the EU report bundles them all together.
Comment Springer (Score 2) 21
This is completely stupid. There can't be a copyright violation obviously.
or as Max Planck wrote "Aus nichts läßt sich nichts folgern." - No conclusion can be drawn from nothing.
Thanksfully the Max Planck society supported the Berlin Declaration on Open Access.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Comment From the past (Score 1) 50
Fascinating, when could we read the scroll?
There are also lots of artefacts from the last century lost. Video games from the 1980s.
One could recreate music by optical 3D scanning shellac records and combining different prints to eliminate the noise. The quality gets better. Just image a new scan of Metropolis negative with current technology Or Robert Johnson even better than in the Centennial edition..
Comment Re:something is useless (Score 4, Interesting) 98
It's starting to look as though this vote of confidence for bitcoin was the kiss of death, although the rot really set in around 3 months later.
Comment reactos (Score 1) 250
Itt would be great to get massive funding for ReactOS instead of reactors.
